Reviews of professor Todd Rossi

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He read everything directly from our textbook, including examples, instead of actually teaching the material. He wasn't able to answer 90% of student's questions. He couldn't solve most of the homework problems without looking at the solutions. He took away partial credit on exams after the TA had trouble looking at all of them by himself.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor is a nice person, shame he can't teach.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Doesnt understand the material hes teaching pretty much sums it up. Youll have to learn completely on your own, just think of tuition as a bill for a meal you cooked yourself.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Rossi is a great example of unrealized potential. He is an industry professional and interested in improving, though he puts way too much weight on tests (90% in our case). He makes PDFs summarizing each module and necessary equations, but they are fairly barebones and does not do problems on the board (only scrolls through the pdf)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class wasn't hard, already signed up for my last two electives with him. Easy and thorough lectures, gave textbook problems for hw, went over material multiple times before each exam. Pretty straight forward professor, cares about what he teaches. Hardest part was familiarizing with excel procedures used for one hw and final project

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
In my entire college career, I have never taken a course as disorganized as Internal Combustion Engines. It's pretty clear that Rossi has no interest in teaching at all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I agree with the below review, you learn nothing at all in class. He goes over one sentence topics in each chapter without going into any detail whatsoever. He did maybe 3 problems on the board all semester, and when we asked him the first time it was like some foreign concept to him. However, hes a really nice guy and compromises with the student

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I totally disagree with the low ratings here. The HWs are pretty lengthy , but he basically gives you the solutions. He's flexible on deadlines. Exams are taken right from HW. The class wastes zero time on derivations. You will actually learn how to analyze real wind turbine and solar panel data. One of the most interesting classes in MAE.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Todd is a really nice person. Genuinely cares about the students. Sad part: he can't teach well. Super test heavy. weekly exam avgs in 50-70s. New chapter every week. Given the absolute difficulty in the material, too much was tasked in one week. Didn't learn much. Giving him a 4 for the generous curve & we were able to advocate for a better grade.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Although he is a kind and caring professor, exams are heavily graded and contain lots of fundamental short answer questions followed by four to five longer calculation problems. The fact is there are too many problems in the exam that we do not have enough time to solve all them within 1hour 20 minutes.