To the person who posted before, stop butt kissing, everyone did show up to the class and to the labs, cannot teach. NO EFFORT in preparation of the course, the software or anything to do with design. Look at his web site, he answered no questions.

Sadistic, arrogant and completely useless. If the chicken scratch on the board doesn't get to you, the Resistor labeled "R evil" will. Avoid at all costs.

if this is the best PhD in EE carleton can produce, run for your life.

Rogers is an utter joke. Like most professors at Cartoon University, he favours his own students, favours people within his little political circle and gives them higher grades. By Ottawa custom, got job by contacts not merit. Should be fired.

A complete failure Most professors prepared notes on topics they are familiar with, however he just knows oscillators and fills the rest of the class looking at his watch and realizing he knows nothing about most of the topics.

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Carleton used to have professional,mature intellgent professors on DOE faculty: from University of Toronto and some from University of Waterloo. Here not because he deserves it, but because of his relation to Plett. That's why Toronto runs Canada.

Ghandi said, “Become the change you wish to see in the world.” if we all become like rogers we would be bitter, eccentric geeks, whose goal in life was to transfer our emotional baggage onto others, and be a 30 year with the mind of a 10 year old.

sure let's be fair: the students did most of the teaching to each other and learned little from plett or his puppet, rogers. being a coward is not saying otherwise: rogers is a horribly political self-centered twit

I am the one to say he's hot. Come'on!! Those sweaters made by his grandma are like totally in!! Terrible prof.

bad prof

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he is the worst worst professor u will ever get .He is so bad at teaching he do not know actually how to teach a**** .I dont know how he become a professor .University should fired him soon.

Worst prof you ever imagine.

Worst professor I've ever had. The list of things he does wrong is so long it won't fit in this little box. If you have to take his class, try to ignore the crappy marks - everyone is getting the same crappy marks and they have to adjust them in the end. Don't sacrifice your other classes for his stupid class.

Trust me, you don't want to take this class with him. You will hate your life.

Avoid this guy.

Walking around the class, hands in pocket, talking fast without pause on the circuit design like a sociology lecturer.

Horrible professor. Makes a core EE course too difficult and tedious. He also holds random pop quizzes in class and if you miss 3 he FNDs you. In one class a student left 5 minutes early and he intentionally held the pop quiz right after in spite. He doesn't follow a textbook, doesn't teach, he only does practice questions in class. Avoid him.

I dont mind having a tough prof. that wants us to learn. This prof. takes every opportunity to fail you. If you miss more than 3 classes you fail the course. One student had a midterm and had to leave 5 min early from class, and he had a pop quiz as soon as he saw them leave. This kind of attitude should not be allowed, and doesn' motivate anyone.

Lectures barely relevant to lab, you will spend countless hours trying to understand how to do the prelab because he never really went over the theory or procedure to understand what are doing. VITAL: work with people on solving these because alone you will fail at least the first time but make sure you can do them by yourself for exams.

Should not be a prof. Has many pop quizzes during lectures about things he hasn't taught you yet, if you get it wrong, that's a fail. More than 3 failed pop quizzes and he flunks you. Handing in a quiz 2 seconds too late from his 30 second timing for 300 students to bring him a paper at the front of the room? He won't take it and that's a fail.

He answers questions by saying if you don't even know this, drop engineering this is not for you! He pops up questions randomly and you have to hand in in 1min! You have to have your name on the paper on every page of your notes to be prepared. If you did the attendance question wrong, it is also a fail. Miss or fail three questionsfail course

John Roger's is the worst professor I have had at Carleton. His method of teaching is putting a graded pop quiz of untaught material on the board. If you even had time to ask him a question in the 10 minute period he gives for the test, all you would get is him echoing your question back to you with a smug remark on why you should already know it.

Course is hard but if you put effort it should help. However this prof says if you dont get 50% on the final you fail and that is so ridiculous... the department of engineering should look into that otherwise they are going to have lots of students complaining.

The worst professor I have had. No scratch that, the worst professor I will EVER have in my post secondary studies. Nothing can be worse than this guy.

Known for destroying the GPA's of many. Currently being questioned for the difficulty of the exams he writes. Avoid at all costs.

He assigns textbook problems to prepare for tests, but the only thing is that the test difficulty is so drastic compared to the textbook problems. The textbook problems are no use for studying considering he makes everything so much more difficult and he does not give you enough material to prepare yourself for his difficult tests.

Final exam had concepts that were not taught throughout the semester and were not in any notes nor the textbook. I did many many practice problems from the textbook, probably around over 100 different ones, plus doing practice exams and re doing quizzes. Hardly any of the exam questions even were similar to these problems provided.

John is Carleton's best financial decision.

I was another one of those who perished at the hands of John Rogers' ELEC 2501 fall 2019 final. As stated by others, the exam had questions not related to the course material. Some people said he was walking around the exam room smilling as students were struggling. Avoid at all costs, take it in the summer if you have to.

Just wants to filter out students and puts content on the final that was never studied in class. I had an 11GPA going into this course and I think i will have failed... John Rogers is the worst if you can avoid it never take him as a prof

PURE GARBAGE. IMPOSSIBLE EXAMS, WORST PROF IVE EVER HAD, LOOK AROUND I AINT THE ONLY ONE.

puts material not covered in class on final pretty mean in class to the students gets way ahead of other section

John rogers teaches you ELEC 2501 like you have already graduated at Carlton with an electrical engineering degree and are retaking the course just for fun. He makes absurd comments about students failing in class towards students that demoralize them, and seems to not care for their mental health. If you can avoid him you better do so.

I have never felt more pain in my entire life than taking ELEC2501 with John Rogers. He is a plague to Carleton University. Avoid him at all costs.

Makes an interesting course hard for all the wrong reasons. Full of himself and doesnt shy away from giving rude comments and expressing how many students are bad and need to fail. Hands in his pockets while explaining in class. (From a student who got an A. I just studied my off and wasted a lot of time perfecting my lab reports)

He is a terrible professor. Don't take his course ever.

Quizzes have an incredibly high level of difficulty than the lectures, and final exam is even harder than that. TA's treat sessions differently (some provide formulas while some don't). Hardly any help from school and no extra practice can be found internet-wide.

His intention is to fail many student as he can, not sure why.

He is extremely good at conveying the information in lectures which is why it's so unfortunate that he tests on things never seen before just to mess with you. Had a 94% going into the final, came out with a C+. Doing the math, that's 44% on the 50% final. When that happens clearly there is a discrepancy between the term tests and the final exam

Does not have students best interest in mind. Deviates from the course material on exams and test. Combats students concerns with attitude. He is good within his own studies but should not be an educator in any sense. He is not suited for a teaching position.

doesn't care about his students, why he is still teaching is beyond me. he needs to get it through his head that the people he is teaching are paying him so he needs to treat them better.

Terrible

Prof Rogers and the other profs that work with him in this course do NOT care for his students. They barely reply to emails and they do not care at all about the problems and our concerns regarding this course.

Why is this guy even a professor when he doesn't realize that students have 4 other courses to focus on besides his course.

The worst

Not a good Prof. Always has problems with students no matter what course he is teaching.

So stubborn and rude

he's very rude and has a sassy attitude and thinks his class is our world and it's funny how he removes himself from the teaching evaluation. That alone just says a lot about him as a teacher.

worst prof every. that's it.... that's all i have to say

Treats every student as if they are all destined to become horrible engineers. Provided no office hours and would constantly get irritated with the amount of emails students send him. His awful pre recorded lectures feature background clocks in his home ringing every 5 minutes. Avoid this man at all costs.

I wish I took this class in summer actually

Harsh grader, bad explainer and makes difficult questions

Grades very harshly and questions are of very difficult levels. He does not waive marks or lenient in grading. His classes are not good either as his explanation is not clear and disrupted with clocks ticking.

Horrible Prof. Very difficult exams that deviate from the lectures and course content. Unfair use of untaught methods on exams. He is rude and doesn't provide students with adequate feedback.

25 min lecture time on average, few example, 0 explaination, record video in a clock shop, the background noise is loud and distractibg. You won't learn anything from him, all your effort and time will become joke when he designs his unsolvable final exam.

Sets the exams to fail students. Midterm averages were 40% and 35% because you can get a max of .25 marks for procedure. Final was 8 questions in 1:30 even though quizzes were 3 questions in 1:00, and had tricky twists on every question. I had an 11.9 CGPA including my other classes this semester but likely got 25% on the final, failing with > 50%.

Horrible

I don't know. This man gets off from making students miserable. Goes out of his way to fail as many students as possible to satisfy some morbid ego he has. That's the only reason I can think of for why he desires to make exams brutal and record lectures in a clock shop. Sets a pass requirement on the final to ENSURE he fails half the class.

Really bad prof. Lectures are just him talking about notes that someone else prepared of equation derivations and one or two examples. Exam was the hardest one I've written in uni. You need to teach yourself most of the content out of the textbook (which is pretty bad on its own) or rely heavily on your ta to pull you through.

Failed half of second years when I took this course. Asks weird things on exam that I never learnt in class. Avoid him pls.

Exam and midterms do not reflect the difficulty of quizzes that are tested throughout the course. When they say they give part marks, they give barely part marks. Even if you do the correct approach to solving the problem, but do not have the correct values, they give you barely any part marks. Just avoid this man at ALL COSTS.

I went in to the exam with a B+ came out with an F, such a cruel human being, no mercy at all despite the fact were in a pandemic. He takes over the course no matter whos your prof and unless he quits teaching this class you cant avoid him

One of the cruelest individuals to ever become a professor I think. Why become a professor if you hold your students in such contempt. So bad at his job that the faculty forced to give out make up finals because he cant resist failing students.

I do not recommend him at all. He does not have the characteristics of a teacher. Do not take this course in the fall if he is teaching it. He will be making the tests and the exams even if you have a different Prof.

He does not know how to do current divider

Worst professor I have ever had. Just a walking failure at his job.

John Rogers has been the worst professor since we moved online. He maintains limited to no communication with students during the semester and oversees all the major exams which are unfair and brutal. How can everyone including the faculty know how bad this class is and still force us to take it.

Good knowledge, half decent explanations, cut-throat marking. Avoid

No need for introduction

Take this prof = failure guaranteed.

The worst professor I have ever had. If you want to delay your graduation, take this course with him you'll end up graduating one year later. Completely disorganized and unhelpful. I would strongly recommend avoiding his courses if you want to stay on track.

Really tough grader, small circuit wrong get 0 points thats the midterm and final, do it at another university and transfer the credit, this course is stress, anxiety, my mistake was not trusting these comments and thinking it would be different for me, wake up Neo. He said "Carleton is broke" this is how they're making the money, failing people.

My friend got 45/100 on the final he asked for revision and the prof gave him ... 49/100. All he needed was 1 more point, he pleaded and the prof refused. This is the guy you're dealing with. Yes my friend failed, because of 1 point.

2.5/5 as a professor, 0/5 as a person. Apparently gets satisfaction from failing students. Posted a gore show with two characters slaughtering each other as a metaphor of what will/won't happen to students in his class. Gives mostly no part marks on midterm and final. Puts questions onto the final on topics that were barely briefed in class.

Does everything possible to set students up to fail, within legal bounds - this way faculty can't get to him. Used to be more open about failing students until the 2018 and 2020 scandals. Now he is quiet about it, but does roughly the same. Exam is legally as hard as possible. No part marks. Maintains ZERO communication with his students.

the whole lecture is prof Rogers giving you a problem with 10 minutes to solve it, then scribbles some solution on the board (his handwriting is terrible). he makes a lot of unclear assumptions and omits lots of stuff, then just says "you should know it". then he tests you extremely heavily