Reviews of professor Amor Menezes

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Posted absolutely nothing on the course site (as an online class) except some handouts (all useless) and solutions for exams and homework (all weeks late). "team reports" are two 30+ page papers that are mostly unrelated to class material. Character limit too low to fully describe how trash this class (and prof) are.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Amor is, at best, alright. For positives: he is adequately organized, the test material is over what he covers in class, and he knows his material well. As for the negatives, his workload was greater than all my other classes combined. He was rude and I often felt ill-prepared for homework. He did curve the class at the end, though.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I am a senior now but had him for intro to aerospace engineering. Looking back, I can confidently say that much of his class was way beyond me as a younger student. 2000 level class with "intro" in the name was incredibly deceiving. If this was a 3 or 4000 level class I would have no complaints.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Highly knowledgeable in his field. There's something wrong if the average score on a completely open note/book midterm exam is in the 60's. Anytime I went to his office hours he often got distracted with his own work. He even made me wait outside his door for 20 minutes just so he could finish what he was doing (during a 50 min office hour period).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Menezes is a wonderful professor to take for controls. If you study the homework and attend lectures the exams will be a breeze. The homework are kind of difficult at times but are great study material.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If there was an option to give this professor a zero out of five, I would have done it. The professor does not care for the students. Nothing useful is posted and he does not allow you to record the lectures yourselves. He makes this class more about being punished for not understanding somethings first try than he does about learned. Terrible.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr Menezes was quite good. It was his first time teaching controls. He prepared the entire class before day 1. Lectures were great, with everything being coordinated to the letter. HWs are hard, but they make you think and learn. Exams were too challenging for the class, but he curved appropriately. He tried to learn everyones names too.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly, he wasn't as bad as some of the other reviews claim. Would recommend attending every lecture cause it's very easy to fall behind if you don't. His homework's are quite long. The exams are fair it's definitely possible to pass the class with an A if you put in the time. There is also a small curve on the final grade at the end.