Reviews of professor Laura Slane

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Slane is very organized and clearly presents the lectures in a way that is understandable. She structures her homework and exams based on the examples she does in class and the recitations are a good resource for more example problems. Class work time with your friends is great. Slane is a great teacher in the ME track.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I have taken three courses with professor Slane: two MATLAB courses and Statics. Slane is out to get her students. She is notorious for assigning absurd amounts of monotonous work and reporting students to the academic honesty for collaboration. She is not a supportive professor, she is on a power trip out to get hard working eng students.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
After having Professor Slane for ME 120 in the spring of 2022 and now having completed ME 160 in the fall of 2022 I definitely understand why the reviews for this class are not as good as those of 120. With that being said she and her TAs made the class fair and themselves accessible for the necessary help.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I had prof. Slane for ME 120, 160, and 260. For 120, she was great; a reasonable amount of work,  tried hard to connect with students, and overall seemed very motivated. for ME 160/260, it was inexplicably overwhelming at times. The projects contained material that wasn't covered as she was trying to apply the work in a very advanced way.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures themselves are good and engaging, but the amount of work she gives is way too much for a 2 credit course. There was more work than my differential equations 4 credit course, and the grading is very tough and can lose a lot of points on the smallest things. Proficiency tests are stress-inducing, must be done in a short time.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her project is so annoying. I know every knowledge that being used in the project but it is very awful when you look at a thousand of instruction and must follow the guideline to get score. Very heavy course load.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I have taken three courses with Professor Slane. She pushes the limits for the amount of work that can be assigned and expects an unnecessary amount from her students. Her projects are time-consuming and often unreasonable. Be VERY careful about collaboration in her courses, as she reports people every semester to the academic honesty board.