George Cheney - University of Massachusetts Lowell

Professor: George Cheney

Department: TBD

College: University of Massachusetts Lowell

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: EECE3220
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Very knowledgeable and very good at explaining the material. Plenty of extra credit opportunity. Expectations are very clear and easily achieved with a reasonable amount of effort.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ENG561
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

One of the best courses I have taken at UML.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: EECE3220
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Gives 10 programs with a ton of extra credit. Tests are just repeating the programs with no note sheet. Can be repeatative. Nice enough guy. Programs should be weighted greater than they are. Overall average professor

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ECE16322
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Hard to say, but spend a lot of times on his program. Comparing with Michael Geiger, i would say if Prof. Geiger teaches this course, i 100% would not take his course!

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: EECE3220
• Grade Received: C-
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Programs are tough and take up most of your time, but only count for 20% of your grade. The time I spent programming was more than all of my other classes combined and oinly 2 out of 7 programs worked for me. Tests were only 3 questions and so on the only two we had I got D's from messing up one question. Did alright on the final and managed C-

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ECE16572
• 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: Not Mandatory

Comment:

20+ hrs/week workload. Have to memorize prof's design and replay on exams. Tough grading. Communication of questions via online discussion forum is ineffective. Took up both days of every weekend. I did OK, but it was mostly regurgitating profs code on exams, less about learning the concepts of embedded systems/RTOS. Not worth it,

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: 16445
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Analog Devices. Excellent teacher, very thorough and detailed. Grading is fair. Course requires a lot of time and effort, but you'll learn a lot.

Rating # 8

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

VERY hard course and professor, but you learn. You'll know transistors well, though, how useful is that in today's world? I'd rather he spent more time showing op amps in useful circuits rather than building one from scratch. Kind of like learning the history of electronics, rather than how to do something useful.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: DATA201
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Data Structures is one of the hardest classes at Umass Lowell. He is a great professor, but he often forgets about peoples outside lives. He expects you to devote at least 20 hours a week to your homeworks, and if you have other classes or work, he says dont let them get in the way. Apparently he forgot what college was ACTUALLY like...

Rating # 10

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Cheney is one of the best professors I have ever had. Clear teaching, good chalkboard style (tablet computer + projector, in his case), all notes end up on the web. Some hard homework, very fair tests. Final project is very instructive. Go to class, do the work and you will know transistors inside-out by the end.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: EMBEDSYS
• 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:

Best professor I ever had. Systematic, clear, captivating, inventive in examples and projects. Course project will not be a toy, so expect to work a lot. Starter/warmup code is provided, covering most tedious 30-70% of the work. Grades are based on a comprehensive and systematic analysis of your work for style, errors, and features. Very useful!!

Rating # 12

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Very structured and effective professor. If approached, he is extremely helpful, to the point where he'll go through your code line by line with you. Assignments are sometimes brutal but always fair; you WILL learn the material. Some projects are kinda fun, too.

Rating # 13

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Not approachable at all, very tough tests.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ANALOGDEV
• 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:

It must be said he is one of the best in EE. I agree he SEEMS unapproachable at first, but very open once you start conversation. His class is tough BUT you will benefit very much from it, be prepared to work. Lectures are very good.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ENG561
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

The web site was very helpful - you can find easily what is going on in class, assignments, projects and course materials. Oganized course very well. Explained material well with lots of examples - projects, assignments and lectures were tied.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: EMBEDSYS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This course is extremely competive to get in by entrance exam. Alot of time required for programming assignments. Most of time at the end will be devoted to project. Ridiculously large textbook but Cheney covered key concepts. Tough prof but very good

Rating # 17

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Overall, well-prepared professor but appears at first unapproachable. After several meetings, he eases up and becomes helpful. Programming assignments are challenging. Strict teacher but extremely dedicated professor...