Professor Mohanty really cares about his students and learning the topics included in environmental engineering. The class mostly focused on mass balancing, which I had no prior background in but that wasn't necessary. Professor Mohanty did a great job teaching the class, and I really felt as though I thoroughly learned the material by the end of the quarter. The exams and homework were fair, and I would take this class again with him.

Professor Mohanty cares a lot for student wellbeing and is very generous with providing help throughout the class from posting necessary course materials from the book to giving blessed homework extensions near the later parts of the quarter when things often tighten up for students. Lecture notes are hard to read with his handwriting but you can get by with comparing it to examples in the textbook and he posts lecture videos on Youtube if you can't make it to lecture.

I am not an engineer and took this class due to my interest in the environment, so it was incredibly daunting when I found out that this class was a majority civil engineers. However, bless Professor Mohanty because he made the class straightforward and easy to understand even if you were a non-engineer. The class is not graded on a curve, so a vast majority of the class ends up with As in the class. There was only one midterm and one final and the average on the midterm was about 88%, which is extremely generous. We are also assigned weekly homework, but as long as you put in the effort, they boost your grade. TAs are super helpful and you do not have to attend the discussion section that you were assigned to.