Professor: Atsushi Akera
Department: Technology
College: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: STSS4720
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Probably one of my absolute favorite professors at rpi. He is nice and open to all sorts of ideas and input. Unlike most professors he is willing to iterate and design his class in order for students to succeed. There was a lot of discussions in his class but he made students feel welcome to state their opinion.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: IHSS1960
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This course was writing intensive. There was a large project worth most of the class grade that included investigating something related to the environment (that was as specific as he got). There were also weekly "journals" due to reflect on the things you learned in the course. Overall boring lectures, but an easy course.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: NSS01
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is a truly passionate teacher, and always a ton of fun to listen to. I just wish I was more interested / better at what he teaches.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: ITEC1220
- 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:
A good professor if you are at college to learn. The course was work intensive, but definitely inspired thought and creativity. Required text was Lessig's Code 2.0, which is cheap for the hard copy and better yet, free online.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: IHSS1970
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Lectures are absolutely terrible; it's as though he does not know when to stop talking and when to allow discussion to continue in class. Possibly one of the most boring classes I've ever taken and it had the chance to be something wonderful.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: IHSS1975
- 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 prof, provided you actually care about the subject matter (or like to read, or write, or learn, or do much of anything). If deep/convoluted thoughts aren't your thing, though, you might want to find a different professor. If you like going "Huh?/Whoa..." then Social Dimensions of Engineering is the class for you.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: PE
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
P&E sucks.. it's a lot of work, especially if you get stuck in a crappy group. Atsushi is ok, but the lectures are pretty boring.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: IHSS1975
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Social Dimensions of Engineering -- very interesting course. Though it was my humanities, I probably learned more about engineering in this course than any of my other first year courses. Atsushi, (he encouraged us to call him by his first name), always involved everyone in the conversations.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: PAMPE
- Grade Received: A+
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: STS
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great Prof. Knows his stuff. Tons of work, but you learn alot too. He is opened to all kinds of diffrent opinions too!
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: STSS2200
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Watch out he assigns a lot of work and just when you think your done he assigns some more. Ask questions about project descriptions they were filled with useless background information, figuring out what he actually wanted was a challenge. Keep up with the massive amount of reading and participate.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: STSS
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
A good guy at heart, but way too much reading. I'm still not sure what he was looking for on a lot of the papers I handed in. I got good grades on what I thought was some of my worst work, and bad grades on what I thought was well written...
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: INTROSTSS
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I thought this prof was very good. Though he tends to take very left-wing stances and I am very conservative I found this lead to great debates in class. He was very open to people who didn't share his view and welcomed disent.
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: INTROSTSS
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dude SUCKS!!!! Horrible prof. Grading system is screwed up.
Rating # 15
Overview:
- Course: INTROSTS
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He has the most awful speaking skills I have ever encountered. I counted 256 "right"s in a 50 minute period.
Rating # 16
Overview:
- Course: STSS1110
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Intro to Science & Tech Studies ok. It is a lot of reading & papers every week.
Rating # 17
Overview:
- Course: PE
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
AWFUL FROM.. IM DEM AND HIS VIEWS WICH ARE PUSHED HARD ARE WAY TO CRAZY FOR ME.... HIS GRADING IS OFF THE WALL YOU NEED A PHD TO UNDERSTAND IT... AVOID HIM
Rating # 18
Overview:
- Course: ITEC1220
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The mullet needs to go. His grading style was somewhat unclear and unfair but he would tell you he wsa fair. Never taking another class with him again.
Rating # 19
Overview:
- Course: INTROSTS
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He's extremely helpful, but in this class the point of most of the material was unclear. How it fit into the course, the curriculum. The readings were supposed to be comparritive to the weekly essays, but were not.
Rating # 20
Overview:
- Course: ITEC1220
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
he is japanese and has a mullet! he is that screwed up, his views are completely utopian and the grading is retarded. a kid in my section failed a paper because he used the term "man-hours", as in hours of labor. The professor said it was gender
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