This class is super disorganized. The "labs" are all based on a seemingly decades old document, and require you to remote into a laptop to collect data. There were lots of issues with remote laptops not working for data collection. Also, the homework and lab assignments are both super unclear. It is hard to determine what exactly you need to do, you're given little snippets of the solution with no context and expected to come up with the rest yourself, whatever that may mean. I spent more time figuring out what exactly to do than actually doing it. The assignments took an incredibly long time and honestly made my quarter miserable. It really seemed like the professor didn't care too much that students were struggling to keep up with the disorganized workload.

The material isn't hard per se, it's mostly an extension of 171A and some concepts of 270A/B. If you've taken MAE 172, that is quite helpful to take before this since Prof. M'Closkey does a much better job explaining signal processing and sampling than Prof. Tsao.