Pretty insufferable overall. She censors all of her bad reviews, which means most of her good reviews are probably fake too. This is my third time reviewing. Definetely avoid.

These reviews are not an accurate reflection of this professor. Explanations from her are poor, her homework is unbearable, and she has very little flexibility. Definitely don't recommend.

The HWs are a nightmare because they're super long and she grades super harshly. She's not a nice person and will never go out of her way to help you. Lectures are hard to understand due to her accent and rapid pace. She will look for any possible way to penalize you on HWs and tests.

One of the most boring lecturers I've ever had. She has a lot of good reviews, but I just don't see that teacher. She is very rude if you have any sort of question or request. She's an insanely harsh grader when it comes to homework and tests. The homework is long and excruciating. AVOID.

The lectures are SO BORING. I feel like I'm going to die of boredem every day during her class. Everything on the homework has to be done her way or else you lose major points. As far as she goes, I've never met anyone who seems so nice but turns out to be so rude once you actually meet them.

Her rating is far too high. She is not a great lecturer, as a lot of her explanations are not elaborated well. The homework is ridiculous. I understand the rigor that she has for the difficulty of the homework, but her grading is absurd. She takes major points off for small mistakes on homework.

She really made me realize my passion for thermodynamics... as I was in the air running off EB3.

why does ncsu hire people like this?

Words cannot describe how boring this class is. Her voice is also super annoying. There's really nothing special about her and you can NEVER count on her to be flexible or help you out in any way.

How is her rating above 1? She must be getting ratings removed and the good ones are fake. AVOID.

I have NEVER been more bored during her lectures. This woman will make you regreet choosing MAE. Her homework is a nightmare and you will think she's joking when you see how many points she takes off for the smallest things.

Her class is like a cartoon style lecture where the professor doesn't want to be there and the students are either sleeping or bored out of their minds.

I regret taking her class so much. Any other option would have been so much better. Please do not take this professor EVER.

I could not sit through her lectures without yawning, and now stick to watching her lectures online on 2x speed. Her homework assignments are actually the worse. For her test she gives an equation sheet and you can usually assume the questions she'll ask. Beware that she does not give the full class time to complete the test and similar to hw.

Don't. Trust me.

She will do ANYTHING to make you fail. AVOID.

Don't waste your time with her. She has a horrible attitude and gives the worst lectures only to give you impossible tests that are harshly graded.

I don't think I've had a professor worse than her. Honestly. She's a waste of tuition, don't take her unless you want to risk staying an extra semester.

It doesn't get much worse than her.

TERRILBE! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!

TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!! TAKE ANYONE BUT HER!!!!!!

This professor is the sole point of my stress this semester, she's making me never want to take any other kind of thermodynamics course ever again, I would rather hug a tree at 150mph.

She's so bad on every level.

I truly never thought any individual could make me want to quit engineering this bad.

Lectures are unintelligible, HW is a nightmare, and she is very unapproachable in general. Definitely take other options if available.

Completely AWFUL. Do NOT take.

If chat GPT were a professor, it would be her. Even at a 2.5 she's still overrated. Worst professor I've had at ncsu so far.

Didn't know failing lab was possible until now. This class was an absolute nightmare. If your TA is Jack van Welzen you are absolutely screwed. Normally labs are free A's, but not w/ this coordinator. You will have to fight for your life just to even pass. Thank God it's only one credit. Hoping the coordinator changes soon.

Bottom of the pot, doesn't get much worse. Doesn't care enough to help anyone unfortunately. If you mess up one exam you're probably not going to pass. Avoid.

feels like she doesn't want you to pass tbh.

do not take her at all.

She sounds like if chat gpt were a professor. If trying to get your students to fail was an olympic sport, she would have three gold metals. She tries her best to confuse you with the homework, and then she asks questions about the most trivious miniscule topics that she covered in class for 1 min on the exams. HORRIBLE professor.

Her accent makes the already painful lectures even worse. She's redundant to the point where it makes the lectures lifeless and unintelligible. She could assign online homework through McGraw Hill, but she chooses to make you write it all out on paper and upload it all for the TA to get you an 80 for not writing governing equaion. clownshow

Having her made my semester so much worse. If I new she was this bad, I would've just taken solids and dynamics and left thermo for next semester. She goes a mile a minute and class and and overemphasizes the obvious stuff while underemphasizing the difficult concepts. Safe yourself the trouble and AVOID.

She makes you write out all of your homework solutions step by step when she's totally capable of assigning online homework. As a professor, she's pretty rude and unapproachable. She even gets frustrated when people ask good questions during class. She puts the most random questions on tests and never posts solutions on moodle.

I really regret taking this professor. Her homework is too hard and her lectures are super redundant and boring. Also, the formula sheet she provides you for exams is trash, so be sure you know memorize everything going into the exam rather than relying on her half-baked sheet.

You can pass this class, but it will take years off your life make you want to switch to business.

every day I contemplate how much better my life could've been if I had taken taken someone else for this class. Attending lectures will erase your intelligence if anything. She cannot resist the urge to give ridiculous curveball questions on exams in attempt to lower grades. Stay away.

How professor Zadeh has not yet been fired is beyond me. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE is you ever see her.

Out of many good candidates, she definitely gets the award for the worst professor at state. She was so painfully lifeless and uninteresting that she made me want to jump off of EB1. Her HW and midterms are super bad, but her final is a NIGHTMARE. Her class is unbearable and will takes years off your life.

It's only a matter of time before professor Zadeh has the lowest rating on RMP. Do me and favor and real quickly picture the worst possible professor that could ever exist. I PROMISE you she is even worse than that.

She's not good. She's extremely rude to students during lecture and constantly ignores emails. If you're looking for consistency, she's a good choice because she's consistently terrible. She only provided office hours once a week during a time when almost everyone had another class. I really don't know what to say other than to avoid her.

Even at a 2.1, professor Zadeh is still overrated. My exam scores were 73, 63, 69. I went to every lecture, put in 50+ hours outside of class and STILL barely passed. Her lectures are unintelligible and will only confuse you, so if you get stuck with her, do NOT go to lectures.

She's really boring and hard to understand. She provides you a formula sheet for exams, but it's completely unhelpful and I never used it tbh. Professor Zadeh doesn't want anything to do with her students as she walks in the second her lectures starts and leaves the second it's done. Definitely would not reccomend.

She did a poor job of explaining the concepts behind thermodynamics making it hard to solve problems that differ from the exact format of the examples she does in class. Her lectures are dull and not particularly helpful, and her lecture notes are mediocre at best. She also often misunderstands what questions students are asking. Avoid if possible.

Yeah I'm not gonna lie this one's probably the worst you'll ever see. It's too bad she makes her exams super difficult in addition to her lectures being hard to understand. It's a shame that both of those things are true it's usually pretty managable if only one is. Take someone else for sure.

I could tell since the first day that this was going to be a bad class. Professor Zadeh sounds super rebotic and it seems like she's just trying to show off her knowledge during class rather than teach. I diddn't learn anything from her, and I think any other professor would've been better.

Not a great professor not super easy and did not learn much would recommend pretty much anyone else

she's easily the worst professor i've ever had. Hard tests, impossible hw, horrible availability, boring lectures, and provides a garbage formula sheet.

she's the teacher who finally made me quit engineering

completely HORRIBLE, do NOT take

I constantly gave her feedback on how to improve her course, she never took it seriously and continued to teach in her ineffective manner

very little availability outside of class, ridiculously hard homework, and a very harsh grader

do not take her, her teaching is not good and you will regret it

her lectures are painfully uninteresting and she is very rude/unapproachable if you have questions about the class. Definitely would not reccomend.

her lectures literally sound like if chat gpt were a professor. she also very grades very harshly and has little availability for office hours

Shw was BAD. I studied for hours every day and still didn't pass. The homework is impossible and the lectures won't help you learn the material.

I've NEVER seen a teacher grade so harshly in my life. The homework is long and irrelevant, the lectures are boring, and the tests are graded very harshly. I would not take this professor again under any circumstance.

I had already taken thermo once before but she didn't make it any easier. Definitely take other options if available.

Don't let her smile fool you. She gives almost no partial credit, has horrible availability outside of class, never responds to emails, and wants you to do bad in her class.

My experience with this teacher was not good. She often got frustrated when students asked questions and was very unrerachable outside of class. Her homework and tests were very irrelevant to what we did in class. She was also very harsh with the grading. Find other options if possible.

the reviews giving her a 5 are not an accurate reflection of this professor. Do not let her personality fool you. She will not give you any partial homework and will assign the most outrageously difficult hw possible. Stay away!

Worst professor ever. Horrible attitude, terrible explanations, and beyond harsh with the grading. She takes pride in failing people and has no desire to help you whatsoever.

There was barely any material provided to study from, her explanations are horrendously awful, and the class was genuinely dreadful to be in.

Mary Zadeh has great lecture slides, but she holds the classroom with a superiority complex. She is often rude to students in the classroom and is really difficult to understand. Any discussion for clarifying class material is dismissed. I agree that lectures shouldn't have distractions, but she approaches it in the entirely wrong manner.