Andre Tits

This professor has taught: ENEE322, ENEE322H, ENEE460, ENEE469O, ENEE661, ENEE664, ENEE698C, ENTS669F

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Andre Tits ENEE322 Expecting a D Anonymous 01/03/2024	As students were challenged to learn, but rather than challenging us to learn the content, professor tits was challenging us to communicate what we learned with him. And while he is a very kind (very old) man, he is a very confused and stubborn professor. Genuinely had to move from our assigned classroom bc he couldn't work the lights. His constant confusion made it so he rarely understood our questions, and other students would answer instead or he'd just make it worse. He doesn't post any resources, you just have to be at lecture or have to read the textbook. Exams make up 90% of your grade and he failed 40% of us... I don't recommend unless 222 wasn't bad for you and you don't mind reading textbooks. I could tell that he genuinely wanted us to succeed. But the real world has changed over the past 50 years and he has not changed with it.
Andre Tits ENEE322 Expecting a D Anonymous 12/18/2023	HE FAILED OVER 50% OF THE CLASS!! Not what the reviews led me to believe. He does not provide any online resources. Gives fair exams with harsh grading, barely acknowledging any partial credit for work. He also expects to you to only care about his class and show up to his office hours weekly. I had a tutor and still failed. Do yourself a favor and sign up for anyone else, if he is the only professor wait another semester!
Andre Tits ENEE322H Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/18/2023	Tits had pretty understandable lectures although he did fumble a bit with his words. The concepts weren't very difficult to grasp in lecture itself but I would say the homeworks were pretty rough. They took time to understand and do correctly. He absolutely demolished us on exams however which didn't seem fair at all with no curve whatsoever.
Andre Tits ENEE322 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 12/17/2023	This professor legit will fail half a class. He does put in more effort than most professors to conduct review sessions and open extra office hours. Typically, if half a class is failing, you should reconsider the approach you have in presenting the material. But, it appears, if half the class cannot perform well on the final (i.e. B-range) you will probably be smitten with pain on your transcript. Additionally, the other reviews here are not being completely real with you and are H-students. People either review when they have had an awesome experience and been set apart compared to others (therefore almost like a brag), or if people had a disastrous experience and want to warn others. Here's a review to warn...
Andre Tits ENEE322 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/09/2023	Dr. Tits provides thorough lectures and wants his students to succeed, but his grading is brutal. Exams, which account for 90% of the total grade in his 322, consistently had averages in the 50s. The actual course content is not so hard, especially if you prepare well and read the textbook, but anything less than a complete understanding of the material gets punished harshly. He is very friendly and helpful if you are trying to explore the course material, it's just that he has set the bar very high and refuses to budge it. To make up for this, Dr. Tits provides very generous opportunities for extra credit through the use of challenge problems. It was possible to achieve a flat 6% boost to your final grade this semester if you completed them all successfully. I had fun overall.
Andre Tits ENEE664 Expecting a B- Anonymous 07/26/2023	Tits is a super great professor; I took his course last semester. Optimal control is complex for me because my major is not EE. Still, this course benefits me even though I have to study many backgrounds of mathematics knowledge after class.
Andre Tits ENEE460 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/19/2022	Professor Tits is a super approachable professor that is committed to your advancing your knowledge. His lectures can be hard to follow sometimes as he occasionally makes mistakes while writing and explaining concepts, likely due to his age, BUT he always welcomes questions and addresses student's comments during his lectures. He is always happy and open to helping students who stop by whenever he's in his office, even outside of his posted office hours. (He will drop whatever he's doing to help students.) Some advice to those looking to take ENEE460 with him: Do all the homework! This develops your ability to attack questions he gives on his tests. While he also posts reading assignments, you could probably get by without them. That being said, the book can sometimes have details he might've glanced over during lecture. Listen to everything he says during lecture, especially when he talks about how to solve problems as this is likely what he expects from you on the exams. Do not fret if you bomb his midterm (I did), he gives out an optional project to boost your grade and the finals are relatively similar in problem type to his past exams. Note: His final is still challenging so make sure to give yourself lots of time to study and fill your cheat sheet! Watch Steve Brunton, Brian Douglas, Prof. Madan Gopal, etc. on YouTube for strengthening conceptual and mathematical foundations for the course.
Andre Tits ENEE460 Anonymous 12/27/2021	He is a nice guy. His lectures are okay, and he is knowledgeable in his field. BUT, his exams are challenging, and he is a really harsh grader. On top of that, a large percentage(about 80%) of the overall grade goes to those two exams(mid-term and final). Homework is challenging and takes a lot of time to do.
Andre Tits ENEE322H Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/31/2014	Tits is a pretty good professor. His lectures tended to be "mathy" but not hard to follow. Homeworks were challenging but good practice. He really cares about us and holds review sessions often, he once stayed until 10 pm or so for a review session. Exams in this class were not a joke though, probably because he held us to a high standard. He would send us "disappointment" emails but it showed he cared about us getting better at the material. He curved us fairly and I somehow wound up with an A- even when I got D's on the 2nd exam and final.
Andre Tits ENEE322H Expecting an A- koffe55 01/13/2014	Dr. Tits is an excellent professor who you should strongly consider taking if given the opportunity. He is very caring and kind; you will quickly discover his dedication to making lectures as insightful and informative as possible, often going very deep into the theory (at least for the honors version). That being said, I was a little disappointed by his apparent over-estimation of our abilities on the final exam - it was a shitshow, to say the least. Overall, Dr Tits is an excellent and very approachable lecturer who provided one of the most challenging and informative courses I and most of my classmates had ever experienced. The workload and amount of information can be daunting, even for someone like me who excelled in 222 and genuinely enjoyed the subject matter. If you can handle it, you will find this class to very rewarding in the end.
Andre Tits ENEE460 Expecting an A- LadyS 02/02/2013	I took 322 and 460 with Dr. Tits. His lectures are clear and to the point. I think he really cares about his students and their success in his classes (and as engineers in general). He is helpful during his office hours, easily-approachable and answers emails very quickly; he is also very nice. I highly recommend him.
Andre Tits ENEE322 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/21/2012	He is a great professor who really cares about his students. As others have said, he will make you work; he assigns homework every week, and the tests aren't easy. But he tries to give everyone a chance - in our class, when a lot of people did badly on the first two tests, he changed the grading scheme so that the lowest letter grade you could get was one grade lower than the final. In other words, he gave a lot of students another chance to shape up. Also, if you do well in the class and talk to him in office hours, he'll gladly offer recommendations and suggestions for other courses to take. He is extremely friendly if you ask him questions that aren't directly related to the course, too.
Andre Tits ENEE322H Expecting an A- Anonymous 03/01/2011	His lectures could be somewhat hard to follow if signals isn't your thing (hey. We can't all be signals gods but we do all have to take 322). One thing is certain, though, he really cares about his students and wants them to learn the material. He is more than happy to help you if you show up to office hours. Contrary to what some have said below, he is actually quite generous with grades provided you expend some effort yourself.
Andre Tits jgun 08/20/2009	Although some may say that Professor Tits is "pretty gay" about some things, he is quite "straight" about working for his students' success. His lectures tend to be difficult, but his goal is for you to understand the material. He will make you work, but let's face it: Hard work pays off. If you're trying to get away with a good grade and don't care about the material, don't take one of his classes. If you don't have your heart set on an A but want to master the course material, Professor Tits is your guy. If you need help, go to his office hours. He WILL help you.
Andre Tits Anonymous 05/02/2009	Although he is a nice guy he is very very bad about grades. He grades things very hard. His lec's are meh. If you don't care about grades and all you care about is learning the material then you can take him.
Andre Tits Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/18/2008	He is not a very good lecturer for ENEE241, although the semester I took it with him was his first teaching it. If you have the chance take Poppomarcou instead you should definitely do it. He is a much better lecturer for this course (he wrote the book you will be using) and he gives out better grades. Tits is pretty gay about giving partial credit and I don't think very many people got A's this semester, me included.