First off, Dr. Mohanty is a great teacher who emphasizes learning rather than grades. He provides a plethora of material to engage students and helps them learn, and he is incredibly understanding of the challenges presented by COVID 19 learning. He actually scanned in copies of the textbook to give out to students for free, something which I highly appreciated. Grading is extremely lenient.
However, I would say that to those not taken other similar courses I would say the material is taught in a unnecessarily confusing way. I took AOS 104 which covers much of the same material, but in a clearer way. This does not mean that I wouldn't take this class again- I really like Dr. Mohanty!- I would just push for people unfamiliar to the topic to read up before class as not to get confused.

I would like to give Professor Mohanty a better review because he is so nice and cares a lot, but he is just so unclear. His lectures are all over the place and really disorganized. I wouldn't say he is bad at teaching--he understands the subject matter well and can explain things decently, but he cannot organize information well. The class is a few homework assignments, quizzes, and exams. The quizzes are conceptual questions and can be kind of confusing. The exams are similar to questions we've seen before on the homeworks. I wouldn't say the class is hard, but there is a lot of material to understand in a short amount of time which is challenging.

The class was relatively easy because the midterms, quizzes, homework, and final were administered online with flexible scheduling. Some of the homework and test problems can be found online/older tests. Lectures were not very engaging, and the professor's slides aren't super helpful either. To do well in the class, you just need to know how to use the various formulas and the steps for solving the problems well. It really helps to have access to prior tests.

Mohanty is literally one of the nicest professors I've met here during my time at UCLA. His lectures aren't too bad, and he really does try his best to make things as clear as possible for us. He's super understanding and lenient with homework deadlines, and even offered to hold extra office hours if we couldn't make them. One thing to be aware of is that his homework and tests are pretty difficult. His homework took a lot of time to get through, especially because they were graded on correctness. The content that he covers in his homework and tests are difficult as well, especially on the tests because it was open internet, open notes, etc. I think he started getting the idea that we were really struggling, so he and the TAs started giving hints on the homework. Doing the homework and tests didn't leave me feeling that great, but I don't know how he curved the class or graded the tests because he definitely was very very lenient on all of us.

Real G here. He believed that engineering things could be found online so all exams are 24 hours online exam. His lectures are interesting but aren't that clear, so watch the previous quarter recorded lectures for more info. If you watch all lectures and study a bit, homework quizzes and exams will be easy af. Great class great professor shoutout to my TA Matthew and I would recommend him. 13/10

The class set up is interesting, the first half of the quarter there was homework and a midterm. For the second half, most of the time was dedicated to a group project. Groups of 4+ people with a research paper and presentation at the end. Lecture materials were interesting and the project wasn't so bad, professor and TA give a lot of help.

I am not an engineer and took this class due to my interest in the environment, so it was incredibly daunting when I found out that this class was a majority civil engineers. However, bless Professor Mohanty because he made the class straightforward and easy to understand even if you were a non-engineer. The class is not graded on a curve, so a vast majority of the class ends up with As in the class. There was only one midterm and one final and the average on the midterm was about 88%, which is extremely generous. We are also assigned weekly homework, but as long as you put in the effort, they boost your grade. TAs are super helpful and you do not have to attend the discussion section that you were assigned to.

Professor Mohanty cares a lot for student wellbeing and is very generous with providing help throughout the class from posting necessary course materials from the book to giving blessed homework extensions near the later parts of the quarter when things often tighten up for students. Lecture notes are hard to read with his handwriting but you can get by with comparing it to examples in the textbook and he posts lecture videos on Youtube if you can't make it to lecture.

Professor Mohanty really cares about his students and learning the topics included in environmental engineering. The class mostly focused on mass balancing, which I had no prior background in but that wasn't necessary. Professor Mohanty did a great job teaching the class, and I really felt as though I thoroughly learned the material by the end of the quarter. The exams and homework were fair, and I would take this class again with him.

Professor Mohanty is the most kind and generous professor that I have ever encountered and you should definitely take a class with him if you can. He prioritizes his students' well being above all, offers so many resources for help and understanding, and is super accommodating. Course was structured really well and gave a pretty good introduction to all the different areas of environmental engineering.