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Babak Daneshrad
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He's pretty alright. His way of teaching doesn't work for everyone—the whole "I'll keep asking until someone says the answer" during lecture. Overall though he did teach us the material pretty thoroughly, and (thankfully?) he doesn't cover any of the low-level transistor stuff that some M16/M51A professors cover. He does go pretty in depth elsewhere though, and the midterm/final are pretty difficult. He did mention that this was his first time teaching M16, so perhaps that explains the difficulty of the exams but he's overall pretty fair. One midterm, one final project, one final exam. Start on the project early—it's not actually that hard once you get started, but it's a lot to wrap your mind around.
He's pretty alright. His way of teaching doesn't work for everyone—the whole "I'll keep asking until someone says the answer" during lecture. Overall though he did teach us the material pretty thoroughly, and (thankfully?) he doesn't cover any of the low-level transistor stuff that some M16/M51A professors cover. He does go pretty in depth elsewhere though, and the midterm/final are pretty difficult. He did mention that this was his first time teaching M16, so perhaps that explains the difficulty of the exams but he's overall pretty fair. One midterm, one final project, one final exam. Start on the project early—it's not actually that hard once you get started, but it's a lot to wrap your mind around.
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Daneshrad plays the game “I know but I won’t tell you.” Consequently, his lectures are totally useless. It seems that he instructs his TAs adopt the same philosophy (if it’s a philosophy at all, but let me be educated, you can use the most properly word to qualify this attitude). He repeats what is in the reader making an impressive rate of mistakes when he is not reading his notes. He does not provide any personal approach for understanding the topic is talking about. Conversely, he will confused you madly when his lack of understanding of this class (I mean EE13). There is a moment in which every good and excellent professor provides to student his insight about the course he is teaching that makes his lecture memorable and worthy to remember forever, and to attend. DO NOT EXPECT THAT FROM THIS ASSISTANT-PROFESSOR. If you enjoy his great English pronunciation, it’s fine, but he is an Electrical Engineering assistant professor, not a political sciences one. I don’t know what his problem is, but certainly, UCLA engineering school is going all the way down the hill with people like him. Midterm: Easy but tricky Final: 50% was the project. Overall quality: very low as teacher (From A to F, I would give him a D-) assistants were even worst
Daneshrad plays the game “I know but I won’t tell you.” Consequently, his lectures are totally useless. It seems that he instructs his TAs adopt the same philosophy (if it’s a philosophy at all, but let me be educated, you can use the most properly word to qualify this attitude). He repeats what is in the reader making an impressive rate of mistakes when he is not reading his notes. He does not provide any personal approach for understanding the topic is talking about. Conversely, he will confused you madly when his lack of understanding of this class (I mean EE13). There is a moment in which every good and excellent professor provides to student his insight about the course he is teaching that makes his lecture memorable and worthy to remember forever, and to attend. DO NOT EXPECT THAT FROM THIS ASSISTANT-PROFESSOR. If you enjoy his great English pronunciation, it’s fine, but he is an Electrical Engineering assistant professor, not a political sciences one. I don’t know what his problem is, but certainly, UCLA engineering school is going all the way down the hill with people like him. Midterm: Easy but tricky Final: 50% was the project. Overall quality: very low as teacher (From A to F, I would give him a D-) assistants were even worst
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The workload in this class is ridiculous. Final project was to layout a 16 bit ALU and then code it in Verilog. An insane amount of work for 2-3 students to do in 3 weeks while studying for the final. The professor also changed the project spec 3 times while we were meant to be working on it. Material is really difficult but he doesn't seem to understand that the workload is way too high.
The workload in this class is ridiculous. Final project was to layout a 16 bit ALU and then code it in Verilog. An insane amount of work for 2-3 students to do in 3 weeks while studying for the final. The professor also changed the project spec 3 times while we were meant to be working on it. Material is really difficult but he doesn't seem to understand that the workload is way too high.
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