Reviews of professor Peter Beltramo

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
class is fun, beltramo does a good job. tests are open book so KNOW YOUR BOOK!!! don't google things for homework, look them up in the book, it'll pay off once you know exactly where to find things during a test worth 25% of your grade. if you miss a day in class, just read the book. the book is your best friend. hw takes 2-3 hours but is fun.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
It was an okay class. Be prepared to read the textbook and do the homework.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Beltramo's 120 class is brilliant, not very difficult as long as you care about chemical engineering, and he lets you use textbooks on the exam. Love this guy and he's a really good professor. Show up to class and you're good to go, but beware the manometer section is ultra boring.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Most atrocious professor I've had. Lectures are disorganized and do not encourage understanding. Homework/Tests are levels above examples done in lecture (exam problems from more advanced textbooks). Be ready to attend all SI/TA sessions to pass, except Kelsi's. Even less helpful than Beltramo was during his hours. Best of luck.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's a solid professor and helpful in office hours. Lectures are clear and pretty engaging. Yes, the class and exams are hard, but that's just the nature of chemical engineering rather than Prof Beltramo's fault. Start the homework assignments early; you will not be able to BS them in an evening. Overall, I enjoyed the class and learned a lot.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Beltramo's a decent guy and does put in effort to be a decent teacher. However he's pretty ambitious with course material and so tries to cover way more than can be reasonably covered, resulting in wicked hard exams. To do well you need to pay attention in lectures; work hard on homework. He is helpful in office hours.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Beltramo is a good professor. I mean, yes, some of his exams are next to impossible, but he gives a ton of partial credit. He also gives easy extra credit toward the end of the semester, and scales the final averages a lot. He wants to challenge our understanding of chemical engineering, not to fail us. However, read the book outside of class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
exam take 85% of the course. F up on one exam and you screw up for the semester. I did :((( But it is even worse when every exam is at the same percentage (my other classes have lower exam replaced or takes a smaller portion). Plus 8am class suck a lot, I can barely function at that time. Anyways, prof is quite decent and nice tho

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ratings are skewed since the class is really hard, but Beltramo teaches great. Homework takes forever and Matlab is required in a lot of it but barely taught, so you might need to learn a lot of it on your own. Hard exams but he gives you the answer key from previous years exams, so it's not impossible to do well if you prepare right.