Reviews for Peter B. Sunderland
Average Rating:| Anonymous Course: ENES100 Grade Expected: A December 13, 2010, 8:37 pm | Fair grader and really nice guy. Good teacher for the material in the first half of the semester but once you start actually building your hovercraft he really is of no help. But he does try to get you the highest grade possible so I would recommend him. Just don't expect him to do anything once you are building the hovercraft except stand towards the side of the classroom and look awkward. |
| joepenn1 Course: ENES100 Grade Expected: A May 1, 2009, 4:43 am | Good teacher that does really care if your understanding the material. ENES 100 is supposed to be a class you struggle through because it teaches you the basics of team design in engineering. Sunderland helps you through this process and always have many review sessions for homework and the such. Loves to give A's for those who both try their hardest and simply know the material. Great teacher |
| jwalsh16 Course: ENES100 Grade Expected: A December 16, 2008, 7:24 pm | He is excellent and cares alot about his students. He is very helpful and a fair grader. Chose him over all the other teachers if you have the chance. |
| Anonymous Course: ENES100 Grade Expected: A December 16, 2008, 12:06 pm | He was overall a very nice and understanding teacher. When it was clear that most hovercraft teams were stuggling with stuctural or technical components of the project he was forgiving and extended the deadline for a critical milestone. His explanations of the Friday technical lectures were fairly clear. The only downside is that for an engineering professor, he's very tough on grammar. |
| Anonymous Course: ENES100 Grade Expected: A December 1, 2008, 7:47 pm | Dr. Sunderland is a really nice guy. Many of the other engineering teachers are nasty and arrogant in my opinion. Peter also takes the time to go over lecture material from Fridays during class and he is very encouraging. I sometimes find him annoying, though, when he constantly demands how your hovercraft is coming along. Overall, though, I would take Dr. Sunderland over many of the other teachers for ENES100! |
| Anonymous Course: ENFP415 Grade Expected: C December 11, 2007, 9:13 am | The homework had nothing to do with the course. There would usually be about four problems where you had to derive equations. These problems had nothing to do with what was taught in class or the exams. Peter enjoys math theory, but it doesn't have anything to do with our course. The homework was impossible unless you sat in his office and basically had him walk you through it. The only students that did well sat in his office for 2-3 hours and then the other members of the group would copy from each other. There was complete separation between the book and what was taught in class. Peter would give many equations during lectures that weren't in the book. The book itself was terrible. |