Reviews for Neil Goldsman
Average Rating:| Anonymous Course: ENEE307 Grade Expected: A December 27, 2011, 2:58 pm | He seems like a cool guy, and he lectures at a reasonably pace at review sessions, but during the normal 50-min lectures, he tends to rush and go through material at a dizzying rate. His notes can become an incoherent scrawl and he tries to race through his notes and diagrams. He's also a bit touchy about students talking during his lectures. The actual lab is pretty easy, and of course, depends mainly on how your TA is. Malfunctioning parts/breadboards/probes were an issue though. The midterm and final are straightforward, and basically test the same material as the posted practice exams. His lectures vary in usefulness, especially since, due to lab scheduling, you may be covering topics in lecture that you've already encountered in the lab itself, but going to reviews is vital. |
| Anonymous Course: ENEE307 Grade Expected: A December 18, 2010, 10:09 am | He is a good professor who knows how to teach this course. He explains the material well and his exams are straight forward. But he really need to pick up right TAs for this course. My TA graded lab reports not on the quality of work but his gradidng formula depended on if he liked the student or not. Other than that Prof. Goldsman is a very good teacher. Highly recommend him for ENEE307. |
| jml Course: ENEE704 Grade Expected: A September 9, 2010, 9:27 am | I thought I understood microelectronic device physics but after taking this course, I realized my prior understanding was superficial. Goldsman is really good at conveying material in both a conceptual and detailed manner. He doesn't use any notes, yet his lectures stayed organized and focused, and he writes everything on the board so it was easy to follow him and still take good notes. The projects were challenging and time-consuming, but they were specifically designed to complement and apply the core material without redundancy. |
| mcraton Course: ENEE313 Grade Expected: A April 8, 2010, 5:23 pm | I had goldsman for 307 and 313. He is pretty reasonable about moving things around and stuff if there are conflicting tests in other classes or anything like that. Sometimes it is hard to keep up in lecture because he makes a lot of little mistakes when writing things down (even while he explains them correctly) He does not speak in a cryptic way like out of a textbook and is not bad at explaining concepts. he makes an effort to learn peoples names that participate or whatever which is nice. Tests are not that bad, they are for the most part very straightforward and he doesnt try to trick you or anything. for 307 his lectures didnt keep up with the labs so i stopped going because he was lecturing on the stuff we had learned the week before, but hey. its a lab. its mostly on you to figure it all out anyways. it did help that i had an excellent TA for both 307 and 313. |
| vbury Course: ENEE307 Grade Expected: December 17, 2009, 4:41 pm | He definitely knows his stuff, but I never went to lectures enough to greatly benefit from them. Very often the lab equipment was faulty (shorted-out breadboards, wires, etc), but none of that was his fault. It was an OK class, but he is a harsh grader for a 2-credit course. At least he's not as bad as Peckerar. |
| Anonymous Course: ENEE307 Grade Expected: B December 15, 2009, 9:59 am | Knows his material but takes forever to review labs in lecture. The grading for the midterm was extremely harsh and the grading for the final is very similar. Averages hovered around the mid 40s. When these supposedly "trivial" midterms and finals add up to half your grade, and the material is difficult stuff to absolute memorize and master, there is an issue with the course management. This is a 2-credit course for goodness sakes, how can half the class get Cs????? He grades on a bell curve, so so disastrous and unreasonable. |