Professor
Andrea Kasko
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Most Helpful Review
Fall 2021 - God I loved this class. It made materials science in bioengineering incredibly accessible. Kasko is delightful, incredibly invested in advancing underrepresented students, and extremely welcoming. I was seriously thinking of quitting bioE before she really changed my mind. Now I feel very confident in my abilities! This class is taught flipped classroom style, where you have to watch ~1 hour of lecture before coming in. Most classes are not two hours long even though the course is scheduled for that (because it goes for 2 hours for the last two weeks for group presentations). There is no weekly homework, but instead a group project at the end (not the easiest, but doable and you learn a lot), a midterm, and a final. Protip as someone who got an A on both midterm and final: review the TA review slides basically to the point of memorization, spend a lot of time on the practice test, and take careful notes in discussion. You'll be chillin. :))
Fall 2021 - God I loved this class. It made materials science in bioengineering incredibly accessible. Kasko is delightful, incredibly invested in advancing underrepresented students, and extremely welcoming. I was seriously thinking of quitting bioE before she really changed my mind. Now I feel very confident in my abilities! This class is taught flipped classroom style, where you have to watch ~1 hour of lecture before coming in. Most classes are not two hours long even though the course is scheduled for that (because it goes for 2 hours for the last two weeks for group presentations). There is no weekly homework, but instead a group project at the end (not the easiest, but doable and you learn a lot), a midterm, and a final. Protip as someone who got an A on both midterm and final: review the TA review slides basically to the point of memorization, spend a lot of time on the practice test, and take careful notes in discussion. You'll be chillin. :))
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Spring 2025 - I really don’t understand why this class is so poorly rated. Kasko is an incredible professor and if you’re at all interested in pharma/drug delivery this class covers a huge breadth of knowledge (drug delivery methods, PK modeling) that is helpful for industry. The class has no homework assignments just a midterm, final and final project where you develop a novel drug delivery system for a real disease. I will say the class was mainly grad students when I took it, so it took some time to acclimate to the level of knowledge as everyone else. The class is a lot of information but as someone who came in with no bio background it is a do-able class if you put the work in.
Spring 2025 - I really don’t understand why this class is so poorly rated. Kasko is an incredible professor and if you’re at all interested in pharma/drug delivery this class covers a huge breadth of knowledge (drug delivery methods, PK modeling) that is helpful for industry. The class has no homework assignments just a midterm, final and final project where you develop a novel drug delivery system for a real disease. I will say the class was mainly grad students when I took it, so it took some time to acclimate to the level of knowledge as everyone else. The class is a lot of information but as someone who came in with no bio background it is a do-able class if you put the work in.
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