Bevan Baas - University of California Davis

Professor: Bevan Baas

Department: TBD

College: University of California Davis

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: EEC116
• 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:

Ni hao from Taiwan This class is a complete waist of time. Lecture is like a seminar (useless). HW is good, labs are good except for the final project which is ridiculously long. You will learn very little.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: EEC116
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

His classes are very disorganized. Exams are fairly easy if you go through his notes and material. A top grade in the class means that we have excellent "follow the steps" ability and physical stamina to do a huge layout. You don't really learn anything and you work on the tools that no one care about nowadays.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: EEC116
• 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:

Homework doesn't relate to the lectures at all and there are only 2 small quizzes a huge difficult homework assignments you have to do from the EEC lab a final exam and final project. you have to be good at building circuits and good at the lecture material which never comes up after lecture at all its impossible

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: EEC116
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Do not take EEC116 unless your life depends on it. The first half of the quarter is deceptively easy, then all of a sudden you have 10+ hours of work on this class alone every week. Final project (with a partner) and final exam both worth 20%+ of your grade due 12 hours apart during finals week. Baas doesn't understand this is an undergrad class.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: EEC116
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Unclear lectures, need more prep for better delivery. TAs could be more helpful.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ECE180
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Get lab checked off only after lab report's done; Check your code for hrs to make sure it's 0% prob. of matching with anyone else; Got an A in class, bt during interview I'd a question "u've good experience with FPGA coding, could you plz show us how a simple XOR got mapped to the lowest abstraction of FPGA" - helpless: welcome to 180 by this prof

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ECE180
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

A big NO to this class !

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: EEC281
• 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:

Worst ever planning and he would ask you to write Verilog in age old manner, which was surprising for a grad class. Problem statements do change until last minute. He assigned a new project without giving much thoughts to it. He was so confused with the contents, any question from the students was hardly answered clearly during the lectures.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: EEC180
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

A verilog class, not much covered on basics of FPGAs and design essentials. Lectures should be well planned - key concepts were taught within a span of 2-3 weeks. It would be great to have prof. answered the technical questions more proactively and in lucid ways. Also, please don't scare us with Moss,rather all would appreciate interactive grading.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: EEC180
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This is basically a class in Verilog. Make sure to follow the instructions and formats, and always ask for TA's help on clarification. Homework isn't that useful for learning the materials. Book is optional but helpful for labs. Make sure to go to lectures. Most of the time it provides a lot of details that the notes won't provide.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: EEC180
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Dont take this professor again. He has to improve a lot. Exams are ok. Worst teaching style and poor in answering to your questions. One of the TAs gave us lectures for two weeks and that was way better. The TA, who had only office hour and no lab section, was the best and helped us a lot in debugging and answering to the questions.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: EEC180
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I love this class, never learned so much in 10 weeks. But better learn material in handouts very very well to get a good grade. Quizes are very tough but faire. Labs are even tough but very well designed, I learned so much and I now love digital system design.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ECE180
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

After seeing those last reviews I just need to post for the first time. Professor Baas is the most caring and smartest professor I have had at UCD. Prof. said last year some students cheated and I am sure one of those cheaters wrote those fake reviews. What other prof offers to buy lunch for class just to get to know us!

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: EEC180B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Lecture notes are good, however, the standard should be higher. Verilog being a key thing for interviews with major semiconductor companies, I believe professor should do serious introspection on his teaching style and course contents before teaching next time. Don't keep changing the labs until last minute !!!!!

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: 180B
• 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:

The worst experience I went through in UCD. It's one thing to not lecture but STOP TEACHING US ON WHAT TO NOT DO. Whenever someone asks questions, he replies with the most ambitious answer that tells us NOTHING. Lastly, his homework does not correspond with class and he will keep changing the lab until the due date. NEVER TAKING HIM AGAIN

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: EEC180B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Teaches a verilog class but I'm pretty sure he doesn't ever write verilog because he has a super beginner level understanding of the code. You want to learn anything past the basics, teach yourself. If I'm ever hiring engineers in a job and I see people came from UCD and took him, I'm going to pass them up. His teaching hurts the school reputation.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: EEC180B
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Lectures are repetitive and boring. You'll learned everything through the labs as long as you put an effort into them. Just hope you'll get a good TA. The homework assignments are completely unrelated to anything he'll teach in class since he expects you to read the textbook. I never read book. Exams are very straight forward. Easy A

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: EEC116
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

clearest lectures and most logical course at ucd. he lays out what to expect at first class and followed it exactly. very tough and very fair. only prof who stays after lecture to answer questions for even 45 minuts one day. must go to lectures and read book to pass exams and projects

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: EEC281
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I took 281 with Professor Baas and also 180A with him many years ago and I must say he is the best professor at UC Davis. Take him if you want to learn and want good engineering job after grad, trust me it all comes together at the end of the quarter. Take other profs if you want easy time and flip burgers for your future career

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: EEC281
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I got A, but couldn't learn much. Won't recommend.