Reviews of professor Scott Shaffar

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Class is graded heavily on documentation, seems like more than the engineering design itself. Team-based. Has a short temper too. Dr. Shaffar had little knowledge of the project assigned to our group. After the project was not what he expected, he took it out on the group for his misunderstanding instead of acknowledging the project's uniqueness.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Shaffer has to be one of my favorite prof from SDSU. He treats you as an engineer and not as a student. He gives great feedback and is extremely knowledgable in the field. I enjoyed going to class because everyday you learn something new.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Shaffar is an extremely credible mechanical engineer. He has insight with complex project processes, ranging from risk management to testing analysis. I personally got into an internship, full-time job, and master's program using the valuable lessons from his senior project class -- you will be ready to enter the industry after this course.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You can tell that the man knows how to run an engineering project from start to finish. Phenomenal professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Shaffar does not handle issues professionally and is especially rude to students. If you do take him when you give presentations do not try and argue with him even if you are right because he doesn't want resolutions on issues he just needs to have the last word. Easy class if you keep head down and stay on schedule.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very fair and wants you to succeed. He lays out the class to be very professional and similar to the real world in the profession. Some of the projects are graded unfairly as some projects are more difficult than others but he does a great job outlaying the class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is very fair. Study the homework. He gives very good problems that are similar to the test. Also, understand the concepts well. During lecture, he goes through the concepts well but takes very long to do example problems. Also, homework will take lots of time for the format the he wants it so take time on each problem.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Shaffar is one of my favorite professors, I wish I could have more classes with him. He has amazing incite to offer about real world engineering and is willing to share his experiences to help prepare his students for industry. He truly cares about his students and will go above and beyond to support them. We need more professors like him!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Shaffar is very experienced engineer and tries to be helpful in conveying the material; He is also very fair with grading and generous with partial credit on exams. He also does a lot of problems in class and provides insight for senior design. However, he can be sarcastic at times and relies a lot on powerpoints for lecture.