Reviews of professor Peter Beltramo

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof. Beltramo is a good teacher but you HAVE to pay attention in his class. If you doze off even for a minute, you've fallen behind. Have to read the textbook if you want to pass. He expects you to self-study but is always more than happy to explain further during office hours. Homework is tough so doable after banging your head on the wall

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lecture can seem a bit long and boring, he still tries his best to go over the material in depth. The homework can be difficult but he and other TA's are willing to help. As long as you attend class, READ the chapters, and do homework along with past exams, you will do fine in the class. He's generous with the final grade curve and extra credit.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The practice exams are nothing like the actual exams. His method of making test questions harder than anything weve seen causes them to be unfamiliar and seemingly unsolvable in most cases. The homework should be started days beforehand in order to finish before the deadline. The class was only offered at 8 in the morning which was obnoxious.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
ChemEng120 is in general a tough class. Read the textbook, pay attention during lecture, and start the homework assignments early. Beltramo himself is a friendly guy who can be condescending at times but is by no means an unfair or harsh professor. Exams take up 85% of your grade but he gives lots of partial credit.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very nice teacher and very engaging as well. All test are open book, which makes the tests way easier if you know how to navigate the textbook. I can't stress enough how important it is to mark down where certain equations come from and how to apply them, so make sure to do that. The class is an 8am which sucks but is interesting most of the time.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Beltramo teaches strictly by the book. His lectures were at 8:30 AM, and very dry. His homeworks were long and challenging, and he assigns a MATLAB project at the end of the semester. He was also very dry during office hours, as he was not much help. Sometimes you could see that he had a bit of an ego...