Reviews of professor Darrell Kaminski

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Darrell in my opinion is a very good professor!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The professor seems to care about the students, but his methods used are very ineffective. He reads off slides during lecture and struggles to answer basic questions asked during class on course topics. He gives assignments, quizzes/exams which draw from the most minute details on random slides from lecture and is a very harsh grader on them.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Darrell is without a doubt the worst prof I've had at UB. He has an insane ego, comparing civil engineers to doctors. Teaches an ethics course but is everything but ethical. His exams are in person, on respondus. Drops the easiest two and the hardest two questions on exams, which only helps you if you get the easiest questions wrong.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is the final boss of CIE. For someone that teaches ethics, he tests our ethical knowledge by doing unethical things, like coming to class in-person when he was near a covid patient. Although not considered an official religion, he prays to the DISC assessment and rejects any criticism of the exam. His assessment is a D and he sure acts like one.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Darrell is a great guy if you just go talk to him. He would go out of his way to give you extra help if you ask for it. He might be harsh when you email him and he thinks its dumb, but if you talk to him in person its a completely different experience.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This guy is something else, Darrell contradicts what he wants from students consistently and gives the most confusing and uninformative direction in his class. This class was entirely unorganized and made me wish I took a different class rather than this one.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Let's his ego get the best of him. Very boring lectures so if you can pay attention whatsoever, you'll probably be fine

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
One of those professors that reads off slides. I only give 2 stars since the class assignments were generally fair and easy, but overall content taught in a dry manner. Also quiz/exam questions are often quite stupid since the subject matter is so gray and could have multiple answers. Also some topics he didn't really seem knowledgeable to teach.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
His 2 in-class were catastrophic, more catastrophic than Structural Analysis, Physics 2, and Theva's Foundation exams. The average has been hovering around 50 on both tests, and he still did not curve it. His exams are multiple choice with several different answers, so that it is very tough to guess.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Agree with basically everyone who has posted. Asks the most ambiguous and arbitrary questions. Gives poorly worded fill in the blank questions. 

Don't remember the 3 specific words from slide 27? Out of luck. Pure memorization of all slides is a HORRIBLE way to test student knowledge on the subject matter. If I could give -5 stars I would.