Richman, Ronald 
Cumulative GPA: 2.00/4.00 with 5 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 2.00
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 2.00
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Cal Poly, SLO
Full Statistical Analysis
Evaluate This Professor
 
CE 486
5th Year Senior
Grade Earned: Credit
Elective
6:36 pm, Nov 30, 2012
Report Evaluation
  Extreme amount of slides, notes, material to cover. If you're only taking this class, Its manageable. However, if you are a real student with other classes you will loath this class. 7-8 Powerpoints w/ 60-100+ slides each per exam ( 1 midterm, 1 final ). Do not waste your time, take a ATE which will not be so time consuming and you will actually enjoy. This was my worst mistake in college. period
 
CE 487
5th Year Senior
Grade Earned: B
Elective
5:20 am, Mar 13, 2011
Report Evaluation
  Overall the class was fairly straightforward but very boring. He uses a lot of powerpoint and transparencies which made it very hard for me to pay attention in class. I very rarely had to take notes because everything is on blackboard. There were two tests (one midterm and one final) but each test had a take home portion in addition to the in class portion. The take homes are super long and take like 5-6 hours to do so make sure you give yourself plenty of time to finish them.
 
CE 486
5th Year Senior
Grade Earned: B
Elective
10:27 pm, Nov 21, 2010
Report Evaluation
  This class wasn\'t exactly what I had expected. It was basically an advanced version of GEOL 201 however when looking back it makes total sense because the class is called INTRO to geological engineering. Keep in mind that this class involves no design aspects and mainly consists of memorization of terms and process (much like GEOL 201) With that said there are a few more advanced topics discussed throughout the quarter. The layout of the class includes weekly homework (25%), 1 midterm (35%), 1 10 minute power point presentation (%5), and final (35%). The workload is very manageable. Dr. Richman does a good job of portraying the material to his students and he is quite helpful during OHs. At the end of the day this class is pretty boring and although I enjoyed Dr. Richman\'s teaching style I would not recommend this class to anyone unless they are looking for ATEs to fill or they are seriously interested in geology.
 
CE 486
5th Year Senior
Grade Earned: N/A
Elective
8:08 pm, Dec 9, 2008
Report Evaluation
  Too much powerpoint, interesting info but way too much
 
CE 486
Senior
Grade Earned: B
Elective
2:24 pm, Dec 18, 2006
Report Evaluation
  This instructor sucks and so does the class.
 

Home      Go Back       Professor List       Professor Search
This site has been accessed 1809978 times since 1.9.99
Polyratings.com, Version 3.5.1 © copyright 1998-2012 All rights reserved
Based on the OpenRatings professor ratings engine