This class was hard. I remember how fucked I felt seeing the 1st homework after not taking circuits for more than a year. The homeworks were challenging and many of the questions came from a very ancient textbook.
The midterm was fair and used the concepts covered in lecture and the homework. However, the final was hard, which sucks since it's 55% of the grade. It covers roughly everything, albeit more emphasized with the newer material after the midterm (even though he said it wasn't lol).
Make sure you attend his 8am lectures. He is a great lecturer, but often times I get lost in the sauce and end up losing him halfway through (would be nice if it was Bruincasted). Even the smallest things he covers will end up being useful in the exams and homework. So take those notes seriously!!!
I went to his office hours a few times, but it was always so damn crowded. Utilize your TA's office hours, especially for the homeworks. They are less crowded and TAs are more sympathetic to your situation haha.
Lastly, apparently he doesn't curve. And if he does, it is not a lot. So take this class as if you were being graded on an absolute scale. You can probably tell from the other reviews in his other classes that he is not the most generous grader.
Good luck to any upcoming students taking him for circuits. It's gonna be a really stressful 10 weeks of nonstop studying, homework, and studying. And did I mention homework?

Note: Taken online (Covid).

As a professor Moloudi is one of the better ones. Both in-person and online lectures are relatively engaging. He's very thorough and generally is pretty clear with explanations. Moloudi is very blunt, but not rude like Abidi can be.

I had him in-person for 110H in winter, he does not post slides so it's very important to go to the lecture (which sucks since normally they are at 8AM).

Exams are tough but fair.

I waited a year and half to take this class with Professor Darabi but I can't say how lucky I was to have Professor Moloudi for my last quarter at UCLA. He's the best lecturer in ECE department and even best teacher I ever had in my entire life. He started the course by going deep into conceptual and background of diode and transistors and switched to analyzing them in circuits in a way that its like drinking water with no issues. Every chapter he started, he went from doing baby steps to the most simplest and elegant possible way of solving circuits. Anyone who doubts taking his classes is the dumbest student in ECE department. I just wished I took more classes with Professor Moloudi while I was sat UCLA.

As others have said, Professor Moloudi is a great professor if not the best I've had at UCLA. He explains concepts very well and he tries to make sure everyone understands a concept before moving on. As a teacher I give him an A.

Now as a test giver he is extremely stingy, barely giving any partial credit. In addition, I do not understand why he does not allow calculator on the exams. For example, the final had some pretty tedious and ugly calculations. However, I believe his exams were for the most part extremely fair. I mean if you went to class, did your homework, and understood all the concepts covered in class then the exams are very straight forward. However, I feel that on the final exam I probably lost a lot of points not because I did not know what I was doing but rather because I did not get the final answer in the sense that I was unable to do the tedious calculations. So if the final was graded anything like the midterm I probably got like 2/30 points even though I was doing all the rights step, I just didn't arrive at the answer he wanted.

This takes me to how he distributed the final grade. I did, in my opinion, pretty decent in his class given that I bombed his midterm. I was ranked near 50 percentile but for some reason he gave me a C-. For any other class this would have been a B or B-. He is very very stingy with grades.

I've got to second the reviews below. As an instructor Moloudi is a boss. He is extremely knowledgeable on the subject(look at his patents list) and explains everything in a very clear, step-by-step way. He knows which parts of circuit analysis are tricky for students and he spends time on these, instead of expecting students to get it on inspection like some profs. Straight up, I'll have to say he's the most effective teacher I've had since smallberg freshman year. The only downside was he takes things too seriously. At times he seemed snappy and irritable, and this dissuaded me from approaching him with questions. To his credit though he does invite questions constantly. I didnt do too hot on his exams(avg on mt about 13 points above on final) but they really arent that bad. If you do the hw carefully, do a lot of practice problems and keep a clear head during the exam you should be able to do very well. The low averages were probably due to students not putting in effort outside class(was guilty of this myself). That and the class being too early, and circuits being a subject that's inherently tough in an exam scenario.
And that brings us to the sticking point: grades. His curve was miserable. I got top 42-43 percent and got a c+. Initial reaction was wtf and reading these reviews it seems i narrowly dodged a c-! It seems that like abidi, he expects you to perform on an absolute scale. You're not getting a good grade unless you get solid scores(Id guess 70+) on the tests. It makes sense in a way. Cant claim to deserve a b when i scored the way i did on his reasonable exams. Giving good grades despite the poor performance in such a crucial class would make ucla a diploma mill. Otoh it blows for avg students who do their work and just want to get the class over with

Very good lecturer. Explains everything very clearly and had no problem understanding the material. The grading for this class was ridiculous though. I was in the top 10% before the final (which I didn't do well on) and ended up with a D+ in the class?

I've never written a review on Bruinwalk but I decided to for Professor Moloudi because I feel he deserves some respect. I should begin by saying that I got a B+, which from the sound of things is better than most people but still shows you that I'm not some super genius that aces every class. In fact, I do average in most classes, including in EE10 and EE110. Right now, though, I going to call it how it is.

Professor Moloudi is a shining example of what professors should be. He is BY FAR the best EE professor I've had at UCLA. His lectures were excellent, meaning they were either thoroughly planned or he's just naturally gifted at teaching. Either way, it reflects positively on him as an instructor. He encourages his students to ask questions, and he expresses genuine interest in the students' learning.

The examples he gives are clear, as are his explanations. He sometimes uses analogies to convey the concepts being taught, and simple as they are, they do provide deeper understanding of the material. He will call on students during class at random, which for an 8 am class is a good idea because it keeps students focussed in fear that they might get embarrassed not knowing the answer to one of his questions. At the beginning of the quarter, he would call out/heckle students who walked in late, but he sort of stopped that after the first few weeks of the quarter, presumably because an 8am class of 175 is bound to have some stragglers.

The homeworks are LONG. I pulled all nighters for three of the five, not finishing one of them. This was mostly my fault though, as I waited until the day before they were due to start them, since I had a schedule with a heavy workload and couldn't get to them much earlier. That being said, the material in the problem sets is very much representative of the material that shows up on the exams, and I found that re-doing the homework really boosted my confidence for the exams. For the final, I also did the practice problems he suggested in class, which I think were easier than the exam problems but did provide some feedback to how well you know the material.

The exams were fair, and although he didn't let you use a calculator, if you were doing the math correctly, all the numbers should work out beautifully. This is actually really helpful, because if you begin to have non-integer answers, you know that you did something wrong and can go back to fix it. On the other hand, grading was pretty harsh on some questions, but it was harsh for everyone (hence the averages being in the 40s).

Moloudi's overall grading is NOT NEARLY as harsh as Abidi's. If it were, there is no way I would have gotten a B+, because I was in the top 25% and scored in the 60s on both the midterm and the final.

My advice to you, if you have the pleasure of taking Moloudi's class, is to:

(1) Attend every lecture; Moloudi's lectures are certainly worth the time and/or sleep deprivation. Anyone who says otherwise never gave them a chance.
(2) Do the homework on your own; And by on your own I don't mean copying the solutions, which some people did. It sounds cliche (and it is), but doing the homework will prepare you for the exams
(3) Throw away the textbook; it's pretty useless, since Moloudi doesn't follow it. Instead, study the lecture notes.
(4) Ask questions: Moloudi wants you to ask questions, and he will never criticize you for asking one.

That's really all there is to it. No jokes, no exaggerations. If you're considering taking a class with Moloudi, I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND doing so. I just hope that the EE department does itself a favor and give him tenure, as it could really benefit from his contributions.

Was in top 15% of the class and ended up with a B+...

Harder grader than Abidi

Take this guy he is the best. You actually get your questions answered. Even if he didn't allow you to ask questions at all you would still understand everything since he is so good. In my opinion the class did very poorly on the tests so the grades were deserved.