I have no complaints about Dr. Simonetti himself. You can tell he tried his best. He actually cared about the learning experiences of students.

That said, the lab itself was awful. Most of the experiments were just moving water around in some shape or form. The equipment didn't work, because it was ancient and never maintained. Things also depended heavily on your team. Bad team, and you are hosed. Dante clearly tried his best, but there's not much he can do when the equipment is broken.

Workload was definitely on the more intense side.

Fortunately, the grading is pretty lenient for the class, but that's pretty much the only good thing about the class. The class honestly felt like a massive waste of time as a guy who's now in industry, where equipment works properly and is actually maintained.

Dante is a cutie

Dante is a great guy. Luke was a helpful TA. You get to redo two of your labs, so you get to make changes to the report after getting feedback. There are four labs. Three reports and one presentation. Not too much work depending which labs you get assigned, and how your group is.