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Rating for Daniel Biezad
Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly, SLO

AERO 320
Junior
Grade Earned: A
Required (Major)
6:32 pm, Apr 9, 2009

Despite the supbar reviews, Biezad is actually a cool guy and a decent professor. Yea, 320 is a kick in the pants and will make no sense at all throughout most of the quarter, but that's because it is a radically different form of analysis than anything you're probably familiar with. Could somebody teach this class better than Biezad? Yea possibly, but I don't think the difference would be as great as some are suggesting. The material is just difficult. Plain and simple. The good news is, a majority of the material in this class builds on itself, unlike other courses that skip around on different topics. This translates into the class being one of those "light at the end of the tunnel" experiences where you're fairly lost for the first 7 weeks and then finally everything STARTS to make a little sense towards the end. The class consisted of 2 midterms, 6 lab assignments, some in-class group quizzes, and the final. Tests were pretty rough, but the averages were usually in the 50% range so as long as you can stay ahead of that you're in good shape. My advice. Do the optional homework. Start early on the labs and really try to understand what's going on. If you let someone else do all the work and just nod and say OK to what they're saying. Your dead. GO to office hours, especially before a test. Always go over your labs and tests afterwords with Biezad because he's very generous giving back points. And just try to stay afloat long enough for it to all sink in. Good Luck.

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