Reviews of professor David Smith

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Doctor Smith is a great guy, and his class is extremely easy, but it can be boring at times. I have his American Pop Music class at 9:30 and I can barely get through the class without falling asleep unless I frequently participate in class discussions. I dont think its his fault cause he genuinely cares about this class, its just the actual clas

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Alpha's class is incredibly difficult, but this is the one class to challenge yourself in. DPs are hell, but you feel like an engineer after them. He pushes his students, but is incredibly caring. He learns every student's name and doesn't judge no matter where you are in the class. His are the only office hours I've ever regularly attended.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The design problems are 15-25 hour assignments that you get around two weeks to complete. You absolutely have to start as soon as they're released especially for DP1. Going to office hours and checking Piazza is a *must* for this class as that's where information and clarifications nessicary for doing the design problems correctly comes from.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is honestly my fav professor that I have taken at Collin. Do your work and you will pass. Only 2 tests, midterm and the final. Very clear on the work we have to do.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Smith is generally a kind character. However, he conducts his class solely on lecture material that hinders upon you taking as many notes from his presentations as possible, which aids for test. His paper assignment is bizarre-ly tedious and if you don't do exactly what he wants, you'll do poorly. Class isn't easy, but can be rewarding.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
First C I got at Tech in Machine Design, definitely the most brutal class in the Mechanical curriculum. Alpha himself is a good professor, super nice and personable, but the design problems trumped that. Incredibly long, super difficult, and almost everyone consistently did poorly on them. Would not recommend simply because of the design problems

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Do anything you can to avoid taking this class. No joking this class was the difficulty of a graduates history course, and the prof expects you to read his mind on all of the assignments. Not an easy A

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Good teacher but lots of work. His class is hard. Insures you learn machine design, but your stress levels will definitely be tested in this class. If you're taking 3 or more classes as well as Machine Design I would suggest finding a different teacher.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a very nice guy but the workload can be a lot. The tests are VERY lecture heavy so as long as you take good notes and you show up to class everyday, you'll be okay. He also has weird papers for you to write but offers to help you through them, DO IT!!! LET HIM HELP YOU!!! overall nice guy but idk if i would ever take the class again