Terrible professor!!! Very harsh on grading exams. Also not helpful when asking questions during office hours.

If you don't have program background, you won't pass. The class is just for people who already learned program before. Exams are chanllenge. 60% of overall grade. Do less than 50% in 1 exam, you fail no matter what.

Don't take him if you want a good semester. He can ruin your interesting in EE major. He tries to fail as many students as he can.

Terrible professor in EE department. He is smart but he doesn't know how to teach. He is not there to help you learn the material. He is there to give you challenge homework and exam. Very harsh on grading exam. Find anyway to fail students.

Really bad professor. Easy to get lost in lecture. Lazy professor. He didn't prepare for lecture. Give hard homework. Not helpful in office hour.

I would choose someone else or postpone the course I'm going to take if he is already assigned to it. He's simply not adequate professor for average students.

Avoid if you want to go for the major you like. Otherwise he just made you hate EE and change major.

This professor is trying to fail students. Do not take class with him if you dont want to change your major/career

Kia is a great guy, but he cannot explain concepts even if his life depended on it. I ended up having to watch videos online to be able to do well in his tests. And his grading is very weird with people not getting any B+ or A- and jumping straight into B. If you want to learn stuff, you're better off not taking any class he teaches.

Worst professor I've ever had. Do not take class with this man.

He grossly overestimates how good of a lecturer he is and makes exams much more difficult than anything he assigns. Assignments are lengthy and he even boasts about how it takes several students to complete 1/4 of the hw he assigns. This is supposed to be an introductory course yet it seems he tailored it to students with coding experience.

Definitely avoid if you can

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This is hands down the worst professor I have ever had. He thinks he is a good lecturer and brags about it. In reality, he is a horrible lecturer who makes HW/tests way harder than they should be. He is out to fail students on this ENTRY-LEVEL COURSE. If you can avoid the class, if you cant avoid it, take it with ANYONE but Kia, you will regret it.

You know it's bad when you can get a significantly better grade in Calculus II and Physics II than in an INTRODUCTORY course to coding. Did I expect an easy A? No. Did I expect to be able to pass the class with at least a C? Yes. Will I? Not looking good.

Worst professor I have ever had. Treats an entry level course like a graduate course. I had 0 coding experience going into this class and the only people who are doing good in it are the people who coded outside of the class. He made out midterm 3 harder because "so many people did good on midterm 2". He wants you to fail avoid him at all costs.

You will have your worst days if you don't know C++ before taking this class. This class was supposed to be an introduction to programming but the professor makes it look like a graduate level class.

Its expected that if you don't understand the topics or focus off the bat, you have to take on more work yourself to practice. He won't provide you with the resources to understand the topic in class. Be prepared to teach yourself for the most part, but even then, that might not even help you. It's partially luck in understanding the concept.

Kia is the worst professor in the department and should be avoided at all cost. Kia assigns homework that takes hours and also expects you to complete labs before your scheduled lab time. Kia also punishes the class for doing too good on the last exam by making the next one more difficult and doesn't create practice problems for exams either.

This dude is a super villain do not take EE 1301 with Kia Bazargan if you ever have to register take that in the summer for your own sanity (if you don't have any coding experience) The class is extremely geared towards people that already have coding experience and are solidly proficient. Also, He's probably reading these reviews and laughing

This teacher is the worst lecturer of all time and he thinks hes a good teacher. When he's just not. The HW will take you upwards of hours to do if you havent ever coded before. The only people that really succeed are people who have coded in c++ before. Essentially he teaches a intro to coding class like it's graduate course. Avoid at all costs...

Took 3 years of coding classes in high school, so a lot is review. But I can say Kia has ruined many intro students first introduction to coding class as as he is obviously trying to weed-out 75% of the class. Nice guy but his grading and teaching style is very much not suitable for an intro to coding class sadly.

Kia is genuinely the worst teacher in general I have ever had. Lectures are long and he doesn't teach well. Labs are expected to be completed before your lab section. Homework can take hours upon hours to complete. When the class did well on a test, Kia stated it was easy, and made the next one hell. He wants you to fail, I promise. SAVE YOURSELF.

I could go on for days about Kia. He is terrible. He clearly has not had enough experience teaching low level courses. NEVER take EE1301 with him. The homeworks are impossible, the quizzes are even harder, and the labs are expected to be completed before lab time. As someone who has previously coded, avoid at all costs if you haven't before.

I never thought an intro course would be so demanding and taught like it was a graduate-level course.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW C++!!! This is an intro level course, but it feels like an upper level coding class. If you have the option, take another professor, and if I had known about this before the class, I would have waited a semester or two so that I didn't have to go through that.

Kia thinks that he is a very good professor and his lectures are the savior of all, when in retrospect they are not. His lectures are pointless and he just runs through code like it's not an intro class. Has a massive vendetta against anything other than hours of labor for his homework and will act like its a crime for using online sources. NO TAKE

So much caring but he does no know how to teach, useless lecture, difficult intro class, Take other options (if you have)

He is nice guy, but when it comes to teaching he is not, he is very old style just speaks monotonous, and his lectures are useless. He thinks everybody know topics, master and expert in the field. Tough exam and tough grading. I think he is becoming next ZUDOV

I think he needs to change his teaching style. He just speaks and goes through the slides as we are just staring at him. Class should be little bit interesting to help, motivate or interest the student. I almost lost all my interest to my major CS after this class. and I thought it was intro and it would be much easier.

Doesn't have experience teaching an intro course and it shows, I know plenty of people who's intro course have been ruined because of him.

Do not take this prof. Extreme amounts of work, lectures are poorly structured. Doesn't explain material well yet boasts when HWs take hours. Teaches as if students already know C++. Overly sus of AI use to the point that he wrongfully accuses multiple students. If students perform well on a exam, he proceeds to make the next exam much harder.

Not good at teaching coding and intro classes in general. Nice guy but acts like you have extensive coding knowledge. Homework is excessive, combined with readings and labs this course take way more time than it's worth. Makes tests overly difficult for seemingly no reason and lectures are boring recaps of the readings, avoid if you can.

If you can avoid taking this class with Kia, I strongly recommend it. He teaches this intro course as if it were for grad students. His homework is unnecessarily long and difficult, taking hours to complete, on top of labs, readings, and projects. He is a horrible and boring lecturer, making exams harder if students do well. Worst professor ever.

Don't take EE1301 with Kia unless you already know C++, he's not a suitable instructor for an intro class. Acts like he cares to your face, yet actively tries to fail students. Stated he was making sure at least a 3rd of the class received a C-F in this INTRO course. He was pretty much the most stressful and disorganized professor I've had.

Kia had a consistently passive-aggressive tone toward his students as a whole. He had a general lack of respect or concern for student's success, which really sucks any passion you have for EE right out of you. Please don't waste your money and energy on this instructor.

He is genuinely just a terrible teacher all around. I really don't understand how he has a job teaching this way. extremely rude to his students and made sure to make exams extra hard, with confusing labs as the cherry on top. I know so many people who have had their passion for EE crushed because of him. If you love yourself, avoid him.

made the class hard in every aspect and made sure the students were aware of it. very cold with his students when asking for any kind of help.

Everything in the comments that people are saying about him is 100% true, don't waste your money and time.

The expectations he upheld for the majority of the people who took this class were not realistic at all. He doesn't acknowledge that this is an intro elective course, not some upper level electrical major only course. If he's the only professor teaching, I strongly suggest pushing 1301 back a semester.

Unfortunately the regular professor was on hiatus for the spring 2025 semester so our class was stuck with Kia. While he is kind and cares about the course material, he expects grad level effort and understanding for an intro level course. Personally, my interest in coding was crushed and my substantial effort didn't even earn me credit.

DO NOT TAKE. Kia actively tried to fail people, telling multiple of my friends that they should drop the course, without trying to help them. Boring lectures, long and difficult labs and tests, and a group project worth 20% of your grade that you only get a few weeks to complete. Push this class back a semester to avoid taking it with Kia, trust!

He is an extremely odd professor. I would never take a course with him again.

Bad professor in almost every way, will have you wondering why you took the course or major. I sincerely recommend avoiding him at all costs.

Prof made me wanna gauge my eyes out. Students do well on a test and then he states "Guess I'll make the next one harder" then he makes it literal hell like are we serious.