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Pal, Nirupam

Cumulative GPA: 1.47/4.00 with 47 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 1.47
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 1.34

Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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ENVE 304 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 10:23 am, Nov 6, 2012 Report Evaluation		Pal is the best!

ENVE 331 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 10:36 am, Mar 24, 2012 Report Evaluation		Cool guy, just cannot present the material well at all. Homework was not very representative of the tests and the powerpoints were awful. Lectures were very rushed and his grading is impossible to figure out. Pretty much no partial credit and his solutions are pretty difficult to understand. If you can wait to take this class, wait and take another professor.

ENVE 331 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 1:58 pm, Mar 22, 2012 Report Evaluation		Possibly the worst teacher I've had here at Cal Poly. This may not concern you since you can just learn from the book. Well The book is awful. Now you may be thinking that you can just manage to teach yourself through Google and other tools. Well the tests are obscure, random, and demand random aspects never discussed before. Do not rush to take Pal, especially if this is not a prerequisite for another class. Just wait for a better teacher.

ENVE 331 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 4:29 pm, Mar 12, 2012 Report Evaluation		Pal is EXTREMELY unorganized in lecture and very hard to follow. His grading is pretty brutal...almost no partial credit, doesn't matter if the problem takes you a page or two...one minor mistake and its all over. Course material isn't too difficult but Pal is a confusing guy. Would recommend looking at other professors for this course.

ENVE 331 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 9:35 pm, Nov 27, 2011 Report Evaluation		Not too bad, but presents material in a confusing manner in this class. Great person and cares a lot about his students.

ENVE 455 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 12:58 pm, Jun 27, 2011 Report Evaluation		Pal in 455 was still his normal self or unclear and difficult problems poorly written, but having him for 331 helps in this class. The first half is him talking about how he basically has the worst luck in work place safety. Then everyone in the class will give a presentation on a topic of their choice starting around week 7. The midterm was a risk calculation (just like 331) fit a scenario into a theory and some short answer. The final are questions on the presentations (usu 5 points each group)and some venilation qusetions. He tells you what to expect. Just do his practice problems and then go to him or a friend to make sure you know how to get teh right answer. The finals was open book, open internet, basically anything goes but talking. He is a nice guy and wants you to do well, but he still kinda sucks. But I'm warming up to him.

ENVE 331 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 2:13 pm, Mar 16, 2011 Report Evaluation		Pal is extremely difficult to follow in lecture, he rushes through slides and examples and you have to try and pay attention to this for two hours while getting every part of the examples down because he may pull part of it out on one of the quizzes, two midterms or prefinal. His grading is impossible to understand you could have the same work as someone and get different amounts of points. The homework doesn't always relate back to class and didn't really help for the tests. The final is optional if you do well enough on the midterms, quizzes and prefinal, but he told us multiple times that last time he taught the class only two people had to take the final and they both failed, so try and do well enough on the other tests to avoid that. Avoid him if possible.



ENVE 331 Sophomore Grade Earned: B General Ed 11:00 am, Mar 15, 2011 Report Evaluation		First off, his class is doable, but the things that you have to put up with in his class is just not worth it. Basically, he lectures by doing example problems, and 2 midterms and a quiz, no final if you do well on all three. The problem with this class are the 2 hour midterms and a quiz that you have to take, he jams as much material as he could into the test, expects you to have written down most of the information needed to do the problem, (everything is open book and notes), so if you can't find the information you need in your pile of notes, you're screwed since he doesn't give partial credit unless you show him an answer that he likes. Also, his grading could go all over the place, he gives points for things you don't even know why you would get points for, and takes off points for small mistakes. Well, good luck to whoever needs to take this class with Pal.

ENVE 331 Senior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 4:51 pm, Mar 6, 2011 Report Evaluation		gave terrible lectures with helpful information randomly spliced into his terribly formated powerpoint slides. examples and exam/quiz/homework questions given lacked necessary givens 90% of the time so looking at his solutions was only moderately helpful when trying to study for the final or midterm. if you don't learn just from conceptual equations you should not take this class with him instructing. i learn from doing and seeing examples in class which is nearly impossible with Pal.

ENVE 331 Senior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 4:51 pm, Mar 6, 2011 Report Evaluation		gave terrible lectures with helpful information randomly spliced into his terribly formated powerpoint slides. examples and exam/quiz/homework questions given lacked necessary givens 90% of the time so looking at his solutions was only moderately helpful when trying to study for the final or midterm. if you don't learn just from conceptual equations you should not take this class with him instructing. i learn from doing and seeing examples in class which is nearly impossible with Pal.

ENVE 304 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 11:11 am, Feb 16, 2011 Report Evaluation		It's too bad he's kinda a nice guy (personally) because as a teacher, he is the biggest piece of shit ever. He's frazzled, unorganized, unclear, confused, borderline retarded, often wrong, and always hectic. ENVE's like me are forced to take a bunch of classes with him, so this review isn't for kids in this major. If you are thinking of taking Nirupam when it's not required, listen to me and don't make that mistake. I loath the man deeply, but I tried to keep that out of this review and make my point without the rant.

ENVE 304 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 3:36 pm, Dec 30, 2010 Report Evaluation		Being in Pal\'s class is a strange situation. He is a very nice person and very friendly, however his classes are insanity. He doesn\'t take the time to provide clear information for students, or even grade and test students fairly because his tests are from another planet. It is a game of luck taking his tests. His class is not worth the amount of stress you will feel during the quarter you have a class with him. =/

ENVE 304 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 9:44 pm, Nov 7, 2010 Report Evaluation		First off this is CHEMICAL PROCESS THERMODYNAMICS the subject is confusing, but the teaching and the book doesn\'t help. You WILL NOT BE SPOON FED ANSWERS and get this YOU WILL HAVE TO PUT EFFORT INTO FIGURING OUT CONCEPTS AND HOW TO APPLY SAID CONCEPTS. Like most engineering classes, homework counts for nothing. Midterms and Final are worth quite a lot.



ENVE 455 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 12:47 pm, Jun 3, 2010 Report Evaluation		Here\'s the deal with Dr. Pal - he is extremely cool. He\'s the coolest Indian dude ever and he\'s hilarious. I love him as a person. As a teacher, however, he is not so good. His tests are an assortment of random questions that he grades extremely subjectively. Countless times while taking his classes my friends and I have all put the same answer for things and gotten all different grades. I\'m starting to think that if he likes you he gives you less points off for things.

CE 331 Junior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 9:09 pm, Mar 30, 2010 Report Evaluation		the most frustrating bs ive had to encounter. imagine taking a class whose sole purpose is to waste your time. thats what enve is with pal. i think he strategically constructs his class to make it as confusing as possible. there was absolutely NOTHING that i did not understand in this class. hella easy nut brained concepts. he just picky about random bullshit that you need to know from class notes. hw doesnt help but it is collected (asshole) and going to lecture (didnt miss a single one) doesnt help much because youre entire effort is spent trying to stay awake!!! this class is meant for the simple minded who enjoy wasting their time on petty details. im ASHAMED that this is tied into the civil curriculum. Ive heard its much better with the other prof so maybe i should generalize so much.AVOID!!!! AVOID! HELL AWAITS YOU!!!

ENVE 331 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 4:14 pm, Mar 25, 2010 Report Evaluation		Basically...ENVE 331 is CHEM 124 and 125 all over again, just with environmental and civil applications. If you did well on them the first time, this class should be no trouble for you. If you struggled...you may want to review and brush up beforehand. The good thing is all his midterm and two \"quizzes\" (essentially midterms) are open book, open notes, open computer (powerpoints only, no internet allowed), and almost every question on his tests have been asked before in another form. So you can almost always look at your previous examples and find one that uses the same series of steps to get to the answer. There is little to no partial credit though, even on the long problems. So you could get 9 out of 10 right and still get 83% on the test if you messed up on the wrong problem. Other than tests, there is very little studying of work required outside of class, maybe an hour or two a week for the homework. The book problems suck (and I am convinced some of their answers are wrong) but oh well... easy if you get Chem, make sure you study if you don\'t.

ENVE 331 Sophomore Grade Earned: D Required (Major) 3:24 pm, Mar 14, 2010 Report Evaluation		First, you cant understand a thing he says. but lets not be racist we can get around that. However, despite that, his lectures were completely unorganized and very boring, with absolutely NO relation to the tests. He might do an example problem in class with terrible handwriting and very quickly and then use specific value gotten from that example problem on a midterm. you are actually expected to know the answer to solve a problem on your midterm. his office is a clutter of papers, when he grades your tests, if you got a problem wrong, theres a big x through it, with no help whatsoever. Whatever you do, WAIT to take this class. dont take him

ENVE 331 Sophomore Grade Earned: F Required (Major) 6:40 pm, Feb 21, 2010 Report Evaluation		I took Pal because he was the only one teaching. In retrospect I should have waited to take the class. The essence of the class is learning how to calculate pollutants in a river and things of that nature. For every process you must go through to solve for a certain variable, he does ONE example that must be copied down entirely, step by step and word for word, in class, which you will then have to copy out of your notes on the exams, which are open note and book. Nowhere in the book, however, is anything close to the problems he teaches, so you can\'t learn any real course material from it. Miss the beginning of an example in lecture and you can\'t solve one of the two or three problems on an exam or hour-long quiz. The humor and happiness with which he teaches are extremely misleading. Avoid.

ENVE 331 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 12:21 am, Feb 15, 2010 Report Evaluation		im still taking the class which is why it is N/A. SUCKS!!!! usually when a professor sucks they make up for it by grading easy. nope. hes a douche. dont take this class if you value youre sanity. posts incomplete Bb slides, cant understand his english,list goes on forever. the hw is easy but doesnt reflect the tests so it is completely a waste of time



ENVE 331 Junior Grade Earned: D Required (Support) 8:09 pm, Jan 27, 2010 Report Evaluation		He was the most unorganized teacher I have ever had. Most of his lectures consisted of 3 or 4 different power point lectures stolen from other professors crudely jammed into one. His homework wasn\'t too hard, but again, was unorganized.

ENVE 331 5th Year Senior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 2:38 pm, Jan 21, 2010 Report Evaluation		Dr. Pal is a very nice professor who cares a lot about his students; he had open note and open book, Exams, and 1 quiz that was way too long. His grading seemed relatively fair. He was nice in office hours, and very helpful. His lectures seemed very quick, but he would always stop if anyone had any questions and clarify the difficulties, before preceding. All around Dr. Pal is a very good professor for any ENVE Courses.

ENVE 331 Senior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 5:40 pm, Jan 16, 2010 Report Evaluation		Pal is a great guy, but he could be a clearer teacher. The grade breakdown went as follows: Home work 15 %, Quiz 10 %, Midterm I 20%, Midterm II 25%, and Final 30 %. He shows you your grade before the final and then you can decide whether or not you\'d like to take it at the risk that your grade will change for better or worse. People have written about him curving on here, but I don\'t know of anyone who had their grade bumped up and I know a lot of people who were very close to a B-. He has students pair up to do homework. For tests, be sure to study the examples he does in class, ask for practice exams, ask for the answers to the practice exam, and do the practice exams as early as possible, so you can go to office hours for clarification. His grading on tests is inconsistent and often feels random, but your best bet is to do the practice exam really well and learn how to do those problems quickly. My biggest piece of advice would be to tell him when he is not being clear enough. Just raise your hand in class, point out the problem, and tell him what you need to understand him better. He doesn\'t notice when students are having difficulty in his class, but if you tell him what is wrong or confusing for you, he will try to explain it better. Don\'t let him get away with not explain things. I don\'t think the accent is a problem. The textbook is not very useful. He gives you the opportunity to use the old edition and the new edition is in the library. He posts powerpoints on blackboard.

ENVE 331 5th Year Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 9:37 pm, Dec 14, 2009 Report Evaluation		I just don\'t feel like I learned much from him. His grading is totally inconsistent which can be very frustrating. I don\'t recommend him.

ENVE 331 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 7:47 pm, Mar 6, 2009 Report Evaluation		He's a nice guy and made it fairly easy to pass his class. However, I can't say I really learned too much. First of all, the class curriculum is just a brief dabble in a bunch of topics in civil/envi. engineering, so we just skimmed over a lot of stuff. Second, Dr. Pal does not present the information too clearly and often muddles the class (and himself) in confusion...nothing too serious though. His grading is nice but random...I chose not to take the final and keep my B...but I ended up with an A! Bottom line is Dr. Pal is a really smart Engineer who probably leads whatever field he's in....he's just not meant to teach really basic stuff to students

ENVE 331 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 12:53 pm, Mar 2, 2009 Report Evaluation		Pal is a cool guy, but most people won't like how he teaches. I didn't mind him. You just have to pay attention, don't be lazy, and the class will be manageable.



ENVE 331 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 9:38 pm, Nov 18, 2008 Report Evaluation		Pal's lectures are very hard to follow. I highly recommend not taking him for any class

ENVE 455 Junior Grade Earned: B Elective 2:03 am, Nov 17, 2008 Report Evaluation		He's not a bad guy, but he is a TERRIBLE teacher. First off, he has a horrible accent that you need to get over, which actually isn't that bad. But mostly, he doesn't even know what he's talking about. Half of the stuff he says in class people have to correct him on. In addition, he is terrible at any sort of math. For the majority of our math based problems, he failed to give us certain information that was key, and only when somebody mentioned this did he somewhat realize it. I don't understand how he has an engineering degree. Any one in our class has more math experience than he does. His lectures are BORING! Reads directly from his slides, doesn't add anything creative. He asks rediculous questions on his tests that you would never need to know. His tests don't evaluate your understanding, but evaluate whether you remember a certain piece of bullshit information that will never come in useful. All in all, a horrible teacher. Never take this guy! You won't learn anything and will to poorly on his tests, which he doesn't even know the right answers to.

ENVE 455 Senior Grade Earned: B Elective 7:32 pm, Nov 11, 2008 Report Evaluation		Pal just doesn't care about the students. He's here for his grant money: He'll try to get you out of his office as quick as possible. HIS LECTURES ARE ALMOST COMPLETELY UNPREPARED. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

ENVE 331 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 9:59 pm, Aug 20, 2008 Report Evaluation		hes a cool guy--keeps himself available during office hours. he can't read your mind if you're having trouble with the concepts, but if you ask him about it, hes willing to explain and give examples and stuff. tough grader, but the grade you get is the grade you deserve.

ENVE 331 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 9:16 pm, Jun 16, 2008 Report Evaluation		On the first day of class he makes it seem like it will be a walk in the park. Open note quizzes and tests and a small amount of HW due every or every other week. However, this class proved to be a lot harder. His accent is super thick and he is not very patient to help students in class. He frequently made mistakes in his lectures and made learning the material confusing. Make sure he thinks you are "trying" and go to his office hours and he will help you out at the end. Also, always look over your test and exam gradings because each one of mine was misgraded by about 15 points. All in all he is kind of a funny guy who can be nice at times but I would NOT recommend him. His powerpoint lectures are hard to follow.

ENVE 331 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 11:30 pm, Jun 12, 2008 Report Evaluation		this teacher makes you work hard for your grade even though he tries to come off as super easy the first day. he knows who does the work and who doesnt. he makes it so that youre super unsure of your grade going into the final, but if you worked hard youll get a good grade. and hes kinda funny, just dont take him too seriously



ENVE 331 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 4:02 pm, Jun 6, 2008 Report Evaluation		Whoever said he was a decent teacher below and easy must have had a completely different teacher. THICK THICK accent very difficult to understand. HARD grader class average on the first 2 quizzes were in the 40 percent range. same with average on midterm. HW due once a week not too bad. Quizzes and tests were very difficult. he wanted you to know your stuff inside and out and think outside the box. i didnt really get it but oh well. 7-9 AM tough to stay awake!! But i always did cuz i worked my tail off to try to pass.

ENVE 331 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 9:44 am, Sep 13, 2007 Report Evaluation		Wow. this class was amazing. pal pretty much went over EVERYTHING that was on the test and placed emphasis on it. he let's you use your notes on the tests... which is pretty awesome if you take good notes. some people in my class didn't and were screwed cuz some of his questions on tests are almost word for word the problems we do in class. the homework only helped enforce the concepts we were learning... nothing from homework was really on the test. but STUDY THE EXAMPLES HE DOES ON THE BOARD. and when it comes towards the end of the quarter (waste water stuff) write down almost everything he says cuz they're all pictures. oh yeah, i forgot about that, he gives out his notes in powerpoint form and has you print them out before class. VERY EASY. personally, he was hilarious for having the class at 7 in the morning. his stories may sometimes take up a whole half hour but they're a good break from all the stuff he has to teach. overall, a great professor who's funny, really wants his students to do well and is very helpful in office hours. would definitely recommend. come on, any teacher that tells you exactly what's going to be on a test is hard to come by.

ENVE 331 Graduate Student Grade Earned: A Elective 6:47 pm, Jul 26, 2007 Report Evaluation		People who got C,D, and F's are idiotic. He presented everything in a funny way but made you understand.

ENVE 331 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 12:38 am, Jul 13, 2007 Report Evaluation		Very good teacher. He kept me awake during the 7-9 am class for the entire qtr by being enthusiastic and engaging.

ENVE 216 Graduate Student Grade Earned: A General Ed 6:42 pm, Jul 10, 2007 Report Evaluation		My favorite prof. He rocked! His lectures were good. When he made mistakes he always laughed it off. I found out his grading on neatness. Don't make the text too small, but don't make it HUGE either. He also checks how much you erased. If you erase 10 times then obviously you won't get a very high score in neatness. To get a A, you have to be super attentive. Besides that, don't be afraid to ask questions. He's a really great guy. And we keep in touch all the time. He helped me ace evry exam. Really he's willing to help but only if you help him find out your difficulties. He's the nicest guy ever and if you are smart then chances are he'll help you as much as he can. I had him for a lot of classes so I would know. Take his classes. Seriously!

ENVE 331 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 12:54 pm, Jun 21, 2006 Report Evaluation		Pal sucked as a prof. He was a really nice guy, but his lectures were so disorganized. Half the class was either confused or falling asleep. Only a few people knew what was going on, most likely because they learned the material from somewhere else. But, I left the class with close to the same knowledge that I walked in with. I learned from the homework, but his quizzes, midterm, and final were only from his crappy lectures, so I did shitty on those. But, somehow, he granted me a B+ (most likely because I made an effort to try and he noticed). I was so confused about my grade throughout the whole quarter, since my quizzes didn't reflect my grade (65%, 55%, 80%). Don't take this guy if you want to actually learn!



ENGR 331 5th Year Senior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 4:54 pm, May 23, 2006 Report Evaluation		Dr. Pal is indeed, like many have said, a nice and personable guy with a good sense of humor. HOWEVER, he doesn't know how to teach very well. I'm still taking the course, but I can already tell that 90% of the class is hoping for a nice curve, which I'm sure he'll do. He has two, actually, three main problems: 1. He has horrible examples that he comes up with on the spot. The problem with this is that he doesn't know the answer and doesn't have the solution and thus can't tell you for sure whether you've done it right. 2. His tests / quizzes are questionable. For instance, our first midterm's first question wasn't really a question, and thus nobody could do it. It might be the language barrier or it might be ineptness. Hard to say. 3. The text REALLY sucks. I've taken classes with bad teachers, but I've managed to pull through by teaching myself from the text. Not really possible with this text. Tons of very obvious typos, long-winded with no emphasis on important parts, and examples and HW problems that have major errors. I have a feeling I'll walk away with a B, but only because of a curve, and I won't have learned anything. If you're a CE who's just taking it as a support course, then I guess I would say go for it, since it probably won't be that important to you. If not, I'd suggest avoiding him.

ENVE 455 5th Year Senior Grade Earned: B Elective 12:19 am, Mar 30, 2006 Report Evaluation		This class ruled. Pal has a great sense of humor and doesn't take himself too seriously. I'm a CE and took this class as a tech elec, and now I kind of envy the Enve's (hah...). This class is impossible to get an A in but impossible to get lower than a B in. Don't forget to bring your soduko's to class though. He just goes over powerpoints which he has posted on blackboard. Tests are open note so just print those out and you're golden. Honestly, Pal is super-personable. Everyone bitches about his accent but it's really no big deal when you think about how down to earth the guy is..

ENGR 582 Graduate Student Grade Earned: N/A Elective 5:13 pm, Mar 18, 2006 Report Evaluation		With no textbook for reference we had to solely rely on him for the subject matter. Unfortunately his handouts didn't really follow any order and he burdened us with a lot of them. Then he would lecture about half the stuff in them and not explain the rest at all. He was always late to class and we had a lab too that he was always late for, and never prepared us for what we would be doing next week, often nothing it turned out. If you don't do your report or presentation just how he wants it, he doesn't tell you what he wants, he will Rip on you but not offer any helpful criticism. Basically he is a slacker, promises to do things and then never comes through. His test questions are all fucked up. He mixes units, he leaves things you need out, and he never covered the material adequately for you to wrangle with his confusing questions. Avoid at all costs!!!! PS A is 85 or above and so on, might make up for it but he is so bad.

ENVE 309 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 4:41 pm, Dec 14, 2005 Report Evaluation		Go to office hours, even if you get the questions on homework or exams wrong, as long as you know him he will give you extra points just for asking questions. The exams were difficult to understand since dr. pal's english skills could use some work. if you are taking thermo, he LOVES the phrase CpdT he's got a sense of humor and the class is pretty laid back. He had us work in partners for homework since he was too lazy to grade all twenty assignments . . . there were four exams and no final . . . overall I didn't learn much, take ME 302 if you really want to learn thermodynamics

ENGR 213 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 11:40 pm, Apr 19, 2005 Report Evaluation		Well I was willing to overlook him brushing off student questions and not covering any of the stuff that was in the homework that was assigned... but when he marked me off 20 points on a 70 point hw assignment for not writing the original equation and the givens that were listed in the problem right above all of the work I neatly, clearly, and 100% correctly presented something needs to be said. Don't bother going to the lectures with him for 213, the homework covers the formulae listed at the end of the powerpoint he never finished. Make sure you write them on the worksheet as well as all the stuff in the problem because even though no where does he say a thing about that, it's worth about 30% of your grade.

ENGR 213 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 12:07 am, Mar 30, 2005 Report Evaluation		Absolutely terrible. He was a guest lecturer for this course and did a stupendously crappy job. It's amazing how he made such a bad impression after only 3 1/2 hours of having him for lecture, but he certainly did. He lectured on absolutely nothing pertinent to the course or what he planned on testing on until the last 5 minutes of class. He threw up some half-life formulas, and tried to explain them. Unfortunately, his accent was so bad no one could understand him, and when he was asked to clarify what he had just said, he just mumbled it again, and moved. It turned out EVERY SINGLE QUESTION on his part of the midterm and final dealt with those last 3 equations that he put up in a rush...absolutely terrible



CE 123 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 8:19 pm, Feb 21, 2004 Report Evaluation		sucks

ENVE 302 Senior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 5:53 pm, Feb 10, 2004 Report Evaluation		Potentially good class and course material. Horrible professor. Textbook was worse than him. Don't expect to learn anything. For the take-home final a group of 14 students studied together for 6 hours and nobody could get problem 3. Heresay choice quote: "Don't worry about getting the right answer, you won't get full credit anyway." (!)

ENGR 213 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 10:47 am, Oct 9, 2002 Report Evaluation		Nice guy, but presented pure theory with a heavy emphasis on mathematics without clarifying the meaning of variables and why the equations work. Lecture slides we're tedious and put students to sleep. He needs to work on intermingling the math with real life examples AND explanations of how (insert topic here) fits into the bigger picture. He can't load up on math then do 1 slide on how it fits. He also needs to clarify the variables he uses on every slide (i.e; explain what each variable is, what it does, and how it fits in). Overall, this professor is not worth the time. If in ENGR 213, take the quiz then leave. Don't even waste your time listening to this guy.

ENGR 213 5th Year Senior Grade Earned: N/A General Ed 10:25 pm, Apr 15, 2002 Report Evaluation		Dr. Pal is a very articulate, knowledgeable man. The only thing keeping him out of the upper echelon of professors is his shortcomings with the English language. As soon as he learns how to annunciate more clearly, he will be a rock start among the mere mortals. He knows the material very well, and he explains things in a concise, up-front manner. Were it not for the language difficulties, I would have given him all As.

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