Sam Sengupta - SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY

Professor: Sam Sengupta

Department: Computer Science

College: SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MAT115
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Difficult to understand, sub par lectures.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MAT115
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Please for your own sake, STAY AWAY. Does not reproduce material in a manner anyone can understand, homework assignments take hours and hours to finish (btw not even graded by him, graded by his third party minions). Good luck trying to put anything he says to good use.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MAT115
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This dude is hands down the worst professor I've ever had. His explanations are sometimes just plain false and it is very hard to understand what he says sometimes due to his accent. Also, when students ask questions he gets frustrated and will yell at them. STAY AWAY

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CS522
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

He waited until there was 4 weeks left in the semester to assign a 20-25 minute presentation and a 20-30 page research paper. He also put questions on the midterm he didn't teach.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MAT115
• Grade Received: WD
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Worst professor Ive had by far. What he says is almost always incorrect or will leave you confused. If you ask a question he will either tell you to look up a YouTube video or will berate you until you let him move on. Iv taken and passed classes much more difficult such as calc2 and differential equations, and I had to withdraw from this course.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CS330
• 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:

Pathetic excuse for a teacher. Insulting that the administration allows him to remain "teaching." He said to our class, "I'm not always going to tell you the right way." Instead you can try to read his heavily plagiarized lecture notes which consist solely of chapter titles. Refuses to help students. Test grades are however he feels that day.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CS524
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Not just terrible professor but pathetic human being. Has no time to meet the students and he will not read the answer paper and just guess if the answer Is right or wrong when confronted with him he says I don't have time to read all papers. What a terrible person. Why did I ever take his subject. #stayaway

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CS522
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

He is just dumb, he doesn't even know what is the final course or mid term course will be, he will not define it, and no idea why SUNYIT does not retires him. Worst professor of my life.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CS330
• Grade Received: F
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

i can not understand what hes saying. the test is so bad. I can not take it!

Rating # 10

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Sam Sengupta is the most amazing person on SUNYIT campus. He treats you like his own children and teaches flawlessly. He has a huge fan following that makes other professors jealous of him. Lucky to have him!!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CS330
• 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:

What an ignorent person. I've never met a professor who only teaches what you can't do. Its software. Heck theres nothing we can't do as programmers. Yells, unpleasant, lies, copies other proffesors course material, unprofessional.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CS240
• 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:

just terrible

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CS599
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Of all CS Faculty he consistently guides most students’ thesis projects every term with current load of 167% as seen in posted schedules. There must be a reason why most CS students choose him for thesis projects every term and he seems to welcome doing so despite choice of not guiding any such projects as some others consistently do every term.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CS5XX
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Very focused professor and perfect gentleman; treats students most professionally and with great consideration while encouraging discussion. He makes complex technical subject and topics easy to understand. Clearly among top 2-3 MS CS5XX professors.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CS330
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

He's clearly coasting towards retirement. He's damn lucky they have the personnel shortage they do, otherwise he would have been reduced to a cubicle in the basement, teaching Underwater Basketweaving once a week a long time ago.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CS330
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Sometimes he seems like he knows what he's talking about, other times he gets things so horribly wrong, even under his jumble of metaphors and nonsensical rambling, that you wonder if he really does understand what he's teaching. He tends to let class out early as the semester goes on, and he misses classes. Badly needs put out to pasture.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CS350
• 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 have had him two semesters now. He's getting worse. His lectures are decent but do not follow book. The group project/presentation is reasonable. The real issue is the tests. He writes them in a rush right before the class. Rather than write similar questions to past semesters, he makes things up on the fly, not based on lecture or book topics.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CS240
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Has the audacity to attempt to remove people from class for challenging his grading. Tests are very ambiguous. Everything in the class except tests are a "group effort" , and everyone in the group get the same grade for everything. Final project (which is very unclear) includes a 10-20 page paper. Rude and unprofessional. Avoid!!

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CS240
• 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:

This guy needs to be fired. He cannot speak proper English and he has the audacity to dock you for points when he mis-words questions. His notes are crap and he doesn't even explain them. I had to learn everything in this course from an internet tutorial. He gives test questions that are unrelated to material gone over in class. Avoid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CS240
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He does know what he's talking about, however his accent combined with his choice of metaphors tends to make him inaccessible if you don't already have a passing familiarity with what he's talking about.