Poman So - University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

Professor: Poman So

Department: Electrical Engineering

College: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: BME335
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Poman So is the worst professor I have had at UVic and the worst teacher I've had overall. I also had him for Elec 216 which proved to be just as bad of an experience. His lectures consist of him reciting information dense, and highly technical slides to you quickly, without explaining any of the concepts. He is incapable of taking criticism.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: BME335
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Terrible. Grading criteria is nonexistent. He might decide to take 100% off of a problem even if you had it 95% correct (yes, for part-mark problems). His formula sheets are 90% stuff you don't need, and the other 10% will barely help you on the exams. I have had 2 courses with him and I can say Poman So is easily the worst teacher I've ever had.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ELEC340
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Poman is a great human being, but an awful test maker. I loved his lectures and presence in labs, but his course structure was punishing. 65% final, 5 questions that felt arbitrarily chosen. If you got lucky and memorized the solution to a question, you'd get a 13% higher grade that someone who didn't. My pre-final mark was A+, post-final was C+.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ELEC340
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Poman's lectures are really exciting! He talks quickly, and his brain seems to be in a million places at once, but if you can follow along, it's absolutely worth showing up. FYI, "Reads off of slides" isn't a criticism, folks. For dense, difficult material, teaching yourself is so much more of a headache. I found his lectures extremely valuable.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ELEC340
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He just reads off his "nicely put" slides; such a waste of my time and money. It seems like Uvic's electrical engineering department has no standards whatsoever.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ELEC340
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

By far, the worst prof Ive had so far. Heres the thing, he uses slides mostly, which I usually dont mind. but, he throws a whole lotta formulas and diagrams at you at once and straight up reads them to you, assuming that you understand everything. I mean, I can read it myself, thanks

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ELEC340
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Dunno if it's me or him, but i don't understand anything that is going on in class.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ELEC216
• 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:

Just take phys 216. Poman put the least amount of effort humanly possible into his elec 216 class. Things like written examples or class demos dont exist. Combine that with his thick accent, and his sole teaching tool being the slides which are distributed by the texts publisher resulted in a dismal learning experience.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: BME335
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Roman So definitely did the best he could with our course. The class should really be split into about three classes so he has to cover TONS of content in one semester. He really cares about the students in the class and would change the dates of midterms and assignments if the class talked to him about it. He also brought fun demos to lecture.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ELEC216
• Grade Received: C-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Look forward to learning everything out of the textbook on your own if you're going to pass this class. So's lectures aren't worth going to as they present very little useable material and his voice is very hard to understand and also may put you to sleep. Ridiculously hard material. Take Math 200 BEFORE taking this course!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ELEC340
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Reads from his slides every lecture. Study textbook and assignments and you'll do fine. Exams aren't too bad.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ELEC340
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Hard class, mother of god. If you copy answers from others and don't attend lectures, you will fail. If you actually take time to learn it is a great class. He will help you if you ask him for some. Midterm is hard, Final is easier.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ELEC34O
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He has pre made slide that are not accessible until after the lecture and all he does is rea he equations and expects you to remember everything. If I could do anything around this teacher I would. Unfortunately there is no way... To sum things up, he puts you to sleep faster than the sandman..

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ELEC216
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Not a very good lecturer. Granted, this course covers quite a bit of material in a small amount of time, but the use of power point to present everything wasn't very effective. Examples on the board might have been beneficial, but 99% of things he showed in lecture could be read directly from the textbook. Tests were not reasonable.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ELEC216
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

He has very confusing slides, goes very quickly and if very hard to talk to. His midterm was the same length as the final, but only gave us 50 minutes to do it. the class average was a 6 out of 22 and the highest mark was 15. I ended up skipping a lot of his lectures and learned the whole course in about 35 hours over four days.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ELEC216
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Do not take a class with poman. Thick accent and reads his slides. Teach yourself everything and don't feel bad about skipping class at all. By the end of semester about 30% of the class showed up

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ELEC216
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Very bad professor. Simply reads off of his slides and doesn't really answer questions or do examples

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ELEC216
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Easiest midterm ever. Labs are never painful. Sweaters are nice, So.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ELEC216
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Don't take his courses. Bad accent and worst midterm.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ELEC216
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

This man has nice sweaters. Show up. You'll see.