Reviews for Yang Tao
Average Rating:| pat Course: BIOE485 Grade Expected: B+ February 29, 2012, 3:43 pm | I realize I'm probably one of the very few dolts that got a B in this class, but I was pretty deterred from caring about it for a number of reasons. Firstly, this is NOT an engineering class, no matter how much he acts like it is. We did not design a single piece of instrumentation equiptment the entire semester. We built an EKG off of a prescribed schematic that he made himself, and we wrote a stupid labview (worst software ever written) program to process, filter, and display the signal. So all in all, this was more of a computer science experience. As far as the electronics goes, any idiot with remedial high school level electronics background can put together a circuit from reading a schematic. You literally sit there and stare at him while he rambles on about his slides that he takes out of the book. There are a lot of slides, which he annotates in class. The problem is that his hand writing is serial-killer grade quality, so it's impossible to read. Also, he is nearly impossible to understand on his best day because of his thick accent. He generally assumed that everyone knew more electronics than we learned, remembered, or could deal with, so his lecture notes on that material were pretty miserable. He also gives you 3 pages of (cheet-sheet-sheet as he calls them) for each test. As a result, I literally did NO studying - all of my effort went into making these massive things, and I got a B+ overall. If you actually care, this class should be a GPA booster. As far as training us to be more able bodied instrumentation engineers (fancy word for EE), this was a monumental failure. I think they just put a bunch of BS down on paper to get the BIOE program accredited, and as a result the class looks good but lacks any genuine engineering training. My oh my how I have wasted my money with BIOE. INFURIATING |
| zhangsta Course: BIOE456 Grade Expected: A December 24, 2011, 7:01 am | Doesn't really give many assignments. All of his lectures were taken out of the book. His exams tested some of the more important concepts from lecture as well as some random details from lecture. However, he allows you to have three sheets of notes for the exam so they're really not that bad. The only thing that will be even remotely time-consuming is the ekg project at the end of the semester. |
| Anonymous Course: BIOE485 Grade Expected: A+ December 14, 2010, 8:56 am | uhhhhhhhh.......BEST PROFESSOR EVER! |
| Anonymous Course: BIOE456 Grade Expected: December 10, 2009, 8:50 am | Really cares about his students and their education. Doesn't do much of the traditional lecture/hw assigment/paper routine. He wants to make sure you know about important, emerging concepts, how to succeed after college. For his exams, study the lecture notes, especially specific examples he talks about a lot in class. |
| gundamwing4132 Course: ENBE485 Grade Expected: A May 1, 2008, 12:51 pm | Great professor, but most of the time very busy. No work for the majority and very simple homework. Final paper relied on your group project. Several guest speakers. |
| scroofoo Course: ENBE485 Grade Expected: A December 3, 2007, 2:07 pm | 3-4 papers but they all build on one-another. Professor is very animated and passionate about entrepeunerial (sp?) engineering. If you aren't into that, then you'll probably be bored like I was, but if you ever want to be an inventor, listen up! |