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Rating for Terry Cooke
Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, SLO

ME 211
Sophomore
Grade Earned: F
Required (Major)
1:20 am, Jun 16, 2010

I took this professor during winter of 2009. This man is a tool and has no idea of the students overall understanding of the material. He is ignorant and does not even wince at student difficulties. All the posts below me who claim that Cooke is excellent are natural geniuses (probably people who should honestly be going to more challenging schools like Cal Tech instead of screwing us ordinary people who tend to learn things at a slower pace. No offense but I really feel this way)whom cannot relate to the average intelligent but hard-working student. The man is terrible at responding to emails and fails on his part to give assistance to students. Needless to say I failed his class in the winter and retook the class with Prof. HP in the Spring: a MUCH better choice for statics (although for dynamics you may wish to find a better teacher as I hear he tends to fall behind in the material). I passed the class with a C in the end. Although joining a study group and hearing the same material the second time around may have helped, I realized that Cooke missed some very key points in the lecture and FAILED to give any sort of tip or guide to follow when solving each type of statics problem. Statics is a cornerstone class which weeds out true engineers from non-engineers but it should be passable given the student makes an effort to learn the material. Take my word and do not take this guy. We are not paying $20,000 a year to have some guy lecture from an already written text but to actually help us LEARN the material by TEACHING. Cooke fails in all aspects of teaching statics.

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