Reviews of professor Derya Aksaray

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really liked the online style, it was probably the best I had this semester. The slide recordings and the discussions/examples in lectures were quite effective in clarifying the subject. The review sessions before the exams were also helpful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Don't bother going to class. She plows through material so fast there is no time to take any notes. She answers questions in sarcastic tones and isn't respectful to students. The only thing she does right is post the slides online after lecture so you can go back and teach yourself. No textbook used.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Controls Lab: Presented material in extremely clear manner in slides! Very clear grading criteria. Prof was very good. Lab itself was very tough. Getting the data was the most time consuming part. START EARLY AND ASK QUESTIONS!! Spent roughly 80 hours on the controls lab.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not a fantastic lecturer, but going to class is important. Homework problems taken straight out of the book.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Derya got better as the semester went on. She presents the material clearly and does plenty of examples in class. It took a while to get our first midterms back... I think she may have graded all of them herself. Like I said, not bad. Not the best physics teacher ever, but she gets the job done.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Aksaray did a great job at explaining statics concepts, but did so in lecture at only a surface level; this left my TA to rush through four or so very complex examples in the once-weekly discussion sections. Her class was graded only upon exam/weekly quiz performance which caused anxiety and stress, but the grading was pretty forgiving.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This is my second time taking one of Derya's classes. Both are fairly easy exams, with weak lectures. However, for this one, she posted her lectures online which made the lectures completely skippable. Also, note sheets for exams made it pretty easy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her lectures are organized and straight-forward. Really enjoyed the class and will be taking another class of hers. Tests are hard but you get to make a note sheet for each exam.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Aksaray spends most of lecture deriving equations that will never have to be derived for an exam. Her homework and exams are often more of a math assignment/test than a test on aerospace topics, but the exams in this class have been fair. She does not really help much in office hours and wants students to be on their own for homework.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Askaray was amazing. I took her class spring of 2020, so I had her half in-person/half- online. She offered lots of detailed derivations in class, and created ppts with recorded verbal explanations while online. I really liked this approach because you could go at your own pace. She's clearly knowledgeable and wants her students to understand