Mel herself might be a nice person, but she is extremely unorganized for teaching. She didn't post assignments/lectures on time and suddenly asked students to do those works after the end of the course.

Mel is a little disorganized like the other reviews say, but I feel that she is much better this summer quarter. Perhaps she's adapted more.

Lectures were pretty focused and homework is *mostly* straightforward. There are in class poll questions.

She taught the material fairly well and completely, and it is not hard to get an A if you listen in class (she covers all the material you need to know in her slides) and put in some work. 85% + was and A when I took it.

This class is super easy - group homework and weekly current event forum posts on CCLE - but the lectures are extremely boring, and you have to attend lectures because she has mandatory online polls that count for 10% of your grade. I don't think I learned very much but it's an easy A, I recommend this if you want to boost your GPA without much work

Mel is not a great teacher and is a terrible communicator. Slow to grade, answer questions/emails, and cannot concisely convey material. Waste of a tech breadth unit - would not advise anyone to take this class again. Not worth the workload, especially as lectures are required for her annoying online polls.

The professor is so bad and disorganized you could write a sitcom about her and nobody would believe it. She did not follow the grade distribution she said she would in the syllabus so I and multiple others received grades lower than the ones we calculated following HER grade distribution. She never once answered a single email and never followed through on anything. Literally, emailing her was a meme in our groupme because she would never respond. Every concept is half taught and half explained so that questions all seem familiar but you were never really given the tools to actually solve anything. Grading is pretty harsh and there is never any feedback, we had a piazza but most questions went unanswered. I'm a cs major and would literally take another Eggert class over this, cause at least Eggert doesn't blatantly lie to you. Don't take this professor, this class had so much potential to be interesting but it was just awful.

Really cares about students, but is extremely disorganized leading to the class becoming more challenging than it needs to be

I seriously do not understand how Mel still has a job here. She is one of the most unclear lecturers I've ever had that emphasize knowledge that will most likely not be useful were you ever to have a management position in a company. I actually don't even know why the word "management" is included as part of this course label, as I don't think we talked about management once - we spent almost all of our time talking about pretty relatively useless things such as the time value of money and the optimal levels of production and such. If you're doing the technology management tech breadth to get an idea for how to handle a business, avoid this class at all costs and stick to the MGMT courses, as those cover topics which might actually be useful.

TL;DR: Class was okay with horribly disorganized lectures and a lazy professor

I’ll break down each thing for you so that you can get a good sense of what the class is like.

85% for an A.

HW 15%, Poll Questions 15%, Current Event Posts 10%, Midterm 20%, Group Paper 15%, Final 25%.

Difficulty? I’d say fair. Content-wise, this class can actually get difficult, especially at the second half of the class. I took this class as my tech breadth as an EE major, so I did slack off a lot in this class, initially thinking that economics is a walk in a park. With Mel, this was not entirely the case.

With HW’s you can be in a group up to 4 people. HW questions are tough and will be difficult to find if you use online resources. Because it is graded on accuracy, it is best that you confirm your answers with others, especially with the TA’s. Current Event Posts are tedious, but easy. Poll questions are ridiculously annoying because you have to attend class to get the passcode, which then you have to get the questions right as well. 40+ Questions throughout the quarter, usually 3 poll questions per lecture. 6 polls get dropped. The questions were mainly simple, but sometimes they can get tricky. Be sure to discuss with your neighbors about which answer to select. If you are too shy, then look over your shoulder to see if someone answers the poll before you. Mel is sometimes kind enough to give us the answers, but only rarely. Another EXTREMELY annoying thing is that she leaves the poll questions to the end of class. Sometimes she lectures with only 2-5 min left in the class for us to do the polls. Not enough time at all, it’s pretty frustrating. Also, expect grades to come out way later after completion.

Midterm was fair. Final was pretty hard. Final Paper is a drag, up to 6 people per group. Make sure to form a group early to get it done. In the grand scheme of things, I don’t think it’s hard to get an A in this class if you put in the effort, especially with the lenient grading scale.

These are the only positives in the course. Now onto the negatives. Mel is one of the WORST lecturers I have ever had. Incredibly unorganized, blabbers on tangents very often. She takes up too much time going over random extraneous tangents that barely relate (if at all) to the class content and thinks that we understand what she is saying, but we don’t. If you have taken this class (or 111) already, you guys know what I am talking about. The other reviews ARE right. Almost a waste of time attending lecture, but it’s kind of mandatory due to the poll questions. Mel also takes forever to respond to Piazza questions/emails. Incredibly lazy. I’d say best way to reach her is through office hours or in class.

The TA’s are also ridiculous. I won’t say their names, but they were very unhelpful and didn’t seem to know what they were teaching either. It was quite strange to sight to see, especially during discussion. “Uninspiring,” is the word I’d describe them.

Overall, the class is a drag. You’ll get through it, but I’d say expect to be frustrated from the lack of communication, lack of proper teaching, lack of proper help, and ultimately self-studying from time to time. Content-wise, it is crammable. It is “easy” in terms of the content, but the things surrounding it is what makes it way worse.

Absolutely insane experience. worst teacher i have ever had. She had quizzes due with codes she misspelled or forgot to give the codes for that would automatically be a late and 0. It took her weeks to respond with multiple emails (6+ emails). She even graded people’s final projects marking people down (-18%) for a missing section of the project that was not even asked for. She was insanely disorganized and is impossible to get a hold of. She messed up multiple times in things that should have been easy and she even taught a part of accounting saying “everyone has been doing this” and it is illegal… take her if it is your last choice only

First and foremost, this class is pure economics. I took this course without doing my research, expecting to learn principles of management relative to engineering, and there is none whatsoever. The professor is very kind and funny, and the lectures were genuinely pleasant, however the material was deceptively difficult for me. If you’re looking for an easy class that you can skate through without effort, this really isn’t it. If you’re looking to learn about economic principles, such as loan interest calculation, comparing projects based on pure numbers of revenue and expense, and general factors of supply and demand, this is the class for you.