Reviews of professor Douglas Ellis

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Biggest complaint is that there's almost no graded material for the class. Its a couple bigger assignments, three exams, and some reading guides. It makes it fairly easy to pass the class but hard to make up ground if you miss some points on an assignment. He's a knowledgeable and quirky dude which gives a more practical look into this part of CE.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Doug is really nice and caring. His class is really easy as long as you complete the reading guides and 3 homework assignments. His lectures are boring but very helpful if you listen to them.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Don't take Ellis unless you have to! He's a nice guy, but his lectures were boring and not the least bit engaging. It's a 2 unit class but the reading guides took up an incredible amount of time. Assignments were challenging simply due to the lack of instruction by him, and exams had random tricky questions about topics that weren't covered.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Hes super nice, understanding, and helpful. Good lecturer and gives real-world application assignments which were a little bit of a pain but gives you a taste of engineering geology. Lots of textbook reading assignments, and I suggest getting them done at the beginning of the semester.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
An Angel sent from the heavens, amazing and interesting lectures. Very good understanding person, always works with students to help them succeed. I enjoyed his class more then any other civil engineering class. Very kind and friendly, replies to emails very fast. Take him and only him if you get the chance!! I wish he taught more classes.