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Jin, Xiaomin

Cumulative GPA: 2.28/4.00 with 18 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 2.06
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 2.39

Electrical Engineering Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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EE 307 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 2:21 pm, Apr 27, 2013 Report Evaluation		Jin's not a bad teacher. She presents the material at a fairly brisk pace so it's easy to get lost during lecture. However, she uploads all her lecture notes so you can go over them yourself, which is definitely something you'll want to do. Both midterms and the final were fair; the final was actually very easy. She adjusts the curve so that the course average is a B- so it's pretty hard to fail. I'd say she's one of the better EE teachers you'll come across.

EE 306 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 12:33 am, Dec 13, 2011 Report Evaluation		If you need to take EE 306 do not take this professor unless you have to. She is a nice person, but she completely fails at being a professor. If you take this class you must know that you will be basically teaching yourself everything. She has a pretty thick Chinese accent so if you are deterred by this, do not take her. However, if you do take this class you will pass with at least a C- if you turn in every homework and take every test. This is really the only good thing about the class. In class she is completely sporadic in the amount of information she gives on a topic. It seems that throughout the quarter she spent the least time on the important stuff, which she later tested on, and the most time on mundane things she never tested on. The one good thing about her is that she always had office hours, which most people went to because they could not do the homework. But yet again she even failed at office hours. Her version of helping you with homework is to print out the solutions and hand them to you. You can ask her a question about specific problems, but she basically points you back to the solutions. Her tests suck but she always curves them due to everyone performing horribly. The average for the midterms in my class were around a 66 and a 51. All in all, DO NOT TAKE HER!

EE 335 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 12:56 pm, Aug 30, 2011 Report Evaluation		I have never been so lost in a class before. She talked so fast, and yet explained so little. That said, her tests are reasonable with the exception of some unsolvable problems here and there, but you should expect that from the EE department by now. LEARNING IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY in this class, so make the effort to gain a fundamental understanding of maxwells equations, the smith chart, and transmission line fundamentals, and you'll do fine. She does have the awful tendency to incorporate random tangents into sentences containing useful information. So you need to learn to filter out phrases such as: "...that's why the Japanese children can't escape" or anything to do with fiber optics. SSSMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII CCCCCHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EE 335 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 5:09 pm, Jun 13, 2011 Report Evaluation		What can you really expect from someone who had a 4.00 GPA from TsingHua University (aka the Stanford equivalent in China)? That's where Jin's from, and that's right, it will be a tough quarter for you if you decide to take 335 with her. EE335 is "supposed" to be tough class, because not everyone is into the EM stuffs because of the maths involved. Jin lectures really fast and zooms through materials quickly. She expects you to learn on your own outside of class and devote a lot of time outside of class just for this class. The exams were really tough and the average was pretty bad (close to failing actually). Even the best performers scored around 80%. If you really show effort that you tried, she will pass you with a C-, but you REALLY have to show her that you tried your very best. This class wasn't too bad for me because all these stuffs were just a review since I studied them during high school (that's right, these exact same stuffs were taught in high school in Hong Kong). Good luck!

EE 335 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 6:52 pm, Jun 5, 2011 Report Evaluation		Jin is very hard to learn from, but she is still a good professor. She is one of the smartest professors in the department, but she has trouble conveying her material to the students. Her handouts and notes are very good and the book follows pretty closely with her lectures in case you can't understand her. There is a curve because nobody could do very well on the tests. She is very fast at math, so she makes her tests too long for the average student to complete. It's nothing to really worry about because the curve will save everyone in the end and she doesn't fail anyone that didn't miss class.

EE 346 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 2:57 pm, Dec 8, 2010 Report Evaluation		first off, she might be hard to understand because of her thick accent and mouth running at 200mph. hard grader on lab reports. lab data is to be turned in at the end of lab but reports are due within a week before next lab. lab final was a practical out of 10 pts. For the practical, everyone signs for for a time slot as it was individual. then everyone picks a random number which corresponds to a certain set of procedure she has, NOT the lab number in the lab manual. You may or may not get lucky with your picking (some procedures were just the first lab PSPICE) but all the procedures are fairly short. You get one hour to set up the circuit and take the appropriate measurements. lab final is open everything (including internet) except communication. points are deducted if you ask the professor for hints

EE 335 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 7:09 pm, Jun 16, 2010 Report Evaluation		Jin is a very understanding professor. She sometimes gives out time extension (without penalty) to students if they can\'t turn in their homework on time. Her handouts are very clear and helpful. You can use them as cheat sheets on her tests. Not a bad professor.



EE 306 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 3:50 pm, Jan 29, 2010 Report Evaluation		I don\'t rip on professors. This is not a professor. At best this is an equal opportunity hire, at worst it is a blatant disregard for student needs and a complete failure by the EE department. She can\'t speak, can\'t teach, can\'t keep track of what she\'s writing, can\'t test equivalent to the material she\'s teaching, and hasn\'t changed in the years she\'s been doing this. I think she\'s probably a reasonable engineer, after all, she has published work that seems interesting, but she is NOT a teacher, educator, professor, or any other term for someone supposed to relay information. If you take her, you need to know two things: 1 - you must teach yourself, 2 - you will pass (I didn\'t score better than 58 on anything and got a B). The curves were insane with only 3 earned A\'s over the 3 tests for all her sections combined.

EE 375 5th Year Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 1:46 pm, Sep 3, 2008 Report Evaluation		man this lady speaks fast and high. and with a thick accent. really concentrate to understand what she is saying and you might just learn something. she graded heavily for the lab reports, but since everyone was sucking pretty bad in the class it worked itself out. she is really nice and will help you out if you ask, but she may not give you an answer right away. if you continue to struggle she will point you in the right direction. not a bad teacher.

EE 375 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 11:46 am, Jul 7, 2008 Report Evaluation		Average crappy EE professor. She actually knows her stuff decently well, but her accent annoys most people. Her ability to convey material was fairly average - we all know how bad the EE department is in general. Grading is pretty fair. The labs are mostly pretty simple to do, but take some time to understand the concepts and theory. She doesn't grade labs easily - you really have to do them and get correct numbers to get full credit. Her final was selecting a random number to redo a part of an experiment. Practice calibrating the network analyzer correctly, because it's probably the most important thing you'll do all quarter.

EE 335 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 9:53 pm, Dec 11, 2007 Report Evaluation		Jin is the nicest person. She'll reschedule office hours, grades really fairly, and is always willing to answer questions in class. Unfortunately she isn't able to really explain the material that well in class or in office hours. Her accent is really thick and she has a poor grasp of English which makes it hard for her to explain concepts and hard for her to understand what the questions are. Also her lectures are just examples from the book and are not in any particular order. Because of this, even though the tests were easy questions, the average on both tests were in the D-F range so there was a massive curve. If you are willing to learn entirely from the book, take her class. Also before taking EE335 review PHYS133, it will help a lot!

EE 306 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 5:58 pm, Jun 13, 2007 Report Evaluation		How the hell did this foreign bafoon even get to be a professor?! She's never available for office hours, you can't understand a word that comes out of her mouth, she talks a mile a minute, constantly screws up her notes in lecture, and is probably the worst professor I've ever had. Everything I've learned in this class has been from going home and working from the book, which sucks too. This class is pretty important, so I suggest you learn the material from someone else. I usually don't write this evaluations but I'm being nice and saving everyone a haunting quarter with an evil teacher.

EE 403 Senior Grade Earned: B Elective 5:15 pm, Apr 16, 2007 Report Evaluation		Class was easy if you went to class. Too many students ditch thus there was always a big curve on tests and the final. Good teacher whom wrote her own slides for every chapter.



EE 306 Junior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 9:38 am, Jan 3, 2006 Report Evaluation		She really wants people in her class to learn the information, so in that way, she is really interested in her material. Unfortunately, she has a rather thick chinese accent, which makes her english sometimes a little hard to decipher. Her final also kicked the crap out of all the people in the class. I think the average on the final was a 60+%.

EE 346 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 9:58 pm, Dec 31, 2005 Report Evaluation		Dr. Jin is a very nice lab instructor to have. she is patient and will try her best to explain the materials to you. However, once in a while she will get annoyed if you ask uneducated or repeated questions. When that happens, just walk away quietly and ask someone else. Situations like that happened to me before because I had Dr. Agbo for lecture. Dr. Agbo go over the lab in the lab while Dr. Jin go over the lab in her lecture. Therefore my lab partner and I never understood the lab. I would recommend take her both for lecture and the lab if you can. overall, good teacher to have.

EE 306 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 5:43 pm, Nov 10, 2005 Report Evaluation		Jin is an easy A. A little homework assignment once a week and the tests are based only on the medium difficulty problems. Her lecture is confusing, so just read the book and do the examples and the class will be easy.

EE 306 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 1:49 am, Oct 26, 2005 Report Evaluation		I will be the first to say: Dr. Jin is hot. I said it. that yummy little petite figure.. she's like campbells soup.. mmm mmm good.

EE 403 Senior Grade Earned: C Required (Support) 1:45 pm, Apr 28, 2005 Report Evaluation		This instructor is by far, one of the worst instructors I've had at Cal Poly. SO CONFUSING!!! The thick accent + the lack of any real human characteristics. She steals somebody else

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