Reviews of professor Colin Merriman

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Interesting subject in a class not really designed for group work. Take MSE320 prior to MSE 323, will make MSE323 much easier. You will spend a lot of time writing lab reports for this class just like MSE320. Show up, pay attention, and participate and you will do well in this professors course.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
You learn a lot from his class but, mostly you need to study by yourself to understand basic and advanced questions in his exams.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
You either love him or hate him, regardless of which it is you will learn a lot about Materials Science. Exam questions came from the homework. Lectures were pretty average for a 140 student class, slides were posted. Attendance was not required but if you wanted to get higher than a C, you need to attend lecture. Use office hours.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
1 credit course that takes 1 credit of effort. Pretty average lectures, makes slides accessible, lots of office hours. Labs are fun and engaging, some are not particularly relevant. Had heard negative things about this professor, I experienced none of them.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Posted PowerPoint decks to Blackboard. Fair grader and is accessible during office hours. Expects students to pull their own weight and read textbooke. Being an intro class, a lot of material is covered and if you do not attend lecture you will struggle in his class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The lab reports are a mess. Constantly expecting things that are not asked for and marking people down (A LOT) for it. Super unorganized man it bites

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The least helpful professor ever. Very clearly does not care about teaching the class or helping students at all. Going to lectures would be pointless if it wasn't for quizzes, you're better off just watching youtube videos if you actually want to learn something.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I have had Professor Merriman for 4 courses now and he excels at teaching lab courses. MSE320 is one of my favorite courses I have taken at WSU with lots of polishing & etching samples and optical microscopy. This lab was a lot of work, expect to spend a lot of time writing reports, gives a lot of good feedback. Take MSE 320 before MSE323.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Worst teacher I've had so far. He uses power points, but won't post them, & then reads you paragraphs of info that isn't in power point. Tests you on things that weren't gone over in class because "its your responsibility to read to book and know the material" Never mind that I'm paying him $1000 to teach it to me... Loves to talk about his thesis.