Joseph Ecker - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Professor: Joseph Ecker

Department: TBD

College: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CALC1020
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Professor Ecker is one of the kindest people Ive met in the teaching field. He knows that there is no point beating around the bush with what he expects us to know for upcoming quizzes and exams. This rating is more of a testimony to his mastery of teaching than advice towards his class because he is retiring this year. Great job, enjoy retirement

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CALC1020
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Kindest professor I ever had. He cares for the students, understands their situations, and gives fair difficulty exam. He is awesome!

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MATH1020
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

He makes the knowledge easier, and he can let you understand them clearly. Not much homework, but remember to review for the exam and quiz. This year is his last year to teach. Hope he will be nice in the future.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH1020
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

He is one of the best teacher in the whole school, very nice and kind. On exam, he would not try to make the questions hard. The thing that he consider is whether students understand the knowledge or not.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH1020
• 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:

I love his lecture, it's amazing. He gives you clear notes and annotations, which makes it easier to understand. He also gives you some examples and explained those examples. Our grades are made up of two parts: quizzes and exams. Homework is not mandatory, but make sure to do your homework, study for your tests. He is the best professor!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CALC1020
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I'v e heard this is his 52nd year teaching and his last year teaching in RPI. Best wishes for him.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MATH1020
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Joe Ecker is one of the nicest people you will meet at RPI. Great guy, lectures are good, and plenty of teaching experience. 50 years teaching at RPI! Quizzes are based directly off of HW problems, tests are fine if you study for them. HW not required. If you have the option to take him for Calculus, do it! Can't say enough good about this man.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MATH1020
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

He was honestly the best for Calc 2. I feel like I learned everything clearly with out having to worry about hard tests (they are very similar to examples in class and back exams) . He is such a nice man, and you can tell he genuinely cares about his students.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: MATH1020
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

When I took him it was his 101st semester at RPI. He is a funny old man but a great caring guy that takes the time to try and learn each of his students names. He is very reasonable on what exactly he will cover. He explicitly explains what cases he wont test you over. He isn't that good with technology so he sometimes cant figure it out.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: MATH1500
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Hmmm... this is basically a calculus class for Business, Arch, and Liberal Arts (HASS) students. Much much much easier than regular Calculus I. Attendance is not mandatory, and notes are emailed after each lecture. Weekly quizzes which are basically free 100s. The tests are also exactly like the backtests (EXACTLY). Easy A, even if you suck at math

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CALC2
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Demonstrated kindness to his students and I wasn't really expecting to encounter such a considerate professor during my college years. I actually decided to enroll in his class because many of my upperclassmen friends told me about his wonderful teaching style and kindheartedness. And, he made the effort to memorize the names of his 100+ students.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: MATH1020
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Joe Ecker is the true full package of professors. He is incredibly sweet and truly cares about his students. He makes a usually very challenging course extremely digestible (arguably easy) and actually exciting to learn. If you're considering taking a course with Joe, don't hesitate.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CALC1020
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

They don't make professors like this anymore. Other professors can learn from his delivery and dedication.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MATH1020
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Chill professor but material was not that easy. However, I missed half of the lectures, but still got an A because he sent all lecture notes through email. The TA was also extremely nice and an easy grader, so the class was a lot easier. Test questions are basically given the lecture before the exams so you can memorize them and get a 100.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CALC1020
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

cool guy, emails the notes to all students everyday after class so you don't have to worry if you miss a class

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: MATH1020
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

This guy is an absolute legend. If you can get a class with this man teaching it, you have struck gold. Quizzes are easy, homework is helpful (but by no means necessary), tests are straight forward. If he was able to teach every class at RPI, I would take them all with him and NEVER get bored. Absolute beast.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: MATH1020
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Cute old guy, he emails you all of the slides from his lectures, and all of the quizzes are questions from the homework that you get the answers to in recitation

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CALC1020
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Best professor!

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MATH1020
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Ecker is hands down the best prof in RPI. He remembered everyone's name in the first week. Tests looked very similar to the back exams. Final was easy too. Very nice guy!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MATH1020
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Ecker made an effort to get to know all the students personally and tried to remember all 250 of our names. It seemed successful, too, as every time I saw him outside of the lecture hall he addressed me by name. All the quizzes consisted of questions from homework assignments, and the final was made up of questions from previous unit tests.