This was one of the most challenging C&EE classes I've taken at UCLA. His midterm was lightwork with the class average being an A- but his final was outrageously difficult that most people didn't finish the final and wrote gibberish to scavenge as many points as possible. The MATLAB assignments were insanely difficult and long that my friends and I used Claude AI or ChatGPT to finish within a reasonable amount of time. For the midterm, STUDY the practice midterm but the practice final was useless.

This class was one of my least favorite classes at UCLA. As cool of a guy ET is, I never want to take a course offered by him again after this. Lectures were so dry and all he did was read over slides containing complicated derivations and equations that were incredibly difficult to follow. The homework assignments were brutal. Basically ALL matlab and super tedious. I would often find myself blindly promoting AI to write code that I barely understoood because the concepts were so tricky to tie together. ET was also pretty annoying at times. He didn’t post review videos when he said he would, we did have one bonus assignment but this was posted AFTER the final due a week after the quarter ends. The midterm was pretty light but since the class did so well on the midterm he decided to make the final much more difficult because apparently we did too well on the midterm than what he expected. And WOW that final was insanely difficult and frankly quite worrying considering it’s 40% of our grade. It wouldn’t be so bad if we had some handwritten practice before hand. But since all the homework was matlab based and lectures based on equations, we were kinda screwed. Honestly I don’t like hating on professors and at the end of the day it IS possible to do well in this class if you are extremely studious and attend every discussion and lecture and do practice problems on the side to prepare yourself. He does give homework extensions if you ask which is nice and very needed but no late homework is excepted so get started early. The content starts off really easy but builds on itself and can get very complicated forwards the end of the quarter. If ET is teaching this class hold off until someone else like professor Margulis offers it, he’s a much better better lecturer and properly explains the concepts from what I’ve heard. I surprised I got an A in this class tbh so I guess on the bright side he does adjust grades at the very end it seems.

This class seemed really hard at first but it ended up being okay. When studying for the midterms and finals, DEFINITELY do the practice exams (the concepts & questions are very similar) and go through his powerpoints--know all the material covered in them. It's not too hard because you can write everything on a cheat sheet. Homework is pretty time-consuming because you're using Matlab, but it gets easier because sometimes they provide you with codes. I stopped going to lecture, studied on my own, and got an A-. And he's a really nice guy so it's challenging but you learn a lot! Def recommend him.