I have him for 110L and he is very helpful. It may seem difficult to endure, but at the end of the day he makes sure you understand the material.

GUYS IDK WHO BABAIE WAS LAST YEAR BUT HE IS THE W O R S T PROFESSOR YOU COULD EVER HAVE AT UCLA. (I actually have him for EE11L which is a new course)

DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASSES

1) HE is EXTREMELY INCONSIDERATE OF STUDENTS NEEDS and he would quarantine ALL of us in the other lab room and would not let us out at all until he was finished speaking to the other students

2) He is AWFUL at communicating and 90% of the time you have no idea what he is saying and then afterwards he'll be like "I TOLD YOU 100 TIMES WERE YOU NOT LISTENING" well OBVIOUSLY YOU DIDN't MAKE IT CLEAR ENOUGH goddd

3) he is extremely anal and will not pass you unless you do exactly. what. he. says.

don't take him. seriously.

He is a very nice professor, and he can be funny, if you can understand what he is saying. The quizzes are hard namely because they re written in broken english and he asks very specific questions. The lab reports are easy and straight forward, they seem to grade them very easy, but the prelab is graded very hard. I got mid 80s to low 90s on every report only because i missed points in the prelab. He also said at the end of the quarter if you submitted all you work you would pass.

I agree with the review below and I had the same nice TA. The grading for the lab reports is very generously done. However the quizzes are pretty difficult and detailed. Sometimes the questions are poorly worded, while other questions ask for specific numeric values that you didn't think was important to memorize. If you want a good grade, do NOT underestimate the difficulty of the quizzes, which will determine your grade. Everything else is easygoing and chill

Professor Babaie is a baller. His TA, in the Fall 2011 quarter, Ahbijeet, was also a baller.

To actually do the experiments quickly so you can leave lab early, actually pay attention to what he is lecturing about before he lets you start the experiment. I actually found this class helpful in EE 102 as you get to actually see what all this frequency response business is all about.

The grade breakdown is:

1% - end of course EE Web survey

20% - participation, no clue how this is actually calculated aside from if you miss a lab you'll probably be heavily penalized for it here. Mysteriously 5/18 people in the class got 20/20 in this category while the rest got 17/20.

24% - 3 quizzes at 8% each. Study what is in the lab manual, as these 24% really determine your grade.

55% - lab reports, be sure to include your signed prelab and data from the experiment into here or you won't get full credit. As long as you put a good effort into the dreaded error analysis section of the lab reports, you should be able to pull 100's on the lab reports if you have Ahbijeet.

Finally, when it sounds like he is saying "totem" or "tear ems" he is saying "theorems" and if he randomly makes a remark like "Oh!" he is saying "Ohms." His English is awesome aside from those 2 words though!

The best professor EVER! He let us have a 10 minute nap break in the middle of the lecture! :) Have you ever heard of anything like that??? Haha! Anyways, he is a good lecturer, and his labs aren't that hard. Even though your grade depends on the TA. Some TAs care about every single thing in your lab reports. Others don't. So, good luck! As your grade does not depend on Professor Babaie but rather on your TA.

I did not enjoy professor Babaie's class. He rambled for the first hour of every lab with an incoherent and difficult to understand accent. Earlier reviews complain about being put to sleep because it was 8 am. My lab was at 4 pm, and it was still sleep inducing. The lab reports were graded by a TA who barely even read them over, and I was never sure that my prelab answers were correct. There were 3 quizes, each worth 8%, which were in reality 100% of your grade, because everyone got 90+ on the lab reports. The quizes were written in the same way that the professor talks: poor english. The concepts were very poorly explained, but you do learn something in this lab. I put in too much effort in my lab reports, and it was all wasted.

Professor Babaie, while he showed genuine concern for his teaching, failed to express any qualities one would expect from a good professor. His speech was strongly accented and difficult to understand, which caused a severe language barrier. Also, his lectures at the beginning of each lab section were far longer than they needed to be, covering many irrelevant topics while missing key points to understand the labs. Also, his general attitude in class was very distanced, spending most of the period in the far corner eating while reading Persian documents online. The time he spent conversing with the class was widely spent scrutinizing students for their inability to exercise the skills that he failed to teach, often resorting to yelling.

Also, Professor Babaie showed very little interest in students' well-being. When students were sick, instead of sending them home, he quarantined said student and his lab partner in the corner of the lab room, while telling the student not to come near him, since he didn't want to catch a cold. If students came in to talk to him outside of class, the professor would not recognize them at all, and would often be heard during class asking students: "Are you in my class?" This question was usually followed by a snide comment about how as a student in his class they should have learned better. Finally, his obstinateness held him back from receiving any sort of criticism or correction. In multiple occasions, when provided student input that corrected him, he would simply baselessly refute the correction and repeat his incorrect statement over and over until the student gave up trying to correct him.

Overall, Professor Babaie seemed completely and totally incapable of actually teaching, exercising decent communication skills, or even caring for his students.

110L with Babaie was MUCH easier than it should have been. My lab partner spent more time with the actual lab equipment, but you still get high performance scores one way or another.

I didn't even spend too much time on the lab reports, and I still ended up getting high A's on all of them. All I really do for my lab reports is throw in all my data, make a few graphs on Excel, and write about what I did in each part of the experiment, and I get my A like that.

The quizzes itself were a little tricky, but as long as you pay attention to Babaie's dry lectures as well as the lab manual, you should be okay.