Reviews of professor Burcu Gurkan

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her structures of lectures were awesome. Exams weren't super difficult but also weren't easy. Exams are open note/open textbooks so come prepared with good notes and example problems for the exams.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures are garbage, and her example problems are all over the place. Pretty much useless lectures. Exams aren't bad, she will recycle hw problems and review problems directly onto exams. Nice/willing to help, but most of the time it seems that she knows absolutely nothing about reaction engineering.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Thermodynamics is a very difficult class. However, Gurkan is great at teaching and will be more than happy to answer any additional questions you have. Do the homework and practice exams, read the textbook carefully, and you should be fine. Just keep in mind that 3 exams are worth 90% of your grade.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her lectures are sometimes a bit all over the place making it hard to mentally organize the material but usually her tests reflect the level of lecturing well and are doable. She's a really nice person and wants you to do well so she will help you outside of class if you need it. She also allowed all day for tests during the pandemic which was nice