Professor
Amartya Banerjee
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Fall 2022 - If I could say one thing about this class, it's that it's all memorization. I'm not exactly the strongest student in that regard, so I would say this class wasn't hard to understand but rather hard to memorize all the content for. Professor Banerjee is pretty nice, pretty clear in his lectures, and his slides are super detailed, which is good and bad because you should know basically everything on them. His tests weren't very tricky, as he didn't allow cheat sheets or anything, but they were definitely pretty ruthless with testing any aspect of the slides (facts, drawings, graphs, etc.). I personally felt as though the tests were graded relatively harshly, as there's little partial credit and a lot of emphasis on having the exact answer down. (For example, out of a 30 point problem, I had all the right steps but the wrong numbers in the beginning. He gave max 13/30 points, which I felt was a little unfair, but to each their own.) He curved the average to a B (around a 5% curve?), so I guess you could take my experience as that of the average of the class.
Fall 2022 - If I could say one thing about this class, it's that it's all memorization. I'm not exactly the strongest student in that regard, so I would say this class wasn't hard to understand but rather hard to memorize all the content for. Professor Banerjee is pretty nice, pretty clear in his lectures, and his slides are super detailed, which is good and bad because you should know basically everything on them. His tests weren't very tricky, as he didn't allow cheat sheets or anything, but they were definitely pretty ruthless with testing any aspect of the slides (facts, drawings, graphs, etc.). I personally felt as though the tests were graded relatively harshly, as there's little partial credit and a lot of emphasis on having the exact answer down. (For example, out of a 30 point problem, I had all the right steps but the wrong numbers in the beginning. He gave max 13/30 points, which I felt was a little unfair, but to each their own.) He curved the average to a B (around a 5% curve?), so I guess you could take my experience as that of the average of the class.
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Winter 2022 - Prof Banerjee switched up the curriculum a little bit so instead of learning LabView and some other measurement things, you'll primarily work with matlab for ~5 weeks followed by arduino projects for the rest of the quarter. The occasional lectures are pretty decent since the professor is personable and makes them decently relevant to modern applications. Unless you have no experience in coding whatsoever, this class is super easy, and if you like your groupmates, it's pretty fun too The professor is super flexible with due dates for assignments and is there for almost the entire time alongside the TA, so it's really easy to get help if you need it. There may be a 15-20 min lecture, but after that, you're free to start the homework, so I never ended up thinking about this class outside of the class itself. The homework varies in difficulty but you can get it done pretty quickly if you split up the problems among your groupmates. This class is an easy A, so if you have any coding experience, it's worth taking. The professor and TA (Hsuan Yu) were extremely helpful and friendly, so it's kind of hard to have a bad time taking this class
Winter 2022 - Prof Banerjee switched up the curriculum a little bit so instead of learning LabView and some other measurement things, you'll primarily work with matlab for ~5 weeks followed by arduino projects for the rest of the quarter. The occasional lectures are pretty decent since the professor is personable and makes them decently relevant to modern applications. Unless you have no experience in coding whatsoever, this class is super easy, and if you like your groupmates, it's pretty fun too The professor is super flexible with due dates for assignments and is there for almost the entire time alongside the TA, so it's really easy to get help if you need it. There may be a 15-20 min lecture, but after that, you're free to start the homework, so I never ended up thinking about this class outside of the class itself. The homework varies in difficulty but you can get it done pretty quickly if you split up the problems among your groupmates. This class is an easy A, so if you have any coding experience, it's worth taking. The professor and TA (Hsuan Yu) were extremely helpful and friendly, so it's kind of hard to have a bad time taking this class
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