Professor
Hossein Kavehpour
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Fall 2020 - Good class, good professor, challenging exams. The exams are nothing like the homework, and in my opinion, they do not accurately reflect learning—they measure how good you are at solving a problem you've never seen before (using what you've learned). As an analogy, the homework and lectures are like high school physics, everything is in the textbook; while the exams are like physics olympiads, you've never seen this before and it'll likely take creativity to solve it. I can somewhat sympathize with this method of administering exams—I suppose I'm spoiled by being spoonfed by high school and textbook problems. I wish Dr. Kavehpour would direct us to resources that more accurately reflect the challenges on the exams.
Fall 2020 - Good class, good professor, challenging exams. The exams are nothing like the homework, and in my opinion, they do not accurately reflect learning—they measure how good you are at solving a problem you've never seen before (using what you've learned). As an analogy, the homework and lectures are like high school physics, everything is in the textbook; while the exams are like physics olympiads, you've never seen this before and it'll likely take creativity to solve it. I can somewhat sympathize with this method of administering exams—I suppose I'm spoiled by being spoonfed by high school and textbook problems. I wish Dr. Kavehpour would direct us to resources that more accurately reflect the challenges on the exams.
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I was shocked at this professor's teaching style. Our two hour lectures were always just over an hour which is bad since this class is necessary for the Fluids Preliminary Exam. Before I took this class, I had heard that he always has his "favorite" students in class. Sure enough when I took this class, I found this to certainly be true as he always chatted with these students in class and I have no doubt they did well. If I were you, I would wait to take this class until Karagozian or some other professor teaches the course.
I was shocked at this professor's teaching style. Our two hour lectures were always just over an hour which is bad since this class is necessary for the Fluids Preliminary Exam. Before I took this class, I had heard that he always has his "favorite" students in class. Sure enough when I took this class, I found this to certainly be true as he always chatted with these students in class and I have no doubt they did well. If I were you, I would wait to take this class until Karagozian or some other professor teaches the course.
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