Reviews of professor Brian Maxwell

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I wish I could pick more tags since he is a very tough grader and lecture-heavy. He just copies notes down and you are tested on very little of what you go over. The midterms are worth 20 points but are 30 percent each and they are graded so that a small mistake costs as many points as if it were a 100 point exam.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures were derivation-heavy, dry, and for the most part unhelpful to understanding the concepts necessary to complete the homeworks. Exams were interesting; two midterms and a final 45% of the total grade (yes, 45%), all open-note. Exams would include some easy problems and the rest very difficult flow/analysis problems

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lots of derivations in lectures, some were helpful but others werent. Tough graders for homework and exams. Homeworks were very long, but the advanced problems and MATLAB scripts were very well assigned and incredibly helpful/relevant. Final is 45% of grade, so be prepared. Hell definitely make you learn and understand the material fully.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Slightly condescending during lecture but gives great help during office hours. Way better in person then during lecture

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He basically reads out of the textbook in class and spends days on derivations that we don't use for HW. The lectures are probably the most boring I've had.

Grading criteria was never clarified so you always lose many points on the HW. Quizzes are a little easier than the HW and take home. That's the ONLY good thing about this class. Avoid him.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The projects are the best thing about this class - he makes them very well and they are useful and relevant. The homework can be very long some weeks, so make sure to set time aside. I definitely liked him much better for this class than 252, as he seems to care for this class more. Take home exam was not difficult, just long like everything else.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His lectures are dry and derivation-heavy like the other comments say; there is no need to show up to class. However, he is overall a nice guy. He dropped the lowest midterm score (which helped a lot of students) and curved the class. All exams were open notes too.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is an ok professor for 252 but if you take 359 he is a lot better. He is a really nice person and 359 is way more interesting and I think it's taught better. There is no final just two projects and a take home test.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Avoid this professor. the final exam is 45% of your overall grade. If you do bad, you will basically fail the class. If you want to have a professor who cares about students, don't take him! Overall, lectures are not useful whatsover, you have to learn the material on your own. Assigns long hw's, and the final is pretty difficult.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He was a great lecturer and everything was easily accessible on Canvas. The tests were super long and way longer than necessary though.