Too many errors in her own solutions to the midterms and exams.

Not sure what her problem is! I wish Prof Dony taught this course. She is really hard at marking and never understood what exactly she wanted. Getting a 50 in her course is a mission

she is always angry, seems irritated. she is rude. she makes me hate engineering, and female engineers. I am a female student. She should be cool like karen gordon and michelle oliver.

She is an awful professor. She is very disrespectful and does not care about the students success. Her solutions for the assignments had so many errors. She has great knowledge but she is very unfriendly. She needs to be humble, understanding and be fair to students. Testing on what she teaches won't harm her but she doesn't care.

I will avoid taking any course with her.

Disorganised and terrible notes.

I haven't yet finished the course I'm currently taking but it's clear to see that Julie Vale has no clue how to teach a course, despite having the needed knowledge. She isnt very approachable either and seems to have forgotten that we're in university to learn the course and not just know the course. 1/10, makes me not want to pursue engineering :(

You will learn more in 5 mins of Khan Academy on Youtube than an entire semester in her class. She is literally impossible to understand.

Ruining my life, one lecture at a time. She is hurtful to any and all students. She doesn't care about anyone, but herself. Doesn't teach properly. Disorganized notes that don't provide the fundamentals for the course. Tests in an overly complicated manner. Vale should not be a professor. She lacks the capacity to feel anything, but disdain. Awful.

Worst prof you could possibly have, doesnt know how to teach .. tests had nothing to do with what she did in class or assigned. Just do your self a favor and stay away from this craazy lady

Her material taught in class does not line up with the material taught in the textbooks. Her material taught in class does not line up with the exams she makes. Expects students to know the answers to her sample questions during her lecture so she does not finish the example fully.

She made an easy course harder than it should be. If you have a chance to choose don't ever choose her.

Being good at something does not mean you can teach it well too. You can see that she's smart but she does not know how to pass her knowledge. She makes everything harder. And she expects you to be in her level. For a first year prof, this is as bad as it gets.

WORST

She doesn't understand that most of her students in our first year course have no clue what she's talking about and are way too lost to even be able to put a question together to clarify. She's clearly quite knowledgeable but that clearly doesn't always cut it for profs as this course has been an example of.

Mom always said if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say it all. So I'm going to leave it at that. Best of luck if you ever have to cross paths with Julie Vale.

Little lecture organization (makes them as she goes). Doesn't post lecture notes. Instead posts audio recordings (try listening to a matrix!). Doesn't post solutions to practice tests. 90% weighting on midterm and final. Very difficult exams with mostly abstract questions. Not a good communicator. She's smart but that's not what makes a good prof.

Linear Algebra is not a hard course. But she somehow manages to explain things so poorly that simple concepts seem very daunting. Once I stopped going to class and just doing the homework w/ Khan Academy my understanding of the course content went through the roof.

If I would raise my hand to ask a question, she'd make eye contact with me, and then continue lecturing. You're expected to keep up with writing down what she is writing, understand that visual input, while simultaneously listening to what she's saying about what is being written down, and understand that audio input as well.

Not her! Never. She made be hate engineering and when I couldn't keep up, I thought I was doing and got depressed. It was my dream as a kid to study engineering

This is my second time being in Dr. Vales class, first was ENGG1500. From my second experience with her I can say she is the worst professor I have ever witnessed. Lectures are incredibly disorganized and very hard to follow. Tests are insanely hard compared to the content in lectures, assignments and practice tests. Get ready to be Vale'd.

I had Vale for 1500 and despised it. Not going to lie, I was truly under the impression her teaching style had improved at the start of this course. Notes were better, and she moved more slowly. And then she did the Vale classic. Tests are way too long for time given, she moves to quickly and gives little context, and doesnt explain concepts

Worse teacher that I ever had

The worst professor I have ever had the absolute displeasure of being forced to learn from. Words cannot describe how horrible she is at explaining concepts. Every class she teaches is made harder by her horrible instructional skills.

Professor Vale is a very smart and highly educated individual. However, that does not give her the ability to teach. She does not have the ability to communicate ideas to those less intelligent than her. She introduces very simple concepts in class, then expects you to compete extremely difficult test questions. Worst professor I have ever had.

Awful.

Terrible teacher

I experienced a severely stressful situation in this class. It is just like a military base instead of a place you can lean. She treated me so badly that I feel so depressed, stressful and hopeless that I feel I have no knowledge. Her teaching style is terrible for me. She answers questions just by questions that do not help at all.

I do believe She is the worst ever professor in the world! She is not supportive and I feel her behaviors were so offensive and harassing.

This class was online for me this year which already made everything harder. This class is tough for an in-class setting let alone online. I feel like this prof made the course harder on purpose and justified it by allowing us to collaborate with others. Unfortunately collaborating with others who are just as lost as you are does not help at all.

Worst class I ever took in my uni life!!!!!

Does not prepare you for exams. Material doesn't seem too bad, but the tests will absolutely rail you. Seems nice at first

This class was pure pain and agony, if you get her, good luck.

Just don't go to the lectures with vale. If you can, stick to the lectures with Cam farrow he's an absolute G. vale got all pissy at us because we were packing 2 minutes before class even tho some people have to run across campus for their next lecture. She also constantly brings up gender and race issues for no reason and its awkward.

Avoid at all costs if you can. Does not care at all about students. She encourages asking questions but completely berates you if she thinks it's a stupid question or has to repeat herself.

Attend as many lectures as you can

her notes look like English was her second language, lectures are not good, can be rude when u get a question wrong. Hair cut be looking like Miles Morales which is kinda sick. Frequency response might as well be a guess when it comes to a test. What even is a complete response.

very confusing lectures, bad hand writing made an already hard course even harder. was often rude and disregarding to people in class and did not answer questions well. overall not a great professor.

Posted notes are useless as her hand writing is terrible. Lectures arent that bad but the online notes are impossible to follow.

Julie isn't bad, but I hope you don't skip many lectures when she is teaching because following her notes on Courselink is like reading a 4 year olds writing, absolute chicken scratches. That is the only thing she really needs to improve IMO. Maybe Cam can give her lessons on how to have legible writing.

Refuses to post past finals, barely any practice for exams. Notes are practically incomprehensible. Course is a joke. Hard to get a straight answer, information is always conflicting.

Does not relay the content to students well, material is flown through in class and then assignments are barely related to material taught in class. Course content is wildly theoretical and subjective, we are expected to see things the way the professors do without being taught how to. Final exam was outrageous, little relation to course content

cooked cooked cooked cooked cooked cooked cooked

worst prof here at guelph

she will make you want to quite and give up

Made me not want to check both ways when crossing a road.

Her handwriting is terrible and hard to read. The lecture notes are not helpful at all.