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Jacob Rosen
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Fall 2018 - His class is hard but masked by a veil of simplicity, though overall Rosen just isn't a chill dude. He has a sign-in sheet and attendance accounts for part of the grade but people only show up to sign in (or well to sign in their 12 friends) because his lectures are near impossible to understand through his disorganization. He allows you to resubmit homework assignments to correct mistakes, but as the workload piles up each week it becomes hard to finish the assigned homework in the first place. The homework heavily relies on matlab, but that isn't even part of the curriculum and you're expected to learn it yourself. His exams are open note open book, but they are still extremely difficult and the take home midterm legit takes around 24 hours of straight work to solve. Overall the worst thing is that he submitted half of the class to the dean for cheating on the take home midterm with 0 basis and delayed the grades. Clearly, if he truly believes that half the class cheated on the assignment then something must be wrong.
Fall 2018 - His class is hard but masked by a veil of simplicity, though overall Rosen just isn't a chill dude. He has a sign-in sheet and attendance accounts for part of the grade but people only show up to sign in (or well to sign in their 12 friends) because his lectures are near impossible to understand through his disorganization. He allows you to resubmit homework assignments to correct mistakes, but as the workload piles up each week it becomes hard to finish the assigned homework in the first place. The homework heavily relies on matlab, but that isn't even part of the curriculum and you're expected to learn it yourself. His exams are open note open book, but they are still extremely difficult and the take home midterm legit takes around 24 hours of straight work to solve. Overall the worst thing is that he submitted half of the class to the dean for cheating on the take home midterm with 0 basis and delayed the grades. Clearly, if he truly believes that half the class cheated on the assignment then something must be wrong.
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Winter 2022 - The other reviews tell the full story, but leave out the subtle bites that make this class truly special. Professor Rosen's class is Jack Daniels' whiskey. Bold label, burns your nostrils off at first contact. Just like the other reviews state, the class is an ineffective, roundabout grasp at teaching systems engineering and business planning. There are no hints for team lead organizations, nothing about how to appropriately delegate tasks. These skills are either prerequisite or learned *despite* the class. It's either an ineffective way to teach management or an extremely effective way to waste my time. We open with a sad story. The syllabus features notes and hints on each project and assignment... but all the hyperlinks are broken. The *crucial* tips are missing. Hmm. This bodes well. From there it doesn't get much better. More often than not, each class was a charcuterie of short presentations from each group. In up to four consecutive hors at a time, we sat through our classmate's identical presentations. I'm not saying I've slept through this class, I'm promising it. And after each presentation(which could last up to thirty minutes per group), the professors gave minimal feedback. Each week effectively became an exercise in futility, with assignments often posted *two days before due*. Furthermore, the class did not have example slides or help on any assignment- if the TA or professor was asked for input they would devil's advocate your work into the god damn ground. Even if they admitted your project and work was solid. It was like they were sniffing for cracks to hit. I'm sure that some people thrive in this class, and I'm also sure that those people would be better off working in business. I cannot emphasize enough how little I have learned from this class. In a little anecdote, in order to make class on time I skipped a performance review with my boss, paid $10 for parking... And then found out that we were slated to "do group work". This happened four times. Each pointless meeting is a waste of my time and money. Another time, we had a "shark tank" style presentation where other professors would query our presentations and concepts. They also had only one minute to ask questions, and they chose to ask inane questions about their fields of expertise. We didn't get any valuable feedback, and that was a wasted week of work and research. The worst part? I'm now *less* of an engineer for this class. Do you have any background in CS/CAD/SysEn/PCB layout? It doesn't matter here. What this class seems poised to teach is... branding. How to sell your project. Internal politick. Bleeding requirements from a stone. That's valuable and useful, sure. Anyone looking to be project lead or work in the cutting edge needs this lesson sooner than later. But god damn it Rosen, can students at least have their last vestige of soul remain intact? We assign tasks and give people work on a vague understanding of their skills because the actual engineering deliverables are so far off that we spend our time worrying about the best graphic to put on our slide deck. TL;DR: A start-up experience for the discerning consumer. Honestly I'm tired of thinking about it. Just be prepared for 0% engineering- one truly cannot stress how awful this class is.
Winter 2022 - The other reviews tell the full story, but leave out the subtle bites that make this class truly special. Professor Rosen's class is Jack Daniels' whiskey. Bold label, burns your nostrils off at first contact. Just like the other reviews state, the class is an ineffective, roundabout grasp at teaching systems engineering and business planning. There are no hints for team lead organizations, nothing about how to appropriately delegate tasks. These skills are either prerequisite or learned *despite* the class. It's either an ineffective way to teach management or an extremely effective way to waste my time. We open with a sad story. The syllabus features notes and hints on each project and assignment... but all the hyperlinks are broken. The *crucial* tips are missing. Hmm. This bodes well. From there it doesn't get much better. More often than not, each class was a charcuterie of short presentations from each group. In up to four consecutive hors at a time, we sat through our classmate's identical presentations. I'm not saying I've slept through this class, I'm promising it. And after each presentation(which could last up to thirty minutes per group), the professors gave minimal feedback. Each week effectively became an exercise in futility, with assignments often posted *two days before due*. Furthermore, the class did not have example slides or help on any assignment- if the TA or professor was asked for input they would devil's advocate your work into the god damn ground. Even if they admitted your project and work was solid. It was like they were sniffing for cracks to hit. I'm sure that some people thrive in this class, and I'm also sure that those people would be better off working in business. I cannot emphasize enough how little I have learned from this class. In a little anecdote, in order to make class on time I skipped a performance review with my boss, paid $10 for parking... And then found out that we were slated to "do group work". This happened four times. Each pointless meeting is a waste of my time and money. Another time, we had a "shark tank" style presentation where other professors would query our presentations and concepts. They also had only one minute to ask questions, and they chose to ask inane questions about their fields of expertise. We didn't get any valuable feedback, and that was a wasted week of work and research. The worst part? I'm now *less* of an engineer for this class. Do you have any background in CS/CAD/SysEn/PCB layout? It doesn't matter here. What this class seems poised to teach is... branding. How to sell your project. Internal politick. Bleeding requirements from a stone. That's valuable and useful, sure. Anyone looking to be project lead or work in the cutting edge needs this lesson sooner than later. But god damn it Rosen, can students at least have their last vestige of soul remain intact? We assign tasks and give people work on a vague understanding of their skills because the actual engineering deliverables are so far off that we spend our time worrying about the best graphic to put on our slide deck. TL;DR: A start-up experience for the discerning consumer. Honestly I'm tired of thinking about it. Just be prepared for 0% engineering- one truly cannot stress how awful this class is.
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Spring 2016 - STRENGTHS: None WEAKNESSES: - Let me start off by saying this is one of the worst classes at UCLA that I have taken, and this is the type of class that makes engineering seem like a joke at this school. - Class lectures were an absolute mess. Rosen's lectures were incomprehensible half the time. Half the class would fall asleep or leave every lecture. - The midterm had a one hour long algebra problem. It tested nothing and taught us nothing. It was purposefully designed to just be long for the sake of being long. And to make things worse, after the midterm Rosen would rag on the class constantly saying that we hated algebra and that we thought we were masters at algebra since we complained about the midterm problem. NO ROSEN. We just don't expect hour long algebra problems where we learn NOTHING as engineers. - Homeworks and Projects were the worse set of problems I have ever encountered. They are all horrendously long and you end up learning nothing. Resubmittions are the only thing that kept people from failing all the homeworks because we could just copy the solutions and resubmit. - One of the TAs had terrible communication skills. - This class is a drag. It seems like it is designed just to add another class to make students stay an extra quarter so that they have to pay more to this school. It is a pointless and redundant class that overlaps with 33B by a huge margin. Very few other universities require this extension of math beyond differential equations. You learn nothing. You struggle with the terrible assignments. You waste your time with the long 2 hour lectures. What is the point? - If engineering is serious about becoming a top 15 school, you can't treat the students with this kind of education. - STUDENTS. please, please, please stop passing up this class for an easy A and start actively voicing your opinion that this class is pointless so that we can add another GE or engineering elective and actually LEARN something.
Spring 2016 - STRENGTHS: None WEAKNESSES: - Let me start off by saying this is one of the worst classes at UCLA that I have taken, and this is the type of class that makes engineering seem like a joke at this school. - Class lectures were an absolute mess. Rosen's lectures were incomprehensible half the time. Half the class would fall asleep or leave every lecture. - The midterm had a one hour long algebra problem. It tested nothing and taught us nothing. It was purposefully designed to just be long for the sake of being long. And to make things worse, after the midterm Rosen would rag on the class constantly saying that we hated algebra and that we thought we were masters at algebra since we complained about the midterm problem. NO ROSEN. We just don't expect hour long algebra problems where we learn NOTHING as engineers. - Homeworks and Projects were the worse set of problems I have ever encountered. They are all horrendously long and you end up learning nothing. Resubmittions are the only thing that kept people from failing all the homeworks because we could just copy the solutions and resubmit. - One of the TAs had terrible communication skills. - This class is a drag. It seems like it is designed just to add another class to make students stay an extra quarter so that they have to pay more to this school. It is a pointless and redundant class that overlaps with 33B by a huge margin. Very few other universities require this extension of math beyond differential equations. You learn nothing. You struggle with the terrible assignments. You waste your time with the long 2 hour lectures. What is the point? - If engineering is serious about becoming a top 15 school, you can't treat the students with this kind of education. - STUDENTS. please, please, please stop passing up this class for an easy A and start actively voicing your opinion that this class is pointless so that we can add another GE or engineering elective and actually LEARN something.
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