The class itself was pretty easy. Pretty much a review of vector calculus and physics E&M from an engineering perspective with a slight introduction to electromagnetic waves and transmission lines nearing the end of the quarter. The content, especially for electromagnetic waves, sometimes did not seem that intuitive since there were many random Greek symbols flying out of nowhere. However, looking back, it wasn't so bad. Transmission lines and using the smith chart was fun, too (to me at least). As long as you do some extra studying and possibly look at some other online resources, you should be fine.

The professor is a great guy, but an okay professor. He's not that engaging, and his lectures are difficult to follow at times. Since he posts his lectures (from COVID) online, you don't have to attend in person, and you'll be able to grasp the same material, since he pretty much goes over the same stuff. HW's, midterm and final were fair and straightforward (and provided a lot of partial credit/lenient grading). Quiz was questionable? I felt that there was some random stuff in there, but that could just be me. However, he does emphasize that he "doesn't like to surprise his students" when it comes to the exams, it does seem like that is the case. Also, if you can't seem to follow along, use the textbook. The slides/content he covers in class are pretty much the same as you'd see in the textbook. Half of his exam questions were also on there, so I'd highly recommend it as a resource when studying.

Overall, the class was interesting, the professor was alright, the exams were fair (and I'd say on the easier side), and looking back, I shouldn't have worried about this class as much as I did. I definitely would say this would be one of your easier classes to take in the EE curriculum when taking Sam. I'd definitely recommend!

This is the easiest class I have ever taken. I dropped like one point this entire class.

The professor uses slides straight out of the textbook so it does not make any difference if you read the book or his slides. The lectures were boring and consisted mainly of showing proofs for different equations without any context. The midterm and the homework were relatively easy. This class gets confusing in the last two weeks for transmission lines and Smith charts. I did not like this professor and I would strongly recommend taking this class with someone else if you want to understand what you are learning. No practice exams or problem sets were provided before the exams so what you studied before the test was really hit or miss. The posted solutions for homework were messy and unclear. The discussions were lazy reviews of the material.

For this class, it helps to be strong in the material covered in physics 1B for the first half of the course. As long as you do your homework and watch lectures you will do fine in the midterm and the final. The second half of the course was really fun. Using smith chart is like memorizing an algorithm so once you have it down you will be fine. Sam is a really good professor and explains everything thoroughly and clearly if you ask questions during lecture.

Take this class with Emaminejad! He explains things step by step and gives the underlying intuitions behind each concept. Additionally, at the start of the quarter, he does a mini review of vector calculus and relevant physics, so if you're one of those students who took those classes quarters ago, I recommend this professor. Just to note, look at the textbook! He sometimes uses textbook examples and questions for tests! (Additionally, the (Ulaby) textbook is incredibly helpful and can be found online.)

Pre covid, he lectured from slides and handwrote examples. He is a very affable and funny guy, but I don't feel like this material was explained all that clearly. The first part is interpreting things using maxwells equations, which I found to be and odd mash of uninteresting problems (sheet charges and the like). I dont think he explained transmission lines and phasors very well at all. You'll probably have to take ECE10 for that. He kind of just shows things to you and says "I know its hard, just use it", and so alot of students get lost in the sauce. Prior to the class, review line integrals and multivariable calculus or the first homework will be pain. I wouldn't recommend him per say, but I also wouldn't discourage you from taking him.

This class was pretty ass. The homeworks, quiz, and midterm were all very easy, and most of the class got 90%+ on each. However, the final exam was super difficult -- I'm glad that I took this class P/NP because I got an F on the final. The first 75% of the class is a review of Physics 1C mashed with Math 32B, and the last part of the class is about transmission lines, which are a complete left turn from the previous content. 5/10 class, would not take again with this professor.

Professor Emaminejad posted pre-recorded lectures during the first half of the quarter but held live lectures during the second half. Although he is a good lecturer and a successful researcher, it definitely felt like he didn't make enough effort in teaching as he should have. Normal lectures should take around 2 hours but his pre-recorded lectures were only around 40 minutes in length - even though these lectures were pretty concise and well-recorded, I believe he could've made more effort in providing sample problems or go more in-depth on some topics. Other than this, there's actually not much to complain about. He is one of the best EE professors that I've encountered and he explained concepts extremely well. His midterm for this quarter was pretty easy, which may have given people false impressions that the final would be as easy (it wasn't) - however, both exams were still considered generous comparing to my other classes. Looking at previous posts on Bruinwalk, I was expecting a curve on the final, but apparently there wasn't one. The workload for this class is light and the homework problems didn't take long to finish. Overall, I would highly recommend taking this class with him.

This is a hard class, electromagnetics inherently is, and despite the challenges of 2020 remote learning, Prof Emaminejad was overall pretty good as instructor for this class.

The professor took a full flipped classroom for the first half of the class, recorded lectures to watch and using lecture time as optional office hours/discussion on the lectures.

During the second half of the class as topics became a little more difficult, and we started to go beyond Maxwell's equations, he switched to live lectures.

As a lecturer, he holds up, he lectures fairly well with slides, he generally explains pretty well, my only complaint is that he spent far less time on electromagnetic waves than he should have.

Homeworks are challenging but fair, exams are similarly challenging but fair.

Overall I can recommend this professor for this class.

His the BEST, the class material is tough but he explained everything so well that you don't even need to study after the lectures, the class is based on weekly hws that is straight from the book, a quiz that he said you can determine if you need to drop the class or not based on it, and a midterm and final which is extremely hard but he gives a really good curve at he end