Marek Syrzycki - Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

Professor: Marek Syrzycki

Department: Engineering

College: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENSC325
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Classes are boring. Wouldnt take his class again.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ENSC325
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Marek is a legend! Promotes students to Eagles of different classes, for example, there is a First Major Eagle (gets purple heart award). In all seriousness Marek is a legend with legendary quotes such as, "when you see a complicated circuit, don't panic on the titanic" and "my duty is to provide an error rich environment". Take the class with him!

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ENSC325
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I have trouble with his accent. Notes are very random, hard to follow. Buy text book, or you wont pass

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: 325
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

The course was hard itself but Marek was always willing to satay longer to explain the material or available for random showing at his office. If you are looking for easy grades - this is not for you!

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ENSC325
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Marek is a beauty. Great guy. Always willing to help, very fair in terms of his expectations for quizzes. Doesn't ask questions about the things that seem extremely difficult from the lectures. Labs are quite challenging but rewarding.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ENSC325
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Go to class and pass. Labs can be hard but that's microelectronics. Teaching 325 he can clearly explain the topics better than 225 now that the students are more senior. He clearly knows what he's talking about and he also had 5 quizzes worth 10% each which helped split up exam marks fairly. His bad rep on this site I don't think is earned fairly

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Do yourself a favor. Avoid him for this course please! thank you.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• 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:

hard class. boring lectures. I did not like his teaching style and exam pattern at all.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• 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:

Too lazy to write his own notes.only 4 questions on final only from high freq mosfets and BJT. So I suppose he thinks amplifier diodes etc were meant just to pass our time

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• 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:

Half of the class dropped the course in the first week of classes.The 75% of the rest remaining failed the class. not recommended at all.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Final was a killer and an extremely low average of 32%. Well why do you think that happened? Think.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• 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:

it was a bad experience to do this course with Dr.Syrzycki because he would not scale. bad. like sooo bad. like O M G bad!!!!!

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Dr.Marek may be a very knowledgeable person but he wasn't able to transfer that knowledge to us and gave a really hard final exam. overall course load was not so much.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• 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:

will turn out to be a nightmare. refrain from taking such an important course with Dr.Marek.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Correct! it was the most ridiculous grading I have seen so far.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• 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:

TA's were more helpful in this course. Marek had zero contribution and 100% expectation.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• 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:

32% average on the final exam yet he does not want to scale.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• 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:

re-taking it with ash. Im sorry to say but he is bad professor! Funny guy though.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: 225
• 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:

Disappointing. Avoid at all costs!!! or else be prepared for a horrible experience!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ENSC225
• 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:

Poor teaching skills and grading is even worse