Reviews of professor Jianyu Li

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I find Jianyu is a good prof. Clear and easy to work with, but the midterms are a big tough.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Jianyu really does his best! He takes complaints very seriously and is constantly improving his teaching methods, and his exams difficulty level. Besides that, he's passionate, cares about his student, and is actually good at explaining the material if you really pay attention to what he's doing in class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very good prof, clear explanations and excellent power-points. Midterms are a bit hard because of the lack of time. Need to do a lot of practice for the midterms and have the concepts clearly in your head so that you don't hesitate. Final is not necessarily easier in terms of difficulty but time is not an issue. Textbook is also useful.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is a great and caring professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
he's kind of awkward in the best way possible, and some of the things he says just end up being hilarious. very straight-forward and to-the-point, his exams are exactly as how he says they will be. he goes through every example very thoroughly, clear slides/writing, and tries to make mechanical engineering relevant to bioengineering

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Jianyu somehow made simple mechanics complicated. His tests did not correlate with his class examples. NEED to read the textbooks, or else you won't get a good grade. Also he does not understand/ answer questions, he brushes them off as remarks. He basically forces you to go to office hours.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His lectures were a lot of reading off slides which were just not my cup of tea, and his worked examples weren't always the clearest. The 2 midterms were pretty fair but the final definitely required some very good understanding of the course material and combining things in ways you hadn't seen in class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His lectures are solid, but you'll probably have to review the material outside of class to do well. He is a caring, reasonable professor, and he obviously wants the students to do well. He's really helpful in office hours, and will be more than willing to give you the time of day if you seek him out.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The grading scheme of the course was stressful since it was basically just 2 midterms and a final. I found his midterms much more challenging than the final exam which was written by the prof in the mechanical engineering section. However, Jianyu Li is very caring and wants students to do well. Hated it at the time but would take again!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Horrible teacher, I would wait for the next semester to take the class with another teacher if I were you. Made the class hard for no reason and does not explain clearly. Only did well cause I taught the class to myself with the textbook.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Li was very sweet and helpful even outside of lecture hours. The course material isn't super easy but he was pretty patient at walking me through problems from start to finish.