Reviews of professor Sean Niemi

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Niemi is a great professor for DML. His lectures are clear and he is very helpful outside of class. He also wants you to succeed but you have to put in the work. DML is not a class to play around with, it is a lot of work and very difficult. Nevertheless, Dr. Niemi is there to help you every step of the way.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Took this class in Fall 2021 and it caused me terrible burnout. Extreme workload, TAs graded so harshly that it was impossible to do well. Apparently Niemi has made the class easier after I took it, but it baffles me that students' complaints during my semester were ignored because Niemi said it was "too late" to made adjustments to the course.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
One of the best profs. He is a great lecturer, works closely with a lot of engineering design teams, and knows a lot about engineering overall. DML course itself, IDK. He is in the process of changing the course, so it is very different from semester to semester. Overall, it is easier than before, but it is still a lot of work.Take it during summer

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Niemi is the most disrespectful professor I have ever had. I don't really care about the professor's disrespect if they continue to be a good teacher, but this is not his case. He will not respond to emails if he does not think they're worth his time. The course itself is already a mess, and he puts in no effort to remedy it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
very unclear grade criteria, your grade on reports depends on how harsh your TA is, and nothing was graded until the end of the semester. This class was ridiculous

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Seemed to me like he didn't want to/ didn't care about teaching DML and was more focused on his senior design class. Never took responsibility and it was always our faults for many of the things he messed up. Copied and pasted a lot of old DML material relevant or not. Shouldn't take 2 months to grade 1 assignment!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
No clear standards for grading. The TAs grade so inconsistently. He's a pretentious guy who only likes things done a certain way. There were probably at least a half dozen assignments that took 6+ weeks to grade and some weren't graded until after the class was over. He's unfortunately the only option for this course right now.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very strict standards in the manufacturing lab. If you didn't wear pants, you couldn't participate. Exams weren't too hard, just study everything he goes over in lectures. The project is though, but manageable, you just have to absolutely rush everything.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The class and its structure itself is extremely difficult and time-consuming. Niemi is a very intelligent individual, he expects a lot from his student cause he believes were the best of the best. His teaching and instructions arent very well, bet talk to him one on one and you can see he really wants to help you.