****, she teaches to 12 year old girls in the summer and treats her COLLEGE students no different, unclear boring as hell and not even a little bit of fun.

No consistency in grading. Talks on and on about nothing. Tests on concepts not presented in class. She is always late to class. Has a poor attitude, and will not return any grades (tests or assignments) all semester long.

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Talks on and on about nothing, is late to class everyday, the worst teacher I have ever had, never gives assingments back, doesnt know crap about anything worth my time. Do not take her.

Horrible teacher but easy course. Tests on concepts never discussed in class (online powerpoints and websites). Grades projects purely on busy paperwork, NOT what you build. She has been late to class every day this semester, multiple times by more than 10 or 15 minutes.

I have had many teachers in my day but none this terrible. Never on time, always at least 10 mins. late. A lot of busy work that has no relevance to the class. Eight page book report would be fine in a english but not in a design course. No teaching ability, STOUT LISTIN TO YOUR STUDENTS, FIRE PUCK!

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Projects that she makes students do are nothing to be proud of. Have little relevance to how industry works. Industry can spend money, and they have a sufficient amount of time. (Yes, I understand there are limits in industry as well.) Waaaay too much out of time class for what you get out of the class

RD 205 is a joke. You learn nothing that is pertinent to your major. I feel like I'm in 1st grade all over again. We are supposed to be learning about design and engineering and we are working with crayons, pipe cleaners, and paper. We don't even get to touch our lab equipment...

the class is a powerpoint lecture. If there were not surprise assignments and the like i would have skipped every class. Also the pop assignment the day before break was a bit mean. the assignment mad sure you could only get credit if you were there. Tests did not follow lectures.

She is a joke of a teacher. she never hands out rubrics on time and they make no since. To bad that she is like the only teacher that teaches the class.

im tired, because ALL I DO IS WORK ON RD 205 PROJECTS ALL THE TIME

she is an absolutely useless teacher. she piles on multiple large assignments at one time along with the semester long project. she has no comprehension of how to actually teach. the class is supposed to be 4 hrs of lab and 1 hr of lecture per week and it's completely opposite. if you have to take this class, find a way to get a different teacher

She posts everything on D2L now but she is still a terrible teacher. She will blab on about everything except the important things you need to know and she will pile assignments on top of you for the entire semester

What can I even say? She doesn't deserve a job as a teacher (college professor no less) and I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that she refuses to change or the fact that Stout doesn't do a thing about it.

Vague with directions.Discourages creativity(Inhibitive/hindering).Assignments are not well thought out.Leaves doors open but closes them when questions are asked.Demanding of long repetitive,overlapping assignments.Doesn’t teach,just reads ppt's.Rarely on time.You must use the provided materials,even if you know better!Talks as though in preschool

Annoying, disrespectful person who treats you like you're in middle school. Very tough grader.

Expect to do a bunch of activities but never actually be taught the content. Also expect to read from a garbage textbook about the most boring content accessible to this teacher.

She doesn't seem to realize that students take more than one class per semester. She assigns way too much homework for a 3 credit class, and you will find yourself doing a lot of work outside of class. I made the mistake of taking a tough credit load along with her class. She turned a 3 credit class into an 8 credit class.

She is unclear about most things, such as what is homework, due dates, and how to do the homework. She tends to be super slow and redundant for the first 3/4 of the class. Then rushes to get the important things said. And this often forces you to go passed the classes end. Overall, she's confusing.

There is NO late work (even if you talked with her beforehand) with no makeup. All assignments that are turned in online need to be in an hour before class so you don't "rush something" if you forgot to do it. Some important topics are verbal only and not included with her lecture slides. But if you stay on to of your assignments you will be fine.

She thinks that every little detail is the most important thing you will ever learn. Class starts slow and boring, while cramming everything important right at the end in 2 minutes.

Not a good professor. She assigns a lot of work and grades kinda hard. She is never accessible outside of class. Defiantly would not recommend.

Worst professor you will have in your life. She acts like we are middle schoolers. When she sees someone on their phone she will literally pause and say "I'll wait" and stare at them just like middle school. Always goes 5 mins past class time. Cant manage her time. All important info will be given in last 5 mins of class. Cant even say 1 good thing

Beware if you are not a freshman with a easy load taking this class.... I took this class along with thermodynamics and other dificult engineering courses, and this was by far my hardest class. There is absolutely no reason why a 100 freshman course should have soo much mindless work,

very horrible when it comes to what she expects out of you for homework/instructions. She's not very clear at all and tends to change her words. Not to mention that she treats her students as if they are little kids. She tends to blame the students for time wasted in class when its her who is very disorganized with her lecture/course topics.

class was diaper, once i realized i didnt need to do the exercises i had a lot more time on my hands. Barely taught the actual important bits and would always rush through most of it. Hard to follow, way too much work.

The wise words of Brenda Puck: "I don't repeat things" "I've been using this software for years and I still forget how to use it" "This is a 3 credit course, but you'll do the work of a 5 credit one" "I take attendance every day, and it's worth points" Class runs 5 min late every day, and she teaches the most important info during those 5 min.

Brenda Puck is a terrible college professor. I currently am taking 15 credits (calc3 , physics 1, etc.). This one class alone has more homework and requires more time commitment than all of my other classes combined. The content of this course isn't all necessary, and she runs the class like a middle school classroom.

Very slow-paced lectures. Hard to listen to. The software portion of the class is unbearably slow. Aside from AutoCAD seldom being used in any professional setting, the instruction provided is not geared towards people who learn by doing. If you like being given a specific set of instructions and a specific task to perform, you'll be fine.

Avoid if you can, it is a huge waste of time. Little to no usable knowledge is imparted. The "skills" she shares have next to no value outside of the class and you do NOT get your 3 credits worth of knowledge value for the 5 credits worth of work you will be doing. I do feel as if I have been cheated out of my money by signing up for her class. RUN

Wastes so much time with her lectures. Teachers like we are in 1st grade. I had to email her three times to fix a grade on an assignment. Would not recommend it.

Be prepared to read the text book... she wont teach you 90% of the things that will be on the midterms and finals. Also pay attention in class cause if you have questions and need to email her, be prepared to not get any emails back. She is by far the worst teacher to try and get ahold of outside of class.

Puck treats her students like they're in kindergarten. She shows up late to class, spends the first 30 mins doing useless house keeping, and then class always ends late. She over explains simple topics, but will demand you pay attention at all times. You do all your actual learning outside of class from the textbook, or solidworks tutorials.

She doesn't reply to emails, uses her class to push her clubs and "study abroad". Half her classes are about trying to convince you to study abroad or do certain events. She speaks to her students like kindergarteners. It's very annoying. The hardest part of this class will be getting through the lectures and labs without tearing your brains out.

Rambles, keeps the class late, blames the class. Over-lectures on minor topics. She will lose your well thought out and built final project and give you an option to "fill out a form and give you partial credit" just to ignore it and give you a zero. It's always your fault.

Takes forever to grade assignments. She is awful at responding to emails. I tried contacting her 6 times via email throughout the semester and never got a response. She is rude and condescending in class. She wants your full attention and will stop class to yell at students if they have there laptops open while shes speaking. Take someone else!

DOES NOT respond to emails (always gives excuses of "having 200 students"; you'd be lucky to get a response after 3 weeks). Very pretentious and attention-seeking in class. You will be multitasking while listening to her boring lectures and then she will stop and call you out, even though we were just typing our notes or working on assignments

Very numbing to listen to in class (half housekeeping and plugging in woke engineering programs and dumb engineering societies and study abroad). DOES NOT RESPOND TO EMAILS AT ALL. When you have to send reminder emails because something is due and she hasn't helped you yet, you know you have an awful teacher. Take. Another. Professor

Horrible. Very patronizing and pretentious. This class will be the longest two hours of your life. First 1/3 of class is devoted to drawing by hand. Brenda makes you buy $50 in supplies and then fails you if you use it on any graded material. Spent a week learning how to use ruler scales. Finally quizzed on it over a month later. A joke of a class.

Unhelpful, boring lectures, doesn't teach what is on the quizzes/exams.

Half the quiz question we took were subjective questions for credit. she don't let you take notes on your computer. whether you go to lecture or not will not affect how well you do on the quizzes.

She is one of the toughest graders. She would look over my CAD projects before I submitted and would give great feedback and say it looked good but would give me 75% max grade on each one. Talks about 3/4 of the period and flies through important parts of Solidworks with little care if everyone was caught up. Worst professor for new solidworks user

Never Emails you back

I would get more out of a concise one-page document than sitting through these lectures. Lectures feel like 30% relevant material and 70% pointless tangents. The canvas organization suffers from the way to common problem of overcomplication, which makes navigating the course a huge headache. Spends way too much time talking about study abroad.

Brenda Puck is the type of professor that you blindly choose and then regret later. The course is split into two parts, drawing and modeling. The drawings serve ZERO purpose for your engineering career, and are graded extremely heavily. She consistently treated the class like middle schoolers and was unclear with assignment deadlines. PLEASE AVOID

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avoid brenda

By far the worst professor at Stout. The drawings in class don't help with anything but graded so hard. You could spend 3 hours on a drawing and still get less than a 50%. Very tight deadlines, and a lot of information you will have to find on your own. Seems like her class is the only one that matters, so get used to having late nights with others

For your sanity, avoid Brenda Puck.

The only great thing about this class was the extra credit. If you have no prior experience to using CAD you're almost out of luck. I wish deadlines weren't so strict especially with how tutoring hours are.

She is a terrible professor. She tells us that our class time is important then proceeds to waste class time with tech issues and overexplaining each slide.

Very hard to work with and is stuck in her ways

For your best benefit, choose literally any other professor. If you're looking for your depression to reach an all time low, then take Brenda's class and start scheduling your therapy appointments now. Seems like she has no respect for students' other commitments in other classes. Be prepared to be mentally exhausted.

Bad lectures, I don't think I learned anything in her lectures. Overall, just a worthless class.

Spends about 1/4 of every lecture talking about how important the information she's about to share is and then goes on pointless tangents for the next half, only to finish by reminding of due dates and what to have ready for lab. the Canvas is convoluted, but I think thats just the nature of the course, it being half lab and half lecture.

While I think Brenda is possibly improving, she is by far the worst professor and educator I have ever encountered. She always claims to be busy and I pray for you if you need a response over email from her. If you miss class she will do absolutely nothing to help you, even if you have a genuine reason.

Do not take Brenda if you value your time. She spends the first 15 minutes of class telling you how important her lectures are and then wastes enough time that she doesn't actually finish the lecture. She simultaneously treats everyone like a toddler and then expects you to communicate like an adult. Just choose anyone else dude.

Seems like she's just there to get paid, literally teaches nothing. Doesn't even have a degree in engineering. If you turn in a late assignment she wont accept it but takes 4 months to grade anything so she clearly doesnt care about time management on her end. Should start a petition to fire her and save future freshmen from her atrocity of a class

The TA grades everything, grades aren't posted on time, requires tons of prior knowledge, no engineering degree yet teaches Engineering Design. Meets with you to “help,” making you feel set up to pass, but you'll probably still fail. The tests don't match what you actually learned, and she doesn't help most students unless you appeal to her.