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Nuttall, Brent

Cumulative GPA: 3.85/4.00 with 13 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 3.85
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 3.77

Architectural Engineering Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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ARCE 212 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 1:35 am, Dec 5, 2012 Report Evaluation		Fantastic! Very clear explanations, good labs and he tries to let you understand the practical applications of whatever you're learning. I fell asleep in class but only because it was early a.m. His homework isn't repetitive and the open note tests won't punish you. If it looks like you knew what you were doing but missed a few numbers he'll give you most of the points. Take Brent!

ARCE 226 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 9:36 am, Jun 9, 2010 Report Evaluation		Not a terrible teacher but not the best I\'ve ever had. He thought he had a lot of architectural knowledge which was annoying because he took off a lot of points on our final model because of design. His tests are easy though because they\'re open note.

ARCE 371 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 11:34 pm, Feb 5, 2008 Report Evaluation		Brent is the man! Definately one of the best, if not the nicest teacher I've had at Poly. ARCE371 is a lot of work, but he explains it very clearly, is more than willing to help, and makes the material seem much easier than it is. He grades very fairly, and tests are very straightforward. Take Brent if you can.

ARCE 451 5th Year Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 3:00 pm, Feb 2, 2007 Report Evaluation		Brent is probably one of the best if not the best teacher I have had at poly. He is practical and helps you understand the material the way students learn. He is a great person and is always willing to help you out. I only hope I can get into his 448 class! Take him if you can.

ARCE 448 5th Year Senior Grade Earned: N/A Elective 9:56 am, Jun 6, 2006 Report Evaluation		To the previous poster, Brent is an incredible professor, a great communicator, and a fantastic person all around. If you were on your way to fail, i have to assume it was your own fault. Brent has standards just like the rest of the department faculty, as they should with teaching at such a great university as we have. Sounds like you should go fu** YOURself, because pretty much you already have by screwing yourself over this quarter. By the way, for the rest of you, take 448. It'll be the single most important class you take. I feel it prepares you for engineering practice in ways that none of the other ARCE classes do. Plus, it is highly likely in our world of aging structures that you will be doing some seismic rehab at some point in your career. Take Brent for this class if you can.

ARCE 371 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 10:18 am, Feb 3, 2006 Report Evaluation		Brent is a great Arce professor with a great understanding of how we'll be able to apply what we learn in his classes to the real world of engineering. This probably stems from his real life practices as an Engineer. He's always resonable when it comes to work load, but not at the expense of learning what the course is supposed to teach you. His tests are fair and quizzes are always resonable.

ARCE 211 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 11:17 am, Oct 31, 2005 Report Evaluation		Great teacher, man, and all around person!!!



ARCE 226 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 7:33 pm, Aug 1, 2005 Report Evaluation		One of my best teachers-- He is a practicing ARCE and recognizes that we are all Arch/CM & teaches accordingly... he doesn't make us do long calculations when they're just busy work, but simplifies the enginerring equations and is genuinely concerned that we understand the concept... he's also great with office hours & will explain something until you get it. Also had him for x211 and would recommend him for any class!

ARCE 226 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 6:28 pm, Jul 19, 2005 Report Evaluation		brent is a really good teacher. he is clear and fair and helpful durring office hours. he likes his job and his students and wants them to succeed. He is understanding that many of us do not want to be engineers and care more about our core classes- esp. arch labs- and was fair about the work loads around certain stressful due dates. He comes from practice and has valuable things to say and just wants architects and cms to be able to communicate with engineers. he has reasonable expectations and is very helpful if you need extra help outside of class. i nice man and good teacher. i would recommend him

ARCE 211 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 6:05 pm, Jul 18, 2005 Report Evaluation		great guy. very fair and straightforward. he wants you to do well

ARCE 226 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 11:53 am, Jun 28, 2005 Report Evaluation		nuttall is an awesome teacher for arce, and i highly recommend taking him if you have the chance. he's spent most of his career practicing arce at a real firm, so he has a lot of buildings that he's worked on, and real applications of the problems you're doing. for 226 he knew it was only cm's and architecture students, so he understood that we'd never really need to do the calculations, but it'd be good to understand the basic concepts. his test aren't too bad, because they're open note. homework is weekly, so only due on mondays usually. and there's 2 or 3 models to build, but they're group projects. I liked him a lot, its a good way to go.

ARCE 226 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 6:02 pm, Jun 27, 2005 Report Evaluation		Brent is an awesome teacher! His homework is not hard, he does not assign numerous repetitive problems, and his tests are open note!

ARCE 211 Sophomore Grade Earned: C Required (Support) 7:59 pm, Dec 23, 2004 Report Evaluation		Mr. Nuttall was an excellent teacher, and he had a very straightforward approach to the class as well as the ability and focus to show us the real life applications of statics, and materials. I definately reccomend him for his lecture abilities and such, however... His grading process is a bit rough, and its easy to get a C on an exam you know very well just buy making a few small errors.

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