<p>Hey everyone,
I am attending Northeastern in the fall as an engineering student, and I hope to combine that with biomedical sciences. I was wondering if anyone knew about the good and bad professors. Who are the professors that I would want to have for these fields? Thanks so much in advance!</p>
<p>In that field I assume you’ll be required to take a chemistry class. A chem major told me to try to get Michael Pollastri as a professor if I take organic chem. That’s all I know of.</p>
<p>Ratemyprof and the TRACE surveys on myneu are your best bet for figuring out which profs to have. Your first twoish years you don’t have tons of freedom in core professors because you pick classes last (course registration goes by # of credits… sucks for you as a frosh, awesome for you as a junior/senior), and because you generally just take whoever fits in your schedule best.</p>
<p>Lower level sciences are often just one prof (potts-santone for bio, davies for chem), although occasionally someone else teaches smaller sections. Your genetics/mol bio prof will depend on the semester you take the class, but both the professors for it (Volmer or Cram) are equally good. Not sure who’s good for organic these days, but you’ll definitely hear through word of mouth by the time you get to it. </p>
<p>Once you get to upper-level electives and get to choose which classes you want, you’ll want to check out prof ratings and just ask around. Some I can think of:
Blinder, biochem, THE MAN.
Dunn, molecular cell, good enough.
Wendy Smith, Regulatory cell, class will make you want to cry but she’s awesome.
O’Malley, neurobio, I was sorta meh on that class.</p>
<p>I took Physics I for engineering, and my impression is they’re all equally mediocre (I mean really, who wants to teach physics I?), but the class is structured well and you’ll learn the material just fine. Calc II for engineering with Case, who is great.</p>