(Co-taught with Hal Monbouquette)
This class definitely took a lot of time, which put me behind in my other classes throughout the quarter. For the minimal engineering content and lessons I will be taking away from this class, the time investment was very frustrating. I don’t know if it is a funding issue, but having faulty lab equipment for all of the experiments, some more than others, did not allow for accurate data collection and thus many errors in our reports. I feel that we would be unfairly deducted points for errors and mistakes in the lab that were not our fault. Overall, the grading of assignments was ridiculously picky, especially in the beginning. More example reports should be provided, and the expectations of the rubric should be made crystal clear (before we get our 50-70% grades back).
On top of the lab memos, presentations, and reports, adding the homework assignments and quizzes was also unnecessary in my opinion. The extra hours that went into completing these extra assignments for a very small portion of our overall grade was dreadful. I understand that statistics and error analysis is an important concept, and the lectures were set up to enforce that. After week 2, I found that I could be well off enough to just glance over the slides on my own in 10 minutes rather than sit through another hour of lecture for this class.
The lab groups happened to work out well for me, and I am so fortunate that the random pairing did not make this class experience worse. I found new friends in the major that I could work with and ask help for in my other chemical engineering classes. They sometimes served as my only motivation to put in my full effort in assignments– as it would affect their grades as well.
This class single handedly made my winter quarter the worst one thus far during my time at UCLA in terms of workload and what I deem “empty” hours spent towards classes. I am honestly so fortunate that this class will be over after our last report submission, and this is definitely one ChemE class that I would warn younger ChemE students about.

Professor Eisler is simply phenomenal! Her lectures were always engaging and clear and she was always helpful after lectures to answer questions and during her office hours. The BruinLearn for the class was always well organized with blank and annotated lecture slides along with lecture recordings timely posted. The extremely fair grading scheme and emphasis on group work and class participation (such as through "Think-Pair-Share during lectures) helped me learn the seemingly difficult content of the class. Additionally, shoutout to the TAs, Brendan and Maunika, for their helpful and well-organized discussion sections!

I saw that there were no reviews from my quarter, so I wanted to boost her. In my quarter, she gave 2 projects: 1 was teach to learn (make a lesson based on a lecture topic), and 1 was societal impact (she gives you a long-ish problem based on a real world problem). Grind the teach to learn because they graded pretty tough, give a normal amount of effort for the second one because there are diminishing returns. She's probably one of the better professors you'll ever have—she's pretty flexible and her assignments / exams are reasonable. She's the right mix of chill professor and business professor. Some professors give exams where it doesn't really matter how much you study because they're too easy or difficult, but professor Eisler's exams are the medium difficulty where the more you study the better you do. Also, she's the kind of professor that will shift the class structure around if it's unpopular, which is nice.