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Xin Zan
ENEE475 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/15/2025 |
Dr. Zan has be an extremely helpful and understanding professor for ENEE475. He makes sure there is access to written copies of the lectures he goes over in class and provides additonal resources such as MIT's power electronics course so if you do not understand his methods of derivation or desire more methods of approach. He puts significant emphasis into making sure you learn from his course, something I greatly appreciate. If you're coming into ENEE475 with the mindset that you want to learn, you'll do fine in this course. As others have stated his priority is helping you learn the content, and will have surveys and is very open to feedback if you have suggestions that you feel will help you learn the content better. As someone who was excited to learn about Power electronics and was disappointted by many of our ENEE4XX power course no longer being available, his course was very refreshing to take. |
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Xin Zan
ENEE475 Anonymous 05/13/2025 |
Would highly recommend Professor Zan. Very approachable, and puts a lot of emphasis on improvement and education. One of the few ECE Professors that seems to genuinely care about all of his students, and them learning, even if it's not everything they teach. Grades were determined by a midterm, final project, 4 in class quizzes and 7 homework assignments. The homework started off confusing, and unclear, but after feedback he requested, he improved the assignments and they became more clear. In class quizzes were announced, and participation based, which he used so we can attempt the problem, and help us better understand it when we went through it together. The midterm followed pretty closely to what he taught. Lastly, the final project was utilized to teach us LTSpice. For me, all of these steps helped me understand the content a lot more than other classes and teaching styles. Although lectures weren't required, they were very enjoyable. He put out frequent evaluation forms, which he provided extra points for, in order to improve his teaching style so that it was tailored to his current student. |
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Xin Zan
ENEE475 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/13/2025 |
Extremely good professor, at the start of the semester it was a bit rough, but over the course of the semester, he took feedback, and adjusted his lectures accordingly. He provides a set of printed lecture notes every lecture, in addition to keeping them on ELMS, which helped with studying. There are lots of opportunities for extra credit in the class, and he does his best to make sure no one is left behind. |
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Xin Zan
ENEE475 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/13/2025 |
Professor Xin Zan is genuinely one of the best professors I have ever had. He emphasizes the importance of wanting to help you learn and is incredibly accommodating in doing so. He does this by giving out surveys every three or so topics and often improves his lectures or homeworks because of the responses. He wants everyone to succeed and provides so many extra credit opportunities including the surveys which are also extra credit. Additional homework questions and in class participation are also more extra credit opportunities. He understands the position of the students who are taking his class and makes the class less stressful. You will learn a lot in his class and you should honestly try and take other classes with him if you can as well like ENEE 476. |
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Xin Zan
ENEE475 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/11/2025 |
Professor Xin Zan is the best professor you can ever have for ENEE475, he care about the student and give a ton of extra credit opportunity both thoughout the hw, exam, and in the final project. He also give a lot of extra survey opportunity as well to get even more extra credit. Overall, he care alot abt the student and offers a wide variety of material and sources that furthur strengthen your experience in this course. You will learn alot from him! I definitely recommend taking this class with him, he is the best! |
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Xin Zan
ENEE475 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/10/2025 |
Dr. Zan is very understanding and accommodating as long as you talk to him. He genuinely cares about his students and about power electronics. He took surveys throughout the semester where students can provide anonymous feedback on his teaching, the homework, etc. which he shows the results for in class. I got off to a rough start submitting the first two homeworks late and did pretty poorly on the midterm which was open-note, but I did really well on the homeworks and made up for the rest with a lot of extra credit. I took the course because I thought power electronics could be interesting and I learned a lot. I'd say it was well worth it even if I don't pursue a career in power electronics. |
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Xin Zan
ENEE475 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/08/2025 |
He is a very good professor who cares about students and their learning. He also understands that being an engineering students can be tough so he makes the course as much of a GPA booster as he can. Extra credit opportunities, super fair grade weighting, and a built in curve. His lectures are super detailed with hand written notes including paper copies. He goes over all the necessary content, answers your questions, and constantly asks for your feedback. HW assignments have at the very least 1.5 week to be done if not more. The quizzes (for participation) and midterm are open note. Such a great professor and I highly recommend him and this course. |
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Xin Zan
ENEE475 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/08/2025 |
Dr. Zan is very nice and understanding when it comes to teaching students, especially since this course is very new. He's also really passionate, which shows through his in-depth explanations and teaching style. He always brought printed lecture notes to class and went over examples that helped a lot with homework, the midterm (which was open book and open note), and quizzes (which were participation-based, so no pressure if you get it wrong). He genuinely cares about students learning in his class and even gives one late homework submission for free. He also gave a ton of extra credit to help boost grades, and in general he presented material well and connected it to real life examples of power electronic applications. Dr. Zan a great professor and I highly recommend taking him if you are interested in power electronics! |
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Xin Zan
ENEE475 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/08/2025 |
He is a very good professor who takes time to explain the content, answer questions, and listen to student feedback. Brought in the printed lecture notes for students to take notes on directly, which was extremely helpful. Some examples gone over in class are directly correlated to the homework, exam, and quizzes (all open book, open note). Lots of extra credit was given. |
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Xin Zan
ENEE475 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/08/2025 |
Perfect balance of engagement and requirements. Actually cares about teaching, unlike a lot of EE profs. A young guy who still cares and is passionate. Asks for volunteers to answer questions in class (but never requires it). Every assignment has extra credit, so you can go deeper into the material if you want. Such a great professor! |
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Xin Zan
ENEE498K Expecting an A Anonymous 05/15/2024 |
Great professor, I learned a lot from this class. If you are interested in PCB design and hand on soldering I recommend this class. |
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Xin Zan
ENEE498K Anonymous 05/14/2024 |
Great professor, he adjusts his teaching style to fit students needs. |
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Xin Zan
ENEE498K Expecting an A Anonymous 05/07/2024 |
Dr. Zan is an amazing professor who genuinely cares about all of his student's ability to learn and grow within the classroom setting and beyond. Dr. Zan regularly asks for students feedback regarding how course instruction is going and actively tries to improve his teaching style to better fit the needs of his students. Additionally, he puts a genuine effort towards making the lecture content and delivery interesting and engaging. I appreciate the amount of time he puts into his student's needs (being flexible with assignment due dates, expanding on certain course topics, and even providing resources for finding careers beyond graduation within the industry) and I wish other professors were more like Dr. Zan |