Reviews of professor Nikolaos Kalyviotis

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Nikolaos is a very laid back, but simulatenously engaging and great in front of the class, professor. He is very friendly and delivers a lot of passion to the lecture hall. You'll have to get used to his accent, but it's nothing major. His exams are fair and his grading is easy .

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not boring guy with empirical examples and original ideas

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Excellent face-to-face teacher and very supportive during the coronavirus crisis, but the online instruction was not his strong suit.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Nikos is a great professor. He demonstrates high level of knowledge of theory. He creates a culture of dialogue and is open to listening to students. He builds an atmosphere of trust within the classroom. The way he is teaching is a good example for others to follow. Take his course, you will not regret it!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He brings a positive energy and enthusiasm to the class. He gestures to slides, the blackboard and use his hands to explain concepts. He moves quite quickly through concepts. He waits 3.5 seconds before answering the question himself, and it is better to wait around 7 seconds at least for students to formulate responses.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is not the clearest speaker, but he is a very enthusiastic teacher who keeps the topics interesting. Essays questions are not the most well-written ones, but I think they are so broad on purpose so everyone can adopt them to his/her background.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Kalyviotis approaches his teaching as if the students are also accomplished engineers. This style makes him sometimes hard to track in lecture, especially when he answers specific students' questions. He assumes that all the students have the same understanding e.g. in mathematics with the student asked the question.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof Kalyviotis is a nice guy, easy-going and generous in grading. He makes eye contact with students etc, but he talks a lot! None in the class got less than B+, I think the most of us got A-.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The course was very interesting and covered infrastructure and xities theory (the first in MEngCEM). Grading was based on a project presentation and an essay. The project was ok, but the essay was very difficult.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He speaks fast.