Marta Pozuelo
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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2.5
Overall Rating
Based on 2 Users
Easiness 3.0 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 2.5 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.5 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 2.5 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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  • Needs Textbook
GRADE DISTRIBUTIONS
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16.2%
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6.5%
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

26.7%
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17.8%
13.3%
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4.4%
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

26.5%
22.1%
17.7%
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8.8%
4.4%
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

30.0%
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

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Quarter: Fall 2022
Grade: B-
Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Jan. 13, 2023

The subject itself is a lot in one go so you will feel rushed. The TA's do a bad job at explaining so I suggest talking to the professor. Tests are open book/open note so I suggest taking notes on paper or print the slides. The homework was strange in the sense it would have some computational stuff then short answer so it feels so jumbled and disorganized, and when you ask the TA's they give such non-helpful hints and the prof won't answer homework questions. Sometimes the homework/tests ask for things not on the slides so read the textbook. There is a tiny curve she gives you as leeway but its not a lot. If you can avoid Pozuelo for this class do it but if you have to I suggest be prepared to do a lot of reading the textbook and learning yourself.

Homework 10%
2 Quizes 30%
Midterm 25%
Final 35%
2% EC for filling out the evaluation survey thing

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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: B
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Jan. 14, 2021

Pozuelo was a kind person and clearly knowledgeable about materials science, but she really was not good at lecturing. I didn't watch most of her lectures and chose to read slides and the textbook instead, but it was abundantly clear in the few hours I did spend that she simply does not know how to explain stuff in a way that is appropriate for an introductory class. The lecture alternated between basic level info that you probably already know to higher level info that was clearly not useful nor testable, with not nearly enough time spent at an intermediate level appropriate for the course. Far too frequently there would be questions on the homework that were absolutely not answerable with the content given in lecture, as if she somehow expected us to read 50 pages of the textbook every week as well as attend the lectures. The textbook, btw, is actually great and absolutely reading it is a great way to learn, but the quality understanding you can get from the book is way overkill for what the class actually requires and I stopped reading the book when I realized it was not time effective. Back to homework, the problems were a strange blend of dense computation and straight up short response to conceptual questions, in such a way that made it completely unclear what the professor wanted you to actually know. There were two quizzes, a midterm, and a final, of which the first two to occur were pretty darn hard, and the second two were way easier. There was a curve at the end of about 1/3 of a letter grade, which was annoyingly small.

TLDR; the course was poorly organized and unclear in its objective, and the lecturing by the professor was not worth watching. I would avoid Pozuelo.

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Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Quarter: Fall 2022
Grade: B-
Jan. 13, 2023

The subject itself is a lot in one go so you will feel rushed. The TA's do a bad job at explaining so I suggest talking to the professor. Tests are open book/open note so I suggest taking notes on paper or print the slides. The homework was strange in the sense it would have some computational stuff then short answer so it feels so jumbled and disorganized, and when you ask the TA's they give such non-helpful hints and the prof won't answer homework questions. Sometimes the homework/tests ask for things not on the slides so read the textbook. There is a tiny curve she gives you as leeway but its not a lot. If you can avoid Pozuelo for this class do it but if you have to I suggest be prepared to do a lot of reading the textbook and learning yourself.

Homework 10%
2 Quizes 30%
Midterm 25%
Final 35%
2% EC for filling out the evaluation survey thing

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COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: B
Jan. 14, 2021

Pozuelo was a kind person and clearly knowledgeable about materials science, but she really was not good at lecturing. I didn't watch most of her lectures and chose to read slides and the textbook instead, but it was abundantly clear in the few hours I did spend that she simply does not know how to explain stuff in a way that is appropriate for an introductory class. The lecture alternated between basic level info that you probably already know to higher level info that was clearly not useful nor testable, with not nearly enough time spent at an intermediate level appropriate for the course. Far too frequently there would be questions on the homework that were absolutely not answerable with the content given in lecture, as if she somehow expected us to read 50 pages of the textbook every week as well as attend the lectures. The textbook, btw, is actually great and absolutely reading it is a great way to learn, but the quality understanding you can get from the book is way overkill for what the class actually requires and I stopped reading the book when I realized it was not time effective. Back to homework, the problems were a strange blend of dense computation and straight up short response to conceptual questions, in such a way that made it completely unclear what the professor wanted you to actually know. There were two quizzes, a midterm, and a final, of which the first two to occur were pretty darn hard, and the second two were way easier. There was a curve at the end of about 1/3 of a letter grade, which was annoyingly small.

TLDR; the course was poorly organized and unclear in its objective, and the lecturing by the professor was not worth watching. I would avoid Pozuelo.

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2.5
Overall Rating
Based on 2 Users
Easiness 3.0 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 2.5 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.5 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 2.5 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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