Baas really needs to relax. He takes things too seriously (see below post). He is way too sensitive. If something trivial is targeted against him, he'll go berserk. Baas posts useless lecture notes online and also writes too small. Just avoid him please.

One of the worst professors I have ever seen. He pretends to care, but in reality he doesn't give a damn about his teaching. Avoid at all costs.

very poor inorganized lectures. Does not teach graduate level concepts clearly. Gives really heavy homework which makes you waste a lot of time for very limited learning value.

Tons of homework, not a very helpful class if you have learnt verilog before.

Teaches a verilog class but I'm pretty sure he doesn't ever write verilog because he has a super beginner level understanding of the code. You want to learn anything past the basics, teach yourself. If I'm ever hiring engineers in a job and I see people came from UCD and took him, I'm going to pass them up. His teaching hurts the school reputation.

The worst experience I went through in UCD. It's one thing to not lecture but STOP TEACHING US ON WHAT TO NOT DO. Whenever someone asks questions, he replies with the most ambitious answer that tells us NOTHING. Lastly, his homework does not correspond with class and he will keep changing the lab until the due date. NEVER TAKING HIM AGAIN

Lecture notes are good, however, the standard should be higher. Verilog being a key thing for interviews with major semiconductor companies, I believe professor should do serious introspection on his teaching style and course contents before teaching next time. Don't keep changing the labs until last minute !!!!!

Dont take this professor again. He has to improve a lot. Exams are ok. Worst teaching style and poor in answering to your questions. One of the TAs gave us lectures for two weeks and that was way better. The TA, who had only office hour and no lab section, was the best and helped us a lot in debugging and answering to the questions.

Worst ever planning and he would ask you to write Verilog in age old manner, which was surprising for a grad class. Problem statements do change until last minute. He assigned a new project without giving much thoughts to it. He was so confused with the contents, any question from the students was hardly answered clearly during the lectures.

A big NO to this class !

Get lab checked off only after lab report's done; Check your code for hrs to make sure it's 0% prob. of matching with anyone else; Got an A in class, bt during interview I'd a question "u've good experience with FPGA coding, could you plz show us how a simple XOR got mapped to the lowest abstraction of FPGA" - helpless: welcome to 180 by this prof

Unclear lectures, need more prep for better delivery. TAs could be more helpful.

Homework doesn't relate to the lectures at all and there are only 2 small quizzes a huge difficult homework assignments you have to do from the EEC lab a final exam and final project. you have to be good at building circuits and good at the lecture material which never comes up after lecture at all its impossible

His classes are very disorganized. Exams are fairly easy if you go through his notes and material. A top grade in the class means that we have excellent "follow the steps" ability and physical stamina to do a huge layout. You don't really learn anything and you work on the tools that no one care about nowadays.

Ni hao from Taiwan This class is a complete waist of time. Lecture is like a seminar (useless). HW is good, labs are good except for the final project which is ridiculously long. You will learn very little.

He is trying to act like a nice guy and that's it for him. He is on my list of the worst EEC professors including Houman Homayoun. PLZ TRY YOUR BEST to avoid him and Houman Homayoun to secure your GPA. He assumes everyone is cheating in his class. Bad lectures and heavy labs.... piece of ****

His lectures only cover really basic stuff. Labs are immensely hard and have no guidance. Literally every other engineering class has some level of instruction to get students in the right direction. He acts super vague on what's on the exams which makes it hard to prepare for them. Nightmare professor

No HW for first 5 and half weeks, and it wasn't due until after the MT. Just told us to study everything instead of giving out any sort of practice to prep for a MT that was impossible to finish on time. Covered FFs two days prior and said it'll be lightly tested on the exam, and proceeds to give a FF problem worth 30%. Fronts as a nice guy.

Gave us homework that was due after the midterm and told us not to study it. Then proceeded to give us a problem worth 30% of our midterm grade that was copy pasted from the homework. He also gives us no direction for the labs and overloads the TAs. Refuses to give us extra time for labs when we badly need it. Acts like a nice guy but isn't.

Professor Baas is a very nice guy and a great speaker. But he does not prepare you at all for midterms, labs, or homework. My opinion wouldnt be bad if he gave the same standard of his lecture to assignments. Lectures barely scratch the surface of what you need to know especially towards the end of quarter. Unfortunately a bad teacher.

Overall, terrible experience. Will be explaining something in lecture, and then say not to do that. Following lectures, will give examples that break those guidelines. So confusing. Asks misc details and many hard design problems, not enough time. Doesn't provide solutions for hw or exam so good luck improving if you have anxiety going to OH

Here's the good, bad, and ugly: -Labs emphasize showing off a flashy result over teaching fundamental skills. -Enforces ancient coding standard, doesn't teach or even discuss modern Verilog. Good luck with interviews. -Spends hours at a time on the phone with TAs, looking for any reason to report you to SJA. -Generous with time in office hours.

Baas made my online quarter a nightmare. Refused to make labs easier or extend deadlines even during a pandemic, and when 90% of the class hadn't finished. Your labs WILL be checked for similarities using MOSS and I know many students who got reported to SJA. MT and final focus on good verilog style on topics he hardly lectured

Professor Baas is writing the positive reviews himself. Also if that wasn't bad enough- if you look at his personal site you can see that he supports the cop that pepper-sprayed students on campus in 2012.

Just don't take his class unless u wanna screw up your GPA. Useless old styles of Verilog coding and unclear instructions on class curriculums. He deleted my comments on this website and write fake ones on himself. Don't trust those and avoid him if u can!!! One of the worst prof in the EE department

Baas acts amiable, but he doesn't prioritize providing students a supportive learning environment. He can be judgmental in a veiled/passive aggressive way during class & office hours, which left me feeling self conscious about being behind. He was disastrously inflexible with accommodating struggling students, and he's the worst prof I've ever had.

The final project is worth 30% of the final grade. When an error on a computer caused half of my project to be deleted before I could turn it in, the teacher was slow to respond, unsympathetic, and unreasonable in giving me an extension.

Sometimes even TAs can't solve an exam problem (Baas doesn't give them solutions). Instead of taking this as a hint the exam is poorly designed, Baas blames the TA for not taking good lecture notes (?!?!) like, TAs don't go to lecture bro... Baas makes TAs regret working for him, and they get paid for it... imagine how he makes the students feel.

Professor needs to make the class notes better and answer the questions in a clear manner. Many times he got confused especially with the advanced concepts. This class lacks a good discussion on FPGAs which Akella does better with detailed analysis on FPGA arch, timing issues and optimizations. Labs are good.

Boring lectures. Labs are ok. There's a good chance that you would be referred to SJA even though you worked day and night to finish the labs. Pretty late in replying to emails.

The lectures are boring, he makes material look harder than they are and make you confused. It is an easy subject. Just read the textbook. He thinks he knows what he is teaching but he doesn't.

Just Don't. You should go out and touch grass.

This class only gave me pain😭 If this is EEC 180, the expectations make sense, but it's a freakin lower div and we are learning digital systems for the 1st time! For lab, the TAs are lowkey rude and doesn't help much. HW's are hard, none are dropped, & he doesn't release answers after deadline. Final exam was super hard. Start final lab early.

Worst professor I have even taken at Davis