Reviews of professor Hayden Taylor

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
E29 is a great class with Taylor. Very knowledgeable and super helpful in office hours/giving feedback on semester-long project. Reasonable workload throughout the semester and useful exposure to many types of manufacturing process (qualitative and quantitative).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
One of the best professors ever. Professor Taylor is very intelligent indeed. He can break down very practice perspectives to very logical theories behind them. He cares a lot about students and just so inspirational to talk with.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Easy to get A if you follow the lecture closely and submit everything in time. Prof and GSI is very helpful if you have any questions. No final exam. Only two midterms, which are open-book take-home exam, giving us 3 days to do it. The final project is very interesting which allow us to apply what we've learnt in this class. Lab is not that hard.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
There is no textbook all of the homework comes from his lectures, which given the online nature during COVID, were done quite well. The two midterms were reasonably difficult but if you watched the lectures you should do fine and the average was high Bs too. There was no final exam, but the final project was challenging yet fun and graded eaisly.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Taylor is passionate and tests for understanding not memorization. But, rambling and stuttering through lectures, he is hard to follow and has posted extra hour-long lectures online to cover content. It's not an earnest 2 unit class, it should be 3. Homework and exams demand understanding and critical judgement: they're the class's best part.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Really enjoyed the class about electronics for internet of things, the homework was not the easiest but was applicable to practical uses and the exams were reasonable in difficulty. The project was fun and allowed us to apply what we had learned in class towards a real life use. Professor's lectures, while admittedly somewhat boring, did help.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Relevant class and the most exposure a pure ME major will have to EE, though you dont need to learn the lecture material beyond circuits and logic. No final exam. Final project was interesting. Labs are fine if you dont spend hours debugging. Hard to get help over Zoom when other students take up a disproportionate amount of time to ask questions

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
One of the best professors I've ever had at Berkeley. Super knowledgable and great at answering questions, especially for those beyond the scope of the course. Homeworks and labs are really interesting and Prof. Taylor is really helpful for group projects. Lectures can rambly sometimes, but the course is well organized and fun. Strongly recommend!