<p>Hello everyone! I was getting my registration worksheet together and I was wondering if anybody had any professors they'd want to plug or warn against. I'm taking Chem 111, Chem lab, Calc III, Physics 117, and Intro to chemical engineering. Any thoughts on the professors teaching these classes?</p>
<p>You dont seem to have much choice for a lot of your classes. Physics, Chem lab, and Calc 3 only have one teacher for all sections. For Chem, I’ve heard Frey is fine, don’t know about Mabbs. Intro to cheme, can’t really say. Plenty of people are going to tell you to take physics 197, which I would also recommend, unless you’ve already taken AP physics c in high school, its just a better course structure. In that case, Bernatowicz is the professor to get. Ravnzcroft has a total man-crush on him.</p>
<p>Very funny.</p>
<p>Bernatowicz is indeed the best professor for Physics 197, but Prof. Hynes seems like a nice person. She probably wouldn’t be too bad. I had Israel as a guest lecturer a few times and he wasn’t too bad either, but I don’t think I would want him as my full-time professor. Definitely avoid Gibbons. Can’t say anything about the last professor (Ferrer).</p>
<p>You’ll have Kit Mao as your professor for Chem Lab, along with a lab TA. She’s difficult, but she’s a nice woman and shows concern for her students.</p>
<p>For Gen Chem, I’m taking it with Frey this semester because I’ve heard she explains things very clearly and not too quickly. I figured that would be good for me since I took two years of chemistry in high school but that was a few years ago. Chem is a rigorous course of study at Wash U, so I was keeping that in mind. I don’t know about Mabbs. His reviews on RMP describe him like most of the other chem professors at Wash U: a perfectly fine professor, just very difficult.</p>
<p>Feres is teaching Calc III. His reviews on RMP aren’t too bad, either.</p>
<p>Turner and Giammar seem to be co-lecturing Intro to ChemE. Turner’s only review on RMP is excellent and Giammar’s is quite good too.</p>
<p>You’re pretty lucky. Most people end up getting stuck with at least one bad professor their first year because of all the low-level courses, but you’re looking pretty good this semester. As long as you get a good lecturer for Physics, you should be set.</p>
<p>And good for you for setting up your registration worksheet already. You’re well ahead of many others who will register online at the end of the summer.</p>
<p>Excellent thank you for the responses. I’ll be sure to check out RMP before I ask again</p>
<p>//Turner and Giammar seem to be co-lecturing Intro to ChemE.//</p>
<p>Both were great last year, funny, nice, lessons were very focused and well taught (good since 2 hours is IMO a little too long for any lecture). The workload is on the heavy side though, especially for only 2 credits, but definitely doable.</p>
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A lot of times I disagree with rmp, or it doesn’t tell you what you want to know (there’s a fine difference between looking for the “good” professor and the “easier” professor).</p>
<p>In general, you’re best source of knowing this kind of thing will be asking upperclassmen (ie us for now, since you probably don’t know many right now), or friends that have taken the class.</p>
<p>The course evaluations at evals.wustl.edu are also quite helpful, especially for determining the teaching quality and difficulty of a particular course or professor.</p>