Professor
Daniel Mckeown
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Fall 2025 - FOR 5C Fall 2025******** I am someone who went to office hours and actually took time to study. -yes his slides decks are screenshots (from a textbook we don’t use or ChatGPT) and often contain errors -yes the average on our first midterm was a 61% -yes he gave us a problem on the first midterm that involved calculus and the high was a 92 and he only gave us 8 point curve (the average was so low) But, what no one ever will mention is how he actually takes student feedback and changes. Our second midterm had no calculus and was fairly straightforward if you bothered to study or even attend a few of his office hours. The average was a 85% that’s pretty high for a physics class. Also, our final was so easy and so much partial credit was awarded the average was 89%. Again high for a physics class. He gave us 2 points for midterm 2 for filling out survey and 4 points on quizzes for filling out the kudu survey. And the quizzes were ss from kudu or discussion problems (identical copies) super easy if you did the homework. It was not long at all like master physics. So yes in the beginning he was not being fair with his exam and challenge problem involving calculus, but he changed and even offered us that our final could replace our lowest midterm score (which saved everyone’s grade). On our final we had a problem involving a 5a concept but it was literally identical to the one on the practice final he gave us. You just were solving for a different component but the same steps. I feel like people were extremely rude to this professor just because of the first midterm but it was not warranted at all especially after he changed his tests to help us succeed. He is a really nice guy and sometimes goes on long tangents during lecture and the slides can be hard to follow. But go to office hours and discussion and you will definitely get an A in the class.
Fall 2025 - FOR 5C Fall 2025******** I am someone who went to office hours and actually took time to study. -yes his slides decks are screenshots (from a textbook we don’t use or ChatGPT) and often contain errors -yes the average on our first midterm was a 61% -yes he gave us a problem on the first midterm that involved calculus and the high was a 92 and he only gave us 8 point curve (the average was so low) But, what no one ever will mention is how he actually takes student feedback and changes. Our second midterm had no calculus and was fairly straightforward if you bothered to study or even attend a few of his office hours. The average was a 85% that’s pretty high for a physics class. Also, our final was so easy and so much partial credit was awarded the average was 89%. Again high for a physics class. He gave us 2 points for midterm 2 for filling out survey and 4 points on quizzes for filling out the kudu survey. And the quizzes were ss from kudu or discussion problems (identical copies) super easy if you did the homework. It was not long at all like master physics. So yes in the beginning he was not being fair with his exam and challenge problem involving calculus, but he changed and even offered us that our final could replace our lowest midterm score (which saved everyone’s grade). On our final we had a problem involving a 5a concept but it was literally identical to the one on the practice final he gave us. You just were solving for a different component but the same steps. I feel like people were extremely rude to this professor just because of the first midterm but it was not warranted at all especially after he changed his tests to help us succeed. He is a really nice guy and sometimes goes on long tangents during lecture and the slides can be hard to follow. But go to office hours and discussion and you will definitely get an A in the class.
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Summer 2024 - I had Dr. McKeown for Physics 5A (for some reason not listed here), and going into the course, I was concerned that we would be learning a lot of irrelevant, technical physics that wasn't related to my career path as a pre-med student. However, this wasn't the case, as Dr. McKeown correctly designed this course to be relevant to pre-med students by including topics and concepts that are actually relevant to biology and medicine. Because of this, I was interested in the topics of this course and found what we had to learn to be intriguing rather than tedious. Additionally, Dr. McKeown's lectures were helpful, on-task, and weren't boring. He always stopped to take questions from students and clarified everything thoroughly, which not all professors do. I felt that our quizzes and tests were very reasonable and had nothing unexpected/surprising that strayed from the lectures/homework. I also appreciated how he gave us unlimited attempts/graded the homework on completion, rather than correctness, so we could actually use it as a learning source and not an assessment. Overall, I would highly recommend taking a course with Dr. McKeown as he is passionate about Physics, and teaching his students in an effective and legitimate manner. You definitely won't regret taking a class with him.
Summer 2024 - I had Dr. McKeown for Physics 5A (for some reason not listed here), and going into the course, I was concerned that we would be learning a lot of irrelevant, technical physics that wasn't related to my career path as a pre-med student. However, this wasn't the case, as Dr. McKeown correctly designed this course to be relevant to pre-med students by including topics and concepts that are actually relevant to biology and medicine. Because of this, I was interested in the topics of this course and found what we had to learn to be intriguing rather than tedious. Additionally, Dr. McKeown's lectures were helpful, on-task, and weren't boring. He always stopped to take questions from students and clarified everything thoroughly, which not all professors do. I felt that our quizzes and tests were very reasonable and had nothing unexpected/surprising that strayed from the lectures/homework. I also appreciated how he gave us unlimited attempts/graded the homework on completion, rather than correctness, so we could actually use it as a learning source and not an assessment. Overall, I would highly recommend taking a course with Dr. McKeown as he is passionate about Physics, and teaching his students in an effective and legitimate manner. You definitely won't regret taking a class with him.
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