Reviews of professor Matthew Liberatore

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You have to do homework every day because stuff is due Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. You also have weekly quizzes and four exams. Not the greatest when you have feedback for him and will most likely think you are wrong and not him. He was pretty relaxed when it came to grading, but he needed to be since his quizzes and exams are near impossible.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Quite an awful teacher. He quite literally wrote the textbook for this class and he consistently pushes this book on everyone. You have to use his book to, it is like an online textbook. The textbook is worse than the teaching as it lack much explanation and forces unimportant problems on the student. Also he gets angry in class, he yelled at a TA.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is the worse professor that you would have in your chemical engineering. He does not know how to teach and also he is mean to everyone even to his TAs. If you can take this course somewhere else better than to live in stress and fear of failing the class. I learned most of the material from the TAs and not from the class. Poor teaching Prof.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You have to be doing something for his class every day. Monday you have reading due, quiz and challenge activities are due Wednesday, and homework every Friday. You have four exams and weekly quizzes. I couldn't due anything during week due to how much work he gives you to do. He also rarely goes over in detail how to do problems.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
You cannot miss lectures for this class. It is regarded as one of the most difficult classes for Chemical engineering but going to his office hours are a tremendous help. Despite what people say keep an open mind about him and ask questions.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Liberatore is likely one of the best professors I'll have in college. I genuinely do not understand why people give him a bad rep. I do not think he has been an unreasonable or difficult professor in any class I've taken with him. He is a strong educator and makes it easy to do well in the class, within reason.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Liberatore's class was definitely a challenge but not impossible. He really understands the material and is great in a one-on-one setting more so than in lecture. Lots of HW but worth it to grasp material. Offers plenty of opportunites to help you and for grade boosts, plus is a very fair grader on challenging exams.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Liberatore is clearly very knowledgeable and passionate about his subject matter. However, much of the actual learning done for the class must be self-taught (you learn through reading the book, not the lectures). He is often very critical of student work, likely with good intention, but in a way that tends to feel like degradation.