This class is super easy - group homework and weekly current event forum posts on CCLE - but the lectures are extremely boring, and you have to attend lectures because she has mandatory online polls that count for 10% of your grade. I don't think I learned very much but it's an easy A, I recommend this if you want to boost your GPA without much work

Mel is not a great teacher and is a terrible communicator. Slow to grade, answer questions/emails, and cannot concisely convey material. Waste of a tech breadth unit - would not advise anyone to take this class again. Not worth the workload, especially as lectures are required for her annoying online polls.

The professor is so bad and disorganized you could write a sitcom about her and nobody would believe it. She did not follow the grade distribution she said she would in the syllabus so I and multiple others received grades lower than the ones we calculated following HER grade distribution. She never once answered a single email and never followed through on anything. Literally, emailing her was a meme in our groupme because she would never respond. Every concept is half taught and half explained so that questions all seem familiar but you were never really given the tools to actually solve anything. Grading is pretty harsh and there is never any feedback, we had a piazza but most questions went unanswered. I'm a cs major and would literally take another Eggert class over this, cause at least Eggert doesn't blatantly lie to you. Don't take this professor, this class had so much potential to be interesting but it was just awful.

I made the mistake of not attending this class often, which was a mistake I won't make again. The professor was incredibly kind and accommodating, and she did her best to make sure her students had every opportunity to succeed. The concepts were all fairly approachable and there were lots of opportunities to practice. She didn't do a great job of keeping up with the class - she said she would post lectures while she was gone that took forever to make it onto BruinLearn, and she didn't update her weekly current events assignment weekly. She also assigned a group project which is purely a pain in the ass. Especially when you consider that we're in the spring, asking us to form groups and collaborate on a final project at the same time as many of our peers are giving their final capstone presentations and graduating is a huge inconvenience - the class is designed to facilitate non-attendance and independent study, and yet she forces us to work in groups. To be fair, she gave us as many points as she could in other settings, so it balances out. Overall, the content was reasonable - the beginning was fairly similar to a traditional microeconomic class, and then moved into a lot of calculations surrounding the time value of money and projects. It was reasonable and doable, I just didn't go. If you watch the lectures and keep up with the assignments, the class is super easy. She gave us ample practice problems and resources in order to succeed - the onus is on the student to take those opportunities.

I seriously do not understand how Mel still has a job here. She is one of the most unclear lecturers I've ever had that emphasize knowledge that will most likely not be useful were you ever to have a management position in a company. I actually don't even know why the word "management" is included as part of this course label, as I don't think we talked about management once - we spent almost all of our time talking about pretty relatively useless things such as the time value of money and the optimal levels of production and such. If you're doing the technology management tech breadth to get an idea for how to handle a business, avoid this class at all costs and stick to the MGMT courses, as those cover topics which might actually be useful.

As much as she's very enthusiastic and friendly, her lectures are unclear and the wording on her problem is ambiguous. Her slideshows are terrible when you need to refer back to them because most of what the class covers is from what she says verbally during lecture. The assignments are manageable but the exams can be pretty challenging. Her grading scheme makes it easy to get a good grade in the class so don't stress too much.

this professor sucks she seems nice and personable and interactive in the first couple of lectures but she is so unclear and messy, grades late and posts assignments so late, so organized with everything, never responds to emails, useless

Honestly I think Mel gets more hate than she deserves with some of these ratings. This class is pretty easy to do well in. There are many things to help raise your grade so you’re not completely screwed by the exams. I’ll admit the tests are really hard but she gives plenty of examples and literally pages of practice problems leading up the final. She is so accommodating literally all of her lectures are recorded, notes posted, she listens to students and even offered TWO dates to take the final and the option to take it at home. Her grading scale is super lenient, I think 80 is an A-. Yea her communication is sometimes not the best but if she forgets to assign a homework or post something she’ll give an extension or figure something out so it’s really no big deal. Take this class it’s pretty easy so long as you study a lil.

The content and lectures are interesting. Only problem is that quiz/exam questions tend to have very confusing wording. So your grade may depend more on whether you can interpret the problems correctly instead of just understanding and applying the material. If you're interested in learning finance for engineers, maybe just read the textbook instead. If you want an easy A, take a class with business majors instead. Lectures are recorded though.

Tough exams but her grading scale is very accommodating. 85 for an A and 80 for an A-. Just watch the recordings and do the practice problems and you’ll be ok. The class is not as bad as others say but I do agree that she is often unclear and sometimes doesn’t respond to students questions in a timely manner.