Originally Posted by RatherDashing
Just finished second year engg, here's a run-down of who I had and what I thought:
AMAT 307-I had Dr. Liao, none of the profs last year were great, but he was absolutely terrible. Across the board everybody in this section hated him, do not take his class. Zvengrowski taught a different section, and most students either really liked his class or really hated it.
ENGG 319-I took this class with Drs Jamieson and Wang. I don't have much to say for this class, I learned everything from the textbook/powerpoint notes and did really well, they both give you good notes and the tests are open book.
ENGG 325-I had Dr. Nowicki. He was a fantastic prof, and is regularly nominated for the teaching excellence awards. He goes slowly through the material, which can be annoying as it starts out fairly basically, but by the end you will really know the course well. Norm Bartlett also taught this class, I took C++ with him and he was a great prof as well.
ENGG 349-I had Dr. Johnston for this class, you may remember him from 251/253. His teaching methods were a little unorthodox; he spent very little time on theory and spent much of the class time solving problems from the textbook. I found him to be a really good prof, but a lot of people hated him, so I suppose it depends on how best you learn. Of the other profs in this section, I believe Tan was highly rated by students, and Li was rated low.
PHYS 369-I believe my profs name was Wilson. I thought he was a fairly good prof, although the material was quite boring so that might be influencing my negatively. By the end of the semester our classroom was filling up with students from other sections. I will try to confirm his name and come back and edit this. Stay away from Dr. Biel, I took 259 with him and he was terrible.
ENGG 311-Dr. Mehta. He was not a good prof, he spent most of the class time going off on tangents unrelated to the course and more related to his theories about global warming. It was entertaining, but not terribly helpful.
ENGG 317-Dr. Boyd. Boyd is an excellent prof, he keeps the class interesting and you will learn a lot. He was by far the best prof for this class. Li was supposedly quite bad, I don't know about any of the others.
ENGG 407-When I took this class all four sections went on at the same time so it didn't really matter which section you registered in. As it stood, very few people went to any of the lectures, as this class can be easily learned from the textbook.
ENME 341-Dr. Valeo. Take this class with her if you can. Last year the different sections wrote different midterms and final exams, and hers were considerably easier than the other classes. She was also a very good prof on top of this fact.
That's about it. Hopefully all of that is helpful to you, and if you have any more questions about second year I'm glad to help out where I can.
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