Kamal Masri - Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

Professor: Kamal Masri

Department: Business Administration

College: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

thanks to kamal, i could get an A+. Really passionate and cool.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Super friendly and engaging. Tends to go off tangent during lectures and lags behind by the first term. Infuses his experience with MIS into the lectures and teaches outside the scope of the course. Tough grader, tough exams, tough assignments. Be prepared to slog this course out.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Favourite professor thus far at SFU! This course requires lots of tedious work, but in the end is quite rewarding. If you are even remotely interested in technology, Kamal is terrific at igniting a passion for the subject that you didn't realize you previously had. Some of the material can get dry so his anecdotes keeps things interesting. :)

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Great lecturer and includes lots of stories from his industry experience. Although the material is easy and straightforward the exams were hard since they test your understanding of the material and not just memorization. So much easy homework and easy assignments but the most time consuming classes I've taken and the ruberic was tough too.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: BUS361
• 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:

This prof is really supportive of his students. Work hard and you will be fine. Pretty fair amount of work, but that final was ridiculous. Tested on details that you would never assume we're important.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: BUS361
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

One of my favourite classes by far. If you put the effort into the project and create something you are proud to do it will be easy to work hard towards your goals. Your project does not have to succeed but do find something unique and different and you will get a great mark for it Exam was somewhat hard but fair at the same time.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: BUS361
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This class was challenging and rewarding. He expects hard work but it makes it that much more rewarding to try hard in his class. He doesn't expect project to succeed, he actually expects it to fail - don't worry if you didn't meet your measures as well as you wanted to. Study slides and look over textbk for final exam. Know EVM & critical path

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This course is not as easy as everyone says it is. Save yourself and take it with a different prof.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

The course on the service isn't hard. But the marking is way too hard and the rules are too strict. Wouldn't recommend unless there are no other options.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Kamal is really engaging and makes fairly boring material become interesting. He has a ton of experience in the field and cares about his students' future. Make sure to stay up on the readings. Would highly recommend.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• 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:

Kamal is an excellent prof. Participation is very important to him, and he makes an effort to get to know the students that do participate. Material is boring, but he does his best to make it interesting. Go to class, read the textbook, and the material will stick.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

His exams are tough since they are filled with tricky multiple choice questions but the good thing is that this course is curved(the top mark for the final exam was around 80%).The assignments are time consuming but sometimes interesting.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: BUS361
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Kamal is an excellent lecturer; however, the course involves a heavy workload. The assignments are very long and must be completed within tight deadlines. The project, nontheless, was a great challenge and was extremely rewarding. The final exam was difficult (no surprises as it "normalizes" the curve).

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

kamal is a great person, but not as great as a lecturer. the first and last lectures were my favorite.... and the middle were just meh. His exams are super hard and TRUST me when i say that this is not a class you can't just read the book. You have to UNDERSTAND the concepts. Oh and get ready for group projects and individual ones, he watches too

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: D100
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Exams are extremely hard. The TA I got was a hard marker. :(

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

The material is dry, midterm was multiple choice and short answers but really tricky. Text book doesn't help much. In order to do well, you have to understand the material rather than memorize the slides. Assignmentsand group project were VERY time-consuming.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

To be fair, he is a great Prof and a nice person, fair marker as well. But his midterm and final are really really hard.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• 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:

Assignments took a long time, especially the second one. Mentions a lot of interesting storiesarticles which relate to the topic. He makes the class less boring and concepts do stick because of his stories.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: BUS361
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Kamal tries very hard to portray himself as someone knowledgeable in the MIS field, but seasoned students can tell his teaching style and his experience with IT is old school and dated. At times, he sounded condescending. He is responsive when you contact him. The course material is very useful for MIS students. Expect a significant amount of work.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: BUS237
• 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 man is a great professor, teacher, educator, coach and an even better person. Work hard and you will do great. Great with emails and in-person. Awesome dude. Very clear with all details and wishes and really works to make his students succeed. Thank you Dr. Masri.