Professor
Maher Lagha
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Winter 2019 - Lagha is a wildcard. His lectures are disorganized and don't totally follow the curriculum, but he's a homie and makes the class as easy as possible. I ended up relying a lot on the TA to learn the subjects, but with that the class is very easy. Lagha gives you all of the diagrams that will be on the exams, so it's pretty easy to figure out what the questions are going to be and solve them beforehand. Overall Lagha is a great guy and his class is pretty easy, but if you're really trying to learn all the basics of fluid mechanics I would try to take it with another professor.
Winter 2019 - Lagha is a wildcard. His lectures are disorganized and don't totally follow the curriculum, but he's a homie and makes the class as easy as possible. I ended up relying a lot on the TA to learn the subjects, but with that the class is very easy. Lagha gives you all of the diagrams that will be on the exams, so it's pretty easy to figure out what the questions are going to be and solve them beforehand. Overall Lagha is a great guy and his class is pretty easy, but if you're really trying to learn all the basics of fluid mechanics I would try to take it with another professor.
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I have taken this professor for two courses: MAE 182A and 150A. He is one of the nicest professors you will have. Both courses were taught in a very similar fashion. Here is what I can remember: -He makes his own homeworks, every time, and they are worth a significant portion of your grade (~15-20%). However, if you look closely, many of the problems are like ones from the book except tweaked a little bit -His lectures are pretty good; he always tries to relate what you learn to everyday things you will see in life which helps -Slight accent -Terrible handwriting (his major downfall). After a few weeks it becomes easier to read, but probably the worst handwriting I've seen -He makes himself available for drop by help whenever you want (at his office), which is cool -His tests are open book and open notes -You don't need past midterms, although they might help a little -Genuinely cares about students You will not fail either class, as long as you follow this advice: his midterm (only 1 midterm, for both classes) and final are VERY VERY similar to the "practice" midterm and final that he posts online. I STRONGLY suggest that you work through these practice tests with your friends and make sure you have the correct solutions (and understand them) for the test. Simply having the correct solutions to the practice test will ensure that you pass the real equivalent test (whether it's the midterm of final). In general, the problems on his test (compared with the practice) will have EXTREMELY similar parts a) and b) but then c) will be way different. So just try to think outside the box about how he could tweak the problem just a little bit to make you solve for something different. Hope that helps, and good luck. I definitely wouldn't avoid this professor, easy B (if not A, if you are smart). My final piece of advice: don't be afraid to ask for help and guidance during the test -- if you ask him if you are approaching the problem the right way, he will let you know, and probably give you a few pointers too!
I have taken this professor for two courses: MAE 182A and 150A. He is one of the nicest professors you will have. Both courses were taught in a very similar fashion. Here is what I can remember: -He makes his own homeworks, every time, and they are worth a significant portion of your grade (~15-20%). However, if you look closely, many of the problems are like ones from the book except tweaked a little bit -His lectures are pretty good; he always tries to relate what you learn to everyday things you will see in life which helps -Slight accent -Terrible handwriting (his major downfall). After a few weeks it becomes easier to read, but probably the worst handwriting I've seen -He makes himself available for drop by help whenever you want (at his office), which is cool -His tests are open book and open notes -You don't need past midterms, although they might help a little -Genuinely cares about students You will not fail either class, as long as you follow this advice: his midterm (only 1 midterm, for both classes) and final are VERY VERY similar to the "practice" midterm and final that he posts online. I STRONGLY suggest that you work through these practice tests with your friends and make sure you have the correct solutions (and understand them) for the test. Simply having the correct solutions to the practice test will ensure that you pass the real equivalent test (whether it's the midterm of final). In general, the problems on his test (compared with the practice) will have EXTREMELY similar parts a) and b) but then c) will be way different. So just try to think outside the box about how he could tweak the problem just a little bit to make you solve for something different. Hope that helps, and good luck. I definitely wouldn't avoid this professor, easy B (if not A, if you are smart). My final piece of advice: don't be afraid to ask for help and guidance during the test -- if you ask him if you are approaching the problem the right way, he will let you know, and probably give you a few pointers too!
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