EC ENGR 1
Undergraduate Seminar
Description: Seminar, one hour; outside study, two hours. Introduction by faculty members and industry lecturers to electrical engineering disciplines through current and emerging applications of autonomous systems and vehicles, biomedical devices, aerospace electronic systems, consumer products, data science, and entertainment products (amusement rides, etc.), as well as energy generation, storage, and transmission. P/NP grading.
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Fall 2019 - Took it because the EE department advisors recommended it to get an 'diverse overview' of what the industry is like... I disagree. This is just a speaker series class where a different EE alumni comes back to talk about what they do, how they got to where they are, and a bit about what their experience with UCLA was like (which won't matter much because on average they all graduated 10 years ago). Every single one of them talks about how they do a lot of CS in their day-to-day lives, some are in management, almost all of them have worked for Raytheon, it's not really interesting. Someone has to swipe everyone in for attendance. Every class they leave time for questions, and no one asks any. All that was asked in terms of work was to write a short a paragraph highlighting 3 take-aways for every lecture, never took me longer than 30 min. I wouldn't say it's a complete waste of time, but many of my peers would.
Fall 2019 - Took it because the EE department advisors recommended it to get an 'diverse overview' of what the industry is like... I disagree. This is just a speaker series class where a different EE alumni comes back to talk about what they do, how they got to where they are, and a bit about what their experience with UCLA was like (which won't matter much because on average they all graduated 10 years ago). Every single one of them talks about how they do a lot of CS in their day-to-day lives, some are in management, almost all of them have worked for Raytheon, it's not really interesting. Someone has to swipe everyone in for attendance. Every class they leave time for questions, and no one asks any. All that was asked in terms of work was to write a short a paragraph highlighting 3 take-aways for every lecture, never took me longer than 30 min. I wouldn't say it's a complete waste of time, but many of my peers would.
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Fall 2023 - Not sure what I learned from the class. It is a series of lecture by various guest speakers with pretty generic advice for students. It certainly wasn't painful to be there by any means, but still felt quite useless overall. I do love that some of the classes are scheduled to be over Zoom, which takes away the added frustration of having to actually go to the lecture hall. The professor is nice, but you never really hear from her. She most just introduces the speaker.
Fall 2023 - Not sure what I learned from the class. It is a series of lecture by various guest speakers with pretty generic advice for students. It certainly wasn't painful to be there by any means, but still felt quite useless overall. I do love that some of the classes are scheduled to be over Zoom, which takes away the added frustration of having to actually go to the lecture hall. The professor is nice, but you never really hear from her. She most just introduces the speaker.
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I think a lot of people might have a hard time with him because of the material itself and maybe his accent. I had the fortune of having taken Corbin for Physics 1b during the summer quarter before, so most of the electrostatics of the course was still fresh and I didn't have to study as hard as many others. It's hard stuff so I don't think its all Joshi's fault. His accent might be a little hard for some people who haven't had and Indian professor, but I took a few classes already with thick accents so it wasn't difficult. You do learn quite a bit and although he does go by the book, he doesn't give you something completely out there. Honestly, I was swamped with so much to do that I self-studied most of the quarter. Re-did homework questions, took my own notes, in preperation for his quizes and midterms. His lectures are more like supplements to the book, which are a very good thing, alot of the time the book gets confusing and convulted, so going to his lectures then reading over the book and taking your own notes would improve your understanding. He does not give cheat sheets for any of his exams, but i recommend actually writing a cheat sheet anyway to study. And practice being able to derive different formulas, like energy from capacitance, vice versa, potential from Electrical field of a cylinder, spheres, etc. TA's are really just luck the the draw. Some ridiculous stuff happened this year so some people got screwed over if they were in a back section. But Brad, one of the TAS, was amazing, he had like 4-6 hour office hours and he's fun, approachable, and doesn't mind rexplaning things until you understand it. I don't think that there really is an easy professor for EE1, its hard all together, but if you learned Physics 1b well (from corbin probably best), it wont be impossible. His exams are lonng, his quizes are long, too long for a twenty minute period despite being MC. Good luck! And if anyone wants to buy my book, I have the seventh edition, international, works fine for the course and has all the questions ;].
I think a lot of people might have a hard time with him because of the material itself and maybe his accent. I had the fortune of having taken Corbin for Physics 1b during the summer quarter before, so most of the electrostatics of the course was still fresh and I didn't have to study as hard as many others. It's hard stuff so I don't think its all Joshi's fault. His accent might be a little hard for some people who haven't had and Indian professor, but I took a few classes already with thick accents so it wasn't difficult. You do learn quite a bit and although he does go by the book, he doesn't give you something completely out there. Honestly, I was swamped with so much to do that I self-studied most of the quarter. Re-did homework questions, took my own notes, in preperation for his quizes and midterms. His lectures are more like supplements to the book, which are a very good thing, alot of the time the book gets confusing and convulted, so going to his lectures then reading over the book and taking your own notes would improve your understanding. He does not give cheat sheets for any of his exams, but i recommend actually writing a cheat sheet anyway to study. And practice being able to derive different formulas, like energy from capacitance, vice versa, potential from Electrical field of a cylinder, spheres, etc. TA's are really just luck the the draw. Some ridiculous stuff happened this year so some people got screwed over if they were in a back section. But Brad, one of the TAS, was amazing, he had like 4-6 hour office hours and he's fun, approachable, and doesn't mind rexplaning things until you understand it. I don't think that there really is an easy professor for EE1, its hard all together, but if you learned Physics 1b well (from corbin probably best), it wont be impossible. His exams are lonng, his quizes are long, too long for a twenty minute period despite being MC. Good luck! And if anyone wants to buy my book, I have the seventh edition, international, works fine for the course and has all the questions ;].
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Math 33A Linear Algebra and Applications Professor Laub can be a little difficult to understand in class or office hours. He may not make everything clear or bother to explain it. Luckily I had a great TA. His exams however were not very tough. You get to have a two-sided page of notes on the exam. His practice exams are pretty similar to the actual one. If you are burdened with classes for a quarter with this class, I recommend you take it with him to reduce the workload.
Math 33A Linear Algebra and Applications Professor Laub can be a little difficult to understand in class or office hours. He may not make everything clear or bother to explain it. Luckily I had a great TA. His exams however were not very tough. You get to have a two-sided page of notes on the exam. His practice exams are pretty similar to the actual one. If you are burdened with classes for a quarter with this class, I recommend you take it with him to reduce the workload.
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I really didn't do anything for this class... barely did the homework, never went to lecture, just studied some formulas before the midterms and finals... which worked well for the midterms, his first two midterms were easy... like if you took physics 1B and got an A you don't have to study easy, but his final was hard. large part was conceptual questions that i probably got wrong, the other ones were do-able. either way from what i hear the EE1 teachers are hard but niemann really isn't... take him if you can!
I really didn't do anything for this class... barely did the homework, never went to lecture, just studied some formulas before the midterms and finals... which worked well for the midterms, his first two midterms were easy... like if you took physics 1B and got an A you don't have to study easy, but his final was hard. large part was conceptual questions that i probably got wrong, the other ones were do-able. either way from what i hear the EE1 teachers are hard but niemann really isn't... take him if you can!
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Ozcan is a decent teacher. His teaching method was a little less straight forward then it could've been, but he definitely showed you how to do the problems. Rather then just dictating the methods for solving different problems he would try to get the class to solve it without help. He would also give out extra credit often when someone would answer a tough question. His tests were very straight forward and his curve was amazing. I was 34/50 and received a B+. He also gives a lot of good tips on engineering as a profession and definitely knows his stuff. Based on his bio he appears to be a genius of sorts. If you can take this class with him I would 100% recommend it.
Ozcan is a decent teacher. His teaching method was a little less straight forward then it could've been, but he definitely showed you how to do the problems. Rather then just dictating the methods for solving different problems he would try to get the class to solve it without help. He would also give out extra credit often when someone would answer a tough question. His tests were very straight forward and his curve was amazing. I was 34/50 and received a B+. He also gives a lot of good tips on engineering as a profession and definitely knows his stuff. Based on his bio he appears to be a genius of sorts. If you can take this class with him I would 100% recommend it.
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Never Never take this jerk! I learned nothing from his lecture because he did not even know what he was talking about. He chose a very hard textbook without a published solution manual and he felt good about it. But people gathered and copied each other and still got perfect grades on homework. Well, the average was only 30% for both midterms and final, so why the fk did this happen...His grading was ridiculous as well: people who ranked 26th out of 131 students got a B+; while the one ranked 80th still got a B-, WTF??
Never Never take this jerk! I learned nothing from his lecture because he did not even know what he was talking about. He chose a very hard textbook without a published solution manual and he felt good about it. But people gathered and copied each other and still got perfect grades on homework. Well, the average was only 30% for both midterms and final, so why the fk did this happen...His grading was ridiculous as well: people who ranked 26th out of 131 students got a B+; while the one ranked 80th still got a B-, WTF??
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