Reviews of professor Daniel Lyles

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
its a 2 credit class with the workload of about 6 credits. not just at all. inaccessible

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lyles is an incredible lecturer and runs a great class. The text and films he selects are interesting and Lyles has genuine insights to share. You can get a lot out of his class, but it is a lot of reading and a decent amount of writing. 

He also doesn't do discussion posts.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's a funny and entertaining guy, but he grades hard. PD2 is supposed to be an easy A because it's introducing you to engineering in the real world, but this class I actually put a lot of work in and got an A-. He takes forever to grade/give feedback, so the final project is hard to improve your grade. Take it with Hoffman if possible.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Try Hoffman not him, trust me

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Don't take PD2 with Professor Lyles! In lecture he spends most of his time trying to prove how smart and funny he is (he's not) instead of teaching. He assigns the midterm one week before it is due in addition to normal homework and it is a 1750 word paper with a system diagram. He is unresponsive to email, so don't bother trying that either.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The course is designed to build your ability to read technical articles so you're gonna be reading a lot every week. I only had one group assignment at the end of the semester so I say the workload was appropriate.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lyles is a good professor who talks about relevant information in class. Makes PD2 a little harder then it needs to be I recommend taking it with Hoffman. Still an easy course regardless though. Takes a LONG time to grade and give back work.