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Difficulty13%
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What Students Say
“Rad is good for nothing”
ECE577 - 1.0 rating“Honestly I am confused”
ECE577 - 1.0 ratingClass Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
88%
Textbook Required
80%
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EE370
5.0
(1)ECE570
5.0
(1)ECE571578
5.0
(1)ECC673
5.0
(1)ECE672
4.0
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ECE440
4.6
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4.5
571
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Reviews (85)
Got an A- in the lab. Obsessice compulsive when it comes to lab reports. 8 pages typed, schematics, etc. Need to figure out lab on your own but either way, manageable.
Doesn't help students with their labs, just sets and grades papers. If he doesn't like you, he won't give you a good grade.
He could be an a-hole if he wants to. He has this class constitution thing that every one have to sign. He is insane
this guy should quit teaching, I fell sorry for the students that have to take a class with him.
He knows his stuff. most student in my class are very pleased with his method of teaching and his grading is very fair. but only take him for classes related to electromagnetism 370,471 and 572
Trust me, dont take this professor, if you dont listen to this warning, as I didn't you will suffer. I am only writing this to help you, he is a extremely unhelpful person, its CSUN's bad luck to have him as an instructor. I hope that CSUN retires him very soon. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!
Easy class if you do homework problems. He creates the test based on the homework problems. He is not very helpful in class, and likes to make you feel stupid when you ask questions, so it's all on you to learn something. Easy grader which helps.
Absolutely the worst professor I've ever encountered in my entire college career. He doesn't give a crap about students and all he keeps yapping about is his damn worthless book. WARNING!! STAY AWAY!!
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5 words: DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR he makes you prove everything and make a hard class way harder
a very not inteligent prof. if you take his class , you will never know anything.
this person is a real as*h*l*.He keeps talkign about his useless book,he doesn't understand the questions asked by students and keeps answering something else.His class is a pain in the a**. He should quit teaching and this world.
Complete dumb*ss. Design Project for 578 consisted of writing an essay on a homework problem, for 671 is is writing an essay on freakiin' equations, which can be found in his stupid book. In 572 he used an earlier textbook, and would lecture from the section not in the new version! Worst prof I have ever seen. Put's zero effort into the job
Terrible teacher. Tests are based on HW, but when he goes over the solutions, he can't even solve them! So the solutions end up being all over the place. He also never stops talking about his stupid book. Gives irrelevant projects and makes you feel stupid when you ask questions. Be ready to have a tutor and read the text front to back. AVOID!
THE BEST PROFESSOR I HAVE EVER HAD. THE CLASS WAS EXTREMILY ORGINIZED
This has been one of the most interesting classes I have ever had. This is the best teacher in the world.
I LEARNED A LOT IN HIS CLASS AND FOUND HIM TO BE VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE. HE HAS GREAT CLASS PRESENTATION AND IS VERY HELPFUL IN AND OUT OF THE CLASS. OVER ALL A CLASSY PROFESOR WHO IS WILLING TO HELP THE STUDENTS IN MANY WAYS AT ALL TIMES.
THI IS A VERY GOOD PROFESSOR AND HIS GRADING VERY FAIR.
Amazing knowledge, understanding, and ability to teach with excitement and interest. Profoundly affected my ambitions and long (eternal) range goals in life.
Nice professor very polite and helpful
Very intresting class I highly recommend others to take his class.
Probably worst active/current ECE professor. 2 semesters ago he taught ECE 370 but got canceled because everyone left his class to take Cable's ECE 370 session. Basically, he's so bad his classes get canceled. Is there more that needs to be said?
Good professor His final very easi
Worst ECE professor at CSUN. It's clear after 3 weeks in class he doesn't know his subject. All the bad rumors about him are true. CSUN can't fire him due to tenure, so just avoid his classes if at all possible. I like how Katz and Mallard's 240 are full yet Radmanesh only has 3 poor souls enrolled in his class. The enrollment data says it all.
If you don't mind teaching yourself everything from the book, take this class. Lectures are useless. Doesn't collect homework, and tends to solve problems differently than textbook author. However, he grades REALLY easy and exam problems are pulled straight from homework, so easy course to pass.
Silly silly boy. Silly silly matthew, poor poor matthew. He tries so hard but fails miserably even after he attempts. Tries to get good reviews by rating himself on this site but students already know good reviews on him are him rating himself. What a silly poor boy he is. Silly matthew, tries so hard and still fails, what a loser he is. :D
The stupidest human being,, he is teaching ECE440 fall'10. DO NOT Register ......if you ever want to take senior design and actully learn something, avaoid this idiot. Let the class get canceled.WARNING!!!!
he is worst professor in my life and all time he said the test is very easy "all exams from HW " but when you solve the exam right but you have some mistakes he give you zero. don't take any class with him because you will be crazy when you get your grade.
Silly silly sorry matthew, what a sorry sore sucker matthew is, he tries so hard to cover up but everyone can see thru his cloak. Everyone knows that those good reviews are him rating himself. Silly matthew, we all can see thru the trick, we all know it's u. Silly silly boy What a sorry sore loser silly matthew is. Silly matthew, lieing's for kids.
worst professor ever. always comes in late, does not help with assignments, makes exams extremely difficult, cannot answer questions in a comprehensible way. he even messes up on working out hw problems. guaranteed fail or lower grade than expected, DO NOT TAKE
Teacher does not know how to teach, thats the bottom line. He not only doesnt care about teaching you the information he makes you grade your own homework because he's too lazy to do it himself. Then he gives you an assignment with no guidelines and marks you off big time for not doing something exactly the way he wants it. I'm not a C student..
He is OK instructor for ECE571, but he does not know how to teach ECE578. He has very interesting technique handling the homework problem solving. Of course, you should read the textbook or other materials ahead to understand what he is trying to do. He is helpful for ECE571; but not with ECE578. He is not up to date with today's modern optics.
Dr. Matthew Radmanesh has been the recipient of the "Biggest d0uche in the universe" award for his 15th straight year now. Also the books he's authored have provided enough paper to fuel fires in poverty stricken villages for eons to come. He is also an accomplished huntsman and carved a bolo tie from the bones of a rare siberian panther he killed.
One of the worst teachers in the CSUN engineering department. He is too lazy to grade assignments thoroughly so he looks for trivial problems to dismiss the assignment. He seems to go out of his way to be difficult to say the least. This guy clearly does not enjoy teaching and he takes it out on his students.
Take Radmanesh only after taking 671. 571 is a class for research. His redundant textbook will not help you learn how to design circuits. He will run you to the ground in the last 2 weeks by assigning 4 hw assignments, two simulations, a presentation, and final exam. Had an A the entire semester, then got buried in the last 2 wks. and took a B.
Worst teacher I've ever had.Requires you to write pointless essays.Doesn't care about teaching.Puts no effort into the class. Assigns hw problems and quizzes on the fly where the class describes the right answer. He doesn't even solve it himself even if the class cant get it.Lectures are basically common sense and he solves the most basic problems.
When teachers say the students teach them more than they teach the students, it is true in Radmanesh's case. He doesn't know anything. Which is probably why he assigns so many unrelated research papers. Don't worry he's too lazy to read them.
Dr. Radmanesh was by far the worst professor I have ever had. I think he was probably a nice guy, but he didn't provide any value whatsoever. He lectures were incoherent, he gave pop quizzes that he didn't know the answer to, and his grading was completely erratic and unfair. I wouldn't recommend him to anyone that cared about their education.
Worst professor in the ECE department. He has no clue on how to teach and his class moves way too slowly. To keep it simple avoid him at all costs.
not interesting in class,,,too many general essays, tough home work. clarity of explaining and keeping class interested is weak
he is one of the best professor in the CSUN. His teaching was related to the real world and he is truly motivator for me....
he was very helpful. His teching in the class is from the textbook he wrote. apart from the childish essays he asked us to write, everything is awesome. and the design project was also related to the real world projects.
Professor helps students and explains concepts clearly.
Worst professor at CSUN. Period. Makes us write pointless essays, takes tough attendence, wastes lots of lecture time checking hw and essays, and everyone is lost in the lab because of him. Department chair had to apologise to me on his behalf. I will need to sit in Mallards class next semester to learn anything!
He tends to give students busy work and his grading scale is very inconsistent. His homework questions don't make sense and the book he uses is confusing and not useful. He seems to be a lazy professor and should not be teaching. Avoid him if you can
The worst professor at CSUN and that's putting it lightly. He doesn't teach and his problems if you properly analyze them don't make any sense. Avoid him if you can.
Avoid Him. All he cares about is the essays. He breaks down his class in a following manner: first 10 minutes for attendance. Next 30 minutes to discuss homework which really doesn't make any sense. Next 1Hr will be topics from the book and in that every 15 mins we need to write theory what he taught during this period. thats it
At first glance, the essays seem like a waste of time, but actually they help you a lot. By writing the essays, it helps you remember the essentials like what a wave is and the frequency ranges acceptable for microwave engineering. I know that the students may complain about the project, but it actually will teach you what to expect on the job.
awesome than many professors
He doesn't give feedback, his grading scale is inconsistent, loves handing useless essay assignment. Overall worst teacher in ECE avoid him if you want to learn.
Dr. Rad is good for nothing. He doesn't take class nor gives an opportunity to learn. people copy HW, tests and clear his class. Very partial grader. does not value hard work. group project is not evaluated properly. no proper grading scale. gives random grade. he is not worth being a professor. its a class for laid back ppl who are not interested
I took 2 classes with this professor. He is biased and unfair in so many ways. Stick to his methods, do not question his teaching or methods so much. You will NOT LEARN ANYTHING in his class, people just take his class for grades. He will grade u a B-B+ if u are an average student. Try not to expect an A.
Not sure whether it was a class a graduate level class or a comic book store. He doesnt know the subject. blabbers a few concepts. Students laugh and play. looks like he offers classes for students who are not interested in education. wasted time and money on his class. he makes u waste time writing good for nothing essays and doing art projects.
I never understood his grading style.... I scored the highest in the mid term and final was decent too, but got a B... He cannot idenotify who issue really worth..
Ok class. Helped me a lot in office hours. Honestly you have to show him you are interested. Don't miss class or you will fail.
Honestly I am confused. How is he a professor? He can't teach, overwhelms you with work on the last two weeks, and gives projects without directions. He won't even tell you the grades you received on the projects, so you will just have to guess. No one learn a thing in that class. Its the one class that I walked out knowing less than I walked in.
To be honest I do not understand how you group projects and his grading style will get us ready for the engineering world. I learn more looking things up, the lab and on chegg than actually attending his lecture. A mock up really and to be honest professor I have never had a class where I do not learned anything beneficial. This is my first D ever
No one knows what they were going to get in the class. People who got decent grades on his quizzes failed while students who failed every quiz got a B. Doesn't follow how the book does examples and expects you to know how to do it. Avoid this professor if you want to learn or pass
Overall a good professor. Make sure you do all the hw problems. If you cant figure it out, write some bs. Just make sure you never show him anything blank. He will not collect the hw. Final questions are from the hw so make sure you learn them. Does an excellent job teaching Smith charts and amplifier design.
Dont take this class expecting to learn, take it just for the credit. He never really went over the hmwk and I dont even think he reads the reports. Just turn in something for the projects and do a good presentation and he'll mercy pass you. Barriers to study!
The only thing that I can say is DO NOT TAKE WITH HIM ANY CLASS. you are not going to learn any. His teaching is disaster. plus, he just grade your solutions based on your final answer.
He tells us derivation isn't the focus and skips these topics, then gives us ONLY derivation problems for the homework. Uses a textbook he says is too hard for us to try reading on our own, but expects us to do the problems in it that most chegg tutors won't even touch. Also solves only very simple examples in class, leaving us clueless on HW.
CSUN please review this professors performance. PLEASE. He is by far one of the worst professors I have had. He is incredibly lazy and chooses the worst book to cover. His lecture do not make sense and barely covers any important content. The HW assignments do not translate to the quizzes or tests. A better book or video can teach you more than him
You better off just reading the book and watching youtube videos. He knows the material but fails to teach students. Ask him a question and you will be left more confused or he will just skip your question; rather than trying to help you he will just refer to the textbook. which is difficult to read if you dont know contents in what it is implying.
This professor has a very nice personality but, he is very unorganized, and I mean to the point we're the whole class was lost. If you ask for help get ready to get publicly humiliated just because you were confused. Other than that, make sure to not take him because his final grades were not dependent on the work you turned in if so would of had B
I took this class online and it was so unorganized. He grades you off for the last figure in each lab of the lab manual so you can do 90% of the lab wrong and won't know until he checks the report at the end of the semesterIf you are taking this class make sure you get checked off for every lab or else he won't count your labs even if you did them
Pros: He's caring and is willing to help students. He seems to understand the material well and is willing to explain it. He cares about student feedback. Cons: He is terribly unorganized and unprepared, and his class lacked structure/clarity. I'd suggest reading the book as it helped me actually learn the material. His lectures lack clarity.
Seems to be a decent person but not really a great professor. Class feels very unorganized. The prof either has errors in his examples or doesn't go over them completely. Assigned homeworks didn't help much for the final. Each exam problem take up a lot of time. He also writes/draws exams problems by hand which can be a little messy.
Avoid the guy if you can. The avg for his tests were 30 to 40% so imagine how poorly he does his job.
He is terrible at teaching. I felt so lost in his class and the only thing that helped me was reading the book. His class is terribly unorganized and lacks clarity. I did hw, studied, attended lectures and did not feel prepared for his exams. He is hard not because his tests are difficult but because it is difficult to learn much from his lectures.
This class is the epitome of what not to do. From multiple choice math-based exams with incorrect answers, to an ultra rushed 1st half of the sem even tho everyone told him to slow down. His response: "you guys should be watching my lecture twice." He has notes on his computer but doesn't post them, be prepared to write like the speed of light.
He is one of the greatest professors I have had at CSUN. Many people say negative things but the truth is, he cares about you and will even remember your name not like other professors, the exams are comprehensive and no curveballs, he gives you tips on how to study, in my opinion, he is one of the best in this school. Thank you Dr. Radmanesh
I was scared to take the course at the beginning of this semester due to the low ratings but it turns out he's very caring and is willing to help his students succeed. He makes small mistakes during lectures from time to time but his midterm (50% of the grade), test (40%) and quizzes are taken straight from the homework which he reviews and solves.
DO NOT TAKE! You need his signature in order to leave/get credit for the exp, which seems IMPOSSIBLE to get. This was a late lab which had people leaving at 10PM. He will find the most irrelevant thing to pick out for example, my calculation was off by 0.001, LIKE WHAT THE ACTUAL. IF YOU WANT TO SUFFER TAKE HIM!
Goes too fast on important topics but takes his time on easy ones. Doesn't use Canvas, other than to make you print out tons of pages near end of semester, so you won't know your grade until the end of the semester. Grades exams inconsistently. Only way to pass is to memorize every single hw problem. Many people did not pass, do not recommend.
Goes too fast during lectures, does not use presentations or lecture off of notes, and won't upload notes… so have fun taking faster-than-light speed notes. Wont update grades at all or explain the grading criteria so you know what to not miss, and he spends too much time on easy concepts but blasts through tough concepts and examples. DO NOT TAKE
DO NOT TAKE! Lectures aren't prepared ahead of time (no slides or structure), his homework solutions are riddled with incorrect solutions (don't study them for exams), exams have typos that make them impossible to solve, and his final is worth 50%. Homework is mostly easy, but the exam questions are always significantly harder than class examples
Unorganized. Doesnt update grades. Doesnt know how to explain. No prepared lectures. Very little examples. Homework is harder than lecture examples. Doesnt like the textbook solutions but doesnt show preferred. He wants you to learn not to memorize, which he thinks justifies us doing things the hard way as if we dont have to memorize regardless.
DO NOT TAKE! His own answers are wrong even according to him. I know this because he had helped me with homework during office hours and when we graded it in class he told me it was wrong... If you ask him how to study for his class he will tell you to get a dictionary, and that's the most help you will get.
Worst class I ever took He didn't even have notes to share He doesn't care about anything specially students
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!!!!!!!!!! it was a nightmare. he is not caring. lots of mistake during class. skip important lecture. bad grader. lots of homework. impossible question for exam. worst professor i ever had in my whole life. no extra credits. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS if you want to learn
Uses the textbook (that he doesn't like apparently) to lecture in class, making it hard to see for everyone. Uses a cursor that you can't see where he's pointing at. Makes mistakes on his own examples that he had to be corrected by our own classmates. Exam is straightforward as they're related to the h.w. problems.
This professor was a waste of my time and would be a waste of yours AVOID THIS PROFESSOR AT ALL COST. He acts inspirational and understanding but he doesn't even understands what he is teaching.
.You will go to class on time to see him coming in late talking about current news while he sets up then give a horrible explanation of the chicken scratch problem he wrote on the board and then he will end the class with some inspirational saying.
Let's just say The people who voted him as awful know what they are talking about so trust the. I and him for ECE 240 lecture but also hard he was just as bad in other classes.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
88%
Textbook Required
80%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B-
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Stable
-0.11 avg changeRatings by Course
EE370
5.0
(1)ECE570
5.0
(1)ECE571578
5.0
(1)ECC673
5.0
(1)ECE672
4.0
(1)Difficulty by Course
ECE440
4.6
ECE240L
4.5
571
4.0
ECE340L
4.0
ECE340
4.0