Mel is quite literally the worst professor at UCLA. She is so disorganized, her homework and tests have absolutely nothing to do with her lecture. She made our last month of class asynch lectures and disappeared to god knows where, and came back and tried to cram all the content in a week. Overall, such a bad professor, would never take a class with her again. My only advice for this class is to ask to take the tests online. She doesn't really care if you have an excuse and she frequently tolerates students taking the tests over zoom. Complete waste of time and waste of a class

Really cares about students, but is extremely disorganized leading to the class becoming more challenging than it needs to be

Absolutely insane experience. worst teacher i have ever had. She had quizzes due with codes she misspelled or forgot to give the codes for that would automatically be a late and 0. It took her weeks to respond with multiple emails (6+ emails). She even graded people’s final projects marking people down (-18%) for a missing section of the project that was not even asked for. She was insanely disorganized and is impossible to get a hold of. She messed up multiple times in things that should have been easy and she even taught a part of accounting saying “everyone has been doing this” and it is illegal… take her if it is your last choice only

A bit disorganized, but overall Mel has good intentions and class isn't too difficult. Very generous grading policy where > 85 % = A

The topics aren't too difficult, but tests were a little tricky with ~ 70% midterm average, ~ 60% final average. Midterm grading was a bit harsh.

Worst professor I've ever had, took ENGR 110 and 111 with her, she's the most disorganized person, instead of helping you understand the material she will confuse you more with her explanations, HW graders take points off for insignificant things, exams are way harder than class examples or hw, it feels like she doesn't care about the class and you have to learn everything on your own. She sometimes even gives you formulas to solve problems and you have to check the formulas on the book because she makes so many mistakes during lecture.

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.

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.

Mel is a little disorganized like the other reviews say, but I feel that she is much better this summer quarter. Perhaps she's adapted more.

Lectures were pretty focused and homework is *mostly* straightforward. There are in class poll questions.

She taught the material fairly well and completely, and it is not hard to get an A if you listen in class (she covers all the material you need to know in her slides) and put in some work. 85% + was and A when I took it.

First off, don't expect lectures to be that helpful. Mel is super disorganized and not a great lecturer. Unfortunately, you still have to attend because she has online poll questions and only gives the passwords to do them in-class. Don't think about having a buddy text you the password because she might literally take attendance to ensure no one does that.

THAT BEING SAID... Mel is a VERY NICE professor. I went to her office hours after the midterm and raised some questions about problems that I'd gotten wrong. Mel was nice enough to give me 6 EXTRA POINTS (which saved my grade from a B+ to an A-) just because she felt that I'd been graded too harshly. That really tells you about someone's character. Mel is an amazing and friendly professor!

PRACTICAL TIPS: Focus on discussion sections, homework problems, and practice exams. Those are the things that'll help you do good on the midterm/final. There's a group project but it's pretty easy — don't stress too much about it. Overall, this course is relatively easy-to-moderate difficulty. If you need a small GPA boost, this will do the trick!

The class is terribly unorganized. The lectures are useless, but the material can be learned quite well by the textbook. Most importantly, there is 0 communication with the professor as she never responds to emails. The midterm wasn't terribly difficult, but it felt like she often gives some conflicting information about the material. In lecture half the class would fall asleep as well.