Reviews of professor Nishant Balakrishnan

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He likes to make student's lives hard, and he likes to make every class harder than it is. His only motive is to make student's lives miserable. Makes fun of first-year classes which is not very professional. His tests are absolutely ridiculous. He seems to have forgotten that he was once a student too.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Course had two profs. Prof Nishant was funny and had very clear lectures. He responds to emails well, also gives good advice. Assignments were harder but if you do them the quizzes are the same. Pretty good course an great prof. Do your project early and ask questions, everything is marked pretty lightly.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Class was one of the most interesting classes I've had in my degree so far. Definitely the best prof. Best advice is to show up to all the classes, pay attention, and learn to work well with your group. Workload increases substantially over the term, but it's a 5cr design course so that's expected.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Does not care for students. Hard to understand and makes life miserable.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The best Prof I had at uni so far. Really caring and smart. Im sad I didnt get the full course this year because of pandemic but still learned a bunch. Show up to all the lectures and work on your project early and then the course is not difficult

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
this is a very time consuming class but Nish works hard to challenge all students into doing the best work they can. projects are definitely difficult at first, but Nish is very accessible outside of class & responds to emails very promptly, so asking lots of questions is not a problem

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His lecture is boring. He will give a lot of assignments and just because it's 5 credit course, he will make sure you're stressed out by the course load.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's notorious at changing the project. One day, I realized that he was announcing very important details for the project, where half of students were at the lab using solidworks. He's everywhere, not very organized, and his exams were ridiculous. Just.. write everything you can from his lecture, study everything, participate a lot in a class....