Reviews of professor Kelvin Santiago-Chaparro

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Kelvin was one of the worst professors I have had in the Engineering department. You don't get feedback on your homework, so you don't know what you're doing wrong. Also, he teaches surveying as a portion of this class. The way he taught was wrong and not how surveying works in the industry. He is not aware of how the construction industry works.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I understand some don't like Professor Santiago. However, he's willing to help you if you are confused on any aspect of the material. Lectures are boring at times but he does a good job of explicitly laying out what concepts you need to understand for exams. Paying attention/doing the weekly quizzes will guarantee a decent grade. (CEE 291 as well)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I can not see any reason why this professor is so poorly rated on here. I have taken transport engineering with this professor and am now in 298. He is very nice and super accessible for help. In both of his classes, I have learned that doing and understanding the homework is key. I assume most people giving him poor reviews don't do the hw.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I cannot speak for other classes, but Prof Santiago was a great prof for interegr. Our workload for lab seemed to be less than other profs for the same class. The labs were chill as you just worked on a semester-long objective. Prof Santiago was there to give advice and often engaged with student conversations.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The surveying section of the class was well organized but the Matlab part was much more self-taught. There was very little useful instruction besides the most basic functions which made each homework and project consist of hours of googling how to code in the program. He was available for questions and he has changed the course from prior feedback.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
this is maybe the worst class I have ever taken at this school. The lectures are too fast, and the labs are pointless because they take up half of your worktime with another poorly taught lecture. The content is taught as if the students have seen all of the information before - he clearly expects u to spend hours teaching yourself outside of class

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Just bad. Avoid if possible.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
condescending and makes you teach yourself he is available outside of class, but will just reiterate what he's already said

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Decent professor and class. Everything was good up util the matlab portion of the class. It was disorganized and not taught very well. Labs and lectures were watching experts on matlab talk about matlab. There was very little time taken to actually sit down and do the code. For a beginner coding class, it went a little too fast.