Berj Bardakjian - University of Toronto - St. George Campus, Toronto, ON

Professor: Berj Bardakjian

Department: Electrical Engineering

College: University of Toronto - St. George Campus, Toronto, ON

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ECE110
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Assumes you know everything, answers all questions like they are stupid questions. His slides are a copy from the textbook, and all he does is read from the slides.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ECE110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Pretty good professor who has clear and concise explanations. Really helped me learn the concepts of the course.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ECE110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Best ever, some might not understand him but cares about his students and content.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ECE101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Pure genius, perhaps too smart for his own good.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ECE212
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Was very critical of people and would regularily put you down in front of the class when asked any sort of question. That is why we go to class - to learn and ask questions, he did not get that concept. I ended up skipping most classes and still did fine, what's the point of paying for courses if the prof doesn't answer questions.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ECE445
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

The worst prof I've ever had and an even worse test writer. The questions are one line asking to "derive this" or "describe this" and then he gives you 2 blank pages to condense all the key points of an entire chapter in to an answer. Spends entire lectures stroking his ego at how amazing his subject is instead of teaching the damn thing

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ECE445
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

"If you just think clearly you can see that it's obvious" The material *is* interesting, though the professor is just constantly in this mild level of condescending throughout the year. He is the main reason I regret taking this course. Studying is difficult, conscientious decision not to post solutions to anything.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ECE445
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He spends more time talking about how the students should understand/know something instead of actually explaining the concepts. He has a skewed view of people's intelligence and expects people to remember everything they've done in previous years with perfect accuracy. His answer to every question: "If you just THINK about it, it's very simple"

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ECE110
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This man truly believes that everything he teaches in class is on auto-understand, and he takes offence when you ask a question. his answers are vague and dont actually answer your questions. He is really supportive of his colourful lecture notes and actually stops lecturing to demand that you not look down and take notes but look at him. USE TEXT

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ECE110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

great

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ECE445
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Good lecture notes and teaching skills. Also cares about students. However, course requires lots of memorizing and test questions tend to be vague.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ECE445
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He's so smart, that he doesn't understand student's questions in his lectures. He is very enthusiastic, but also an idealist, so be prepared to hear phrases about love and emotion, and learning. His idealisms have the unfortunate tendency to unite the class against him. Not my best prof, but not the worst.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ECE445
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Horrible. He disguises his inability to teach behind crazy enthusiasm. Only cares about the students with good grades. Everyone else is class average fodder.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ECE445
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

This is one of the best professors at UofT. He is very interested in the material, and makes sure that his point is sent across.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ECE445
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Good notes, but his answers to questions make no sense and is sometimes unclear in lecture. Tests focus too much on derivations and multiple choice questions are very ambiguous.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ECE110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Took into to ECE with him. Useless. Notes are unclear, does not answer questions well, and is very confusing. I skipped a lot of lectures near the end and just learned everything out of the textbook. I ended up with 99 in the course. If possible, avoid this prof.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ECE110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Don't go to class.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ECE110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Pure Genius! Best out there!

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ECE110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

by coming 5 mins late to class wasted 5*37 = 185 minutes!!!!! ahhhh, he was supposed to give to "review" lectures, what a (...). who hired this guy? whyyyyyyyyy? whyyyyyyyyyy???????????

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ECE110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

OHhhhhhhhhhhhh, why is he in the lecture roam??? this must be a joke! ZERO benefit from classes, and the book isn't that good either. He had mistakes on the "notes"(which arent' really notes AT ALL) for two days!!!, he is too lazy to do real teaching. If he really cares, he would have changed is nasty way.