Reviews of professor William Semke

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Semke is so disrespectful to students. I don't know why people like him because he laughs at any question like it is the most obvious thing in the world. Also, beware of the peer review. It does not do anything to your grade, so if you have bad group mates you will still get a bad grade in the class. Got the only C of my life because one bad member

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Semke teaches this course well. It is very intense and requires group reports for all but the first three labs. The midterm and final exams are difficult but easily manageable if you actually helped provide meaningful input for each report. He responds to email quickly and prefers students try to develop solutions instead of asking for help.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
You will learn a lot tough course Semke knows the material very well

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Semke is okay. Entertaining lecturer and knows what he's doing. Exams are very difficult and nothing like old exams, so studying them are useless. Just study HWs as much as possible and make an effective note-sheet. HWs can be long. Always likes to put a twist on exams that make them way harder. This a very tough course, but important.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Class and exams were fine until COVID. 1 hour exam turned into 2+ hours. The exam went from 3 problems to a a multiple choice/short answer test (similar to Ames) with a take home portion. Semke is a great professor and easy to communicate with, but I do feel like the exams got significantly harder due to the online conversion because of COVID.