Reviews of professor Daniel Mikesell

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This instructor was very unorganized when I took the class and wasn't very helpful when I needed assistance on some of the lab work. Most of the students in my class and I hated this course because nothing was explained clearly, they take forever to put grades in, and they expect you to know material that wasn't taught well by them such as coding.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I think he lectured maybe 3 times, the rest of the lectures were from rotating AIs. They re-grade things all the time so you don't know what the expectations are. You really don't learn anything, it's more just finding out certain things exist and nothing further. He probably knows a lot, just doesn't know how to teach it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Yeah Prof. Mikesell is definitely my least favorite professor at IU. I remember for our final group project, we made an ambitious plan to make an autonomous underwater craft, which we dialed back to a controlled craft and got working. The entire time he was condescending and he marked us off for having an incomplete prototype TWICE.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took this class during 2018 when he was the primary instructor and it was highly disorganized. You don't learn anything from it. Going to be honest, you probably already know more than Mikesell in whatever project thing you're going to do. I don't really know what he does or why he's in the department.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof. Mikesell really struggled to teach effectively. He didn't lecture often, but when he did he'd often pause and struggle to explain things. He never seemed to answer questions thoroughly. Everything that was covered was at a very basic level, and homework and projects would be very hard to do without former knowledge.