Reviews of professor Chandler Benjamin

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
We focused a lot on theory and proofs of equations in lecture, and were expected to use them on homework and quizzes without examples. He's tough but is good at answering questions clearly. The tests and quizzes were very hard. I felt unprepared for them almost every time. He teaches at a graduate level in an undergrad class - unnecessary.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Benjamin was a pretty good prof. 60% of your grade is determined by weekly quizzes, and the first few quizzes were pretty rough. However, as the semester went on he gave opportunities for extra credit. In general this course can be pretty confusing as the majority of it is taught from online lectures. Accessible outside class for questions.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Attend his office hours when you have trouble with homework. He appears to be tough the first few weeks of class and his grading scale reflects that but if you have questions regarding homework, he can help you and is very nice when you talk with him. You must use pens on all exams and you can only bring a calculator and two pens to the final exam.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
MEEN 368 is already a really hard class and Dr. Benjamin didn't help make it less hard. He assigned really weird homework and never went over it or provided solutions, his classes were too theory-based, and the class average on the first test was a 52.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Untrustworthy. Says he wants us to give him bad reviews so that students drop his class b/c he doesn't want to teach. reads directly off ppt. will lie and say you can do an assignment for ex. credit on exams but will factor them in as quiz grades in the end. Don't be afraid to go above his head to the chair and let them know about his behavior.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Benjamin is a good instructor who had clear guidelines for the course. 60 percent of the course grade is based on weekly quizzes so it important to pay close attention to the examples covered in class as they are typically similar to the quiz problems. Dr. Benjamin also assigns final grades based on your rank in the class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Doctor Benjamin was the absolute, hands down, by orders of magnitude worst professor I have had in my entire college experience. He was rude, short tempered (even called a student to the front and humiliated him in front of the whole class over paper fringes on his homework), and had an impossible grading system. Avoid him literally at all costs!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very patient but hard course. Tells what's the tests are over so you practically know what's going to be on it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He gave very few examples in class and expects us to know how to apply equations (on homework and quizes) after deriving them in class. He is rude and give very few resources to do well.