The professor isnt concerned much about teaching. he didnt show up for some classes too and any emails i sent him, he would just forward to the TA to figure out. I think he does not even bother to check the exams. On the contrary, the TA used to teach us pretty good. He even made CAD videos for those of us who never bothered to turn up in the discussion sessions and studied for the exams last minute. the TA's office/discussion hours were pretty helpful, he solved a lot of my doubts. the course would sink like a rock without the TA but why is the guy below me bitching about the TA? isnt this review about the professor?

Gadh was honestly one of the worst professors I have ever had at UCLA (and I took physics with Corbin!). He was so unclear and would go over basic examples for 30 minutes in lecture that did not help prepare for lab or tests. I once went to office hours because I had a question and instead of even trying to answer the question he used the time to tell me how easy this was for him when he learned it and how people always ask him to write textbooks because he is so good at it. He also said an A was a 95.5% or higher which seems absurd to me. The only professor I know that curves down...during a pandemic. Thought it would be an easy A but guess not. Would NOT recommend taking this class with Prof Gadh.

I think someone would enjoy this class more with a different professor, but taking it with Gadh is definitely doable. Gadh’s lectures emphasize hand drafting and drawing the third view given two other views. I doubt this skill will be too helpful in the future, so the heavy emphasis on this was irritating. Gadh has a casual, slow lecturing style and relies on an old website to teach his content. As a result, I ended up just skimming his recording, if at all. Depending on your visualization skills, I think to do well in this class you just need to practice drafting by doing the homework (which was assigned about every other week) to build intuition over time. The Solidworks part of the class was okay and we gained skills by working on lab assignments each week. The timed exams were annoying, but they seemed to be graded reasonably. We also did a final project where we worked as a group to create a product, but your experience with that will mostly depend on the group you choose. TLDR; mediocre class with a low-medium workload but would be a lot more enjoyable with a different professor.

This class felt most often like two disjointed classes squished into one. The lectures were all about hand-drafting and how to understand hand-drawings, where as the labs were all about how to use SolidWorks. This wasn't inherently bad, but was a bit weird. The labs and classes were not difficult if you are familiar with modeling at all, but there was quite a bit of work for each one. The end project felt a bit unclear about what the actual requirements were. The midterm and final were mainly based on hand-drawing. Professor Gadh was clear in what he was teaching but often quite slow in his teaching style

Professor Gadh takes an interesting interpretation of this class that is focused on hand drafting, not CAD. The lectures are all about how to read engineering drawings and how to draw the 3rd view when given 2 views. This doesn't seem like a skill that will ever be very useful, but I guess its not worthless to practice visualization skills. The Solidworks component of the class was all in the lab section, where the TA gave pretty simple tutorials. If you have some experience with Solidworks, you probably will get along fine, there is very little asked of you from that. There was a final and a midterm (timed), which I have never heard of any other professor giving for this class. I've heard that most professors just give a final CAD project, which we actually had but it was pretty minor I thought. The exams were half hand drawing and half creating parts in Solidworks. Overall, the class could be made a lot more useful with another professor, I don't think I learned much Solidworks at all (having some previous experience.) It was a pretty easy class, but if you have a hard time visualizing complex 3D objects from drawings, it will be a real pain, and I would recommend taking another prof who actually focuses on Solidworks.

Awful professor with horrible sense of humor. Obsolete slides with outdated information. The only thing the professor does throughout the class is brag about the number of houses he bought and the new equipment he has installed in his house. Does not care about the performance of the students. I think the reason he is interested in being at UCLA is to get funding for his projects. And even for those projects, he taking credit when the Phd students are putting in efforts.

Average professor (likes to rely on visuals in teaching) but terrible TA. The TA wasn't taking any courses (done with PhD) but was always late in grading exams and assignments. He also posted videos on how to do CAD functions, instead of showing us step by step in the lab session. Overall, the midterm exam was difficult, but the final exam was easy.