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Yang Tao
BIOE420 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/19/2023 |
For context, I am a student who thrives on structure, and this man is anything but structured. He gives homework, and then when you ask him questions on the homework, its wrong because you couldnt fully explain your question because he talked right over you. His exams are not fantastically written, and he struggles to communicate expectations with TA grading, so the grades can be all over the place. The only content I truly retained was the content from professors presenting out of the classroom via zoom. He is a fun man, but his teaching practices and expectations are kind of weird and difficult to work with from the student perspective. |
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Yang Tao
BIOE485 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/27/2022 |
He is notorious for rambling a lot and in this class it is hard to follow what he is saying many times. If you look around the room, most people are on their laptops doing some sort of other work. However, his effort in getting dozens of clinical mentors, many guest speakers, and his own real-world experience is first-class and I can tell he is a very knowledgeable professor (only one in the department with a PE), and puts a lot of effort into making this class function. He is also a lenient grader, and as long as you show you did SOMETHING, you will probably get an A. |
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Yang Tao
BIOE457 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/22/2015 |
I have mixed reviews about him. He's a really nice guy and a very easy grader. Based on what I've heard about Dr. White, Dr. Tao's class is a complete joke. However, he is a terrible lecturer and struggles to communicate concepts effectively both in lecture and in lab. He's helpful if you go meet with him as he'll often work out the problem for you unlike some professors who will just "guide" you through it. He's also very helpful during lab with troubleshooting. Then again, this class is not too difficult and you should be able to teach yourself most concepts. He is also hilarious and will keep you entertained in class. Bottom line, if you actually want to learn electronics well or if you are interested in medical instrumentation, then take Dr. White in the spring. If you are just looking for an A, the Dr. Tao is the safer choice. |
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Yang Tao
BIOE485 Expecting a B+ pat 02/29/2012 |
I realize I'm probably one of the very few dolts that got a B in this class, but I was pretty deterred from caring about it for a number of reasons. Firstly, this is NOT an engineering class, no matter how much he acts like it is. We did not design a single piece of instrumentation equiptment the entire semester. We built an EKG off of a prescribed schematic that he made himself, and we wrote a stupid labview (worst software ever written) program to process, filter, and display the signal. So all in all, this was more of a computer science experience. As far as the electronics goes, any idiot with remedial high school level electronics background can put together a circuit from reading a schematic. You literally sit there and stare at him while he rambles on about his slides that he takes out of the book. There are a lot of slides, which he annotates in class. The problem is that his hand writing is serial-killer grade quality, so it's impossible to read. Also, he is nearly impossible to understand on his best day because of his thick accent. He generally assumed that everyone knew more electronics than we learned, remembered, or could deal with, so his lecture notes on that material were pretty miserable. He also gives you 3 pages of (cheet-sheet-sheet as he calls them) for each test. As a result, I literally did NO studying - all of my effort went into making these massive things, and I got a B+ overall. If you actually care, this class should be a GPA booster. As far as training us to be more able bodied instrumentation engineers (fancy word for EE), this was a monumental failure. I think they just put a bunch of BS down on paper to get the BIOE program accredited, and as a result the class looks good but lacks any genuine engineering training. My oh my how I have wasted my money with BIOE. INFURIATING |
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Yang Tao
Expecting an A zhangsta 12/24/2011 |
Doesn't really give many assignments. All of his lectures were taken out of the book. His exams tested some of the more important concepts from lecture as well as some random details from lecture. However, he allows you to have three sheets of notes for the exam so they're really not that bad. The only thing that will be even remotely time-consuming is the ekg project at the end of the semester. |
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Yang Tao
BIOE485 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/14/2010 |
uhhhhhhhh.......BEST PROFESSOR EVER! |
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Yang Tao
Anonymous 12/10/2009 |
Really cares about his students and their education. Doesn't do much of the traditional lecture/hw assigment/paper routine. He wants to make sure you know about important, emerging concepts, how to succeed after college. For his exams, study the lecture notes, especially specific examples he talks about a lot in class. |
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Yang Tao
Expecting an A gundamwing4132 05/01/2008 |
Great professor, but most of the time very busy. No work for the majority and very simple homework. Final paper relied on your group project. Several guest speakers. |
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Yang Tao
Expecting an A scroofoo 12/03/2007 |
3-4 papers but they all build on one-another. Professor is very animated and passionate about entrepeunerial (sp?) engineering. If you aren't into that, then you'll probably be bored like I was, but if you ever want to be an inventor, listen up! |