Reviews of professor Al Wicks

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good intentions, horrible execution. Clearly wants his students to understand the content, but there is too much and he does not properly explain any of it. Completely relied on YouTube to learn the labs and test material. TA's do heavy lifting, gave his students an unreasonable amount of material to study for final, put none of it on the test.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible. Told class to return textbooks then asked why we weren't reading. Asked for more homework to learn the material and he said he doesn't want to assign homework because we would just memorize how to do the problems. Tests are nothing like the few homework assignments given. You will leave labs more confused than you went in.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Absolutely awful. He doesn't go over example problems, glosses over material, and tells us to learn the stuff on our own time. Terrible lecturer, I taught myself most of the material. Says he wants students to have a basic understanding for the tests then makes them super in depth and complicated. 45 minute labs regularly take 3 hours. Do not take.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This course structure required a lot of independent study and initiative from the students. There was not much assigned homework and it was optional to complete. Fast paced course due to the amount of content. Wicks was available outside of class times to meet about the course. Before the final, Wicks hosted additional review sessions.