Reviews of professor Xiaojia Wang

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof. Wang knows her stuff. She makes the same mistake as other U professors and assumes all students are going to be researchers when, in fact, most students will end up in industry. Lectures like a researcher, all lectures are spent deriving equations and no example problem solving at all, which is what most students benefit most from.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Heat transfer is a difficult topic. The difficulty is multiplied 10x when you take class with Professor Wang. Her lectures are terribly difficult to follow every single time. This, plus tough homework assignments, will drain your sanity for the whole semester. I regret not taking up smoking earlier in life because this class gave me cancer anyways.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Wang gave very engaging lectures while using real world applications. She provided all of the resources needed to succeed in the class, but it still required effort to fully understand the content. Solely doing the homework would get you a B, but understanding the content thoroughly by reading the book would get you to an A.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a passionate lecturer for sure. Feel like I really learned a lot from this class. Pop quizzes were more like attendance checks. Exams are based on hw sets. No surprise. She gave a turkey baking problem for the Thanksgiving week hw which was fun. Overall I think the class was well organized and everything was reasonable.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is passionate about the subject. Unlike most other profs at the U, she can actually teach the subject. Homework sets were long but were good practice for exams. MUST READ THE BOOK in this course. Exams were a time crunch so you really don't have the time to read a question more than once. You have to really know the subject.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The lectures were okay. Sometimes very dull but the basic information was conveyed. A lack of example problems and a heavy emphasis on derivations over problem-solving. Tough grader with homework and exams. It's a difficult course with difficult grading.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is passionate about the course. She usually prepared supplementary materials in advance to assist a better understanding of the lectures and tried to collect suggestions to improve the course. The course was not easy, but the grade was given generously. It is beneficial to those doing research related to radiative heat transfer.