Professor
Amartya Banerjee
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Fall 2025 - pretty fun seminar class! we listened to guest speakers (ranging from professors in the department to alumni in industry) and did hands-on stuff like making ice cream, cookies and composite beams! there is 1 final paper where you write about any mat sci topic of your choosing.
Fall 2025 - pretty fun seminar class! we listened to guest speakers (ranging from professors in the department to alumni in industry) and did hands-on stuff like making ice cream, cookies and composite beams! there is 1 final paper where you write about any mat sci topic of your choosing.
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Spring 2026 - Professor Banerjee is a great lecturer! But like other people have said, the content is very dense and there is a lot to get through. His slides are very good, but it would be best to attend the in-person lectures as he elaborates on them. You are expected to know everything on his slides, so make sure you study everything on there in great detail as it will most definitely come up on the exams. I highly recommend making quizlets and reviewing those quizlets again and again. The homework problems are also pretty helpful for the exams. There is 2 quizzes and 1 midterm. The median was between 70s and 80s for them. The individual exams are not curved, but the class in the end will be curved. As long as you are at the median or above it, then you should be fine. In summary, attend all lectures, take good notes and make very comprehensive quizlets based on the slides with all details.
Spring 2026 - Professor Banerjee is a great lecturer! But like other people have said, the content is very dense and there is a lot to get through. His slides are very good, but it would be best to attend the in-person lectures as he elaborates on them. You are expected to know everything on his slides, so make sure you study everything on there in great detail as it will most definitely come up on the exams. I highly recommend making quizlets and reviewing those quizlets again and again. The homework problems are also pretty helpful for the exams. There is 2 quizzes and 1 midterm. The median was between 70s and 80s for them. The individual exams are not curved, but the class in the end will be curved. As long as you are at the median or above it, then you should be fine. In summary, attend all lectures, take good notes and make very comprehensive quizlets based on the slides with all details.
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Winter 2022 - Prof Banerjee switched up the curriculum a little bit so instead of learning LabView and some other measurement things, you'll primarily work with matlab for ~5 weeks followed by arduino projects for the rest of the quarter. The occasional lectures are pretty decent since the professor is personable and makes them decently relevant to modern applications. Unless you have no experience in coding whatsoever, this class is super easy, and if you like your groupmates, it's pretty fun too The professor is super flexible with due dates for assignments and is there for almost the entire time alongside the TA, so it's really easy to get help if you need it. There may be a 15-20 min lecture, but after that, you're free to start the homework, so I never ended up thinking about this class outside of the class itself. The homework varies in difficulty but you can get it done pretty quickly if you split up the problems among your groupmates. This class is an easy A, so if you have any coding experience, it's worth taking. The professor and TA (Hsuan Yu) were extremely helpful and friendly, so it's kind of hard to have a bad time taking this class
Winter 2022 - Prof Banerjee switched up the curriculum a little bit so instead of learning LabView and some other measurement things, you'll primarily work with matlab for ~5 weeks followed by arduino projects for the rest of the quarter. The occasional lectures are pretty decent since the professor is personable and makes them decently relevant to modern applications. Unless you have no experience in coding whatsoever, this class is super easy, and if you like your groupmates, it's pretty fun too The professor is super flexible with due dates for assignments and is there for almost the entire time alongside the TA, so it's really easy to get help if you need it. There may be a 15-20 min lecture, but after that, you're free to start the homework, so I never ended up thinking about this class outside of the class itself. The homework varies in difficulty but you can get it done pretty quickly if you split up the problems among your groupmates. This class is an easy A, so if you have any coding experience, it's worth taking. The professor and TA (Hsuan Yu) were extremely helpful and friendly, so it's kind of hard to have a bad time taking this class
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