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Abeer Alwan
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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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Spring 2024 - this class builds on ec engr 102 and if you understood the concepts fairly well in that class, this class shouldn't be too difficult. She posts pre-recorded lectures and they are probably better than going to the in-person lectures at 8 am. I went to the in person lectures only during week 1 and she spoke very slowly and it was hard not to fall asleep. Just put the videos on 1.5x. This class is basically the discrete version of 102, and the material itself isn't too difficult. Homework is also very reasonable, and the midterm/final were manageable, the questions were similar to homework questions.
Spring 2024 - this class builds on ec engr 102 and if you understood the concepts fairly well in that class, this class shouldn't be too difficult. She posts pre-recorded lectures and they are probably better than going to the in-person lectures at 8 am. I went to the in person lectures only during week 1 and she spoke very slowly and it was hard not to fall asleep. Just put the videos on 1.5x. This class is basically the discrete version of 102, and the material itself isn't too difficult. Homework is also very reasonable, and the midterm/final were manageable, the questions were similar to homework questions.
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