He is a terrible teacher who doesnt know his material, and his notes suck

bad teacher, and tells stupid jokes

Lecture notes no relevance to problem solving, not as funny as he thinks he is.

This man is cruel. He will show you no mercy. He will crush you in the palm of his hand and laugh foolishly with a rediculous grin on his face like it was no big deal. That and he is annoying, everyday you will find him more annoying then the day before.

One of the WORST profs in engineering He just show how to do the easy questions from the book and ... (that can go on forever) ... Summary: Don't be in his class go to Dr. Zahra Moussavi if you can.

he says 'oh ok' a lot

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horrible, u can never understand anything from him, and when you ask he just laughs instead of answering, i'll try not to take a course with him again, watch out he might be teaching microprocessors next year which i think is a really bad choise from the faculty.

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not good

i don't wanna see him again

bad prof in the world

What is wrong with this faculty? have the administration no respect for thier students? or even for the faculty's reputation? its quite obvious an absolute majority of his peer evals suck, and yet hes still teaching. Shame on you admin. Shame. Yoshi...nothing against you, i know its hard to understand, but you just CANNOT and should NOT teach!

THIS GUY IS THE WORST PROF EVER, SUCH AN IDIOT!!!!!! the class would be easy if it wasn't for him being a horrible teacher.

Duuuuh!!! Too bad you can't rate amebas... they would get higher ratings than Yoshida. Words of wisdom from the experienced... "Stay away from his class if you can!!!" I REALLY MEAN IT!!!

not good at all

He's an awful prof. Cannot stand listening to him during class. "Essentially, you know... he's bad." If you've taken his class you'll get that joke. He repeats a phrase over and over and over again. He's very useless. Don't take him if you don't have to.

he doesn't give u marks no matter what! talks to himself. can't understand a word

He doesn't thoroughly understand the course material and thus constantly makes mistakes. He doesn't know what anyone is talking about whenever someone asks him a question in class. One of the worst instructors in engineering. If you have the option to avoid his teaching, avoid him. He is a nice guy though. Smiles incessantly. Can get annoying.

Lectures contribute nothing to understanding the course. Very difficult to follow. Better off skipping every class and learning from the textbook rather than being more confused by going to the lectures.

Lectures are not helpful. I learned most of the material from the text. Mid-Term Exam was poorly worded. Made reasonable quizzes. Did not post lecture notes.

What was that??? A+ all semester long and then the final exam. I dont even think i passed the course now. What is wrong with this guy and the other guy gabe thomas?

Awful. Lectures are very different from exam material.

He's got a rare talent of making everything appear much more difficult than it really is. Youtube is your best friend for this class, as lectures were beyond useless. Should be banned from using power point as he jumps back and forth between slides seemingly at random. Quizzes were awful and made up 10% of the grade. Take it with different prof.

This guy sets you for failure from the beginning. Class average is 40% on quizzes and his lectures are pure a waste of time. The good reviews of him were definitely written by him because he thinks the students who complain are wrong. He's an instructor btw, not a professor; big difference apparently.

PSA: do not use the recommended textbook. Instead, get 'Control Systems Engineering' by Nise. It will get you through the course, b/c Yoshida definitely won't. He's not a bad person, but he's terrible at teaching, and you won't learn much from the lectures. Everything I know about the course I learned from reading Nise.

He is an absolutely horrible prof. NEVER take his class. He is physically incapable of teaching in a way anyone understands, he has no grasp of technology, he does not care if students succeed, he never answers email, and his lectures are useless. If you're gonna learn anything, it's gonna be from the textbook. Absolutely garbage class

He has a terrible teaching style. Historically, this has been an easy course but he made it very difficult this year. Online classes are not his thing. Class started with 100+ students but only 50-60 left by the end. I basically had to teach myself the whole course. his notes do not help and classes are super sleepy. Nice guy tho!

I skipped class and strictly read the textbook to get through this one. He will give you quizzes on the weekend but only replies to emails Mon-Fri. Quizzes had no consistent time length and had a 35% average. My midterm mark changed 3 times I still don't know why. I didn't finish the final and I got a B+ so it will be curved. Awful.

Blair sucks. Seems like a nice guy but tests you as if youve been a practicing engineering in the field of study for 10+ years. I didnt sleep before this final exam and what a shock it was absurd and nobody I knew was even able to answer half the exam. No way I got above 30% on the final and still got a B. This guy sucks and has no clue.

Yoshida does not meet post secondary education standards. His quizzes / exams are not well thought through and he expects you to read his mind. He makes up his own ways of doing things so the textbook doesn't even help you prepare for wrtitten tests. Genuinely, the worst prof i had in the span of 8 years getting two undergraduate degrees! AVOID!!!!

This guy is the worst. My buddy was able to explain 200% of this course material in 15 minutes using a notepad. If you want to learn control systems I beg you to learn from anyone other than Blair.

Maybe the worst teacher in the entire University of Manitoba. Simply put, he can't teach. Not only can he not teach, but he also doesn't put any effort into the course. Unfortunately there's not another controls teacher so if you don't have to, don't take controls and take ECE 4260 instead. I really don't know how this guy has a job.

Yoshida's notes and UMlearn posting structure is extremely confusing and time consuming to navigate. He assigns practice questions from the textbook, however seems to make up his own style of test problems. The low class averages reflect the class's general confusion. I don't feel like I'm being given a fair shot to learn control systems.

Worst prof in ECE. I would give him a zero if I could

honestly a useless teacher, exams were way harder than course material for no reason what so ever. Marked even more difficult on top of that, would give a 0 if I could

This prof seems really weak with technology and having him for an online class made it much harder. When asked questions regarding the exams we never got clear answers. Exams are much harder than anything taught in class and textbook problems. Grading is also done harshly.

I don't think I've ever taken a harder class that should've been incredibly easy. It should have been simple material, but Blair was so incomprehensible that I came away from every lecture knowing less than what I came in with. The textbook isn't particularly helpful either. Just an overall awful experience.

Does a very poor job at explaining concepts and engaging conversation and questions. The lectures are just a word spaghetti of bad explanations. Ask a simple clarification question and he will avoid answering it directly by presenting a completely different problem to explain your question about the other example. Make sense? It's not supposed to.

Horrible. The labs were vague as there were no clear instructions provided, he wouldn't post the solution for his textbook, and you know ... just made things way more complicated than they should be. He even made linear interpolation look difficult. The term test and final were marked somewhat okay. Attendance were kinda mandatory.