Ian White

This professor has taught: BIOE431, BIOE455, BIOE456, BIOE457, BIOE489H, BIOE608, BIOE631, BIOE658W

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Ian White BIOE457 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/21/2023	Really helpful professor, knows what he's doing and is very hands-on with teaching during the course. He provides a lot of materials in terms of studying for exams, and is always open to answer any questions we had throughout the course. This class can feel daunting, but Dr. White and his TAs made it much more easy to understand, and it feels like I really learned something from the course!
Ian White BIOE457 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/12/2023	This mans legit S+ tier. The way his class is structured favors the students who thrive on discussion time and asking questions and working together on work. Exams are somewhat straightforward, with a cheat sheet for each exam and 2 sheets (which imo aren't completely necessary) for the cumulative exam on the last day of classes. Very quick responding to discussion post questions and incredibly helpful during class time. He's also very funny and makes learning feel fun (It felt so corny to type, but its legit) I genuinely had so much fun during labs trying to figure all the lab stuff out and his labs are well structured to cover most concepts. There is a slight curve in the class, and he holds open house review sessions for the content on each exam. Tips: Do the quizzes in advance, attempt at the homework in advance before discussion class and don't be afraid to ask questions! This is not the professor who will make you feel stupid for connecting stuff wrong or doing stupid errors, but a professor who will help you and have you saying 'oh right duh I knew that' after talking with him.
Ian White BIOE457 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/27/2022	Ian White is one of the most knowledgeable BIOE professors, especially in electronics which is not an easy class. He is very straightforward and does not try to trick you or make things more confusing than they need to be. He "curves" the class to have a B+ average, but this curve is not uniform. However, he is straightforward to talk to and will answer any question you ask, even if it is not about the class.
Ian White Anonymous 05/16/2022	In my opinion, probably one of the best BIOE professors. Really cool dude, and really approachable.
Ian White Expecting an A thearn182 12/17/2012	Ian White is probably the coolest professor you will have fifth semester. He's really approachable and actually cares about you learning. You get equations sheets cause he's against memorization and the exams are always straightforward, no tricks. Homework is out of the book. Quizzes are a question straight from the homework. Labs aren't great (unless you're good with physically building circuits), but doable. All in all this is a great class. I went in dreading it because I hate electronics, but left knowing and appreciating the material. Just be careful because it's the easier than other 5th semester classes, it's easy to put off the work and fall behind.
Ian White Expecting an A anon01 05/22/2012	This class suffers from being very easy, so students end up with inflated opinions of the professor and the class. In fact, this class was significantly easier than my high school electronics class. Sadly, this is one of the only classes where BIOE students will learn electronics, an essential topic for any engineering major. Test averages were in the high 80s always, with homework for completion and 10-11 quizzes of which only about 5 count. Tests have a lengthy multiple choice section, and questions that can be solved just by applying an equation from your equations sheet. I finished every exam over half an hour early and ended up with A's even without studying. This is literally the easiest class in the entire BIOE major, easier than a typical 100-level class. This class also has minimal MATLAB and some PSpice (a circuit design and analysis software), none of which you will be tested on. In terms of White's teaching style, anyone can do a good job teaching simple topics like resistors in series/parallel. When explaining somewhat more difficult topics, White tends to talk in circles, and doesn't explain concepts multiple ways. EVERY SINGLE TOPIC was "dumbed down" to make the teaching more streamlined. Labs were messy. Bad equipment such as a faulty oscilloscope or lack of resistors made seemingly simple circuits very difficult to hook up and analyze. If you're struggling, the professor or the TA will completely disassemble your work and rebuild it again, without explaining what they did. This is most likely just to get you out of lab on time. However, you nearly always get out of lab early. Instead of lab reports, you take pictures of your circuit and answer a few simple questions, nearly everyone gets A's. Sigh, I expect the majority of people who got A's in this course to not be able to hook up a lightbulb to a battery.
Ian White Expecting an A ahuang12 12/07/2011	I got lucky and didn't end up with Johnson teaching along with this course. Let me start by saying he is by far one of the best professor in the entire BIOE department. In 455, he gave out homework for completion and quizzes based off the homework. So if you know how to do the homework, you'll know how to do the quiz. They're easy to the point where you should get 100%. I took 456 along with 455 and had no electronics background going into these courses. His exams are a little challenging but if you kept up with the homework/quizzes you shouldn't get anything less than an 80% An example of Dr. White's teaching method is when I was having trouble interpreting wheatstone bridges. I couldn't understand Dr. Tao's explanation so I asked Dr. White. He explained it clearly and the next lecture he gave 4 examples just on wheatstone bridge examples to make sure that I learned the materials. He also taught op amps early so those working with the EKG in 456 would have less trouble.