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Weber, Paul

Cumulative GPA: 3.53/4.00 with 15 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 3.53
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 3.53

Construction Management Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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CM 115 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 6:46 pm, Jun 7, 2012 Report Evaluation		As hard of a class as this is, it is IMPOSSIBLE not to love paul as a teacher. My only tip..don't procrastinate - if you wait until 10 minutes before class to print up your plans and the plotter is down you will receive a lower score for it being late, but that's fair, you were supposed to do the work the night before, not the day of...if it was down the night before and you let him know early you wont receive a late score.

CM 115 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 12:28 pm, May 3, 2012 Report Evaluation		Be careful around this guy!

CM 115 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 10:17 am, Mar 26, 2012 Report Evaluation		Paul was by far my favorite professor this quarter. The class, while being 4 hours a day and 4 days a week, was actually very enjoyable. It was a lot of very tangible material that I wouldn't have learned otherwise. Paul is by far the best teacher for this class, and he knows the material like the back of his hand. The tests and work are definitely hard and require significant effort, but he sets you up well to learn the material. If you can, take him. He's an awesome guy, a superb teacher, and a great baker (he brings you DELICIOUS cookies and milk on midterm and final days).

CM 115 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 7:20 pm, Mar 12, 2012 Report Evaluation		The material is fairly easy, but it is a lot of work. You go the full four hours about half the time, but he always gives you at least a 30 minute lunch break. Unlike Elbert, you won't do the homework in class, but Weber teaches Revit (as opposed to Elbert who teaches Archicad). He genuinely cares about his students and will stay on campus until late a night before a project is due, and always bakes cookies on exam days. His exams are just like the homework.

CM 115 Sophomore Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 10:58 am, Dec 12, 2011 Report Evaluation		Paul is a cool teacher, but this class is a TON of work. Take a light load this quarter if you're taking this class. I made the mistake of taking this with BRAE and English 145. I barely slept... Paul's class is not terribly hard, but very time consuming. Every night you have an assignment that takes about an hour to do. Half of the quarter they are about takeoffs, and the other half is scheduling. There are four exams and several cad/revit drawings. On the drawings, make sure to take notes of everything he says to change when you have a chance to review the drawing with him. I easily could have gotten a B in this class, but bombed two drawings, and my grade took a nosedive. He is a tough grader, and does pick favorites in class, but as far as an intense 4 hour lab class goes, Paul is definitely the man to have for it. And once you get into the scheduling half of the quarter, you usually get out after about an hour and a half of class.

CM 115 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 8:42 am, Jan 20, 2011 Report Evaluation		P Webb is a boss. The class is so easy it can be done by his pet monkey

CM 115 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 4:19 pm, Nov 18, 2010 Report Evaluation		Paul\'s a great person, but a horrible teacher. He knows the material like the back of his hand but doesn\'t tell you what he\'s going to be grading you on. He doesn\'t grade fairly, if you make one tiny mistake at the beginning of the problem and it skews your future answers you don\'t get any partial credit. If you don\'t have the exact same answer as him he\'ll just mark it wrong, no partial credit. Whenever you ask him a question, half the time he\'ll just say \"It\'s in the packet\" but the packet isn\'t organized well so it\'s a pain in the ass to find anything in it. He over explains really simple things (area of a triangle), and then just skips over really detailed brand new construction management things and apparently thinks you just learn by osmosis. Fun person, bad teacher, I would not recommend him.



CM 115 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 9:49 pm, Jun 5, 2010 Report Evaluation		It\'s in the packet. thats all you need to know for this class. Paul is the man. man up and take him.

CM 115 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 11:37 pm, Mar 18, 2010 Report Evaluation		First of all, I would plan on taking a light load of classes when you take 115. I was only taking 13 but it was by far the busiest quarter I\'ve had at CP. Throughout the quarter we all designed a small house, drawing the floor plans, site & roof plans, elevations, structural plans, foundation plans, electrical & mechanical plans. Most of these are drawn in autoCAD, except we originally hand-drafted the floor plans, elevations, and ten details.....which takes forever, especially if you haven\'t drafted before. You also create a 3D model of your house in a program called revit. Before you do each of these plans, he gives a lecture walking you through it, and you also have a binder with very good descriptions of what to do, but it is still very challenging and time consuming. The best thing to do is to bring whatever plans you\'re working on to his office hours, and he will tell you EXACTLY what you need to do and answer any of your questions. You will definitely succeed if you do that. He even says \"I want everyone to get A\'s,\" and you can tell he means it. Anyways, the house is only half the class. We also learn how to do a bunch of quantity take-offs, which involve calculating the quantity of something in a job such as the cubic yards of concrete, board feet of lumber for framing, or how many sheets of plywood for a floor.... you get the jist. These consist of reading plans and doing tons of tedious math. There are so many numbers to run through and so much counting that you will inevitably make mistakes, even though the math/equations themselves were very simple. After we finished QTO\'s, we went through a bunch of exercises about scheduling. In QTO/Scheduling we had a homework assignment (or 2) most nights that takes 1-2 hours. There is a wide range of difficulty in the homework assignments.....some a 5 year old could do and some were really confusing. There were 3 tests along the way regarding QTO/scheduling, and some other various things. The tests are medium difficulty. As terrible as this all might sound, I\'m pretty sure almost everyone in the class loves Paul Weber. He\'s really funny and he\'s extremely knowledgeable and helpful. You get to know him pretty well because you\'re in there for 16 hrs/wk. I could definitely say that I have never learned that much in a class before. Take his class and won\'t regret it. Paul is the man.

CM 211 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 5:53 pm, Nov 13, 2007 Report Evaluation		he'll take up all your time and you'll enjoy it. People regret not taking his classes and its clear how much more knowlegable everone is from taking his classes. Ive taken him for 3 classes and I'll take him again if given the chance. Definately the most dedicated teacher in CM.

CM 211 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 11:04 am, Aug 23, 2007 Report Evaluation		Weber is awesome. The course itself is time consuming but there is no way to avoid that...esp the first two weeks when everything is done by hand. However, Weber makes sure that you understand the material by the time you leave the course and somehow makes it more enjoyabke with all his "jive" and dead cat in gutters talk. He also brings cookies...how can you hate a man with cookies? The class has 3 tests that he clarifies the information you need to know. Projects are usually 100 pts and so are tests and you have a total of like 1700 points that your grade is based on. You can also turn assignments in late but your grade is lowered. A lot of times if the class had a good reason to postpone a due date, he would. And you get work days where you dont have to come to class. Overall, the structure of the class makes all that wor as enjoyable as it can get. Definately take him if you can.

CM 211 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 10:04 pm, Nov 6, 2006 Report Evaluation		Paul Weber is more caring than your mother. He would breast feed you if he felt it would help you understand the material. Most caring and honest professor at Cal Poly. Knows his shit.

CM 341 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 3:03 pm, Mar 26, 2006 Report Evaluation		Paul is the shit everyone that takes him or knows him know it already so this isn't even really nessesary for me to do. If you don't like paul or his classes it means you dotn like your major and oyu need to leave cause you are taking up valuable space and i hate you.



CM 211 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 8:25 am, Aug 19, 2005 Report Evaluation		Paul is the most dedicated teacher in the CM department. He genuinely cares about his students and the department. Take him for as many classes as you can.

CM 211 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 12:03 am, Mar 30, 2005 Report Evaluation		Paul is the man, he knows his shit, tells you what you need to do and grades pretty fairly. he can help you out on anything you need to do. not sure how their already isnt a rating for him up already

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