Reviews of professor Nordica MacCarty

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She tested us on every lecture that she gave and it was on random stuff from the lecture too. Its a test heavy course because of this and if you mess up it drops your grade a lot. There is a group project so you need to make sure you get a good group, if you don't get one ask to be switched!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures showed a lack of either preparation or understanding of the subject. Poor delivery of material, incredibly difficult exams and time-consuming projects were followed by apathy toward students' failure to learn and succeed. There was a lot of frustration among fellow students. This was the worst class experience I've had at OSU.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
A lot of projects were very unclear, grading was confusing. Lectures were useless and almost completely irrelevant to the labs. Was tested on random things in the lectures. For example what a guest speaker did during their career. Stupid class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good at explaining difficult concepts class is very difficult tho.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her lectures are super boring and she stutters through a lot of it which makes it difficult to pay attention. She assigns big projects and exams the same week. She uses an autograder for her projects which means if you get one thing wrong (like a heat transfer coefficient), everything else will be wrong. Avoid if you can.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was awful. They made easy class very difficult to pass. Prof Maccarty gave a social justice lecture and compared being a slave to working for amazon.. extremely unqualified to teach something that should be treated semi delicately. Even if you follow the rubric you'll lose points for something stupid. Never gives 100% HATED this class!!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
People stop going to the lectures, and instruction would that clear to me.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Avoid this professor. Class time is not used effectively for this course. With a 2 hour 8am-lecture you would expect her to acknowledge that her lectures are not engaging or easy to follow. Exams are also way harder than the optional homework problems, mandatory quizzes, and optional practice exams.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Graded by a few exams and projects (and 10% mini quizzes) this class makes you work for it. Prof was frustrating at times between technical issues and misplaced anger at students for not understanding. Lectures are disorganized, review slides in advance (annotated if possible) or youll be lost. Projects are easy to check with her in office hours.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Grading not clear.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The course in itself is structured very poorly. There is no clear subject to the class and it's overall a waste of time. Killed my curiosity for engineering. Group assignments with the same group all term and ending with one final project. Assignments were time consuming and boring. Recitations were very hard and confusing.