In all honesty, He is an enthusiastic lecturer but not necessarily a good one. He mostly just reads off his slides and takes turns using the board as well ( which isn't recorded since he only does audio recordings and doesn't provide written notes on slides either just kinda leaves it blank). You get the best version of him during lectures and meeting him one-on-one you see the worst sides. It's like the more the people around the nicer he is. As long as u worship his class and aren't an inconvenience to him (don't be absent, request for extensions, etc) you will be golden. This is a time-consuming course and can't be taken with other hard classes and he designs the course with a similar expectation. He gave us the answers to problem sets which helped decrease the workload but if you don't struggle through the problem sets you will not score well on the tests (the average for midterms was around 60 and 40's and the final was 50's). He also had a total of 5 projects in discussion that were scattered around, these only counted for 3% of your total grade and anything relevant from it for the test he would mention in class. This is one of those classes you just have to struggle and get through. He is quite similar to Barr but Worse in his demeanor and the course is a lot harder. Again it's more about how much you can commit to it, it's not fair but as long as you stay on top of it and go beyond what he asks of you will be fine. {When I say above and beyond I mean - go over his posted slides before the lecture, be completely attentive during his 2-hour lecture and annotate on a copy of his slides (TAKE notes), ask questions during the lecture even if you think they are really dumb, go to his office hours right after the lecture and listen to other students talk to him or talk to him urself (this could be a chance to go over lecture content/HW and letting pattern recognition do its thing later during tests), go over content after the lecture, divide the HW to do some each day on your own and then check ur answers with his, start studying for exams a minimum of 10 days ahead, do all HW's again until you can understand and solve it completely, do the past tests, go to him and ask for more past papers or variations of questions you can practice (ask a week before so u can keep asking him and maybe get insight into what he might end up putting in the exam), bonus tip- find ways to feed and boost his ego)
GOOD LUCK, YOU GOT THIS AND THIS CLASS DOESN'T DEFINE YOU (at least not how smart you are but how much time and effort ur willing to commit to a class that won't make a difference to your career but still has interesting content to learn about, his tests just make u dread learning it by putting an unnecessary amount of difficulty.)

Horrible person, good lecturer. Sucks at grading and blames his students for low test scores even though each year the averages drop. OH is not helpful, full of kids asses trying to one up each other. He’s not funny. So much material and little time to understand it.

Professor Kamei is undoubtedly the best professor that I EVER had at UCLA. His class is hard but he also gives you everything you need to succeed and he truly wants the best for UCLA bioengineer students. There is ALOT of math and ODEs in this class but he teaches you everything you need to know. Similar to BE 100 the HWs are graded but you have the answer key. You are guaranteed an A if you actually do the HWs on time (and not copy the answer key), do all of the extra problem sets that he gives you and take the practice exams in a testing condition (timed and not looking at notes). If you do all of that you are basically guaranteed an A.

This quarter our class had an exceptionally low average. Mostly because people don't pay attention in lectures and just copy the HW answer keys.

He is also very very helpful in office hours and also makes funny jokes during class.

This class is undoubted one of the hardest in the major but professor Kamei is also actually amazing and the grade you get is very representative of the effort you put in.

Initially I didn't like this class as much as BE 100, but around halfway through the quarter I changed my mind. I think the material comes together much better than BE 100, because BE 100 is a lot of separate topics taught one after the other, and 110 feels more like we are gradually learning more pieces that eventually combine to a whole. Once I did enough practice problems, I actually gained a pretty good understanding of how to approach each type of problem. This class is very math heavy (LOTS of diffy q + laplace transforms later in the quarter), but Kamei teaches you the basics if you've forgotten.
Again, as with BE 100, go to office hours. Even if you don't have questions about the homework because you haven't looked at it yet, someone will have them. Just listening to other people's questions and seeing how they approach the problems, and writing down Kamei's advice, makes actually doing the problems sets so much easier.

This review is written from the perspective of a first-quarter transfer student (from a community college).

Logistics: The class had audio recording, 2 midterms, and a final, he uses Powerpoints, HW with the answer key uploaded, and some discussions had mini projects. This quarter our exam averages were extremely low (I assume some of the lowest ever) and for that reason, he mentioned from now on HW will most likely not be graded anymore.

Professor Kamei is an AMAZING professor (probably one of the best I have ever had and I have had lots of amazing professors), he is super caring and helpful during office hours and doesn't make you feel stupid. When he speaks you can FEEL just how experienced and knowledgeable he is. He gives you everything that you need to succeed in his class (tons and tons of practice problems). However, it is very important that you don't just memorize how to do these problems but rather actually understand them. Even though the answer key for everything is given you should try the problems first yourself and really spend time on them. I also recommend to them gradually (do a couple of problems every day and don't leave it all for the last minute). Lastly, I recommend summarizing your notes the same night right after the lecture. Even though the class had audio recordings I recommend to always go in person. Lastly, although he is very useful in office hours, if you don't have any specific questions I recommend not wasting your time on office hours and instead getting a head start on reviewing and doing the HW.

This class was easily the hardest class I had ever taken and I definitely recommend to only take it with 2 other easy classes however, I really enjoyed the challenge. Although the exams were tough they were really fair. It always felt very hard during the exam but after looking at the answer key you realized it was very simple. My biggest mistakes on exams were stupid mistakes (making a mistake while taking the derivative, forgetting negative signs, etc). Therefore it is really important to read the questions carefully and not to forget to answer any questions (because he has long texts with multiple back-to-back questions so make sure to answer them all). It's also important to keep track of time as you probably won't have too much extra time.

Overall this was definitely a hard class but it was never unfair. At the end of the day, I learned ALOT and I feel like I am a better and more effective student because of it. Scared but looking forward to taking BE 110 with Professor Kamie.

This class was one of the most challenging classes I've ever taken. I think what made it the most challenging for me was the other classes I was taking alongside it. My workload this quarter was this class alongside Chem 30A and Math 32B, both very extensive courses.

I can give advice and mistakes I made that I recommend you all don't make, and I think if that advice is followed, you'll definitely have a better time in this course than I did. However, what professors and other reviews fail to account for is that you're human. This course is designed to be one in which you dedicate all your time and attention, which just isn't feasible for most students. Looking back, I beat myself up for " not doing more" than I should have done for this class, but I would have stretched myself far thinner than I was already stretched.

With that said, I'll describe my experience with the class.

The lectures are very long, and I found it hard to be attentive for the whole two hours. The professor also moves through the slides very fast; however, he does leave a lot of room for students to ask questions which is nice. The questions are VERY content-heavy, we cover 10-15 concepts a week. He does cover examples during the lectures as well, but the examples in class are a lot easier than the problem sets. I wished he would spend more time going over harder examples in class.

The tests were difficult, very difficult. They follow the exact format of prior tests (which he provided), in terms of content and wording of questions.

It is very important that you don't fall behind in this course. Review the lectures you covered right after class and begin the problem sets the next day in order to keep the material fresh. I recommend going to office hours starting week 0 (he starts lecturing material then). I had a hard time processing information in class, so I would review the slides alongside the audio recording at 2x speed and make further annotations to help me understand. I just wish I did this RIGHT after the lectures rather than a couple of weeks later.

Our year was also different though because we were provided problem set solutions. The problem sets are very long, WAY too long, in my opinion, so it was nice having the solutions to fall back on. However, that was my downfall. The problem sets were so much more difficult than in class, that I didn't have time to sit there and struggle with the material because I had other classes to deal with. He said he would not be providing solutions for further classes, which I think will help because it will encourage you to go to office hours to complete them. Just be smart with your time.

In terms of grading, he added a bigger curve because of the fact that test scores were lower and he thinks it was because of the solutions going up with the problem sets.

This class is a rite of passage and you can definitely do it, you just got to pass!

Dr Kamei is widely regarded as the best BE professor for a good reason. Genuinely, anyone who says he is mean or unhelpful or anything like that probably didn't go to class and didn't work hard. This class is very much you get what you put in.

Definitely a tough class, but doable if you work hard and really focus on practicing problems and asking questions. Dr. Kamei is a great professor-- personable, funny, and cares about students, and lectures are enjoyable and interesting. Keep looking at the light at the end of the tunnel, and you might find you enjoy getting Hulk-slammed by problem set questions about Italian salad dressing.

He is very knowledgeable and passionate about the material that he teaches. However, office hours are kind of mandatory to get a good grade in this class and going to office hours can take up a significant number of time.

Don't take 4 classes if you are taking a class with Kamei. Curves aren't the best because Bioengineering has a very smart group of people, around 60% and keep in mind that his tests have a mix of easy, medium, and impossible hard questions.

I agree with most of the things other people have said, but one important thing to point out is that Professor Kamei himself isn't a hard professor--it's the material itself that is challenging. Kamei does a great job making things comprehensible. Definitely take Kamei if he teaches one of your required courses.