<p>My prospective major is Bioengineering: General. I was wondering how the teachers at UCSD are, especially professors you will have to deal with if you’re majoring in Bioengineering. There seem to be a lot of Nobel laureate professors at UCSD and SALLY RIDE (aka first American woman in space) teachers physics, but do they really teach that well? And do they care about their students? The one hour a week open door thing doesn’t seem like it would be enough time, especially if there are a lot of students with questions.</p>
<p>Go check them out at <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com%5B/url%5D">www.ratemyprofessors.com</a>.</p>
<p>There are a lot of professors at UCSD that aren't even on that thing.</p>
<p>idwt, yeah i checked that before. it wasn't that informative :/
plus i don't know exactly which profs i'm having next year yet. i was wondering how profs @ UCSD are in general, and also BioE profs specifically.</p>
<p>Well, i'm on my third quarter of freshman year, so i suppose my opinion could be helpful.</p>
<p>I've had some very, very awesome teachers... and one or two terrible ones. Always ask around, and always check the various professor rating websites. The sad thing is, sometimes you get locked into a schedule with a not-so-great teacher. </p>
<p>I'd be wary of teachers with Asian names. Sorry, my fellow yellow brothas, but it's so very difficult to understand FOB teachers. If you must take an Asian teacher, pray he or she has been in the country long enough to speak proper English. I had a math teacher first quarter that spoke... terrible English. Don't get me wrong, he was amazingly good at math, and really nice... but i could NOT understand what he said at ALL. </p>
<p>Also, a good teacher is infinitely better than a good time slot. I'd go to even an 8AM class if the teacher was good, and i know you'll agree after having bad ones.</p>
<p>I had a great Chemistry teacher that went above and beyond most teachers i've had. In addition to holding office hours, he would have study sessions over coffee or something neat like that with students. While i never made use of that service, it's nice to know it was there if i ever needed help.</p>
<p>I'd agree with everything chowdy said except for one thing -- all the teachers that i've had with asian sounding names had american or british-esque accents.</p>
<p>Thats probably just an exception to the rule, though.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>the political science head professor was amazing.</p>
<p>Get one that you can understand (speaks english proficiently) and you'll be fine.</p>
<p>I think that everything can't be perfect, for example-those teachers that can speak perfect english and have great lecture they will have harder exam. As for the teachers that speak a little bit of english their exams are more lenient. I don't know-this is just my speculation so don't hold it against me.
Anyone has any comment on this???</p>
<p>Not the case. May even be the other way around, as those with harder accents typically are foreign trained...</p>
<p>BTW, chowdy...was your math prof Prof. Yeap? my roommate had him.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Wow, didn't realize that-Thanks !!!</p>
<p>karth: Heh his name was Chen. Thanks for the heads up on Yeap though ;)</p>
<p>hahaha actually yeap is supposed to be REALLY good.</p>
<p>karth: say what? so Yeap was one of those exceptions? :)</p>
<p>haha boon yeap??? lol yeah i heard he is good</p>
<p>bil lin was one of the best math professors ive ever had at ucsd</p>
<p>not fobby at all</p>
<p>lin...20c in the fall? he was pretty good as well.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Eggers is also good. XD</p>
<p>I heard Sally Ride teaches at UCSD, has anyone ever had her?</p>
<p>Really? That's crazy, but awesome if it's true. Somebody shed some light on this one...</p>
<p><a href="http://casswww.ucsd.edu/personal/sride.html%5B/url%5D">http://casswww.ucsd.edu/personal/sride.html</a></p>
<p>UCSD department of physics.</p>