I've had Professor Sepulveda for both MAE 182A and MAE 166C. But since most reviews about him are for 182A, I will provide an evaluation for 166C.

Professor Sepulveda is known to go really fast in lectures. So its normal, if during lecture you are a little lost, since he writes so fast on the board. Just review your notes after class or while doing homework. And if you still don't understand them, go to office hours. MAE 166C isn't that bad in terms of concepts. The only problem is that there is heavy computation involved in the homework assignments and exams. The homework is nearly impossible without MATLAB since there are a lot of matrix operations involved. Exams are simplified compared to homework (i.e symmetric laminates), so it is doable without MATLAB. Just know that you are pressed on time during exams, so understand the procedure of how to solve the problems. If you understand the homework, the exams will be pretty similar and you'll be set.

Overall, even though he goes really fast in lectures, this class wasn't too bad. Everything taught in this class built on top of each other and at the end, you combine all you've learned to determine whether a design failed or not. So if you can follow his lectures and understand it, it should be fairly simple. But, regardless, problems are pretty long.

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took his 107 and 171A. Great Professor

Professor Sepulveda is a great professor, he practically knows the course like the back of his hand. Once you get past his sometimes sloppy handwriting and Italian accent, there's no one better for the job. The material was difficult but he manages to teach it every subject flawlessly. It is extremely fast paced so you have to make sure not to fall behind when writing notes.

The book was useless except for the table of Laplace Transforms, which you are advised to bring to exams. His exams are open book and notes, but the exams are structured such that you won't be able to finish it if you constantly referred to your lecture notes, so make sure you study the example problems carefully.

Go to all the lectures and do all the homework meticulously, all his exams are pretty much reiterations of homework problems and class examples.

MAE 182A is oftentimes the end of the road for math classes for engineering people so it is considered to be one of the harder classes. This class encompasses a variety of difficult math concepts that you've probably heard of but never understood, like the Laplace transform, Fourier series, and how to solve partial differential equations. The first third of class is review of 33B material so it should be easy.

Homework is all from the professor himself. The book is definitely optional though it's nice to bring along to tests because one of his midterm problems was similar to an example in the book. The professor can write sloppily and I was never sure if he wrote an m or an n, or a u or a mu. Accent is kinda Italian. Whenever he takes a break, he goes out to take a smoke so he smells like it all the time. A really nice professor and if you have questions on your midterm or final, he'll review and may give you more points. The funniest thing occurred when I was taking a midterm and he just about told me what to do. During the tests, people actually go up to the professor and TAs and basically ease hints out of them. It's quite amusing.

Professor Sepulveda is a pretty good professor. He goes fast in his lectures but if you can catch up with him, you'll be set. His lectures are very prepared and he's very friendly in office hours. I would recommend going to him for homework.

For homework, he makes it up but it's similar to the exams. With that said, his homeworks are a challenge at times but if you're able to understand it, you'll take away a lot from his course.

Professor Sepulveda is a great professor for MAE182A. His grade distribution is 30% homework, 30% midterm, and 40% final.

He writes his own homework problems and rarely uses the book. This is fine because he is very thorough in class. He gives multiple examples that follow the same methods that will be used in the homework. That being said, the homework is tough. He uses the homework assignments for your own good because if you fully understand them, you'll do fine. The TAs are really helpful if you're stuck on a problem.

The midterm is similar to the homework assignments. He gives you a good idea of what to expect, but the test is open note and open book, so he makes it difficult. If you go to class and take good notes, they will be helpful since he gives in-class examples for each topic.

The final is definitely a hard test. Partial credit will be your best friend, especially since Professor Sepulveda cares much more about the method rather than the final answer. This goes for the homework assignments and midterm as well.

One issue with the class is his handwriting can be hard to understand at times. If you sit close or just simply ask what he wrote, he will explain it.

Overall, the homework assignments are a good way to gauge what you know in the class. The assignments take a bit of time and are hard, but most people have an almost perfect score in that category as long as they attempt each problem. The midterm will test you to see if you did understand the topics and can apply them to even harder problems. The final does the same for the second half of the class. Partial credit, again, is very important. On the final, the problems are computationally extremely difficult, but if you have the correct method, you'll get most of the points.

To the evaluation from a few years ago about Sepulveda smoking, I think he gave this up, because during the breaks(usually 5 minutes during the middle of class), he just goes to grab more coffee.

Finally, Sepulveda = fantastic professor. You will leave the class with a solid understanding of each topic. He's also just a nice guy in general. Go stop by his office hours.

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Super nice/chill professor. He's pretty loveable, even if you hate the topic you can't hate him. The exams are open everything and graded with a good perspective, i.e. if you don't have time to solve something and write how you would've done it, you'll get plenty of credit, or if you screw up and write "this is definitely wrong bc of X, Y, Z" then you'll get credit for being able to recognize something went wrong. I don't think there are any other professors teaching this class right now, but that's a good thing, he's a gem.