Gordon, Raymond  

Dr. Raymond G. Gordon is a great teacher for Statics. He is the senior member of the Mechanical Engineering department (he has been teaching here for 35 years) and his experience is apparent. He teaches all the relevant material and adds effective problem-solving methods that the text does not consider. He keeps the class interesting with his jubilant personality and connections to the real world. Homework is due every day and there will be two challenging but fair exams before the final, which is common. Gordon expects much from his students, especially that they attend class. Professor Gordon brings honor to the Mechanical Engineering department. If he is teaching the class you need, by all means register for his section.

I pay 726.50 or around there each quarter to be taught engineering. This school is a business. We pay to be instructed by a bunch of bitter, out of shape retards who care absolutely nothing about their jobs. They pull the same bullshit as high school teachers. I just walked ouit of the final after trashing my paper. Why? Because I wasnt prepared for it. The fat pig who degrades everybody in his class, every thing in this world seems to be gay and worthless to him, and not to mention he knows about everything. Oh, did u know nasa seeks information from him, hahah right. This is the biggest waste of a teacher this school has employed (with our dam money). The homework preceeds the lecture, have fun teaching yourself this shit. And theres not one problem in the book that relates to the real world, which means theres no real use for it. MAIN THING, PREPARE TO BEND OVER AND TAKE THIS CLASS RIGHT UP THE ASS. DONT TAKE THIS LOSER. The reason you dont have more of these reviews is because most of you people in college are liberal pussies who seem to like to study 15 hrs a day and take a load up the butt.

Gordon is a decent professor. He tends to come of a bit arrogant but he enjoys his job and wants you to learn the material. If your confused about anything all you have to do is ask him to clarify while he does the problem and he'll be happy to do it. Just make sure to copy the solutions he posts out side his door after the homework.

This teacher suck!! All he does is making the materials harder to understand. He does not know how to teach. Also he is not well prepair. I rearly need to withdraw form classes but this time is totally not my fault.

Dr. Gordon was awsome. His class was fairly hard, but if you do well on your final, thats your final grade. He is extrememly helpfull in office hours also.

seriously, HE IS PROBABLY THE BEST (BUT NOT EASIEST) PROF YOU CAN GET FOR THIS CLASS. his lectures are good, his grading is great, no complaints ever about that, you will probably have a quiz almost every week, but nothing too hard. GORDON REALLY CARES ABOUT HIS STUDENTS, and REALLY REALLY GOOD IN OFFICE HOURS. but you better be working on the homework every day, DYANAMICS IS HARD SO DONT TRY TO GET BY WITH FRESHMEN STUDY HABITS,

Dr. Gordon is the senior ME guy in the department, so he has been around awhile. He has a decent sense of humor and really gets into thermo. His lectures are decent but sometimes he doesn't cover the material you need to know before the homework is due. There is homework due every class meeting, MWF usually 3 or 4 problems. The homework usually takes about 2-3 hour to complete. He is helpful during office hours and can expalin things well. He doesn't make the class too boring. He gives quizzes occasionally, pretty much on his whim. His 2 exams are fair, challenging sometimes but very do-able if you have a good grasp of the material. The final was not that bad and was comprehensive. He curves the exams and the class as a whole. He's not trying to fail you and he tries to be as objective and as fair as possible. A hint for thermo ... learn chapter 3 really well, it will make the course easier.

The previous rating is right on.

Great first description! Very good in office hours. He will take the time to explain until you get it. Very quirky at times if not always, but it helps to keep you awake/entertained, especially in early classes. Very fair grader. Make sure you get to know him a little and watch out for many quizzes. They are rarely difficult, but he is really into everyone going to class.

Get ready to work your ass off! Gordon is a great teacher. But you must go to class every day, take notes, do the homework (which is due every class period) and GO TO HIS OFFICE HOURS. If you can't handle all of these things take someone else because you will not do well.

His lectures were erratic and useless for review and homework. Gordon doesn't stress the methodology for doing thermo problems but expects you to do it. The tests were fair. The final was hard. Take other professor if you want to learn more.

Dr. Gordon was a pretty fair teacher. His tests are a bit odd becuase he doesn't make them out of 100 points, it depends on how many key points that question covers. His office hours are really helpful If you go often (not every day) you will understand the material. He is a funny guy and very upbeat. I have never been sleepy in his class. He will give a quiz for every three people that are missing from class that day. It ends up we would get a 3 minute quiz every class time. I would recommend him to my friends and to you.

Gordon is wierd. He isn't too bad. He let our whole class not take the final if they were happy with their grade. I am bitter because I took the final and didn't improve my grade. He likes to give very hard tests and then curve a lot! Our second test had a class average of 29%. That was curved up to a 75% I think. So it is not bad.

Dr Gordon's lectures are erratic and dont precede the HW so his classes are harder than they should be. He doesnt lecture on a subject until after the HW is turned in so there is lots of time and effort spent outside of class learning hte material. Also his requirements for HW turned in are pretty rediculous in terms of neatness and following precise guidelines. Tests are pretty representative of the material but involve twists that will throw you easily if you are feeling rushed.

Professor Gordon is a great professor. He is fun and really loves what he does. He is very helpfu in office hours, but there is usually a long line outside his office because the material is really hard! There is homework due every single day, which is a pain because it took me almost an hour per problem (about 3 problems a night), but it prepares you for the quizzes and midterm. The quizzes are a cinch if you do the homework the night before. He gives them randomly, so be in class daily! They mostly consist of looking things up in the back of the book. The midterm was really hard, but he curved it. The class did really horrible as a whole, and he discussed with us why it went so badly to help him understand. I thought this was great because he didn't blame us, and the final was a lot more reasonable.

Gordon is easily one of the best professors ive ever had. the only problem is that he is HARD. if you want to learn thermodynamics, take him, if you want to cruise by, take someone else. his exams are out of this world. the average for the first exam for my class was 20%, and after a huge curve that came out to be a 70%. hes hard, but if you go to his office hours, he'll really try to clear things out.

This guy rocks. Only duche bags dont like him because they suck. He keeps the lecture interesting because he is crazy as hell. He can go off on stupid tangents, but they are usually good things to know or are a nice short break from trying to keep up with hard material. He is intimidating at first, but just take that stick out our ass and you could grow to like him. To the loser with the grey hair that always sits in front of the class and bitches...eat a dick. Take this teacher, his is intersting, conveys material well, and grades more than fairly.

For the first five weeks he didn't really lecture at all, he just told stories, which were interesting, but they had no relevance to the homework. For the rest of the quarter he started lecturing about stuff relevant to the class, but he still did not go into enough detail and often times he was confused by what he had done in his own notes. Often he would cover material that was on the quiz after we took the quiz. We had 5 quizes and no midterms. He gives you 20 min to do the quizes, which were always a race to finish. When he handed back the quizes and went over them, it would often take him 50 min to finish a "20 min" quiz. On the plus side, he has curves like crazy, he uses some weird statistics (Somebody once got a 2 out 50 and ended up with a 60% on the quiz). I would sugguest waiting for someone who knows how to teach like shollenberger or thorncroft.

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU TAKE GORDON. I value your education and wouldnt want anyone to go through this unnecessarily horrible experience at cal poly. Gordon is BY FAR the WORST professor I have ever had to deal with. I honestly wonder why Cal Poly continues to hire him. I can easily say that I learned NOTHING during his lectures, often leaving lecture wondering why i even went, wishing I had gone to the library to read the book. He laughs at students when they try to reason with him, he is condescending, unreasonable, and simply DOESNT TEACH THERMO!!! The only reason I learned anything was because I read every word the textbook had to offer and did every example problem I could get my hands on. You will learn through fear and disgust, not through carefully delivered lectures and appreciated time spent studying notes. Gordons explanation: "I AM TRYING TO TEACH MY STUDENTS HOW TO READ THE TEXTBOOK!" what this boils down to? "I REFUSE TO TEACH MY STUDENTS ANYTHING DURING LECTURE, BUT WILL MAKE THEM LEARN IT BY GIVING IMPOSSIBLE TESTS TO SCARE THEM!" I'm not afraid of the evil emperror, but I hate his guts. How to pass Gordons class: 1 - dont go to lectures, they are a complete waste of time. 2 - expect his tests to have nothing to do with the material presented during class (hence the reason not to go.) 3 - do every example problem you can get your hands on, use the solutions manual. 4 - get FAST at doing problems, because Gordy loves to spice his exam problems up with tricks that if not manuvered quickly, will leave NO time to finish the material supposedly being tested. 5 - Dont expect to get a grade that matches your understanding of thermo, expect to get a grade that matches your ability to do problems quickly. Basically if you want to take it up the ass and feel like shit after just about every exam you take (bi-weekly) want to deal with someone who doesnt care much about student needs, doesnt listen to your suggestions, and simply is unreasonable, uncaring, and whose grading scheme is unfair and unrepresentative of your capacity as an ME to do thermo, Take GORDY!

Ahhhhh Gordon. He's old. I always figured that the professor was supposed to lecture to reinforce the reading out of the book. But this is not how it works with Gordon. All he does is lecture about how he is building a feral cat santuary in his back yard or having nuclear power plants up and down the west coast to fend off evil do'ers. Sounds enticing doesn't it? His class consists of collecting assigned HW and having 5 impossible quizzes. The quizzes are basically HW problems out of the book but with a trick that you have to know. He gives you a modest 20 minutes to finish a 30 minute problem. Under these condition most students panick, make mistakes, and end up failing the quizzes. The average grade on the quizzes were around 20/60 roughly. He curved it with a unique method so that the average was a C. I ended up getting low C's on every quiz. When the final came around I had to work my ass off to get a B in the class. Thankfully it paid off! I reconmmend just showing up to class just to give someone your HW to turn it in for you. It is a completly worthless 50 minutes of your life and you would probably like to use it to get doughnuts and coffee...mmmm. Hopefully Gordon read this. I am sure he is a nice guy and loves to teach, but completly RETIRE ALREADY AND TAKE A CRUISE WITH OLD BITTER PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF.

I think the biggest problem with this class is that you never know where you stand. Each quiz gets a curve (which is rediculously large) but the course overall is curved from the total of your quizes. So going into the final you may have gotten average to above average scores but when its all said and done (he dropped the lowest score for everyone) you have an entirely different score. For example you get 4 "C"s on quizes the lowest one is dropped, your classmate gets 2 "A"s and 2 "D"s so after dropping the lowest his grade is higher than yours, then the curve kicks in and you drop from a C to a D even though you got "C"s on all the tests. The final was poorly worded (which accounted for about a quarter of the time spent) and covered material not in lecture. This is not to say that it wasn't doable with after taking the course, it just wasn't doable in the time given, which was short. Gordon likes making you take quizes that are slightly too long to finish in time. That way you get a feel for how the real world is /sarcasm.

Gordon is by far the WORST professor in the entire ME department. Gordon once said, "Im not here to teach thermodynamics, that is what the book is for". And he kept try to his promise. However, I paid something like 1300 bucks to have classes with TEACHERS, and 400 bucks for books. Needless to say, save your money, buy the book, read the appropriate chapters, and challenge the course to save yourself 10 weeks of pointless lectures. In my opinion the ME departement is doing a complete diservice by allowing Gordon to work at this school. Gordons lectures were full of mistakes and usually off topic. Everytime he tried to do a proof he would make a mistake and the say, "Well this is what you should get..." Take this course with anyone but Gordon!!!

This guy sucks. His lectures are worthless. No examples. He babbles about nothing then writes down the equation in the book. Over him like the plague!

I thought he taught the class very well, I left it with a much better understanding of the class. That said, he grades in a way that only a retired/tenured professor can. Hard quizzes, and a very tough final. To do well in his class, know the main information, and study all of the exceptions that he mentions in class.

I would not recommend this professor at all. He doesn't organize his lecture and never do example problems. I didn't learn anything in his class because his lecture usually behind the given hw, and the lectures suck. Fluid is an easy material, and this teacher doesn't teach that well either...On the other hand, he curves a lot, because many peolpe didn't do well in his class. So if you have to take him, it's better that you learn from the book on your own.

I would not recommend this professor at all. He doesn't organize his lecture and never do example problems. I didn't learn anything in his class because his lecture usually behind the given hw, and the lectures suck. Fluid is not an easy material, and this teacher doesn't teach that well either...On the other hand, he curves a lot, because many peolpe didn't do well in his class. So if you have to take him, it's better that you learn from the book on your own.

Professor Gordon is a decent instructor. He was pretty organized and often talked about examples that related to the class. His office hours were semi-helpful as he did not do homework problems for you, but tried to explain the concepts. The surprise quizes were also pretty fair, as long as you remembered to memorize the things he told you to memorize. The tests were nothing really complicated although you needed to understand the concepts well. Although he had a rough grading system, pretty harsh, the class was curved so if you knew what you were doing, you would get a decent grade.

Gordon is a funny son of a bitch. He was a great instructor. His tests are really hard, but he curves a lot - a 40/175 ended up being a 66% after the curve. Homework is easy (as long as you read the text). He makes up the tests, so they can't be found in the textbook. His lectures are very dense, and sometimes he falls behind the homework. He gives quizzes that are 1-3 minutes long, asking questions from the previous lecture (usually, it involved writing down a specific equation). He puts on an act for lecture. He is funny sometimes, but most of the time he enjoys scaring the crap out of his students.

This guy is weird, funny, but weird. He scares the crap out of you at the beginning, but it ends up not being that bad. He likes quizzing when a lot of people don't show up, so be in class, turn in the hw, and pay attention. He's tough but very reasonable, and curves insanely. It is just about guaranteed you will hate him for the first few weeks, but he'll grow on you.

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