Reviews of professor David Goldsmith

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
does not teach anything; you're on your own to figure out matlab, solidworks, any thing to do with harware, AND arduinos. literally no direction he just sends you on your way and then asks for weekly and daily updates on what you're doing?? not the best for freshmen who have no prior experience. might get an A if your group is good

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
TAs grade assignments not him, and the TAs are sticklers for specifics (formatting, naming, etc.). My class was the first to do the GM rc car project unlike other classes which made windmills & planes. He was almost as lost as the students with the project but did try to help everyone out. He's caring but hard to contact outside of class. 7/10

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Goldsmith himself grades hardly anything but TAs do and they're relentless. Format & name everything appropriately! For 1215 he did not "teach" well but also we had little graded work in class. No matlab teaching at all really which sucked cuz a few assignments/group projects relied on decent matlab skills. He's respectful & talks to fill classtime