Prof.Cabric is decent
Although she is busy most of the time, she does well during lecture. She explains things fairly well and although her lecture notes are part of the textbook, they are pretty useful because they contain essential parts of the book. I never had to look at textbook for the first 6weeks because her lectures were good enough. As it gets pretty difficult towards the end of the material, you need to spend sometime reading textbook to understand. As for the discussion, the TA is very nice and reachable. The problems covered during discussion sections are extremely helpful and homework problems also help a lot. If you know how to solve those problems yourself, you will have no problem on the exams. The exams are not that difficult and easier than the hw problems or those covered in discussion. Quizzes are very simple and easy but if you don't keep up with your work, you will easily get very low grade. Lastly, I recommend her for M16.

If you are a cs major, I wouldn't take this class--take the cs version, unless you really enjoy ee. Because for the most part, Cabric isn't very good at explaining concepts and she's not very available (like during office hours) or helpful. She seems patient at first, but then she starts scheduling other meetings during her office hours so things feel rushed and she asks you to look at the textbook. Very annoying to have a professor who doesn't take the time to explain things to his/her students.

Also, the exams are graded very harshly. If you get the first part of a problem wrong, you get the rest of the problem wrong basically since the rest of the problem is based off the result of the first part. And the homework is also very hard in that she doesn't do similar problems during lecture and my TA wasn't very good either so I had almost nobody to go to.

But if you have to take this class, log on to the past quarter of her classes to look at past midterms and past hw solutions using her visitor login username and password she gives you during the first lecture. (She keeps the same guest login every year basically) It's very useful--the most useful between a sucky TA and her lectures.

I don't see why she has bad reviews.

I felt that just by going to lecture I understood what was going on. Didn't even have to use the book much, which is unusual for UCLA. Also, she seems to think that her M16 class is easier than other professors'. We didn't have to learn verilog in ours.

I went to her office hours once, and she was pretty helpful.

For your own good, avoid her at all costs.

Pros:
All of the notes are online
There is a lenient curve (43/61= C+)

Cons:
The lectures are not helpful for the homework during the first seven weeks of the class.
The homework's not helpful for the test and quizzes.
There are extremely difficult quizzes during the discussion session, which show how little the class has actually learned
You will have to teach yourself many of the more difficult concepts
Coming out of the class, and due to her strange grading style (median on two of the quizzes was a zero and the median for the final was 37.5)
for the first 8 weeks of the class she just reads off of her notes often times word for word.

EE102
Cabric class is the most strange class ever. Usually, she will ask a weekly homework and you will notice that students who don't know how to do the homework do better than others who know how to do it. I don't dare to go so far, but I suspect that some of her students get privileged information about what problems are included in the midterm and final. If you think that you are going to get into the privileged group able to get that information, take it with her, otherwise, forget it. You will end hating her and with your GPA downgraded.

Basically (<- get used to hearing this word) she was average. Her teaching was not great, not much better than the textbook (though I found that if I went to lecture I didn't need to read the textbook).

Midterm average: 56%, Final average: 41% so her tests were pretty hard. Her grading on the tests was not generous as the M16 student noted. You need to FINISH the problem and double check it to get full credit. In some senses it was more beneficial to spend your time doing the easier problems and checking them to get points for certain.

did not like this class with her. had pop quizzes in lecture, so you had to attend them. homeworks were difficult and her lectures often didn't help with them. really low averages on midterm and final grades, so the curve helps out a lot. if you can take it with another teacher, your best bet would probably be to do that.

When I took EE 102 with Professor Cabric, she was just getting started teaching, but even in her first class, she was pretty effective at teaching the material.

Each day, she would write out a daily agenda to give us an idea of what we were going to learn in class that day. Many times, she'll review the concepts learned in previous lecture to reinforce our understanding and help us comprehend the later parts of the course.

The homework itself was relatively okay, but there were always one or two really tricky questions that required you to go to office hours. The midterm was somewhat difficult, and the final was pretty difficult. The averages on both exams weren't impressive to say the least, but at least the curve helped me get an A- in the class.

All in all, I would recommend Professor Cabric for an EE course. Maybe not M16 because I heard that she just lectures with powerpoint slides, but in a math-intensive class, I would recommend her.

There are many problems with this teacher:
1- She teaches this class as much general as she can because the text book she uses is very general. The problem is that there is some stuff that herself and her TA's do not understand. When you go to ask her about it she will send you with the TA. Then the TA (jun wang) will tell you that he already explained that in the discussion and that he doesn't want to go trough again. If you insist, he will get mad at you (yes, mad at you and when he is mad he will scream at you) and your grades will suffer the consequences or during the midterm he will ignore you if you have any question.
2- She has her own people who get more help than the rest of the students during the quarter. Her favorite students are usually ranked on the top ten whatever your effort is to be there (I'm talking about this quarter, I ignore if the same happened before). So if you want to be ranked on the top ten, then just try to be one of her favorite students, any academic effort will be useless.
3- When she is in a bad mood she is very disrespectful ( with some students, because with her favorite students she is always very gentle. I cannot say if there is a discriminatory issue behind it. A more careful observation is needed to get a more accurate conclusion )
4-To all of this stressful issues, I have to add the fact that this class is NOT easy. All of these issues accumulated at the end of the quarter make this class almost unbearable. You have to practice Yoga or any other relaxing activity or your nervous could be cracked down (If you are one of the unfortunate students who have to suffer on your own flesh all of these problems created by the teacher and her TA's).
In conclusion, I won't take any other class with this teacher, unless there is not any other option.
In conclusion, my advice for anybody is to avoid her, unless you are her friend.