Lavine is probably one of the best professors at UCLA. Spring 2022 was the first quarter was the first one where she taught in person again, and while I had some complaints about how the class was structured, I would highly recommend it. The grade distribution was as follows: 55% weekly quizzes, 35% final, 5% homework, and 5% "extra". The homework started off easy but got progressively more difficult and time-consuming as the quarter continued. Regardless, you learn a lot from doing the homework and they're great preparation for exams, so despite being such a small percentage of the overall grade, I highly recommend you do them. Quizzes were straightforward, but difficult. They're open everything except collaboration with others. Do the homework and you will be fine. The final exam was slightly easier than the quizzes in my opinion. Her lectures are very clear and succinct, albeit they don't give you everything you need to know to do the homework, just the major concepts. You would need to read some of the examples in the textbook to do them confidently. Discussions were basically useless because the TAs go over problems that they release the solutions for; I used these discussion worksheets as practice for the weekly quizzes and found that to be a much better use of my time. In addition, Lavine structured her class as a "flipped classroom", where lectures were posted online but we would have to show up on Mondays for an in-class activity and Wednesdays for a weekly quiz. Personally, I despise this style of teaching because you spend so much more time in "class" than with just a traditional classroom. It may work for some people, just not for me. Part of class is allocated for office hours. Every time I was there, Lavine was extremely friendly and very eager to help me understand. She told me enough to help me work out a roadmap for the homework problems without telling me exactly how to do it, which I appreciated. Overall, you won't go wrong with Lavine, and when she decides to do live lectures again, I think that she'll be the best 105D you could have.

Professor Lavine is a great instructor who is obviously concerned with students learning and understanding the course materials. Her lectures are clear and she presents the course material in a useful and accessible way. She is always open to students asking questions and gives very clear explanations. I am not a big fan of heat transfer but she managed to make the course enjoyable and understandable anyways. The homeworks can be difficult at times but I would much prefer getting confused on a homework assignment than in an exam or quiz. Expectations for assignments and assessments are well communicated and I never felt like I was going into a situation unprepared for what was going to be asked of me. Overall a difficult but enjoyable course with a fantastic professor.

Taken online during corona.
All lectures were live but also recorded and put online. Lectures were extremely good and I learned a lot from watching them. Homework is weekly and not super long. The format was 5% HW, 60% Quizzes, 35% Final. We had 3 short quizzes and 2 long quizzes, all open book/notes/internet, with 1 quiz being dropped. I thought they weren't too difficult, but they covered both conceptual content and actual number problems. Final was also pretty fair. All tests had lots of extra time to accommodate for the corona which was very nice.

Professor Lavine is extremely efficient with her lectures and covers a lot of material in each lecture. However, her specialty lies in the clarity with which she manages to cover each topic. Luckily, the quarter I took this class, the lectures were podcasted and watching them again before the final really helped. She is very particular about her homework so make sure you do not copy from anywhere. My suggestion would be to finish the homework before office hours so you can ask her for help. She is really helpful in that regard. The tests were not too hard as some of the previous reviews have said. The homework from the book though is a handful. If you can I would definitely recommend you take her for this course because I do not believe that anyone else could have taught this better. Also her tests are open book, so you are probably going to need the textbook.

I don't actually "recommend" a professor very frequently, but I have to for Professor Lavine. Her lectures were very well prepared and organized, and she engaged students regularly during class. The homework from the textbook is bone-crushingly difficult, but do not be discouraged! The exams are tricky but much more reasonable than the homework. (I wish someone told me this.) The average for the midterm was around 64 and the final was like an 83, which was really high I think. I got about 15% above the average on the midterm and 10% higher than the average on the final and ended up with an A in the class, so grading is pretty generous. I highly recommend Professor Lavine for 105D.

I don't actually "recommend" a professor very frequently, but I have to for Professor Lavine. Her lectures were very well prepared and organized, and she engaged students regularly during class. The homework from the textbook is bone-crushingly difficult, but do not be discouraged! The exams are tricky but much more reasonable than the homework. (I wish someone told me this.) The average for the midterm was around 64 and the final was like an 83, which was really high I think. I got about 15% above the average on the midterm and 10% higher than the average on the final and ended up with an A in the class, so grading is pretty generous. I highly recommend Professor Lavine for 105D.

The course is very fast-paced and covers a broad selection of material. Her tests are tricky, and understanding underlying concepts is very important. Exams have pretty low averages. Besides that, Lavine is very concerned with student learning, and has actively shared studying and learning skills/facts that she has learned. She is obviously very concerned with/interested in the best way to teach. She has earned her low difficulty rating (currently 1.7) but I would still take another class with her if given the chance. It's worth it to struggle with a professor that cares.

first of all, she is the nicest person there is. whenever you go to her office she will make you feel welcome and answer all your questions. her lectures are very good. she explains everything very well, she derives every equation and her notes are very organized. she even posted them on courseweb when I took the class.

downside is her test are trixy and hard. not too hard but it's not stuff taken out of homework with numbers changed like some other teachers *cough*chatterjee*cough*.

she is generous when grading too. I got an A and I am pretty dumb but i guess there are dumber people that go to this school so I WIN.