response to question he does not no answer to : " i dont have time to explain this to you, if its too difficult for you to comprehend.. the answers are in the book so read that first".....lol utterly worthess

he doesn't know how to teach. he avoids questions by changing topics or just simply saying "read the book" or "go to beachboard and read the notes there." and if u get a low score on the tests, most of the times he will just say "just look at what i marked and wrote on your test." DON'T TAKE HIM

The worst possible teacher there is.....

HORRIBLE teacher! Boring, ineffective, inconsistent grader, unsympathetic, and DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO TEACH! Could be best engineer in the world, but can't teach for****!

He doesn't help you at all. Basically you learn more from your peer more than from him. He never answer question. He always ask student to find the answer from the beachboard. He has attitudes as well. I don't understand why LB still using him. Don't take him! If you look at any MAE schedule, his name won't show. It will shows as staff. That's HIM.

I got an A in this class but learned nothing from this teacher. He NEVER helps student. If ask him, he'll ask you to read the beachboard. This guy should've been fired by the department. This type of teacher lower CalState Long Beach Engineering reputation.

if you are looking for help after class one on one he claims that you are asking him to do your homework. i learned more from students attending the same class by another teacher.

I can say with certainty that he is the worst teacher I've ever had. Grading is ridiculus and terribly inconsistant. His knowledge of the subject is very poor ON HIS OWN ADMITION! He will not listen to anything you say it's his way or the highway, only he dosen't even say how he wants things done so good luck guessing. DONT TAKE HIM!

Do not take him. he is horrible. The department head should fire him. Matlab isnt that hard, but he makes it impossible to learn.

I cannot believe that people give this guy a good rating. He is worthless. He is an incapable teacher. His job is to relate information which he is horrible at doing. Esfandari is hard but at least you learn something, take him. I would rather shoot myself in the leg than take Khattab again.

This class is on AutoCad. Khattab doesn't know how to use AutoCad. He claims the book is wrong and often makes mistakes during his lectures and doesn't know how to correct them. Take this class with someone else.

He Really doesn't help you; if you ask him for help he gets frustrated, saying he can't do your work. If you do assignments well but poor on tests he says you've been cheating although he doesn't give you enough time to do the exams at all...Even his lecture notes he makes have inconsistencies, and make bad programs.

worst teacher ever. i don't ever rate professors but i felt obliged to tell people how bad he is.. Can't even understand him.

useless instructor. he is inconsistent, you got to learn on your own. take someone else if you have option. got a C in the class.

If you have never contemplated committing suicide and want to, take this class. I am not a violent person, and all I wanted to do was punch this stupid teacher in the breadbasket. He is absolutely worthless, his homework and test grading is impossibe and he yells at you if he asks for help . Please take my advice and never take this teacher.

Avoid this professor. He's worthless as an instructor and his grading is arbitrary. He just creates an atmosphere of apathy and quiet contempt. He has a forgiving curve, but it's just not worth wasting your time for. Instead, choose a professor who you will learn from.

going to this lecture was a waste of my time, it just put me to sleep. he doesnt help students at all and is unfriendly. he is hard to understand and is very arrogant. avoid him if you can

Worst professor I have ever had. He leaves during the middle of labs for 1.5 hours, if you ask questions he gets mad at you, and he grading is random.

RUN!!!!Worst engineering professor ever. I got a B in the class but this guy is so bad I had to teach myself matlab. He has a very thick accent, and an even worse attitude. Avoid if possible.

He is useless. I aced the midterm and am currently enrolled in his class at the moment. He took off three points for forgetting to staple my paper and took two more off for no reason make sure your hw is perfect and hand written. His standards are ridiculous and he wouldn't even pass his own class.

Avoid if possible. He is bad at teaching. He has an attitude and a very thick accent. People were scared to even ask him questions. He is a strict grader and even if you do all the work in class the tests are what matter.

OMG AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!! if you wanna hate your major and give up on everything, take him!!! he is angry all the time , if you ask him questions he will give you a bad attitude and blames you for not understanding even if you worked hard. hates his students and doesnt care about his class. you have learn everything by yourself. NOT RECOMMENDED

HORRIBLE!! AVOID AVOID AVOID. He has got to be one of the most inconsistent graders I have ever had. My buddy and I would do the same exact homework and tests yet we always got different scores. Bad teacher. He doesn't help at all (He thinks you have all been gifted by the programming gods) , class is not fun with him. HEAD MY WARNING

he thinks everyone's cheating because they use the solution manual. THING IS YOU CANT GET 8or9or1010 unless you use the solution manual bc he's a tough grader. do hw to prepare for testsquizzes, read all examples in book. tests aren't hard, but if it's not done his way, you're wrong. simple things like ag or a9.81ms^2 will mark you off 10pts

He is the WORST professor I have ever had. He is not clear with grading, homework, tests, or lectures. He refuses to offer help, leaving you with no choice but to teach yourself the material. He made learning AutoCAD an absolute nightmare and i highly recommend that if you have the choice to choose someone else, DO IT!

He is an extremely tough grader. If you're not willing to put in the effort and be perfect, then you will be marked off major points on the exam, hw, quizes, etc. He is hard to understand at times, and his lectures and power points are not clear. His tests are pretty easy, you just have to be perfect. In my opinion. AVOID AVOID. AVOID.

Just no. IF you have any other option, go with that. Worst experience I've had as a student.

If you want to lose your hope in cheE, then take this crazy professor. Very extremely bad

You're gunna have to teach yourself. He mumbles to the wall, gets angry when you ask questions, and only follows the book. Do not bother to go to class to learn only for the pop quizzes. Never takes the averages on tests and I had a 53% in the class and got a B. Only worth it for the curve but not to learn.

You will start hating your major after taking his Class. That guy didn't make any sense at all. Avoid him!!!!

Never again! Dr. Khattab's lectures are unclear, boring, and all over the place! Stares at the ground and not the students. His exams and quizzes are somewhat similar to examples, but his grading is so unfair! No feedback on what went wrong. He blames students for not studying hard enough and said that grading exams are a waste of his time! AVOID!!

Genuinely the worst professor I've ever had. Gives unorganized lecs & disrespects students w/ questions. He'd rather tell you that you didn't study enough than explain any quiz/exam problem. Syllabus says any assignment problem receives 60% for an honest attempt, and 40% for correctness, but gives 0s on quiz/exam problems often & w/o explanation.

Please do not take his class. pains me to say but he will make you hate your major and frankly the entire department. Complete disregard for students questions and concerns. If you hate teaching why do you pain us with doing it. grading is an absolute joke, its his way or the highway.

This professor caused me make this account just to warn other students, he is one of the worst teachers ive ever had. Avoid his classes at all cost, even "easier" courses. His grading criteria is so vague and you wont know your actual grade during the entire course. The wind tunnel project was near impossible and you get no feedback. Learned nothin

It's almost unbelievable he teaches here still. Not very helpful, no partial credit, and has told us to google things he doesn't have the answers to.

He is horrible Professor. Honestly Professor i believed that you work damn hard in your life. Now its time to think about your retirement plan. To be honest Cal State lb need better Professors.

Claims he will give partial credit based on correctness/process used, but when it comes to grading he will mark entire problems wrong. Was extremely disrespectful to students and cuts them off saying to email him before they finish asking questions. If you are planning to take his class, my advice is don't.

He doesn't like when students ask questions during class. He interrupts students before they can finish asking a question. He will tell you to write down an equation for a quiz problem but not to solve it, then he will dock you points for not solving it.

Doesnt believe in office hours. Will not grade hw ever. Teaches math from a word doc. Horrible lectures. Inconsistent grading. If u dont do the test exactly like he wants it u lose 50% credit. Doesnt understand how to use beachboard. Will never post solutions of anything even tho he grades horribly. Honestly just dont do this to yourself.

This guy absolutely sucks. I don't know if this was the case because of COVID and online classes, but he basically just put the textbook up on the board and read it aloud. Has not done a single example by hand, he just shows us what the book did, and then it somehow has mistakes in it. Will never answer a question or even allow someone to ask one.

Does not use the textbook, lectures using word doc. Never wrote anything in class. Goes off on tangents that make no sense. Never grades hw, then gets the same questions on the test and docks points because you didnt solve it like the hw. Doesnt believe in office hrs? Im sure youve been warned about him, just dont take him. Dont.

Very little feedback. You wont know what you need to fix on the homeworks so wont be prepared for the unannounced quizes. He doesn't go over the tests either so again you wont know what you need need to work on. He will give you a number of points but you wont know why or how he graded. Goes over Textbook examples instead of concepts. POOR.

Worst professor ever, trust me his reputation is too nice on him. Doesnt believe in office hrs? seriously? during online school? says hes online 30 mins before class, never is. Doesnt give a crap about his students. Everytime he is asked a question he gets VERY defensive and starts attacking the student. will stress u out and ruin ur gpa

Doesnt know how to lecture. Attacks students in class. Will remove points for you if he didnt like how u solved a problem. Removes 15pts on test problems like its nothing. Procrastinated grading eerything, currently a week before finals with 2 hwks graded only. DONT TAKE HIM. Im surprised he still has a job

Worst MAE professor ever to exist. Check out his salary on transparent California salary and let me know if 140k is earned for the crap students are put through in his class.

I've never seen a professor that is more uninterested in his job. He even admits in a meeting that he doesn't like teaching. Lectures are basically slides badly put into a word document. Is somewhat uncaring and disrespectful when students ask questions. Tests give next to no feedback on where to improve or what you got wrong. Avoid please.

Everything that is said is true barely grades homeworks and gets mad at you for asking questions. He very defensive and rude when you try to talk to him. Test are like the hw but alot of times he wont grade anything. Please avoid ends lecture after 20 mins

I'm sure he is a good man, but when it comes to be a professor, he is the worst I've had. His lectures consist of screenshots posted on a Word Doc with him reading, verbatim, what is on there. The 'examples' he solves in class are pretty much useless. Ask him for help and he'll get defensive; wont help you. Exams are short but his grading : wack

This professor is not good. He forgot to post homework for 4/8 assignments. In one case, he gave 3 assignments in a week and then gave us the test the next class. No one did well. Grading Criteria very unclear, took off up to 20% of the test grades for minute errors or even if an answer was "vague" or "written poorly". Overall do not take.

The worst lecturer. Uses Microsoft Word Docs with screenshots to teach. Wont teach anything himself or do example problems (if you ask he'll tell you its not possible). Grading criteria is vague; he takes off lots of points on exams with no explanation. HW is never assigned on time. Pop quizzes (some easy, some hard). Grades were posted late too.

Doesnt use textbook & teaches with his own confusing notes. Teaches with word doc. Doesnt have Matlab on his computer so he wont show any coding/examples. Assigns hw late & randomly. Never grades on time and posted final grades late. His beachboard is disorganized. Lectures are tedious & end abruptly. Takes off points on exams with no explanation.

God awful teacher, he is way too old and computer un-savvy to be teaching an online class. His lectures are just him reading off Word docs. He doesn't solve any problems in class, he shows pictures of examples from the book. He can be an unfair grader for quizzes and tests, doesn't take feedback well, and doesn't change much upon request. Terrible

Took his MAE 371 class. He is just as bad a professor in MAE 330. Same old monotone lecture, random pop quizzes, and rude attitude towards his students who are trying to learn. I guess the moral of the story is that he can "teach" anything. Bad news for us aspiring engineers though.

This is the worst professor you will ever take. This guy does not care about your learning experience he is only there to get a paycheck. He does not know how to use beachboard and you will have a hard time learning from the notes. If you get this guy drop his class immediately unless you don't care about learning the material and want an easy A.

This professor is the absolute worst. If you have the opportunity, crash another course or take another professor. He never programs in a programming class. After a couple weeks most people ditch since its so depressing in there. If you have no other option just make sure you don't fall behind your classmates and you'll pass with the final curve.

While not the worst professor you will take, he is definitely the most boring. I walked out of his lectures feeling 20 years older as they consist of nothing but random slides. On top of this, you have to turn in your code by printing it on a piece of paper as he claims he does not know how to open a dropbox on canvas.

I wanna start by saying he is arguably the worst professor in the MAE department. His lectures are based on screenshots of the textbook that he probably took 10 years ago. On top of that, he gets somewhat lazy with his lectures and blames the students for doing bad on exams. AVOID HIM AT ALL COST.

There isn't enough bad things to say about this professor. He is an incredibly picky grader, marking off 20 out of 25 points per exam question even if you have a page of work, but also doesn't give feedback. Lectures are on a google doc and he doesn't explain well. Hardly a curve even though he grades so harshly. DO NOT TAKE HIM.

AVOID HIM AT ALL COST!!! I lost points on exams despite using the same approach as classmates who got more credit. He refuses to answer questions or explain mistakes, making it impossible to learn. His grading feels arbitrary and unhelpful.

just dont, save urself trust

this professor is the epitome of a tenured professor who doesnt give a flying care about you or his teaching. lectures were very very very very and i mean very boring. pop quizzes here and there but they are open book and internet. midterms were a bit hard, final was terribly hard. i would avoid at all costs.

Probably the worst professor I've had. His lectures are boring with his monotone voice. His teaching is writing equaitons and doing example problems. He expects you to read the textbook on what he doesn't cover in class, which is almost everything since he doesn't explain concepts. Generous curve at the end.