Really bad lecturer. He was just reading and copying his notes in lecture and not explaining anything. Confusion is the only thing I get in this class.

Professor Rosen is the classic example of what is wrong with professors at UCLA. He is careless, a very poor communicator, and extremely boring. The worst part about him is that his self-awareness is extremely poor, too (it does not seem like he is even slightly aware of how bad he is).

Yes, the class is easy and if you put in some effort, you will probably get an A. So if that is what you are looking for, go ahead and get the easy A if that is what you care about.

But if you really care about actually learning something useful, something that is not just a repeat of Math 33B, I highly encourage you to look elsewhere. If you are stuck with being forced to take this class, then I pity you. You will spend so many hours on this class not learning anything and still getting frustrated, despite receiving a likely A (the "projects" that he gives out in particular are real torture sometimes).

He offers the class a chance to resubmit homeworks and projects for full credit if they make corrections after receiving their work back. This might sound nice, but it just resulted in a large portion of the class just turning in really poor work initially only to copy the corrections that the TA's provide in order to get full credit and, as a result, not really learn anything.

The exams are fairly straightforward, but they test your ability to not make stupid mistakes more than actually demonstrating the concepts one learns in the class (the midterm had a couple of insanely long algebra problems that were almost impossible to get completely right unless if you are a robot, which I'm sad to say, some people who take this class with you will be).

Basically, to sum this class up, it sucks. Avoid it. Not worth it.

I took this as a tech breadth class and was only looking for an easy A. If you're looking for that, then this is the class for you. I thought Rosen was pretty funny too. But the material sucks haha. Projects and hw do sometimes take long, not all of them though. He tells you what is going to be on the midterm and final.

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.