Edo Waks

This professor has taught: ENEE380, ENEE380H, ENEE381, ENEE690, ENEE790

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Edo Waks ENEE381 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/14/2024	For the most part 381 is easier and more interesting than 380. Waks is an engaging lecturer (something that's sort of hard to find in the ECE), and although he tends to do a lot of derivations, and leans more towards a physics perspective compared to an engineering perspective, he does his best to give real world applications. He had a "no phones in lecture" and he was sort of strict on that for about a month and then I think he stopped caring. HE DOES NOT POST ANY LECTURE NOTES which is fine because 1. He's primarily going off the textbook, which is a pretty good textbook 2. He's a pretty good lecturer, so you should go anyways. He does give out weekly quizzes in discussion, but it's just a matter of redoing a homework problem/part of a problem that was due the week before. He can be a bit tardy when it comes to announcing exam dates, office hours, etc. His grading seems pretty fair (I think he just hands the TA(s) a grading rubric and they follow it from there), and he's pretty comfortable when it comes to regrade requests. Exams are pretty fair, as long as you know what's going on in the homework then you'll be just fine. As of right now, I am unsure if there will be a curve (again, he doesn't do the best when it comes to announcements), but most of the class is doing pretty well so far. Should he teach 382 in the future, I think he'll be a pretty good pick.
Edo Waks ENEE380 Expecting a B- Anonymous 01/09/2023	The most frustrating classes I've ever gone through. The 2-stars is because Professor Waks genuinely knew the material and was a decent lecturer, but he made the course itself very frustrating, especially for the non-honors section. The exam averages were a 57 for exam one and a 45 for exam two, yet he would not announce any type of curve going into the final, where the highest grade in the class that I heard of was a 60. The weekly homework's took at least a 6 hours and Waks would not respond to any email asking for help. I emailed him three times throughout the semester and received no response, and others I talked to had the same experience. I also knew people that attempted to go to his office hours, yet he wouldn't show up and would not send any kind of announcement. During class he would only cover the theories and never any examples, which made the course much more difficult as you had to figure out on your own how to approach any of the questions. To the professor's credit, he hasn't taught a course since before Covid, so he definitely had to adjust.
Edo Waks ENEE380 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/18/2022	Edo Waks is Wack. These other reviews are out dated. Exam and quiz averages were in the 40s-50s. Homework is insane. Does not do examples in class and refuses to help with practice problems.
Edo Waks ENEE380 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/19/2019	Waks was a good professor. He was prepared and came in to lectures ready to go. His homeworks were challenging, but if you could do them, you were good for the entire class. The quizzes were similar to HWs, and the exams were also similar to the homeworks. Definitely do and turn in your homework. He had a no cell phone policy during class, which was totally fine. He also gave us a 5 min break every class in the middle, which was amazing. Conveying information wise, he was good, but the later chapters were more difficult, and wish he slowed down.
Edo Waks ENEE380 Expecting an A+ taqtaq 03/08/2014	He knows the material well and he is very well organized in class. The class material isn't particularly hard, and his exam were really straight forward and simple. Easy A in my opinion.
Edo Waks ENEE380 Expecting an A bcarsten 01/04/2014	Prof. Waks is a very good professor. He doesn't really try to trip up or trick his students at all, though the occasional wording of a test problem may cause issues. Homework is absurd but rarely shows up on tests. Just go over old exams and the material/problems covered in class. Also let's you have a note sheet for the tests (just put old problems on there!) All of this should be enough to get you a solid grade in his class.
Edo Waks ENEE380 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/31/2012	Waks is an amazing professor. His lectures are clear and concise and goes through alot of good sample problems in lecture. He also posts all of his notes in the beginning of the semester just in case you want to look ahead. Tests are very simple and are not meant to trick you at all. My suggestion would be to study the problems gone through in class and his past exams and you're guaranteed to do well. Averages for the exams are usually very high so make sure you study. He also gives quizzes in the beginning of every discussion, but depending on your TA, this may not be the case. My TA was a grad student so he typically didn't have time to make the quizzes, but be sure to look over the material beforehand anyway. Overall, Waks is an amazing professor. I suggest him to anyone who is looking to take 380. Good luck!
Edo Waks ENEE380 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/27/2012	Waks is a great professor, has very clear notes and examples which are also in text form on the website. He lets you have cheat sheets on the exam with anything on them, so just write down all the old exam problems and I promise at least one will be on his exam. All you need to do is do the homeworks and all the old exams you can find and you are good to go in 380.
Edo Waks ENEE380 Expecting an A whynot 01/28/2011	Waks was great. He was willing to go over anything you wanted/needed to go over to complete the assignments in his office hours. He also posted very high quality lecture notes, available several weeks in advance. I always appreciate professors who do this. Also, his exams weren't too bad. They were similar enough to test bank/practice exams that you felt like you could study for them effectively.