Alok Berry - George Mason University

Professor: Alok Berry

Department: TBD

College: George Mason University

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ECE280ECE333
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This professor is quite the interesting character. My best piece of advice would be to make sure you are able to try to understand most of the material during the class. Also his test questions mostly come from book problems or slightly modified. He truly cares about his students but wants you to respect the class and give all your effort. book.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ECE285
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Excellent professor. The course is based on the textbook entirely. As long as you know how all the homework problems are done and all the examples in the chapter, you should get a good grade. Make sure to know the review problems for the final -- half of the final is based on that.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ECE285
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

horrible, his english is bad and he's hard to understand sometimes. made us do a project , gave us a second exam just before our finals and we didn't get our grade for it before taking the final so we took the final exam not knowing how we did on the second exam.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ECE433
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

This course is tough but I really enjoyed Dr. Berry's class. This guy knows his tough and he is very helpful. Dr. Berry will appreciate you if you read the material before going to class so that you can answer some of his questions and so that he doesn't have to explain everything in the lecture. His exams come from homework problems and examples.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ECE433
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

this is killer course

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ECE286
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Dr Berry is always helpful. He requires hard from each student in all of his classes. If you read book, do all examples and hws from book by yourself, you will get guaranteed A. I highly enjoyed his teaching style. If you are lazy and procrastinator, dont take dr berry.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ECE333
• 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:

Dr. Berry is a great professor despite all of the petty complaints you might hear about him. Yes he tells you read the book, because you should. Yes he holds you accountable for what you're supposed to know, because you should know it. He just wants the students to learn and do well. What's wrong with that?

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ECE285
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This professor's teaching style is best. He is helpful to student. His quiz policy is not good. If you study beginning to end of the book, there is no way you can fail his class. There are some myths about him in students, but they are all just "MYTHS". Exams come from HWs,QUIZZEs and BOOK EXERCISEs. I recommend him. Again, down side is "Quiz".

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ECE285
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Pretty good professor. Make sure to write your Gnumber correctly and turn in impeccable homeworks. For exams: they are the same questions as the homework questions. For 285 the multiple choice on exams was taken from the book multiple choice questions. Just go to class, do the readings, memorize the HW and you should get an A.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ECE305
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This class is a bit hard. Still, if you show up to class and ask for help (as well as be nice to him), it'll work out in the long run. Be sure to not have the international edition of the textbook (despite both of them being 6th edition, the international edition is different from the normal one). The order of the problems are different.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ECE285
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

His tests and pop-quizzes are pretty much taken from the book. I did fall asleep at times (9am class), but I was still able to understand the material by reading the book. Be sure to get him to like you though (show up and be nice). That helps in the long run. There was also an Op-Amp group project that we had to do. Get a good partner for that.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ECE286
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I have never given a professor a bad review. READ THE BOOK and do the hw, his quizzes are based on the readings. His test are based off hw. If you fail to do this, you will suffer the consequences. Dont ask him about dot convention, he gets angry when you dont get it the first time.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ECE286
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Pros: Extremely helpful and willing to help motivated students. Cons: Everything is graded strictly and quite subjectively. Even if you know the material absolutely cold, you may get mediocre scores because the grader didn't like your explanation. So complete mastery of the material may not produce good grades... very frustrating and disappointing.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ECE333
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Sets very high expectations, and does everything in his power to help you meet them. Lots of homework and quizzes, but it was necessary for this course to keep everyone on track. I won't hesitate to sign up for his classes in the future.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ECE333
• 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:

My friend, if you do not remember the ECE 280 material and you come to ECE 333, God bless. Read the book!

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ECE280
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

good teacher.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ECE280
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

This professor is great, I don't understand why people put him down. He may be a bit fast at times and he may not cover the information very clearly at times as well, but if you honestly read the book and work out all the practice problems, examples, and homework problems, you will do well. Good teacher overall!

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ECE333
• 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:

People complain when Dr.Berry says to read the book but that's because its impossible to cover the material when people keep asking simple questions that are answered in the reading To do well make sure you can do all of in class examples and homework problems. As long as you stay above the class average you will pass.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ECE280
• 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:

Best Professor you will have ever! hands down he is hard but he cares more than any professor I have had does and wants you to succeed not only in class but in life. If all professors were as good as he is gmu would be like MIT.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ECE280
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This class is infamous for being very difficult but Berry explains things very well and cares for his students, he encourages people to come to his office even when it's not his office hours. He wants you to struggle and work hard to really learn the material. He can get annoyed if one asks him a question he already answered. Overall good professor