Reviews of professor Erik Nielsen

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
While Professor Nielsen is incredibly nice and makes sure to be available at office hours . However he talks way too quickly to the point when watching his lecture recordings you slow him down. There is no beneficial test prep material and the tests are on incredibly specific material that is often only spoken and not in the lecture slides.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a terrible professor. He stumbles on his words and misspeaks all lecture. The exams are expecting extremely specific answers but he doesn't provide any helpful test prep materials and asks vague questions. His lecture slides are unhelpful on their own, you have to come to lecture and write down everything that he is saying to understand

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Most monotone professor I've ever heard. Doesn't take a single breath or pause ever during lectures. He needs to take a slideshow 101 course because his lecture slides are just blocks of text that take 20-30 minutes to go over per slide. 

He does not make practice exams or questions, and doesn't make past exams accessible. Would not recommend

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Do not take this class. This professor may do his best to teach, but it is not enough. He mixes up words all the time and gets things wrong often enough that it is infuriating. He goes on tangents about things that he will not test. He writes the most ambiguous tests I have ever seen but grades them with a specific answer in mind.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The exams did not really test any big concepts except for extremely minute details vaguely spoken about. The lecture slides can often just contain diagrams and be very difficult to listen to a lot of what he says. Things can always be solved with simple logical steps but he uses a lot of terms we would not know and speaks too rushed.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Nielsen is a nice guy, however he does not explain the material very clearly and his exams are atrocious. Neither of the exams he wrote were very related to what we learned in class, and he will grade your answer looking for things that were not even asked in the question. It is a good thing he only teaches half of the course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Gotta hand it to you Dr Nielsen, I never thought another professor would trigger a whole therapy session. I guess congratulations are in order; you have officially made my very short list of professors to never recommend. I mean, wow! It's impressive how useless your lectures are. One more thing before I go: 1 iClicker question per lecture? Really?

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Nielsen is incredibly hard to understand. His lectures are just 1.5 hours of run-on sentences that he never finishes. He is not good at explaining things whatsoever.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Monotonous, nonstop 1.5 hour lectures without breaks to absorb content. Exams were based primarily on lectures but tested very niche concepts that were briefly mentioned in lecture. Also not enough materials were provided in order to prepare for exams and succeed.