Professor

Jacob Rosen

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Winter 2022 - Welcome to emotional damage, the class. There's so many things wrong with this class that I'm not sure where to start. Take any other capstone, this one sucks. The capstone project is the dumbest fucking thing ever. For an entire quarter all they had us do was market research and product development, with a ridiculous amount of unnecessary work. They had us come up with NINE ideas for projects which all had to address similar things and search for scientific papers and market research for each one. The way it was set up though, they wouldn’t accept any specific concepts until halfway through the quarter, forcing us to go into extreme detail on slightly different technologies and applications concurrently without being able to finalize an actual design. This ended up with nobody having a project that they wanted or enjoyed, since all we would be doing was researching technologies and applications that were far beyond the scope of a college level project. We had to do a presentation EVERY FUCKING WEEK on the market research, doing shit like giving market pitches and presenting to investors. This entire past quarter was basically a business class for our engineering capstone. The instructors can eat my entire ass for the way they organized the class. For some reason, our MAE capstone is combined with the EE capstone with Prof. Mehta Ankur, another extremely poorly rated instructor. We have 9-person groups split between MAE and EE students with different sections that don’t align, forcing us to spend even more time outside of class to get any project work done. During the sections that don’t align, we basically wasted our time listening to lectures from TAs on topics that we’ve already learned in other classes and had zero relevance to what we were currently doing for the project, leaving us with 2/6 class hours to actually get some work done. They attempted to have us work on a separate lab involving a mini wood-bot, which they dropped halfway through the quarter probably realizing how pointless it was. The professors have absolutely zero respect for their students’ time. They give very little notice for the actual requirements for our weekly presentations, forcing us to work the day before to grind on it. One week they released the guidelines at 7pm the day before it was due, when they literally spent class the day before talking about geometric tolerances (yet another topic that we’re not using and should have already learned before). On the day that I’m posting this review, they had us show up to the first section and wait 15 minutes before telling us that they had nothing planned for the entire day, when half our group commuted an hour to get there. They don’t bother communicating with students in a timely manner, and didn’t even bother announcing that both sections were canceled. TLDR: Fuck you, you can eat my entire fucking dick for the way you’re ruining these last two quarters.
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Most Helpful Review
Spring 2016 - STRENGTHS: None WEAKNESSES: - Let me start off by saying this is one of the worst classes at UCLA that I have taken, and this is the type of class that makes engineering seem like a joke at this school. - Class lectures were an absolute mess. Rosen's lectures were incomprehensible half the time. Half the class would fall asleep or leave every lecture. - The midterm had a one hour long algebra problem. It tested nothing and taught us nothing. It was purposefully designed to just be long for the sake of being long. And to make things worse, after the midterm Rosen would rag on the class constantly saying that we hated algebra and that we thought we were masters at algebra since we complained about the midterm problem. NO ROSEN. We just don't expect hour long algebra problems where we learn NOTHING as engineers. - Homeworks and Projects were the worse set of problems I have ever encountered. They are all horrendously long and you end up learning nothing. Resubmittions are the only thing that kept people from failing all the homeworks because we could just copy the solutions and resubmit. - One of the TAs had terrible communication skills. - This class is a drag. It seems like it is designed just to add another class to make students stay an extra quarter so that they have to pay more to this school. It is a pointless and redundant class that overlaps with 33B by a huge margin. Very few other universities require this extension of math beyond differential equations. You learn nothing. You struggle with the terrible assignments. You waste your time with the long 2 hour lectures. What is the point? - If engineering is serious about becoming a top 15 school, you can't treat the students with this kind of education. - STUDENTS. please, please, please stop passing up this class for an easy A and start actively voicing your opinion that this class is pointless so that we can add another GE or engineering elective and actually LEARN something.
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