Reviews for Elisabeth Smela
Average Rating:| Anonymous Course: ENME351 Grade Expected: May 16, 2011, 4:34 pm | Avoid taking ENME351 with smela at all costs. You will thank me later. The only good part about her class is she speaks fluent english, so at very least you can understand the words she is saying. As far as the concepts she is trying to teach, she may as well be speaking an alien language. She should stick to her research and never teach again. |
| Anonymous Course: ENME351 Grade Expected: C December 17, 2010, 7:29 pm | Smela is a very smart professor, but she does not know how to teach. She does not convey the concepts of the class and expects that everyone knows how to do the problems prior to her teaching us the concepts. Furthermore, she is a control freak. Every week she has a seating chart made for the class, which you must follow. She even has a seating chart for her exams. Her quizzes are not that bad, but the Labs are a waste of time. Her grading rubric tells you how to get an 85...yes an 85/100 is what her grading rubric tells you how to get. So save yourself and don't take this professor for ENME351. |
| Anonymous Course: ENME351 Grade Expected: C? December 16, 2010, 5:59 pm | Please, whatever you do, do not associate with this woman. Maryland really needs to take her out of the classroom. She is extremely smart, however I'm amazed every day as she will talk for 50min and not really say anything. Half of the class is spent learning how to draw graphs. The other half is a collection of random topics, topped off in the last two weeks with non-stop talk about her research. As I'm sitting here studying for the final, I really don't know what the whole class was suppose to teach me. Some other random comments: * There is one test during the semester. She had the entire class retake it because we didn't do well enough. *Yes, 60% of the class did drop, after taking the test twice. *Lab rubrics tell you how to get an 85/100, its up to you to go above and beyond to get that 100. *The labs are bullshit *Quizzes were given everyday at the beginning of class, that changed towards the end to once a week. *Office hours are not helpful *The seating chart was ridiculous, luckily after half of the class left, she gave up. *Homework is done by scouring Wikipedia and the rest of the internets, can take anywhere from 30min (when shes nice, that one time) to about 3 hours. In conclusion, do no take this or any other class with this woman. Ever. |
| Anonymous Course: ENME351 Grade Expected: W November 25, 2010, 11:36 am | I would not take this class or any other class with Smela after what I was put through in this class. As the semester went on more and more seats were open with drops and grades just got worse. By the end of the drop period about 65% of the class had dropped. If you are up for one of the toughest classes out there then this is the one for you, unless you are a part time student only taking one class I would not recommend this to anyone. |