Reviews of professor Jiro Nagatomi

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is so mean and does not help students at all outside of class. He is a terrible lecturer and is not at all engaging in class. He is not understanding of any problems or issues that students may have. Do not take him at all!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Nice guy but was zero help in me learning anything about biomechanics. He wastes tons of class time and rushes through lecture. Anything you do in class you'll end up teaching to yourself. It seems like he doesn't even know biomechanics to the point where I do not trust his judgement. If you can take anyone else do it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Nagatomi is awesome and his class is super interesting. I definitely learned a lot and applied many things we learned in statics class previously. You're only graded on 6 quizzes, but make sure to ace 6 of the 8 he gives - he drops 2. Definitely skim the textbook to get small important details for his quizzes and look at old quizzes to study.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Needs to learn to control his temper; gets mad over the smallest things. Lectures appear to be thrown together 15 minutes before class. He has been teaching this for many years and yet has poor notes. Behaves unprofessionally in class and in office, treating students with no respect. He pouts and stomps if the class can't answer a question. Awful!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a really hard grader and has 0 understanding for students. Hard to understand, couldnt care less about students, definitely would not recommend this professor. The course felt unorganized at times -- lectures sometimes rushed through important topics while moving slower through unimportant and easier sections.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I literally don't get why so many people hate him. He is so sweet and its obvious that he cares for us as students. No homework (and there has NEVER been any, ever). Lecture quizzes every other week- just study the previous ones and you'll do well, he reuses q's (I have not seen any new MCQ and the FRQ are very similar with some things changed).

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
You have to be fully present and actively trying to make mental connections in this class to do well. Tests are either impossible or easy. You have to take good notes as well, ended having to go to tutoring to get an A. I personally struggled with his lecture style and spent a lot of time outside of class teaching myself in order to do well