Reviews of professor Caitlyn Butler

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Butler was wonderful. She cares about each student, has clear expectations for the class, and keeps the environment relaxed but focused on learning. Her teaching style is a bit unorthodox compared to other engineering classes, but nonetheless effective. Exams didn't contain very difficult math, but rather how to apply concepts. Fantastic.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Butler presents a class in an interesting way. Extremely student oriented lectures such that she asks many questions and often ends class early due to lack of content for the day. Tests aren't bad but HWs account for majority of grade so focus on those. Asking questions are tough because many times you will not get a straight answer.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lab is very informative but you need to work for it, TAs are very helpful definitely should be worth more than 25% of class for the work. Class itself, lectures don't help that much w/hw's need to read textbook for those. Project grading guidelines were overall vague and grading was very tough. Wouldn't take again, be prepared.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Thermo is a pretty hard class and Prof Butler acknowledges that but her teaching style is a little different because she won't give you direct answers. Homework assignments are tough but also worth a lot so definitely spend time on those. Exams aren't too bad and she offers extra credit on some. She really values participation so show up to class!