Professor: Arne Pearlstein
Department: Engineering
College: University Of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaignâ€"Urbana, IL
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: ME300ME320
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
High expectations from students. Killer exams, but his lectures are original and unique. He knows the material and can talk at length and in detail without great preparation. Lectures supplement reading rather than repeat it. Strict, somewhat intimidating, and does not take BS. Demanding professor, but best classes I've taken have been with him.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: ME300
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great teacher and knows his subject(s). Committed to helping students understand the material. For ex., he created homework questions (pretty difficult) and the exams were a direct reflection of the homework. Also organized help sections for the homeworks.. But, yeah, he can be intimidating. And he expects you to know what was taught in the lecture
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: ME320
- Grade Received: Not sure yet
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Notorious for being the toughest professor in the university. Talk in his class and get kicked out regardless of whether it deals with the class.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: ME320
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Writes an essay on the board during each lecture. NO correlation to the book material. Expects a class full of students such as Mr. Meyers. Test bends you over. Class is Class Impossible.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: ME310
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Different than most professors. Makes the course more about understand why things are the way they are, rather than just having you learn it to test it. Learned more in his class than any other. Go to office hours, if he sees you've made an honest effort on the hw and you ask intelligent questions, he will walk you through them.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: ME310
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Don't miss class and ask plenty of questions. Office hours are a must, extremely helpful if he believes you are trying. Very tough but certainly doable.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: ME310
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He makes exams very difficult, but definitely do-able. Be a good student, go to class, and most importantly, show him you care about the material and he is a very helpful. People say avoid him, but I learned more about problem solving and engineering than I would in any other class. He only expects out of you what you can accomplish. Don't be lazy
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: ME300
- 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:
This professor is infamous among ME majors at UIUC for being the worst professor you'll ever take. Bad at teaching (spent 2 lectures canceling units on one problem), bad at helping (yells at students and even other professors), bad at writing exams(average on the first exam was 28%). Avoid at all cost!
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: ME300
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Comments said he is too harsh while I should say the comments are way too harsh. Pearlstein is a very patient guy who would explain something you don't understand many times. Exams are hard but not impossible. I was worried when I saw the comments before taking this class but it turned out that the class is the best one I've taken so far.
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: ME300
- 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:
Great professor, lectures are clear, homework questions are useful and helpful for exams. Exams are not that hard as long as you go to the lectures and do the homework. He also held question sessions weekly which are really helpful. He welcomes questions through email and answers them quite decently. Uses blackboard a lot. Like his way of teaching.
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: ME310
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Everyone will tell you to not take a class with this professor, however he ties everything he teaches into the real world industry. He has more office hours per week than all my professors combined and yes, he WILL make fun of you for mistakes, but suck it up, you are there to ask questions. Exams are difficult, but definitely possible.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: ME300
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He's a grumpy old man that clearly does not know how to teach. The lectures are extremely boring. He wastes tons of time doing arithmetic rather than helping people understand the big picture. Frankly, he is quite an unpleasant person. Make a point to not take this class with him, as he turns it into a much bigger ordeal than it should be.
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: ME300
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He prepares for this class the least of any professor I have ever had. He wastes so much time in class going over extended examples (which he does on the fly) that are not relevant at all to the material. He also gets angry very easily and is an overall unpleasant individual. NO PEOPLE SKILLS.
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: ME300
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Class is extremely difficult and professor is definitely that stereotypical genius professor. That being said office hours can be very helpful and he does offer lots of office hours/question sessions. Definitely expect to work very hard in this class.
Rating # 15
Overview:
- Course: ME300
- 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:
Where do I start? Worst class I have ever taken. Going to class does not help, doing the homework does not help, going to office hours does not help... nothing helps. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HIM. He gave 4 people a 2 out of 100 on a midterm and said there wasn't going to be a curve because someone got 100.
Rating # 16
Overview:
- Course: ME300
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS!
Rating # 17
Overview:
- Course: ME300
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
If you like to learn by having someone talk in front of you for 50 mins and write down every single word that comes out of his mouth then this may be the professor for you. We rarely did example problems. Exam are hard but he says there is a huge curve. He really makes the test so someone as smart as him will ace it
Rating # 18
Overview:
- Course: ME300
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He talks straight into the board and the tests are extremely difficult. As he puts it if you know the information (and by that he means to his level of knowledge) then you will pass.
Rating # 19
Overview:
- Course: ME310
- 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:
Avoid taking any class taught by this man. He's your typical genius, arrogant professor that expects everyone else to be inherently brilliant. He seriously talks straight into the chalkboard for 50 minutes, and writes down every single word he says. Honestly, he is my worst professor throughout college thus far.
Rating # 20
Overview:
- Course: ME211
- 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:
I was getting a B+ until he gave me a 0 on the third test because I was in the hospital with a 105 degree temperature! He did not let me make it up and he gave me an F in the class. He is a POS.
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