Reviews of professor Ashish Tamhane

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very enthusiastic.  Brings energy to topics that by themselves have a tendency to be dry. Goes above and beyond to construct lessons / examples for his classes and is available outside of them.  He gets a reputation for being a tough grader because he tests you on understanding the application, not memorization.  You'll learn a lot.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor taught as if the students had experience in this course. Avoid by all means when it comes to engineering math!! Many students struggle in higher courses because of the lack of learning from him. Constantly asked "yes or no?" as if we knew the new material. Tests were absurd, homework was tolerable if you read the textbook.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class is very well structured, if you pay close attention to lectures, he goes over previous lectures to introduce his new lecture I liked this very much incase I missed something the previous day. You are the designer in this course, so you have full control of the problem with certain limits. Once you understand the material it is very easy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He was great. Gave chances to correct mistakes on tests for credit. Grades the tests fairly and gives partial credit. Encourages participation a lot. If you pay attention in class and make sure you understand the examples he goes over in the lectures you will pass the class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
worst professor I had by far in my 5 years of schooling, exams are nothing like the note or homework, class average was below a 60, avoid at all costs

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Solid professor. Taught enthusiastically and clearly. His tests were somewhat difficult, but usually not worse than the homework problems. If you put effort forth when doing the homework and do his example problems, you should be fine on the tests.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class is very well structured, if you pay close attention to lectures, he goes over previous lectures to introduce his new lecture I liked this very much incase I missed something the previous day. Please pay attention to due dates because once the deadlines passes you are not able to turn in assignments. Very interesting final project.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good luck. Be prepared to spend several meeting days or weekends on the group project. The take home tests are do-able, but take a long time as well. If you intend to do well on the tests, you need to study-- winging it will not work.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This was an online async thermo, I highly advise against thermo without a live lecture. I was able to do the weekly quiz no issues, but the tests I felt wildly unprepared, and the tests were not graded with lenience. However, he curved some at the end, so he obv didn't want us all failing. Very tough subject, and he's not a hands on guy.