Reviews of professor Liesl Krause

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Ms. K acts as if she has a million things better to do than be an instructor. If she likes you, you'll get an A on the HW/CW. If she doesn't, your grade is largely up to what mood she or her TA is in. The class prep work takes a while (on average about 2 hours), and there's a lot of it. Basically just plan ahead bc things build up quickly.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Almost everything you do in class is a group project. There's homework due before and after almost every class. Most of it is fairly easy, but it feels like a high school class with lots of busy work. Ms. Krause is really strict about stuff like mask wearing and gives out stickers for participation. Attendance is mandatory, but you can go online.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is one of the worst professors I have had at Purdue. She thinks that her class is the only important one and will fail you on your assignments if you skip for any reason. She even makes students use Teams in class so that those who cannot show up can still join and therefore have no excuse for missing. Avoid at all costs.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She manages to over complicate simple things to the point of objective detriment. Clearly has a short fuse, and the pointlessness of TECH120 (a class entirely about making the normally 3 second process of identifying problems take 10 hours) doesn't help either.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ms. K is a kind teacher overall, but I really feel like TECH 12000R needs a weekly lecture section or something. She does her best, but the way the class is structured is not doing her any favors and that's not really her fault.