Good times? No. Bad times.

total shmo. all he talks about is how he was an never got to go to space

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Complete joke as a "teacher." Needs to take his head out of the lab for once

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failed astronaut + butch TA = no fun

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Worthless as a professor. Too caught up in his research to care about students.

Bitter astronaut who never got to space berates and verbally abuses students

We should let him have his wish and send him off to space, cuz no one wants him here

MAtthiesen was the worst prof I ever had. He is bitter about so much in his life - especially not getting to the moon. It makes this hell on earth for the rest of us. Also - get a life - you don't know anything about the real world.

Incapable of understanding that he cannot teach. Arrogant to the point of convincing himself that the class is doing well when a majority are failing.

doesnt know what hes doing. he gives the same exact exams every year, but doesnt teach a thing. would be a memory class but we are allowed a notecard - class is completely useless with him teaching.in a class we need about 1 thing he says the whole time

absolutely horrible teacher. Boring, arrogant, completely unaware of his student's problems.An easy test does not mean it's ok 80 kids failed the last two! this tenured professor is vastly inferior to the grad student teaching engr 131.

He is the worst professor I have ever had. He doesn't teach anything, his tests are abnormally long, and he is bitter about not making it into space. He is very unapproachable and he is very arrogant.

Told me point blank that I should not be an engineer because I was not doing well in his calls, this was in my freshman year. Luckily, I ignored him and now I have a job as an engineer, glad I didn't take his advice.

Space-the final frontier. Fortunately, it will never be his frontier. GET OVER IT AND YOURSELF! You are a terrible professor and your wife is WAY smarter than you are. I'm sorry that you're old, bitter, and angry and that you still cannot grow even the simplest of crystals. Microgravity=wussy.

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There are a lot of funny comments people make about Matthiesen but basically he is one of those people that may do a fine job at NASA but should never have been a teacher. He tries to teach what he knows but cannot find an effective method to do so. If you have the chance, take Blackwell's section instead.

terrible teacher, worst at case, so far

Likes to pretend he is smart and important but is neither. Preys on cute women.

There is no point in going to class. He didn't cover anything useful at all. The TA's teach the whole class. Tests were decent after he failed the whole class on the first exam.

His idea of lecturing is reading directly from the book. It is really sad that I am paying as much as I am for such an incompetent professor. I would recommend avoiding if you don't want to be bored out of your mind and actually want to learn something.

This man does not explain anything, but instead talks about his wind turbine and beeing an astronaut. This would not be a problem, if the class was easy, but instead you have to know literal quantum physics. He is terrible.

He looks at the slides and talks about the vast amount of irrelevant information rather than talking about the subject matter needed for the test that very same week.

Matthiesen would probably be a better teacher in a smaller setting, but in a class of 400+ students he kinda just keeps talking about lots of irrelevant things during lecture. His lectures and the homework barely line up only due to him mentioning an equation you need to use maybe one time during class. Not he nicest guy really either. 56% on test1

Tests are graded toughly and graders are very nitpicky. Homeworks have little to do with lectures, so help from TAs is necessary. Lectures are boring and contain excess and useless information.

Matthiesen teaches qualitatively while testing everyone on the quantitative stuff. He also does not care how bad students do on tests, the past averages all being below an 80% and the most recent test almost at a failing grade. But hey he almost was an astronaut (and somehow was voted teacher of the year in his department)

Matthiesen is the most arrogant and unhelpful professor I've had so far. He doesn't care about students whatsoever. There's homework every week where you sit and teach yourself the material since his lectures are spent talking about how he was almost an astronaut. On the last exam the average was a 60% with no curve, lots of people have had to drop

Spends lecture either talking about himself or telling useless stories. His tests are too long and each question is worth too many points. He cannot teach.

The worst course I've taken here. He is an inefficient teacher and both the homework and exam problems are incredibly difficult and he is not accessible to students.

He is by far one of the worst professors on campus. Doesn't have any regard for how his students perform in the class or what they get out of it. Unless you want to hear the musings of a wannabe astronaut who does not know how to teach, do not take this class.

This was my worst experience with a teacher in 19 years of being alive. He was the most egotistical and self-centered man I have ever encountered, who would publicly call students out for minor errors they had made. Avoid at all costs.

The worst professor the halls of Case Western Reserve University. Lost multiple students exams and gave them zeros because "one exam is dropped". Avoid at all costs. Does not teach, and over 70% of the class either dropped it or failed.