Ali R. Kavianpour - University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA

Professor: Ali R. Kavianpour

Department: Engineering

College: University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ECET31L
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Kavianpour is a great teacher. He is very knowledgeable.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: EECS31L
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Although nice, he is a terrible, terrible professor. Lectures are disorganized and almost impossible to follow along most gave up listening and appeared to be working on other assignments during lecture. Final was extremely difficult and forced students to use their vague knowledge gained during the class to solve highly specific problems. No!

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: EECS31L
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Kavianpour is a good guy, just not a great professor. Writes all his code by hand, with lecture notes that are almost impossible to follow. I had him for EECS 20 as well, and that was just as bad. Avoid him if you can.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: EECS20
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He is an excellent teacher. Lots of review material.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: EECS20
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Not a good lecturer by any means, If it wasn't for the iClicker, I don't think many students would show up to lecture. His graders are horrible, and give students 0/100 for completely fine submissions. And his tests are difficult.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: EECS20
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Kavianpour is not a good teacher. Instead of using a compiler, he just reads through a Word Doc for every lecture, and makes everything even more confusing. He does post lecture notes and review, but the tests are so abstract, you never know what to expect. If possible, take EECS20 with someone else.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: EECS20
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

There are a lot of great professors at UCI. Unfortunately, Prof. Kavianpour is not one of them.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: EECS10
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Very good teacher, excellent course website with lots of materials

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: EECS10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Is it a meme to give this guy a good review? Terrible teacher, though he seems like a cool guy. Tests are somewhat difficult. Really understand order of operations and the extent of the syntax. during lecture, he calls out names, so you kinda have to go. If you've never coded before, and don't have an interest, you might have a bad time

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: EECS12
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Very insightful course. This was my first programming course. The professor explained the concepts really clearly and gave out a lot of helpful handouts. Will take this professor again.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: EECS12
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Excellent professor. I really enjoyed this class

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: EECS12
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Supposed to be an intro course, but professor goes straight into python and I had to resort to learning from a CS friend. Lectures are extremely disorganized to the point where you'd be better off not going to the lectures, but sadly you get graded for showing up. Tests are difficult mostly due to the prof's terrible grammar, which is just horrible

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: EECS10
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

This guy is hella hot. Oh he teaches pretty well too.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: EECS12
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Very helpful, excellent instructor

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: EECS12
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Not an easy class but if you go to lecture and review your notes you'll do well. Professor gives really good examples and always willing to help and clarify questions

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: EECS12
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Excellent Professor

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: EECS12
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Professor Kavianpour is an over all terrible instructor. He does not clarify what he wants students to know. In addition, he does not upload sample programming problems like the way other programming instructors do. His lectures are unorganized and very boring.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: EECS12
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

50% of the students in his class aren't even at the lectures. The other 49% of his students are asleep during his lecture. This guy needs to learn how to type faster and more accurately because half of the lecture is him fixing his spelling mistakes.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: EECS12
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

His accent is very thick and attendance is mandatory. He uploads powerpoints online, but they are not related to your homework or what he did in lecture that day. Avoid if possible.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: EECS20
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Tough professor but super helpful one on one. Make sure you really study your class notes. Wish he taught more classes, he's very funny!