Reviews of professor Shahram Pouya

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
It is tough but enjoyable if you have a decent math background, do your homework, ask questions and attend the class and you will be fine, this course inspired me and I think I have a good understanding of the subject matter

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Good guy

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures were decent but I did have to refer to the textbook at times to fully understand what he was attempting to explain. Test questions were reasonable, but I would have preferred that students were given more time and more reference material, rather than not having these things and instead receiving low scores and a generous curve.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The material was presented in a very understandable way. The videos in class were a very good representation of visualizing the difficult concepts to understand, so keep doing the videos. I have no complaints about the class or material, I learned a lot.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not a bad teacher. some of the derivations he does are kinda useless and we wont use them but, he will teach you everything you need to know for the test. has a pretty strong curve on the tests to expect 10-20% better than what you got without it.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Is excellent in office hours. Tests are hard but both the midterm and final get curved (In my section, the final exam got curved 35%). Really cares about your learning - he outlines how to do all quiz problems (which are open friend and open note) and tough homework problems in class. Lecture powerpoints can be a bit hard to follow at class speed.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This professor turns a moderately easy topic from aerodynamics into quantum physics on a Stephen Hawking level. From what we've seen from fluid dynamics (similar class in Mechanical Eng) this professor chooses to forgo simple and easy to derive equations in favor of heavy partial derivative use coupled with next to zero examples of how to use them.