WOW. When I was starting the quarter off taking this class, the first thing Kavehpour said was no phones, or you'll be 'asked to leave' (i.e. he calls you out and you stumble over your words). He followed that up with your grade being made up of ONLY the two midterms and final with no curve(8 questions in total).
Now after taking this class, I have to say I'm disappointed that he only teaches one undergraduate class, because I would love to take him again!!
In terms of grading, the TAs and him gave a generous amount of partial credit, enough that the averages of the first two midterms were in the high 80s. He tells you exactly what is on the exams, and sticks to it.
As a lecturer, he was really engaging. He often ended his lectures early by almost a half hour. The TAs do most of the practice problems like something seen on a test, while the professor goes over the derivations.
Overall, I would 10/10 recommend taking him if you have the chance! I believe that he is a much better teacher in person than he was when it was an online format.

There are so many bad reviews about him and I have no idea why? This has been one of my favorite classes and most stress free classes in the Mech&AE department. He had prerecorded lectures that you could watch at any time and were just 1 hour long most of the time. His explanations are concise and to the point, which makes learning way more enjoyable. He often "roasts" students but it's all in good spirits and you can see its out of humor and nothing malicious. I really really enjoyed this class and it never felt like attending lecture was a chore. He gave us 1 midterm worth 40% and 1 final worth 60%, both we straightforward exams and had nothing out of the ordinary. In my opinion this was an easy A. He also had two whole lectures towards the end of the class to just solve example problems which was really helpful and the exams were pretty similar. I highly recommend this class and the professor!

The covid-19 tests were brutal and took around a dozen hours each, but his lectures, the homework problems, and the discussions were exactly what you needed to be successful in the course. Great professor, you will learn a lot.

Ok I came into this class thinking it was going to be really bad, but turns out I think I'm just stupid and I didn't go to lecture and when I did I didn't retain too much. Maybe he liked our class but I thought the midterm and final weren't too bad if you actually kind of went to lecture and did the homework problems. Every time we had a test, I would teach myself everything because they were 24 hours, but usually many of the questions are similar to problems in the textbook and the homework problems (which are from the textbook also). Definitely do the homework and go to discussion because they do example problems there that Kavehpour doesn't always do too much of. Overall I would take him but if there's a better prof you should prob go with him. BUT in person I don't think I would've taken him haha the only reason why I did so well was because I had all day to figure out the problems.

I had this class over during Covid 19 and as a summer session so don't take my review too seriously, your experience may differ a lot. All lectures were pre-recorded Zooms from the last semester and we had two additional post lecture discussions per week if you had any questions/didn't understand certain concepts. We only had 5 quizzes throughout the semester with the option to drop the lowest one. These quizzes were not hard per se but not easy either. They generally followed the structure of a HW problem with a twist. What really helped me through this semester was the discussion class where our TA would review problems and explain his logic going through an exercise. I was honestly a fun experience and am exited to take more fluid classes in the future.

Professor Kavehpour is great and a really engaging lecturer. That being said, he doesn't go over how to solve problems so make sure you go to discussion for that. Midterms and finals are taken from problems from other books. He also will tell you to use a test bank, which you really should, since he reuses questions for the exams. The midterms were pretty easy, but the final was a bit harder.

Cool guy. He doesn't allow cell phones, which I think is good since now you're forced to pay attention and the material is pretty interesting. He starts lecture ten minutes late (on purpose) and usually ends ten or so minutes early (if we have a break about 50 minutes in; if there's no break then we would end 20 or so minutes early).

The two midterms were pretty straightforward and graded very fairly in my opinion. The first one was open book and notes (he allowed digital textbooks aka laptop or iPad but no phones), but he changed that for the second one since the class got really crowded and cluttered and it was hard to proctor. We were only allowed a formula sheet (front and back) for the second midterm. I'm not sure if he'll keep implementing the open book and notes policy, I think it depends on the class size and number of students (and in the end it's all up to him). The questions on the midterms were a little more difficult than the homework problems, but not really by that much. He provides typed-up solutions to every homework assignment so each solution is easy to follow and understand.

Because of the coronavirus situation, he gave us a take-home final that we had 12 hours to complete (8am-8pm). This meant it was open book, note, computer, everything (except the obvious: don't work with other people; not something he could monitor but I hope people had some integrity and didn't do this). I'm not sure if he made the final harder due to the whole weird situation but I thought it was pretty tough.

Overall I thought he was a good professor.

Loved this professor! Very funny! Difficult class though. Textbook was super important.

Kavehpour is fantastic, engaging and funny. He makes lectures enjoyable and has a natural talent for teaching. One of my favorite professors at UCLA so far. His tests are open book open note open computer, but they are not the easiest. Overall great class with a great teacher.

Kavehpour explained concepts clearly and did a pretty good job in general. He started class late and ended class early most days which was nice, but also meant things were pretty rushed towards the end of the quarter since he had to cram the most important concepts, which all appeared on the final, in the last two weeks of class. The midterm was very straightforward and I would highly recommend paying a visit to the test bank since he does reuse midterm questions which are taken directly from a different textbook. The final was ridiculously hard though.