Reviews of professor Sina Aboutorabi

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Shows up 15-30 mins late to EVERY lecture, and wastes your time. Tests are nothing like what is covered in class or in the 2 hw sets. Lectures are scattered and make no sense. I'll get an A, but I didn't learn anything from this professor. I'm a 4.0 masters student, and Sina is the worst professor I've ever had. He's gonna need a new job soon!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I cannot express how bad this class was. Day one, he tried to gauge how intelligent the class was, overall very condescending. Day 2 review matieral not relevant to class, Day 3, Continued lecture. He barely covered rocket propulsion and was all over the place. He'd derive things incorrectly. graded exams on spot. unqualified. waste of asemester

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He was the best professor I had it. He is so friendly with students.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is very patient, intelligent, fair and kind. Rocket propulsion is a very hard course, and he tries to teach it in a mathematical and analytical way to make it concrete. I liked the way he taught me. I was also impressed by the amount of knowledge he has in different areas of engineering and STEM fields in general.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The other guy got it wrong. He changed the rules of the exam 5 hours before the exam. He was 30 minutes late the day of the midterm. Constantly makes fun of students who make mistakes. Terrible handwriting. No enthusiasm in teaching. Constantly goes over the class time on a 2 hour 45 min class that ends at 9:45 PM.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
The class was a total JOKE, respectfully. Seems hard at first because you get HW, 1 Midterm, 2 Quizzes, 1 Final & Extra Credit project. Midterm problems are identical to HW (which is online) & the final was online (answers on Chegg). Copies from solution manuals during lectures, cancels class & arrives late all the time & posts grades 2 weeks late.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I liked the way Prof. Aboutorabi teaches this course. He seems to have a strong broad knowledge of aerospace engineering both in theory and practice. His classes are very interactive. He encourages students to ask questions. His grading style is very fair because he cares about his students. He is a great instructor and a very cool guy to approach.