Reviews of professor Susan Bowley

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Would not recommend taking this professor. Long homeworks and unreasonably picky grading. She required specific assignment format but wasnt very clear about it. She also wasnt in communication with the final proctor so we received improper instructions and got points taken off.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
If you are familiar with CAD, ME165 will be very boring. If you are new to CAD, be prepared to put in alot of extra work to learn on your own. The class is basically following tutorials and the book, prf doesnt help at all. Srsly she gets offended easily from any questions or feedback from students.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
All lectures done on power point. Terrible way to learn this topic. When students ask questions, she said to review the last lecture and blew off the questions constantly. Tests were timed and online so if your laptop is dead or has a weak battery then you would have a big problem. Learned from other students and youtube. Attendance taken?!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof. Bowley is simply an awful professor. She clearly does not enjoy teaching. Most lectures were videos of someone else teaching. No lesson plan, no clear grading, and a lot, A LOT of homework. The level of HW in this course was by far the hardest most time-consuming part of the course. If you are thinking of taking this class, just don't.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I honestly do understand why a lot of people dont like this Professor. I can see that there are times when she gets frustrated in front of students but its reasonable. Shes a human being like everyone else. When it comes down to it, she wants to help you learn for yourself instead of spoon feeding. Gives lots of directions so read every line.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Bowley makes courses much more difficult than they need to be. She is a very tough grader.