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Yang, Tao

Cumulative GPA: 0.63/4.00 with 91 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 0.57
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 0.44

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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IME 312 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 12:47 am, May 15, 2013 Report Evaluation		Worst. Teacher. Ever. A heartless old man who hates the world and everyone that doesn't see things the way he does. Surprise he is still employed by the University.

IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 7:32 pm, Feb 4, 2013 Report Evaluation		I had no choice to take Yang so I went into the class with an open mind. His booklet that he makes you buy does nothing for you. I recommend that you buy the book that all the other professors use. I bought that book and was able to get an A in his class because of it. I went to his classes for the quizzes and nothing else. Each access midterm took me 5 hours at least to get a good grade on by following the book. His final took me 8 hours with me teaching myself each problem as I went. If you have any choice in who you take for this class or any other class he teaches, TAKE SOMEONE ELSE!!

IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 9:43 pm, Dec 9, 2012 Report Evaluation		Holy what the fuck. Lets just say all the other polyratings are right, Dr. Yang sucks and he sucks bad. He has an accent but you will eventually get use to it, well at least i did so that wasn't much of a problem. The problem is how much a waste of time this class is, he often thinks he is the best at economics problems and won't listen to the class when we are trying to correct him. His class just drags on and on, the only reason i went to class was to made sure i tried to get 5 points from his daily quizzes. His test are just long and time consuming but they are take home test that are done in retarded access. The only positive thing i can say is that he has a huge curve when the class is over. You can get like 40% overall in the class and still get out with a C- or D+. But still don't take this guy, waste of fucking time.

IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: B Elective 5:52 pm, Dec 5, 2012 Report Evaluation		This guy is the worst teacher I have had at CP. Hands down, the worst. I was not able to learn anything from him and he was a pompous a-hole that did not understand any of his students' needs. For example, he argued with the class about his "solution" for about 45 minutes because it was incorrect and the class was. Using the remainder of the time, he would rush through an example that was relevant to the daily quizzes. He also assigns a useless $90 "textbook" through University Readers (which means you cannot sell back). This book is more like a scrapbook of questions that he likes and is useless for any reference whatsoever. The only plus is his grading curve. Out of 45 students, 3 students received a C, and one received a D+ (s/he had a 34% out of the class).

IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 1:23 pm, Dec 4, 2012 Report Evaluation		It's always fun getting a problem on material he never went over in class.. and that does not have one example in the book worst teacher ever, he does curve the class, but expect to be frustrated all the time and don't expect to learn anything

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 6:41 pm, Oct 2, 2012 Report Evaluation		If he's here, who's running hell?

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 8:08 pm, Sep 19, 2012 Report Evaluation		Let me say that learning Microsoft Access is not easy, especially if you have no experience with Visual Basic or ADO programming. Think of this class as a programming class, because writing code is 85% of the effort. It is frustrating to say the least. Dr Yang pushes you hard. You will spend 20-30 hours a week in front of a computer. Build friendships with fellow classmates, as working together to learn the material is essencial to coming out on top with a good grade. Furthermore, to make things more interesting, you will be competing for your grade; you must give it your 100% from the beginning. The midterm and final exams are hard, don't expect to finish. There is nearly always one problem that no one gets. Main Points: 1) This class really tests your ability to work hard and learn something new quickly. 2) Find people to work with to learn the material. 3) Always start assignments right away. It always takes much longer than you think. 3) Always test your code on the lab computers prior to submission. 4) Read and Re-Read the assignment requirements, ask other students to validate your interpretation. 5) Learn how to code in Access, do NOT copy others code. It will become evident in the exams you do not know what you’re doing. 6) Relax and enjoy the experience. You will never forget it! In the end when the class is all said and done, you will have learned ALOT and you can put MS Access on your resume as proficient skill. This class is one of those necessary evils!



IME 312 Junior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 11:41 pm, Jul 18, 2012 Report Evaluation		I liked Yang. Even tho this class is really stressful and quite alot of work, i did learn alot about database and vba. You can't fail this class if you did all your work and show that you have actually put in effort. I know I am not the greatest person in programming or writing codes, but this class really challenged me. and even tho i didn't get the best grade in the class, i really learned alot. Never stress about a class with yang, he might sound and look scary, but he cares about his students and want them to pass his classes but quite hard to get an A. so if you want an A, better start the quarter strong and keep it up till the very end.

IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: A Elective 9:51 am, Jun 11, 2012 Report Evaluation		If you need an easy A, take Yang. His class was interesting and covered many topics pertaining to Economics. He gives take home exams that took upwards of 3-4 hours, but class is cancelled when these exams are assigned. He also gives quizzes at the end of every class which are worth a good part of your grade, so do not miss class! Yang himself is not the best teacher and can be difficult to follow and understand. It can be frustrating at times and his text book he requires you to buy is worthless outside of the class, but you absolutely must buy his book to do well in the class. It's only $70, and for an easy A, I'd say that it's worth it. Overall, Yang was a decent teacher and allowed for an easy, stress free class. That being said, if I had the option to take another professor for IME 314, I would have done it even though it most likely would have been more stressful and difficult. But if Yang is you're only option, you'll be fine and will get a decent grade considering you go to class.

IME 312 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 11:03 pm, Mar 17, 2012 Report Evaluation		Yang is not a very good teacher. He is a funny guy, and fairly nice if you stay on his good side. That being said, you probably won't. Read these reviews, they are all accurate.

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 8:31 pm, Jan 28, 2012 Report Evaluation		Worst professor I have had at cal poly.

IME 312 Junior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 2:01 am, Dec 30, 2011 Report Evaluation		Dr. Yang is a funny little man, and he makes you smile with his war influenced images, and his old fashioned nature. The guy is pretty good when it comes to database, but his choice in color aesthetics represents something of a poisonous frog nature. He will work you in class like a starving slave, and he is generally not too helpful when you get stuck in your programming. Look forward to searching forums for learning to database on your own, or from other classmates. I failed quizzes, exams, and I did okay on the projects. I walked away with a C+. That said, he is very generous on his curve. He generally refers to his class as "boot camp" which is actually what it feels like some of the time. I never did a bonus. They were ridiculously challenging. The TA for this class was not very helpful because I was a dude. He only helped out the "pretty" girls in class. If I was a master programmer with no game, I would be using that strength to get laid as well. Anyways, this class is blood, sweat, and tears. The worst class I have ever taken, but I did learn a thing or two about database.

IME 312 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 3:51 pm, Nov 8, 2011 Report Evaluation		Yang should not be a professor at Cal Poly. He cannot convey material clearly and when anyone questions him, he ridicules them. He burdens his students with massive amounts of work and actually takes points away from already completed work and tests when new work is done incorrectly or incompletely. Are you trying to train new IMEs at Cal Poly or tear them down (because this guy succeeds at the latter very well)?



IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 4:19 pm, Nov 1, 2011 Report Evaluation		Dr. Macedo, As head of the IME Department, it is your responsibility to maintain the quality of the program. Professor Yang is in no way qualified to teach at Cal Poly and I am disappointed that he remains in the department. I polity request that you re-evaluate his position and look for a replacement. Thank you, Dedicated Cal Poly Student

IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 11:37 pm, Jun 16, 2011 Report Evaluation		The material (i.e. the math) for this class isn't too difficult...it's understanding it conceptually that's tricky. Yang seems like a decent guy, but unfortunately does not convey the material very well. My old notes from a civil engineering class (CE 321) and my old EIT review book were MUCH better at explaining the material than the course notes or lecture. However, you absolutely need to buy the course notes for the quizzes and go to lecture, as he has very specific spreadsheets he wants to you develop, or very specific things like tables he will mention in lecture and then immediately quiz on. If you don't show up and take a quiz, negative 5 points...at least he drops the lowest 2 quizzes. But if you miss a take home midterm and get -100, you're screwed. The take home midterms are 15-25 questions and take from 3-5 hours each to do. There are 5 of them, but the class can vote to waive the last one. These are tedious and often tricky as well. Half of the class is going over basic principles (P/F, F/A,...factors) and the second half is more how you use them in analysis. Therefore, the first half was pretty easy for those fortunate enough to have already learned some of the subject in previous major classes or EIT review. The second half was new, but largely built on the first. Overall this class is survivable (a third get A's, a third get B's, a third get C's), but if you want to learn the material well (e.g. for the EIT) I'd go with another instructor.

IME 312 5th Year Senior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 11:10 pm, Jun 5, 2011 Report Evaluation		This guy really makes you work for your shafted grade. Although he is very passionate about teaching, he does a horrendous job.He teaches way less then he expects the student to know.

IME 314 Graduate Student Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 9:59 pm, Jun 5, 2011 Report Evaluation		This guy is the epitome of a pretentious man with Napoleon complex. Never does he listen to any of his students. This man is a disgrace to the department.

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: D Required (Major) 10:52 pm, Jun 2, 2011 Report Evaluation		Yang is quite the character. A very interesting man, and an entertaining lecturer. As a person he is fine, if a little weird. That being said, I don't know if I've ever had a worse teacher. My grade was bad because I didn't do the work. That was partially my fault. I went to most classes, payed attention, took plenty of notes, and didn't learn anything. He'd have "Pop" quizzes (they're scheduled) most every class, and even though he'd just lectured on the material moments before I still wouldn't know. I have not really learned anything, and will have to retake the class. Yay.

IME 319 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 11:17 pm, May 26, 2011 Report Evaluation		Dr. Yang IS frustrating. He cant answer any questions you ask him, and usually you end up nodding and agreeing so he'll stop talking. Still, he's a smart guy, gives good philosophical advice, and I'll teach you a lot if you go to class any pay attention. GO TO CLASS! your grade depends on it! Don't bother reading his text book, but you'll have to buy it anyway. Everyone says Dr. Yang is so terrible, but play by his rules and you'll receive a good grade. Easiest class this semester.



IME 319 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 11:16 pm, May 26, 2011 Report Evaluation		Dr. Yang IS frustrating. He cant answer any questions you ask him, and usually you end up nodding and agreeing so he'll stop talking. Still, he's a smart guy, gives good philosophical advice, and I'll teach you a lot if you go to class any pay attention. GO TO CLASS! your grade depends on it! Don't bother reading his text book, but you'll have to buy it anyway. Everyone says Dr. Yang is so terrible, but play by his rules and you'll receive a good grade. Easiest class this semester.

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 2:30 pm, May 18, 2011 Report Evaluation		Yang is not that horrible. He is really goofy and entertaining to listen to. This class is dull, but he does force you to learn database design, which is actually useful. Don't let him overwhelm you, and don't take him too seriously. His lecture is funny and pointless. Don't stress about doing poorly on the midterms. Just try and get a few of the easy questions right. Spend a lot of time on your projects, as they will take up the majority of your grade. Make sure to start them early as well. I lived in the undergrad lab that quarter, and many other students were willing to work together and help out with difficult project aspects. Yang isn't really that bad, brilliant guy, not so brilliant at conveying info.

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 9:51 pm, Apr 29, 2011 Report Evaluation		let me succinctly sum up my experience of this class....material is interesting....the professor is a lurid asshole!!!!

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 2:37 pm, Mar 23, 2011 Report Evaluation		Professor Yang is an extremely frustrating teacher. You will find yourself cursing him (and laughing at the bizarre and creepy things he says) many times throughout the quarter. His lectures are very scattered and he makes you buy his $70 low quality scrap book which consists of random problems he probably copied from actual text books. Do your best to pay attention during lectures because daily quizzes are usually on what he had just been talking about and take your time doing his "take home" tests. You will probably end up with a good grade but dont expect to learn anything.

IME 312 Sophomore Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 11:32 am, Mar 18, 2011 Report Evaluation		i think dr. yang is a horrible teacher. He says inappropriate things to students. gives you projects that have way to large of a scope and doesn't encourage his students. He should not be a teacher.

IME 312 Junior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 7:31 pm, Mar 17, 2011 Report Evaluation		His grading is inconsistent and his website, which he adores is horrible. look at it. You'll be overwhelmed. Back to the grading part...you grade is not a reflection of your knowledge in this course. It depends merely on the mood that the grader feeling depending while they are grading your projects. Don't take this asshole yang if you can avoid....just read the commits below...NOOOO..



IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 12:06 pm, Mar 16, 2011 Report Evaluation		I actually enjoyed the course content covered in 312, however this doesn't mean I would take 312 again if yang taught it. He is a not willing to listen or help any student when they have any difficulty. A prime example of this is when someone would ask him a question. He would never allow the student to complete the sentence. FUN COURSE---But the teacher is a blinded by his own ethics.

IME 312 Sophomore Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 9:25 pm, Mar 14, 2011 Report Evaluation		"go to the army because you DON'T have to smart to take ORders" ha..

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 9:22 pm, Mar 14, 2011 Report Evaluation		This guy should not be a teacher. In addition to not being able to convey anything, he is also a jerk. He told my friend that is also in the class to " go to the army because you have to be smart to take orders". That should never come out of a teacher's mouth. Especially in the fashion that Yang stated it. WORST TEACHER on calpoly. DON'T TAKE YANG...REFUSE...skip that class till the end..DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANG.DON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE YANGDON'T TAKE

IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 10:16 am, Feb 21, 2011 Report Evaluation		This is the worst teacher I have ever had. thank god I am not an IE,because that would mean that I would have to take another class with him. I went home during the quarter to attend my best friends funeral and he didn't let me make up a pop quiz that I missed. This is after I told him in advance. DON'T TAKE THIS GUY EVER>>>>TOTAL JERK

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 9:52 pm, Feb 20, 2011 Report Evaluation		I don't really want to get into the reasons why he is an awful professor because everyone else already has. I am just here to confirm their accusations and try to save those of you who are considering taking his class. NEVER EVER TAKE TANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 1:03 pm, Feb 20, 2011 Report Evaluation		I just found out this guy has TENURE?! It's absolutely infuriating that the engineering program here wastes my time and money with this joke of a professor. AVOID HIM AT ALL COSTS - I BEG YOU.



IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 12:39 pm, Feb 20, 2011 Report Evaluation		The department needs to get rid of this guy. It is unfair to the students and incorrect to call him a teacher. Dr. Yang is a not very perceptive individual. He doesn't recognize any of the troubles the his students are having. Yeah, he wrote the book, but it is horrible. You'll find that the same undecipherable descriptions that are in his useless lectures are also mirrored in language in the book....oh, and don't ever try to reason with this guy. If he tells you that the sky is green then that is was it is. If you really want to get on his good side then you will have to learn to be insincere. The ONLY thing that he does do well is keep up to date on the databasing methods. But of course, his efforts are futile because he can't convey any thing that he just learned. AVOID THIS GUY

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: B Elective 9:46 pm, Feb 19, 2011 Report Evaluation		Have you ever thought to yourself in a class taught so poorly, "I think I could get up, read the textbook out loud to the class, and then wing explaining it - and I would be 1000% more effective at communicating the information?" And then you realize, "Wait a second...Yang writes this textbook, and it's the most sloppy, poorly organized, uninformational, 3rd grader's attempt on making a collage (literally) of financey looking things." Many of the things he teaches in class are verifiably factually incorrect. He never explains 'why'. He does not understand where students struggle - and makes no attempt and finding out. He is personally insulting. He has horrible handwriting and writes at about 10 point font on the board. His materials are of no instructional help. PLEASE don't take him. I've worked in the business and engineering world for about 2 years now. The material he attempts to teach is very relevant and useful. You will NOT gain a fair understanding of the concepts and methodologies with Yang.

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 5:41 pm, Feb 19, 2011 Report Evaluation		Yangs so shitty his class made me want to vote tea party

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 5:31 pm, Feb 19, 2011 Report Evaluation		Yang epitomizes the problems with the education system today. All the other teacher insistently hear from their students how bad he is but none of the professors wants to take his class on becuase they are all pussies. This allows for an incompetent teacher to remain in his position and to not be challenged....In this class you will learning to get a grade out of it not the subject material. Take Yang if you want to learn how to deal with bureaucratics.

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 5:22 pm, Feb 19, 2011 Report Evaluation		I feel sorry for this guy. He is fucking up people and he doesn't even have a clue. I have never had a teacher that has had so much distance between them and the student...He thinks the front of the class is his stage.

IME 312 Graduate Student Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 3:07 pm, Feb 19, 2011 Report Evaluation		Yang is right. You will need this class in the future. Don't slack and take an easy load with this class.



IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 7:13 pm, Feb 7, 2011 Report Evaluation		Impossible to understand and absolutely has no consideration towards the needs of his students. His incompetence as a professor is unbelievable. He's adjusted his courseload in past quarters to be more laid-back(Five easy exams throughout the quarter). This seems to be due to his receiving continuous complaints. My advice is to use mortgage calculators and other resources online for the weirder problems on the exams. I feel like I have showed more management skills holding in my emotions during his classes than he did all quarter long during lectures. Even if his english was any good his stubborn attitude would still keep him from being a credible professor. since he's a tenured professor he won't ever be able to be forced out but for the sake of cal poly's reputation he ought to resign.

IME 312 5th Year Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 1:01 pm, Jan 5, 2011 Report Evaluation		All you really have to do is make time for this class. Dr. Yang is hands down the most funniest professor at Cal Poly. You will be spending long nights searching forums for help. My advise is to go back and study Visual Basic before going into this class. But dont even try to go to his office hours because they are no help. The class is graded as a competition amongst your classmates. Make friends, but you will soon notice that people try not to help too much cause that could affect their grade. Do the Bonus Programs. Cause when other students do them and you dont will HURT YOUR GRADE! So take the easiest course load possible with this class.

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 10:30 am, Nov 10, 2010 Report Evaluation		Evaluation below me was pretty spot on. This class is going to suck, Dr. Yang is really hard. This class is not as mentally challenging as your statics or dynamics classes but it will take about 10 times the amount of time. Make sure you take this class with a lot of friends and with a light schedule because you will be in the undergrad lab a lot and will need everyones help to complete all your assignments. Dr. Yang is going to piss you off and you\'re going to want to punch him in the face but if you just laugh at him and make friends with people in your class you\'ll get through it and actually learn something somewhat valuable.

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 10:22 pm, Oct 5, 2010 Report Evaluation		Dr. Yang was obviously very knowledgeable about the subject of databases and Access, however he had a hard time teaching the class concepts needed for the homework and projects he assigned us. Although his lectures were very entertaining, usually the material he presented was unhelpful and I never really paid attention in class. The way you learn the material is by practicing on the computer in the lab and by working with your fellow classmates.

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: A Elective 8:31 pm, Jun 7, 2010 Report Evaluation		Arguably the easiest class I\'ve taken at Cal Poly. He changed his policies for this quarter a bit so he drops one of the quizzes and lets you make up one if you have a reason for it. This is one of the most painfully boring classes I\'ve ever had and what makes it worst is your grade is pretty much based on showing up because of the quizzes which are worth 40%. But the curve is huge somebody in my class got a 26% and got a C so pretty much if you can handle boredom and show up and turn in the tests and project on time your fine. To get an A the tests took me about 4-5 hours each but he gives you about 4-5 days to turn it in, and if you think about how much you would normally study for a test and actually take it, then it\'s totally fair and you also have unlimited resources then. Also he gives it over the weekend so you have all day to do it if you want. The quizzes are easy for the most part and take under a few minutes but he has 1-2 almost every class after the second test for a total of 12 quizzes. The project that\'s worth 10% took about 2-3 hours to complete and if you do it early it\'ll be faster cause then you can\'t select duplicate forms. Honestly by the end of the class showing up everyday and taking notes I filled maybe 8 pages. But take notes of his example problems because they\'re the exact problems from the test and make the test go faster. No matter how much I hated showing up to class everyday I still got a GPA boost and although he\'s a pretty bad teacher he grades nice.

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: N/A Elective 8:23 pm, Jun 4, 2010 Report Evaluation		In the 4 years I have spent at Cal Poly, Professor Yang has to be one of the worst professors\' I have ever taken. He is a very narrow minded teacher and doesn\'t convey material very well. He has trouble speaking and writing english and the supposed textbook you have to purchase for his course is totally useless. Overall I feel that I have wasted my time and money taking this class. If at all possible, DO NOT TAKE HIM



IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 10:56 pm, May 8, 2010 Report Evaluation		Dr. Yang is simply the worst teacher I have ever had in my life. I cannot express how pointless the class is and how out of date all his methods are. You cannot understand anything he says because he can\'t put a simple sentence together. He created the most hideous website you will ever see and the whole entire class runs off of it. He is the only professor I have ever heard of who gives you a -100 if you don\'t turn in a midterm or a -5 if you don\'t show up for a \"pop quiz\", making it nearly impossible to pass if you miss something. He thinks he has all of the worlds problems solved and talks bullshit half the time about his ridiculous theories. He would never make it in the real world as anything, which explains why he is teaching. I have never been so frustrated with any professor. Avoid him at all costs, the class is a joke and I have no idea why he is able to teach at Cal Poly, he ruins the credibility of this school. Once again.....DO NOT TAKE HIM

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 2:54 pm, Mar 19, 2010 Report Evaluation		Well, where do I start? This class was quite painful. The quizzes of the material were typically given directly after a rough example on the board. Asking questions only help confuse you even more. The only real way to do well on the quizzes is to study and understand the lecture before the class. Do not expect to get anything out of the lectures. He is big on negative points, so don\'t think of not coming to class. A zero is better than a negative 5 on a quiz! Also, make sure you understand how to use his website and how to upload his exams. If you accidently upload a blank file, you get a zero. If your upload for some reason does not go through, you get a negative 100! Be completely sure you understand how to do this! Also, keep documented proof of all your exam work and your submitted databases in case of an upload malfunction/error! The 2 projects were doable, but rough, especially if your group does not start early enough. Be sure to form groups with hard workers or you may be doing most of the work yourself!

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 2:53 pm, Mar 19, 2010 Report Evaluation		Well, where do I start? This class was quite painful. The quizzes of the material were typically given directly after a rough example on the board. Asking questions only help confuse you even more. The only real way to do well on the quizzes is to study and understand the lecture before the class. Do expect to get anything out of the lectures. He is big on negative points, so don\'t think of not coming to class. A zero is better than a negative 5 on a quiz! Also, make sure you understand how to use his website and how to upload his exams. If you accidently upload a blank file, you get a zero. If your upload for some reason does not go through, you get a negative 100! Be completely sure you understand how to do this! Also, keep documented proof of all your exam work and your submitted databases in case of an upload malfunction/error! The 2 projects were doable, but rough, especially if your group does not start early enough. Be sure to form groups with hard workers or you may be doing most of the work yourself!

IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Elective 4:13 pm, Mar 14, 2010 Report Evaluation		You\'ll hear ridiculous things about this guy from people and think it\'s funny. It is. It\'s hilarious when you\'re not actually taking his class. But those people are being absolutely serious about their stories. The first two weeks of class were pretty much like the first day of every other class. His website is atrocious and you\'re forced to use it for pretty much everything. It took me a while to find the take-home exam upload page because the address has /ime312/ in it (I was in IME 314). The exams themselves are MS Access files which you can only open once, afterward they prevent you from changing anything you\'ve inputted before. A lot of the questions are so awkwardly worded that they become nonsensical. He loves to give in-class quizzes covering material that he just went over in class which isn\'t helpful because he doesn\'t exactly teach the material. If you didn\'t understand what the hell he was talking about in class you\'re gonna have just as much fun trying to get it out of his book. When I say his book I mean he actually wrote parts of it, and it\'s even less useful than his powerpoint lecture slides that look like I threw them together in 10 minutes for an 8th grade book report. We went over maybe two or three concepts over the course of 9 weeks then in the last week he introduced about 5 new ones which were even less coherently explained than the first few. And although I\'ve never gone to his office hours, apparently he\'s an ass and will ridicule you and say that you should have been paying attention in class if you tell him you don\'t understand something. There are a million other things I can put here but I\'m not exactly in the mood for that having just finished his final. He can be pretty goddamned funny, though, both intentionally and unintentionally. I recommend not actually taking the course and showing up for the first couple of days so you can laugh your ass off and not have to deal with the terror.

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 5:54 pm, Mar 11, 2010 Report Evaluation		He has his funny moments, and if you can understand broken english you might do well in this class. Look forward to daily \"pop-quizzes\" early on, and double \"pop-quizzes\" halfway through the quarter. Oh, and if you do happen to get stuck with him, \"un-same-sing\" means \"understand what i\'m saying?\"

IME 303 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 10:48 am, Feb 28, 2010 Report Evaluation		So, we had a quiz every week starting in week 5 or 6 and no one got the right solution. Then, by the 8th week, he mentioned that he finally realized he hadn\'t taught us all the information to do the quizzes properly... He expects you to go play around with Microsoft Project outside of class just for fun to figure out the things he misses in his \"lecture.\" Thank goodness Karen is teaching the lecture or else I\'d skip this class for another quarter. Anyways, hopefully the IME department finds another database teacher in the near future.



IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 1:24 am, Feb 11, 2010 Report Evaluation		Okay people, just flat out if want to learn something don\'t take this professor. he is one of the worst teachers you are ever going to have.Basically his class consisted lectures consisted of material which was irrelevant to the exams. His first exams are so confusing that it takes more time to think about what is he asking for rather than the time it takes to solve the problem. I got B in this class, but honestly i didn\'t learn much.

IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Elective 7:33 pm, Jun 5, 2009 Report Evaluation		Ok you're probably gonna look down the list and read a lot of comments that basically say that this man is the worst professor that any of these people have ever had. I am going to tell you, that is EXACTLY what he is. i have never had another professor/teacher who knew so little, thought he knew so much, and couldnt tell when students were clearly laughing at him. i wouldnt go as far as not taking this class if it will affect your graduation status, but do ANYTHING you can other than that to avoid it. Yang makes attendance (aka a waste of time, aka torture) a part of your grade, so if you care about your grades you wont be able to skip. all in all, if you get stuck in his class you will be stuck with the worst teacher you will ever have had, past present and future, for ten weeks. save yourself the trouble, dont do it!

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 8:26 pm, Mar 17, 2009 Report Evaluation		"With moderate 3% inflation, how much of a hamburger will become after 20 years if it is costed $5 today?" -direct quote from one of Dr. Yang's lecture slides. "After forming a "base" of 1040EZ and 1040 forms, your next step is to study variables which are sensitive triggering more or less on paying tax." -direct quote from an email explaining our final project. No one has any idea what to do for the final project...

IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: N/A General Ed 12:57 am, Feb 19, 2009 Report Evaluation		Please, please, please (another please?) do not take this professor even if it causes you to graduate later than you should. Its just not worth it. Everything about this class is agonizing! Just don't. Just don't. Spare yourself. * really, don't take this class from this professor * Stay away.

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 12:22 am, Feb 5, 2009 Report Evaluation		This man has no connection to his students. Let's ignore the fact that he can't speak english; I've had several heavily-accented professors that I could learn from. He's just an awful professor. His lectures consist of him going back and forth between pages on an awfully constructed and organized powerpoint, hastily running down what I can only assume are a few bullet points which very, VERY generally pertain to what we need to know for the tests. The process for doing assignments is physically painful. Yang refuses to use Blackboard (I'm guessing because he is anti-efficiency), instead forcing you to go to his personal website and figure out what the homework is from there. He uses Microsoft Access for his tests, which are as well-written as his powerpoints. He demands that you run your testfiles through a compression process and upload them back to his website. These are just minor things, to be sure, but it's those creeping annoyances that erode your sanity. Think about this: The first week and a half of class- 3 lectures, well over 15% of the time spent with Dr. Yang since the three test days are at home- are spent listening to him proclaim from his soapbox how important IME 314 is. How we'll never be "good managers" if we don't learn it. How, if "someone" were to ever ask us if we learned anything in his class, we couldn't say we didn't. He throws a few random factoids at us, just to be sure. A week and a half of this bullshit. I've never met a man so thoroughly damned by his own assurance of quality.

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 9:49 pm, Oct 26, 2008 Report Evaluation		Dr. Yang does not do anything except make lengthy lectures, accompanied by lengthy slide shows that convey nothing of relevance. He will not teach you anything. My advice is to ignore lectures, and free up your schedule to learn by yourself. Finally, this professor represents a blatant abuse of academic tenure, and ought to be dismissed.



IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 10:32 pm, Oct 22, 2008 Report Evaluation		Stay away from Dr. Yang at all costs! I read all of his polyratings before signing up for the class, and I thought "Oh, it won't be that bad"....but it is! He can't present the material well at all (and that has nothing to do with his heavy accent, he just can't explain it at all). He spent the entire first lecture on how we will thank him one day for this class because we will all be good managers (I guess he didn't realize the majority of us weren't IMEs) and we would all thank him. I guess he usually has a smart room for his classes, because our wasn't, and he didn't really know what to do then. His notes on the board would be crazy and all over the place with arrows and squiggles that I wasn't sure where they lead. However, if you do take his class, you will have 3 midterms, which are all online so you can definitely do them with others (even if he says not to, everyone does it), and a final project. This final project was the death of me that quarter, because he decided to assign it the 9th week of class (after complaining for weeks on end that the department wasn't going to have a "common project"), and said it should take us 2-3 weeks to do all of the analysis on...problem was, it was due in a week and half! So he does not plan well at all. He also doesn't like giving out bad grades, so I pretty much failed one midterm and got a B in the class...but I would have rather of actually learned something in the class. Moral of the story: STAY AWAY!

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 9:32 pm, Jun 17, 2008 Report Evaluation		It's obvious that Dr. Yang has no real world experience with database design, because many of his practices and exercises are not relevant to how things work in industry. If you have any experience with computer programming, this class will make you realize how awful VBA/Access is. Dr. Yang likes to assign programming problems without having considered how much time or effort they require, which is his idea of "challenging" (read: frustrating) you. Quizzes and tests were the same way. Assignments often changed when students actually considered the amount of work required to complete what he considered a simple task. He highly underestimates the importance of his class. Also, Dr. Yang will not emphasize any particular points during his mostly rambling lecture and then toss random trivia and useless relational algebra on tests/quizzes. If you have little or no experience with programming or databases, I highly recommend that you make friends with other people in the class and help each other with assignments. Thankfully, you have to do really poorly to get a bad grade in this class since your grade is relative to the performance of the rest of the class. Dr. Yang's abridged version of the text is utterly useless, do not waste money on it. I opened it once during the entire quarter. Your time is better spent learning VBA, because this was the most difficult part of the class.

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 12:06 am, May 4, 2008 Report Evaluation		You can pass this class. BUT trust me it is not worth it. It is sad that an acclaimed university such as Cal Poly employed such a poor quality instructor. I am in the process of filing an official complaint. I recommend more people start doing this so that he can be evaluated and eventually fired.

IME 312 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 2:40 pm, Mar 21, 2008 Report Evaluation		312 will take over your life for the quarter you take it. Do not take 312 unless you have an otherwise light courseload. Try to take the class with some other people who you like and know are smart, you will spend A TON of time in the lab with your classmates over the quarter. The class is as much about networking with your classmates as it is about Access. His grading style is lame/frustrating, but in the end no one gets below a C, so don't get too upset about it. Lectures are boring, but go to class and imagine your class is an episode of The Office. Yang is actually pretty funny. (not sure if he's trying though...) Good Luck. NonRequired Courses: STAY AWAY.

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: B Elective 10:17 am, Mar 20, 2008 Report Evaluation		This is the worst teacher I've ever had. He talks as if the world revolves around IME314. The class was a joke, if I didn't have to come to class I would have liked it. He takes roll so you can only miss two days without a penalty. The tests were absolutely random, I never studied and never did any homework and I did fine. The final project was pointless too, I did everything at the last minute and I got an A. Bottom line is, if you're an enginner you can most likely bs your way through this class. You'll just hate Yang more and more everyday you go to class. That guy is such a douche

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 11:57 pm, Mar 11, 2008 Report Evaluation		Horrible, horrible, horrible. Hands down the worst teacher at Cal Poly.



IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 9:55 pm, Feb 11, 2008 Report Evaluation		Somehow I learned something from this class - probably because I was forced to figure out Access for myself to get a good grade. Dr. Yang is a good person, just not a great teacher. His lectures were a bit confusing. There was a group project at the end of the quarter - make sure you end up with people who understand VBA. He was unprofessional in his jokes and remarks (such as trying to convince us to drop the class if we were on the bottom). I wasn't the only person who went into the class with an open mind and a potential practical application for Access (internship-related databasing) and was then discouraged. There's no way around him as far as I know, so good luck!

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 11:45 am, Feb 7, 2008 Report Evaluation		Never take Tao. I was apprehensive on whether or not to take this guy. But i thought to myself it cant be that bad i have delt with horrible teachers before. But this guy is beyond horrible. Lectures are pointless. You have to teach yourslef out of the book and the test questions are pulled randomly out of his little asian head. NEVER take this guy even in a last resort.

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 8:14 pm, Dec 10, 2007 Report Evaluation		In my humble opinion: You've all probably read the rest of the ratings already, so it does me no good in telling you some of the most dumbest, messed up, ignorant things I've heard in my life have come out of this man's mouth. This class will take a lot of time. ALOT. Only tip i got for anyone of the ie's that will have to take him is, dont let him get to you. The man will try to destroy your will to do well every chance he gets. There is only one way to get back at him and that is do well. Do well in spite of this fraud and say "forget you yang. no little man can stop me sucka" So thats my pep talk. One constructive advice is to definitely find yourself a very good workbook. Probably a workbook that he does not recommend because in his quest to make this a hard class(recently) he probably will not recommend one that has a lot of the concepts/answers to projects on them. The textbook is practically worthless except for a few question on quizzes so help each other out and share one. The workbook will provide everything yang does not and more. Really look into which one is good because there are hundreds out there for access. Seriously, why the guy works at the BEST department in cal poly is dumbfounding to me.

IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 6:44 pm, Nov 27, 2007 Report Evaluation		Waste of time. \"Understand what I\'m saying?\"

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 6:42 pm, Nov 27, 2007 Report Evaluation		DO NOT TAKE HIM I DONT KNOW WHO HIRED HIM AS AN INSTRUCTOR IN THE IME DEPARTMENT I THINK THERE WAS A MISTAKE HE SHOULD WORK AT GOLDEN DONG AS A BUSBOY

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 3:37 pm, Dec 19, 2006 Report Evaluation		Didnt learn anything from lecture, but the labs were easy and so were the first 2 projects. They soooooooooooooooo simple. No hw given, which is a plus. His quizes and tests were so random and poorly worded, that they basically depended on your luck. The only thing i learned from this class was that IME is polyhistor education, u nowaimsayin.



IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 2:24 pm, Oct 21, 2006 Report Evaluation		You'll have to do extra work on your own most of the time. His class was very confusing and a lot of times, the class didn't know what was going on. He assigned the group project the week before dead week and that definitely wasn't enough time. It sucked having to scramble to get it done, especially when you have other classes to worry about. Take someone else if you can.

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 7:22 pm, Nov 30, 2005 Report Evaluation		Alright...He's a little crazy....hard to understand sometimes.....class is boring.....But the class as a whole is easy if you just do the work. Dr. Yang is a funny dude if you actually listen to him. If you do pay attention you also realize that Dr. Yang is passionate about what he does and truly believes in the work he is doing. The rest of you who gave him a 1 are simply a bunch of little bitches. Hello....easy class...funny teacher!!!!

IME 312 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 6:08 pm, Nov 9, 2005 Report Evaluation		HI. I dont have this teacher and im not an ime, but my roomate is. SHe tells me crazy stories about this little man Tao and about how the class is based on money. I think its pretty cool that she gets to leave class and roam campus for about an hour and then return to receive 100 dollars for the day. I also think its unfair that she has had to do 20 labs in front of the class but other people never have to...name generators are sketch dude. In conclusion Tao seems like a pretty chill dude and id like to chill with him sometime even though he can barely speak my language....know what im saying???????

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 11:09 pm, Jun 13, 2005 Report Evaluation		Ok, so dr yang is a little crazy asian man, his sentences usually end with "understand what im sayin", but no dr. yang i hardly ever understood what you were saying. He goes off on crazy tangents for 1/2 an hour sometimes but we were let out around 1/2 an hour early towards the end of the quarter. The tests are taken online so you don't show up to class that day. He gives 10 Multiple choice questions and 120 min to complete them. The crazy thing is if you get a question wrong you LOSE 5 POINTS. So if you get one question wrong and the rest right you get and 85. So that really sucks but other than that the tests aren't that bad. show up to class do the hw out of the book and you should get a B easily an A if you try a little harder. He curves the class a lot so that the middle grades are Bs. He isn't that bad but he is not great. Easy class so I would recommend him, he just isn't a great teacher.

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 3:40 pm, Apr 28, 2005 Report Evaluation		This Guy is the biggest Jack*#SS i've ever come across at calpoly. He is dumb, arrogant, and a horrible lecturer. You even get by without going to class, with his online tests .Don't take him unless its a last resort.

IME 213 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 11:57 am, Mar 8, 2005 Report Evaluation		Ok i took this man for ime312...it was brutal having to see him twice a week at 8am in the morning. I recommend sitting in the back of the room and dimming the brightness and contrast on your screen and just surf the net. His lectures were useless and i studied them right before the quiz and you cant really study for his random ass questions, i dont even know where he pulls them from...if you figure it out let me know. Good luck "understand what i'm sayin'"



IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 9:05 am, Feb 10, 2005 Report Evaluation		As an IE working in industry, I feel it is important to express my frustration with Dr. Yang. I have had to draw upon resources that I struggled with at Cal Poly because I was stuck with Dr. Yang as an instructor in those areas. In other words Dr. Yang is a lousy instructor. It is possible to pass his courses without ever really learning anything. But the areas of IE he teaches are important to the success of an engineer.

IME 312 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 7:59 am, Mar 25, 2004 Report Evaluation		Dr. Yang is a phoney! If ever there is an example of Cal Poly wasting its money, this guy would be the best example. He teaches nothing, he presents nothing, he prepares for nothing. He cannot answer a question at all, he'll just tell you to ask a lab tech or another student. It is all proof that Dr. Yang really knows nothing at all about industrial engineering, he is sitting on his Phd tenure position knowing he has to do nothing to make his pay check. He doesn't try to help students, he doesn't even really care. If he did, there would be some signs of concern on his behalf, like coming to class prepared, answering a question you couldn't answer the lecture before or simply just showing concern about his students. Instead he sneaks around waiting for the work day to end and his pay check to come in. It's sad to see this, not only do students get screwed out of thier money to pay this guy, but they really don't recieve any education in return about important material engineers need to function.

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 5:40 pm, Mar 12, 2004 Report Evaluation		Yang is not that great of a professor. But he makes the course easy enough to pull off an A with a little bit of work. There are 10 short quizzes, usually one per week. In the lab you do assigments out of the workbook. They are mindless step by step instructions, but easy points. There are 3 Access projects he assigns. I would suggest doing them all. The other students in the class are the ones who grade you, so it's really easy to get the max amount of points. There's one midterm and one final. Both equal in points. Yang makes your grade point based. The first intro quiz is worth 20,000, so study the sample questions he makes available. Just showing up to class gives you 200 points each day. Quizzes are 1000 points each. Projects are worth 5,000 each. Midterm and Final are 10,000. A solid "A" is above 50,000. This quarter only 3 people in the class did not receive an A. Don't buy the textbook. You don't need it. I opened mine about two times the whole quarter. Barely anything on the tests comes from the book. He makes all his lecture slides available to you for review. So if you plan on taking this course with Yang, all you have to do is show up, get at least 400 points per quiz, do most of the HW's, and you might not even have to take the final.

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 9:27 pm, Dec 5, 2003 Report Evaluation		The fact that teachers like Dr. Yang form part of our department is strong evidence that something must be wrong with the system itself. I just cannot believe that this guy got to be tenure by passing all his teacher evaluations!!! He must either have some kind of connection in the inside or simply got some kind of equal opportunity program benefit in order to keep his job as part of the IME staff. He's simply a joke as a teacher. I highly recommend you avoid him if you have the option. I can only thank God I won't have to deal with him again!

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 5:37 pm, Dec 5, 2003 Report Evaluation		Yang needs to learn how to teach. He has a wonderful webpage that will tell you how to make money and get a grade. The text book sucks, it should be burned and baried. It is not a hard class if you put it some work. My advice, do all three projects! Don't get lazy! and bring cafine to class everyday.

IME 314 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 2:22 pm, Dec 5, 2003 Report Evaluation		I thought that the reviews may have been harsh so I tried it anyway. Wooops! Dr. Yang is a good teacher at heart... but that is all he has going for him. He is the stereotypical IME teacher that is physically impossible to understand (after every sentence he says "know what I saying"... for your own sake say "NO"). I addition, he is trying to change his teaching methods, unfortunately while trying to simultaneously teach my class (so unorganized). He says one thing, the class looks at him with blank faces, and then he says something completely different. None of it makes sense and the only way you get anything out of the class is if you try to comprehend the text yourself. I am going to stop reviewing him for the sake of not wanting to be mean... just DON'T TAKE HIM if you can avoid it. Office hours will not help you, so confusing!



IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 12:42 pm, May 9, 2003 Report Evaluation		I think Dr. Yang is a great professor, his lectures were often entertaining and he graded fairly..

IME 312 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 9:39 pm, Apr 16, 2003 Report Evaluation		Dr. Yang is a prime example of the College of Engineering's miscalculation that PhD in engineering = Good Professor. I'm sure that somewhere in the back of his bald head he knows what he is talking about, but he can't teach it to anyone else in English. He always leaves the lab, which is just as well because he'll just tell you to start all over if you made a mistake or if the software isn't working. His lectures consisted only of him reading Power Point presentations that came from the text book publisher. His test quiz questions come from all over the place, so studying doesn't help. The best part is when he mimes the "keywords", the only thing you'll understand all quarter.

IME 314 Senior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 8:02 pm, Apr 7, 2003 Report Evaluation		One of the worse teachers in the department, all he does is brag about how great he is, he's very rude and thinks he walks on air or water or something similar! DO NOT TAKE HIM IF YOU GET TO CHOOSE!

IME 305 Senior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 5:52 pm, Mar 23, 2003 Report Evaluation		Okay, most people can work through this guy's accent, but when you add to that the fact that he is vague about every assignment he gives, you just wind up totally lost in the class. He is not helpful in office hours and will just tell you to look over your notes and read the book. He contradicts himself in class and doesn't understand half of the things you ask him. I would definitely try to stay away from this teacher.

IME 407 Senior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 3:05 pm, Apr 17, 2002 Report Evaluation		He is not fit to be a teacher. If possible avoid taking his class. Encourage everyone not to take his class. He does not care about student learning his class. All he does is bragg and bragg about his greatness.

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 9:48 pm, Dec 20, 2001 Report Evaluation		Dr. Yang's class can be somewhat confusing. His accent is thick and he is sometimes hard to understand. He says that his class is easy, and to a certain extent it is. Don't let the first test lull you into a false sense of security, though; the following exams are much longer and are graded harshly. You will not find the course material that Dr. Yang will test you on in the text or in his class notes. You must, therefore, attend every lecture (or make sure a friend does) or you will miss some little detail that is crucial to the solution of the exam problems. Finally, he grades by finding the groups, deciding what a "C" will be, and deriving the rest of the scores from there.



IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 8:42 pm, Aug 1, 2001 Report Evaluation		YOU MUST WORK AND LEARN THE MATERIAL YOYURSELF. HE TREATS YOU LIKE AN ADULT AND WILL NOT SPOON FEED YOU

IME 312 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 8:42 pm, Aug 1, 2001 Report Evaluation		Teacher assigns work without verifying if the project is plausible. Many class handouts have mistakes. Lecture is uninformative and basically unnecessary. Students are taught by the textbook not the teacher.

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 6:53 pm, Jun 22, 2001 Report Evaluation		Dr. Yang is a hilarious teacher. The funniest part was when people would leave in the middle of his lectures. If you have this class you should get a friend to come in then leave right in the middle ;) If you have his class take good notes and look for a solutions manual in the library on reserve... seewhatImsayingg...

IME 314 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 2:59 pm, Apr 19, 2001 Report Evaluation		Dr. Yang was really cool the first day of class, but after that day, everything went down hill. I had trouble understanding him, and he can be quite confusing when it comes to doing example problems. His first test was easy, but after that, all of the rest were pretty hard. When it comes to grading the test problems, he doesn't give much partial credit, unless you have the exact process down but just make a small calculation error. There were several tests where i thought i did well, but Dr. Yang still gave me low grades on them. I would not really recommend taking Yang. The only good thing is that he CURVES the class big time in the end and he drops your lowest test grade (4 out of 5), otherwise only one person in the class would have had an A. I only got an A on the first test but i still managed to pull an A in the class because the curve was so huge! Also, Yang is not very helpful during office hours.

IME 335 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 9:49 pm, Mar 3, 2000 Report Evaluation		This man is not fit to be a professor. I'm disgusted to have wasted so much of my time with his "lectures."

IME 312 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 10:56 am, Jan 5, 2000 Report Evaluation		This teacher was pretty bad, nowhatI'mseying. He's also very hard to understand, seewhatI'msaing.

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