Reviews of professor Alexander Forrest

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He has a flipped classroom, which I liked. Students watch pre-recorded lectures before class. He answers questions and does practice problems in class. The prof is nice and very smart, but also very busy and hard to reach online. Students vote when the class takes the midterm and final. The material is standard difficulty for engineering.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is a really cool, hip professor. All the lectures were from the pandemic year. He had long derivations that were hard to follow because of little to no explanation while doing so. Read the textbook because he skips some equations or writes them down wrong sometimes. Midterms were fair.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The water resource department is filled with amazing professors. Unfortunately he is not one of them. You can tell clearly that he really does not care about teaching and made many mistakes that confused himself at times. He should not be teaching an introductory course that sets foundations like 141 but teach something he is passionate about.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
We watch these pre-recorded lectures and go into class with very little organization and structure. He sits on the table and asks if anyone has any questions and bases the class lesson off of student suggestions, and cold calls students to the board. HW's are much much harder than examples.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Pretty much hopes to overshadow his terrible teaching skills by his friendly demeanor. Got some great stories tho.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He assigns previously recorded lectures so he is often unaware of where the class is at in the material. I felt his attitude came off arrogant and bored. I always felt disregarded when trying to ask for clarification or help. Exams and homework were difficult, but fair. Highly recommend using the book, it was more helpful than the lectures.