Reviews of professor Nima Toosizadeh

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Nima is a decent guy but he needs to stick to research. I cant even understand him sometimes. Slides are straight from the book and he somehow explains it worse. Midterms are 3-4 questions, each worth a huge percentage. For MATLAB, he expects you to learn it all from zybooks independently. You will learn most topics on your own time. Take CE214.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I got so very much out of his class! His lectures were very engaging and thorough. The workload was challenging, but achievable. The feedback I got was helpful and more prompt than I'm used to.  I heard so good things about this professor so I am am glad I made the choice to take this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Nima uses the slides to teach you the content, but is so disorganized you do not actually learn the content and it becomes very confusing. The slides are all based on the textbook, so read it. The content can be hard and since it is not clearly explained, the class is doubled in difficulty. He isn't good at teaching. Good luck learning by yourself.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Nima is a very nice professor, and although he may not be the most engaging lecturer, he generally grades pretty leniently. Use his TA's office hours for questions on MATLAB assignments and thoroughly study the slides before exams, as the problems on exams will follow a very similar format to his examples on the slides.