Dr. Briggs is a great lecturer who really does care about student learning. He's not a tenured professor and doesn't do research (he went from working in the auto parts industry to teaching), so his time at UCLA is 100% focused on helping students. Related to that, he'll often mention the application of whatever subject he's lecturing about in an automotive context during lecture; from what I could tell, this was hit or miss for people in my class (but a total hit for me!). His lectures are fairly interesting overall and I don't think they were a problem in this class, though YMMV. He held plenty of office hours and extra lab hours to help students get work done and help with some harder topics. Punctual attendance is basically required since there's a quiz at the beginning of every class. The quizzes are not difficult if you look at the practice problems that he posts the week before. Those practice problems are typically much more difficult than the quizzes, but are not graded, and as mentioned before, it is easy to get help. The lab project starts halfway through the quarter, and the requirements are not difficult to meet (though I hear he's making it a bit harder every quarter). If you have experience with Arduino and any semblance of free time to spare on the project, you will be fine. The final resembles the practice questions in terms of difficulty, but if you study the problems just like you would any other class, you will be fine. In general, the class is easy as long as you keep up with the material. Not much is being asked of you in this intro class.

Professor Briggs truly cared about his student. He tries his best to explain the concept and answering question. I would highly recommend attending his office hour. His office hour are in the lab right after lab so you can use that office hour time to get your question answered or finish your lab. He is also very attentive when it come to email.
Each lecture begin with a ten minutes quiz so be on time because he will not give extra time if you are late. He does upload his slide and practice homework problem on CCLE. But without attending the lecture, the slide won't make much sense. He post the solution to the practice problem on the weekend. Although he doesn't collect any of the homework, I would highly recommend to at least go through the solution as it is a great preparation for the weekly quiz. He does give return the graded quiz, but retrieve them is a hassle as I he left all the quizzes in a box in Engineering IV so I had to dig through a lot of graded quizzes in order to retrieve mine.
Briggs would recommend a introductory Engineering textbook which he left in reserve at the Engineering library but I didn't use it because attending lecture, going through the solution for the practice problem and ask him question would suffice, in my opinion.
Each lab included a pre-lab and a lab report. It is just answering the question and showing calculation. Some question have to be looked up so it can take a while to do the pre-lab and the report. On the other hand, they are graded quite leniently.
The final project is programming a robot using Energia (it is identical to Arduino) to traverse a track within a time limit. The project included an extra credit portion (for our quarter, the extra credit portion is to traverse the track under a certain time limit, that is shorter than the required time limit for the project). The extra credit is quite tough, in my opinion. On the other hand, a lot of lab sessions is devoted to the lab and also he would open the lab in some weekend to give people more time to complete the lab. Don't be afraid to ask question as Professor Briggs is always willing to help you identify the problem with your robot and give suggestion to fix/improve it. The project also required you to write a report, but Professor Briggs is quite clear about what he wants to see. The report can take a while to complete. And I would suggest knowing some Arduino beforehand because it would really help for the class as I had to study Arduino on my own to complete the project.
There is no final exam in the Summer.

Professor Briggs is a great professor who genuinely cares about student learning, and you should definitely take this class with him if possible. I highly, highly recommend attending his office hours if you can. He does a great job answering questions and explaining concepts. In addition, he worked at General Motors for 48 years, so if you've run out of questions to ask about the class, you can have a conversation with him about his career in electrical engineering and learn more about what the industry is like. If you can't attend office hours, Briggs is really good about responding to emails.

Lectures begin with a ten-minute quiz, so you'll have to show up to them on time. Briggs' lectures consist of him going through slides and explaining concepts while writing on the slides. He uploads these notes to CCLE, but they're often not detailed enough to be complete if you're just looking at them online without having attended lecture. The slides do make sense if you attend lecture and take notes on what he's saying. In particular, Briggs does a great job explaining how circuit components behave; he gives helpful single-sentence generalizations that'll replay in your head as you're working out problems.

The way Briggs does homework is really helpful. Every week, he posts practice problems to CCLE. One of the files contains most of the answers; the other file has all of the answers and shows the steps to arrive at those answers. This homework is not collected, although you need to stay on top of it since there are weekly quizzes. You can get these quizzes back and study them, but it's a bit of a pain because in order to retrieve them, you'll have to dig through a pile of hundreds of quizzes on your own time.

Briggs recommends either buying an introductory circuits textbook or using one of the ones on reserve in the Engineering library, but I didn't have to use a textbook at all in this course. I'm fairly sure none of my friends ever used one, either. Just attend lecture, do the practice problems, and ask Briggs questions when you're lost and you'll be fine.

There's a lab component and a (group) project component to this class. The lab reports are basically a series of calculations and questions and can be completed fairly quickly. (If you're efficient enough, you can probably complete them during your lab section.) They're not graded too harshly, either. When I took this class, the project component involved programming a robot using software identical to Arduino. It takes a lot of time, but you have plenty of time during your lab section to complete it, and Professor Briggs and the TAs held some weekend work sessions as well. There's also an extra credit component to the project; my group didn't do it, so I can't speak for how difficult it is to complete it. Briggs wants you to succeed, so he'll give you advice and help you identify problems with your robot. There's a report that you have to write after the project, but it doesn't take an unreasonable amount of time to do so (this is nothing like one of those infamous Physics 4AL reports), and Briggs is pretty clear about what he expects to see in the report.

The final exam is fair: it isn't designed to be unreasonably difficult, but it does require you to understand the concepts well. As long as you understand the practice problems and quiz questions, you should be fine.

Overall, I recommend taking this course with Briggs. I really enjoyed the experience, and I hope to take another class with Briggs if I can.

Dr.Briggs is an amazing professor. Admittedly, he does get somewhat off track in some of the lectures as he discusses automobiles or famous innovators within EE when you'd prefer he focus on the relevant material. Notwithstanding that, he is a great professor who cares more about the learning of his students than any other professor I have taken so far. He has a very wide breadth of knowledge ranging from advanced analog circuitry to embedded systems and digital signal processing.

Professor Briggs is super nice. He also is always around in lab to help on the group project which is challenging. Homework problems are sometimes impossible but the quizzes are fair. The final was easy. Labs take a long time.

Take this class with Briggs for sure. You have got to really mess up to get anything less than a B. There is a quiz every week and a lab the first four weeks, none of which are hard if you just do the practice problems. The final is easy as well. There is one five week project which will take up a good amount of time, but can be as hard or as easy as you want to make it. Positive experience.

Definitely take EE3 with Professor Briggs! Projects he introduced in class is super interesting and Professor Briggs taught material very clearly. He is also super patient and helpful!

Professor Briggs was awesome for this class, if you have the option of taking it with him, I'd highly recommend doing so. He was incredibly helpful via email with homework questions. Not that many professors feel like they really care about what they are teaching, but Briggs does. The quizzes throughout the quarter are pretty easy, as long as you do the homework problems, which were often tough (but never collected). The final was fair, and did not take the whole time. There is a project that you do in groups, and it is graded very generously. Overall, this class is an excellent introductory course and is not designed to scare you away. I wish more classes were like this.