Professor
Sam Emaminejad
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Fall 2025 - THE GOAT! Amazing professor. He explains new ideas so clearly and naturally that I’m able to grasp concepts way faster than I expected. Easily top 3 ECE professors I’ve had at UCLA. His teaching style is super organized, direct, and never overwhelming — every lecture feels purposeful and well-structured. He breaks down difficult material in a way that actually makes sense, and he always highlights the intuition behind the math, which helps a lot. The homework is fair and designed to reinforce what we learned rather than trick us. If you follow the lectures and understand the big ideas, you can absolutely do them. Exams are also very fair and aligned perfectly with what he teaches. No surprises, no unnecessary complexity — just a straightforward test of understanding. Even if there were tricks, we were prepared enough to be able to understand them and solve them. I really appreciated that. They were also online (but proctored), which made it feel less stressful. Overall, 10/10. One of the best ECE instructors I’ve taken. I’d definitely take another course with him, and I’d recommend him to anyone who wants a professor who genuinely cares about teaching and knows how to explain things like a pro. Prof Emaminejad if you are reading this thank you, you are the best!
Fall 2025 - THE GOAT! Amazing professor. He explains new ideas so clearly and naturally that I’m able to grasp concepts way faster than I expected. Easily top 3 ECE professors I’ve had at UCLA. His teaching style is super organized, direct, and never overwhelming — every lecture feels purposeful and well-structured. He breaks down difficult material in a way that actually makes sense, and he always highlights the intuition behind the math, which helps a lot. The homework is fair and designed to reinforce what we learned rather than trick us. If you follow the lectures and understand the big ideas, you can absolutely do them. Exams are also very fair and aligned perfectly with what he teaches. No surprises, no unnecessary complexity — just a straightforward test of understanding. Even if there were tricks, we were prepared enough to be able to understand them and solve them. I really appreciated that. They were also online (but proctored), which made it feel less stressful. Overall, 10/10. One of the best ECE instructors I’ve taken. I’d definitely take another course with him, and I’d recommend him to anyone who wants a professor who genuinely cares about teaching and knows how to explain things like a pro. Prof Emaminejad if you are reading this thank you, you are the best!
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Winter 2022 - Emaminejad is a good professor. His lectures are clear and the slides are very helpful. The tests were pretty difficult but looked similar to lecture. It's just too bad that semiconductors is a field invented by satan to torment EE students. Nothing about the field is intuitive. There are a bunch of random formulas/graphs and weird chemistry/physics. This class is very similar to ECE 2, so know that it is more of the same. I thought that this course would give me more of an insight and understanding, but I am still confused. Many things from ECE 2 were cleared up but a lot of the new material added to my confusion. I studied it the best I could and did pretty well in the course, but I feel like there is much more for me to learn if I wanted to work in fabrication. This is a core course and I would recommend taking it with Emaminejad. Other core courses I would recommend are 141 and 101B. There are some much worse core courses and professors that are more worth your two skips.
Winter 2022 - Emaminejad is a good professor. His lectures are clear and the slides are very helpful. The tests were pretty difficult but looked similar to lecture. It's just too bad that semiconductors is a field invented by satan to torment EE students. Nothing about the field is intuitive. There are a bunch of random formulas/graphs and weird chemistry/physics. This class is very similar to ECE 2, so know that it is more of the same. I thought that this course would give me more of an insight and understanding, but I am still confused. Many things from ECE 2 were cleared up but a lot of the new material added to my confusion. I studied it the best I could and did pretty well in the course, but I feel like there is much more for me to learn if I wanted to work in fabrication. This is a core course and I would recommend taking it with Emaminejad. Other core courses I would recommend are 141 and 101B. There are some much worse core courses and professors that are more worth your two skips.
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