Polyratings.com: Haworth, Kari

Home Professor Search Professor List Evaluate a Professor About Us Contact Us

Haworth, Kari

Cumulative GPA: 3.75/4.00 with 16 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 3.69
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 3.94

Electrical Engineering Department, Cal Poly, SLO
Full Statistical Analysis
Evaluate This Professor

CPE 101 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 11:28 am, Mar 25, 2013 Report Evaluation		Professor Haworth is by far my favorite teacher at Cal Poly so far. She can do no wrong in my eyes. She cares A LOT about students and wants everyone to succeed. The class she taught was meant to go VERY FAST, and we did go fast. However, she still made every lecture easy to understand. DO NOT miss a single class, because a LOT of material is covered in one day. She makes her mid-terms similar to the final to prepare you and homework load is definitely manageable. Professor Haworth is also very approachable and quite funny!

CPE 101 Freshman Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 2:48 am, Mar 19, 2013 Report Evaluation		Haworth is by far one of the most (if not the most) caring and skilled professors here at Poly. Not only is she extremely comfortable with the subject material, she is lightning fast (though sometimes that can be a drawback in lectures) with everything, has a quirky perky personality that you'll come to love, and is generally a very understanding professor. She is an angel. Unless you have prior programming experience, CPE101 is not a walk in the park, and Haworth will constantly remind you about that. She really does go out of her way to keep you on track though; as long as you yourself take the initiative to keep up. Office hours are APLENTY and she even booked ~7 more hours this past weekend, in anticipation of finals. Overall, Haworth wants all her students to do well and definitely deserves a lot more recognition (and pay) than she's getting. Absolutely love her, 10/10 would take again (hopefully I'll see her again in CPE 233)!

CPE 101 Freshman Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 10:39 am, Mar 1, 2013 Report Evaluation		Professor Haworth is an absolute goddess! She is amazing at programming and has tons of experience. The lectures are very fast paced, but she will definitely stop and go over something again and again until you understand it, you just have to ask. She understands this is most people's first time seeing programming, and will work with you and can see exactly where your mistakes are. Office hours are EXTREMELY helpful. Just make sure you stay ahead on assignments, and don't fall behind. There are 9 lab exercises which are very helpful practice, 3 projects, 2 lecture exams(hand written), 3 lab quizzes (coding quizzes), and a final written exam. All of which are very fair and close to what we practice in class. I would absolutely take her for more courses in the future.

CPE 133 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 1:32 am, Jan 7, 2013 Report Evaluation		Amazing professor. Material is well presented and tests are straightforward (really long though). Haworth is not incredibly difficult but you definitely have to pay attention. Most importantly, she is chill and understanding and willing to answer any question. Take her if you can, at any cost. Fantastic

CPE 133 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 1:22 am, Dec 12, 2012 Report Evaluation		Awesome teacher and an awesome person. It's really refreshing to be in a classroom environment where the teacher genuinely cares about the well-being of her students. Portrays the material clearly and lets you know what is work-place realistic and what isn't, which is nice. This is the kind of teacher public education needs to reward for being young, helpful, and kickass...not sham to balance the budget.

EE 201 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 12:13 pm, Dec 10, 2012 Report Evaluation		This little elf goddess can bounce on my dick til kingdom come. I got a D- on the final and came out with a B+. She's the truth. Go to office hours.

CPE 233 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 11:16 am, Dec 7, 2012 Report Evaluation		Kari is a great professor, she is very knowledgeable and friendly. She is ridiculously helpful during office hours and she'll even work with you via email late when projects are due. I had her for 129 & 233 and I definitely feel like I learned the material. A++ would take again



CPE 233 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 12:45 am, Jun 13, 2012 Report Evaluation		Haworth is the nicest, most helpful and most reasonable professor. I had her for both CPE 133 and 233 and it was her first time teaching both of the classes. I felt she did a great job with both classes. She does a good job explaining the material in lecture and even better in office hours. She goes to great length to help out anyone who needs it. She even came in on a Sunday before the final to give us a review which helped out a lot. The tests she gives are really reasonable and if you study and understand the material you'll do fine. She is also the kind of person and professor who will get even better the next time she teaches the class. Definitely take her if you can.

CPE 133 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 12:12 pm, May 4, 2012 Report Evaluation		A lot of the time you'll find that in the EE/CPE department...prof's just don't care about whether you do well or not, Haworth is different. She genuinely cares about the students and is willing to go through great lengths to make sure everyone is doing alright. You have to really try to fail.

CPE 133 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 10:34 am, Apr 4, 2012 Report Evaluation		The class is not to hard and she is a good teacher eventhough it was her first time teaching the course. The midterms are easy. The homework is optional but doing it can help you a lot on the midterms. She also was able to see that when students were falling behind that she needed to extend the deadlines for the labs. The final was somewhat harder than the midterms and took almost the full 3 hours to do. Overall she's a good teacher to take this class with.

CPE 133 Sophomore Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 12:48 am, Mar 25, 2012 Report Evaluation		Very nice Professor. Her teaching methods during lecture a somewhat useful, but in office hours she is amazing and is very understanding. We had three midterms (the best one being weighted the highest) and are based almost entirely on the homework. They aren't mandatory, but I would recommend doing them for an easy time. I failed from not taking advantage of it sooner but managed to bring my grade back up to somewhat respectable standards near the end. Take her and you will do well.

CPE 133 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 6:16 pm, Mar 18, 2012 Report Evaluation		Professor Haworth is an awesome professor. She is extremely nice and very reasonable. She did a great job explaining the material in the lecture and it was her first time teaching CPE 133. She can go quite fast sometimes but she always asks if there are any questions. The class requires quite a bit of work but she helped a lot by cutting down the amount of lab reports we had to do. Also, her tests were very reasonable and fairly easy. I would definitely recommended taking her if you can.

CPE 133 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 1:04 pm, Mar 5, 2012 Report Evaluation		Note that I'm writing this review before Finals (I don't want my final grade to influence my feelings about her). Overall she's a pretty cool and chill professor. She's really reasonable and nice to work with. Like one time over half the class did not finish a lab so she gave us a whole extra day to finish it (more than enough time). She also doesn't require full lab reports for every lab, something other professors require. Her tests are rather straight forward, just make sure you do the homework so you know what to expect. And as a previous poster said, she's excellent during office hours. During lab, don't hesitate to ask her questions; she's extremely helpful. She also replies to e-mails very quickly. My only real gripe with her is that even though she clealy has the potential to be an awesome professor in the near future, she's still new and it shows some times. What I mean is sometimes she might go over something very quickly and the whole class needs more coverage on the material but she doesn't recognize this until later. Still though, as long as you make sure to ask questions, you'll be fine. I'd take her again if I could.



CPE 129 Junior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 4:12 pm, Jan 30, 2012 Report Evaluation		She's okay, it might be because it was the first time she taught the course, but she made many mistakes that turned many of the lectures into a quagmire of fixing mistakes. That said, her office hours are absolutely excellent and should definitely be taken advantage of. She's a nice lady and tells excellent stories that helped motivate me to continue paying attention even when the content became amazingly boring.

EE 201 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 8:49 am, Aug 2, 2011 Report Evaluation		Haworth was great. She seemed kind of intimidating in the beginning of the quarter but once we got into the material and she started making jokes during lecture we realized how nice she was. The class started out easy with review stuff from Phys 133, but at the end of the quarter it was very hard to keep up. She did a good job explaining the concepts and answering questions during the lectures. The class was made up of only 3 midterms and the final. The midterms counted for 25, 15 or 10% depending on how well you did and the final was 50%. She gave homework problems that didn't count for the grade, but she said if we turned in all the assignments it could bump us up a grade if we were borderline. Try to do well on the first midterm because they all get harder after that. I always felt like I didn't have enough time to finish the midterms, but if you know the material and have looked at the homework problems you should be fine.

EE 201 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 6:11 pm, Apr 8, 2011 Report Evaluation		Haworth was really good. She expects you to know the pre-reqs (So background info about capacitors, inductors, resistors etc.) but only the basics. If you don't know or don't remember, go into her OH's, she's REALLY helpful! Knowing how these components work will help you in a big way when it comes to understanding circuits. She's new and talks out loud when she's thinking, which is helpful so you know her thought process. I highly recommend her. She focuses more on examples than theory, but i feel like that works for this class. Her tests don't have a whole lot of points on them, so if you screw up it really dents your test grade. But the tests are SUPER fair & easy. She also drops your lowest exam! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND HER! She's FANTASTIC.

	Home Go Back Professor List Professor Search