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Dr. Ijaz was pretty good for the most part, kinda boring during lectures though because he just read off the slides. Has a few funny jokes during the lectures. Very very nice guy though. He genuinely cares about his students' success and offers office hours all the time. GO TO THEM. He is very helpful, ENGR 111 sucks, but he makes it more bearable.
He cannot relate with his students well at all and is extremely unreasonable
Not sure why everybody is rating him so poorly. He does have issues when it comes to lecture and there is a quiz every class over a short reading but compared to other engineering teachers he grades way easier. Plus, after talking to others, we had a lot less homework as well. He really tries to teach well and he cares but it was his first year.
Ijaz trys really hard to make it seem like this class is meaningful and helpful... it isnt. And he doesn't know how to convey to his students helpful skills, and is not as lenient in grading as other professors, thats why he has a low rating, hard grader and teaches a useless class where he knows everything about it, but cant explain it effectively
He had nearly twice the homework as other profs, required us to do write our own codes for zybooks, his TA graded way harder on the tests than other TAs and he honestly doesnt help alot with explaining things other than reading straight from unhelpful slides. you wont get a bad grade in his class but you wont learn aka every engr 111 class
He is extremely annoying you won't like him
Dr. Ijaz is nice but the class is very difficult, stressful & unorganized. It was his first year and he is very intelligent but doesn't know how to dumb it down to a beginner's level&he has a hard time explaining things. We had a lot more homework &were graded (by his TAs) much harder than in other profs. He doesn't give enough time for work or hw
Although I believe the inefficiency of ENGR 111 was mostly in part due to the higher ups of the college, I would not recommend Dr. Ijaz. Reads word-for-word off of lecture slides; however, he is accessible outside of class. Quite condescending. There are a number of more exceptional profs in the department.
Even though Dr. Ijaz is nice, he doesn't know how to teach. His class is very stressful & unorganized, he reads off of his slides, & he expects his students to understand everything automatically. He is accessible outside of class, but he is not very helpful because he does not know how to dumb the material down for his students. Do not take him!!!
He gives a lot of homework, but has several office hours if you need help. Monotone when lecturing, but he wants to make sure you know what he is talking about. The good thing about all of the RATs and homework he gives is that your good grades will balance out your bad.
Dr. Ijaz is a new prof so some slack is cut. His TAs all graded differently, some harder than others. This was the real deal breaker as they graded RATS and CFU which make up a majority of your final grade. He genuinely cares for his students and constantly extended his office hours to help. Prof. is great, but ENGR 111 sucks as a class. hella HW
He has an accent but you can still understand him. Although it is difficult to understand exactly what he wants you to do sometimes because English is his second language.
This class is consistently the same between he different professors. As in, most people have the same homework, quizzes, tests. What changes from class to class in the professor. Ijaz is new to teaching and I think he's the most caring professor I've ever had. He extended homework, helped us in class, and was available at office hours. Great prof.
He's a nice guy with a bit of an accent, but definitely lacks the ability to explain assignments, problems, etc. well. We often had less homework than other professors. The class is an easy B. Tests are fair if you understand the material. I recommend you try to get another professor though.
Don't take Dr. Ijaz. He doesn't communicate, He doesn't give clear grading criteria, He's boring, and his class is awful. Don't take Dr. Ijaz. You will live to regret your decision when a class that you should easily get an A in will slowly fall to a B and then to a C because he won't give you the things you need to be successful
Ijaz is okay. His lectures are the most boring lectures I think I've ever had to sit through. He over explains simple concepts to the point where it's exhausting just listening to him ramble. His lectures could be brought down to five or ten minutes instead of two hours. Honestly this class sucks in general, doesn't matter who you have.
I took him for both ENGR 111 & ENGR 112. Compared to other profs he is very lenient (pushed hw and project due dates) and has office hours everyday. His TAs are helpful too. What needs to be realized is that the profs are good but the class as a whole is flawed. Some of his lecture do run on for too long though.
I was skeptical about taking his class at first, but he turned out to be great! He is patient and explains his lectures SUPER well (can get boring). He really does try to make sure his students are learning. Always welcomes students feedback, questions, is accessible, and not much homework! Definitively better than others and would take him again.
He's not a great professor but not terrible either. He reads straight from his slides and doesn't do much outside of that. He's leniant when it comes to extending due dates and he's happy to answer questions in class or during office hours. Pretty okay choice overall.
Since Dr. Ijaz likes to keep it unclear/short as possible when it comes to explaining his grading criteria and how to code, I will be just as concise. DO NOT TAKE THIS MAN. He is the WORST ENGR 111/112 prof at this institution. If you tend to have technical difficulties in submitting 1 MIN past a due date, he will not help you and just say, "NOPE!"
Lots of RATs and CFUs(almost every class). Barely gives you time in class to finish work. Nice guy but one of the hardest classes I've taken because of him. Lots and lots of homework, will keep you up late at night. Don't take this professors.
Dr. Ijaz is probably THE WORST engr112 professor there is at Texas A&M University. There are quizzes every class and he gives us barely any time to finish it. LOTS of homework; I had to stay up many nights. DO NOT TAKE HIM!
Avoid this professor at all costs. This professor consistently assigns almost double the workload of the other ENGR 112 sections. I am not exaggerating. I am currently doing more work in this class than I am for any of my other courses. This course is already work heavy, and this professor only multiplies that by a factor of 2.
I'm appalled someone at this university thought Dr. Ijaz could actually educate college students. DO. NOT. TAKE. THIS. PROFESSOR. He will NOT help you at all with your Matlab coding assignments or group project assignments. There is triple the workload in Ijaz's class compared to other profs. AVOID HIM AT ALL COSTS. He is a GPA parasite
Dr. Ijaz is literally a textbook, the only thing you get from going to class is a failing grade on your RAT because he taught you half the information and is extremely picky. Wont help outside class. He gives you triple the workload in half the time frame, especially for a 2 hour classes. There ARE better profs out there. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!
Pros: He cares about your education and actually teaches you the material in lectures. He doesn't mind making more time for you if you need help Cons: He talks 3/4 of class and expects you to complete the work in the remaining time, which is impossible. Lots of unnecessary reading, HW, RATS, and ICAs which are worth a lot. Too much for 2 credits
Worst guy ever
Not a good professor. I usually have a good attention span in lectures but hes boring and hard to pay attention to. It seems like he'll rant about the most basic stuff for half the class, then go over the hard stuff in a few minutes, not explaining it well at all. Moves way faster on marble sorter than other profs. tldr hard prof, doesnt teach well
Hated him. His rubric for the marble sorter project, which is the majority of your grade, wasn't clear and he'd dock off points for the most random stuff.
Dr. Ijaz is a super nice person but his lectures are extremely boring. He knows what he is talking about but if you have a hard time concentrating and get bored easily, don´t take his class. Lots of homework and really hard tests. He is caring and reachable but I wouldn't take his class again.
To start, ENGR 111 and 112 are horribly unorganized classes. I'm not sure if there are any profs that are "great". Ijaz was a super boring lecturer, but on the bright side the lectures had nothing to do with anything ever. Just do well on ICAs, get a good group for marble project (coding), huge curve at the end of the class. Power through!!
he's hard but he curves real good at the end
Not even done with the class yet, and he has done an excellent job at making no sense. Gives quizzes over material he doesn't teach. I hope this is the last year of ENGR 112, if not and you end up with him you'll be in my prayers
His lectures very rarely are all that relevant to the assignments. When they are, they either do not explain enough about the topic, or the are so in depth that it is ridiculous. A 5 minute explanation over a topic is turned into an hour long lecture. He also punctuates every other sentence with 'k?' which gets very annoying very fast.
Dr. Ijaz is so kind and will respect his students to the maximum. He welcomes any student to go see him outside of class and he does a great job explaining why about many things. I had coding experience, so this class was not too hard, but he did a great job helping with the things I did not understand. The lectures could be bland sometimes.
Assignments every week, quizzes every week, 1 hour and 30 min lectures and doesn't even teach well. If you like any of that take the class with him.
Professor Ijaz is a very knowledgeable professor. The homework can be a little tough but is mostly tedious, and the quizzes are really easy. He's usually unable to directly interpret and answer student's questions. His class is very lecture heavy and sometimes run up to two hours at once.
Professor Ijaz evidently cares about his students and CONSTANTLY offers up his office hours, always asking students if they need help. This quality is what pushes him from 2 to 3 stars. However, he gives substantially more homework in his ENGR 102 class than other profs. He also gives no extra credit and had our class do a final project.
Very respectful and helpful; will sit down and explain a concept you are struggling with. Probably ESL, so you have to work a little bit to understand him. Good at responding to emails. Lectures cover only very basic operations in Python, EXPECT TO TEACH MOST MATERIAL TO YOURSELF. Lectures may run long, so count on meeting your group outside class.
didn't like his teaching style and he was very rude.
Going to class is mandatory but pointless, you will be lost during lecture within the first five to ten minutes. Zybook weekly readings is where I learned a majority of Python coding. Midterm is very difficult. 5 weeks left in this semester and he has changed labs due date from a week after assigning them to two days after being assigned...
Beware fellow Aggies, this class will take up more time than any of your other classes because of the work load;between 5-6 codes and a chapter or two reading a week. Not including the quiz given every week. The other post about 289 is extremely accurate as I am in this class. Waiting a semester may be a smart choice if possible. Worst Prof so far!
Absolutely awful professor, he will put you to sleep with his lectures, very unreasonable, especially with his quizzes. as an example, since people weren't showing up, he gave us quizzes everyday, punishing the people that would show up to class. He would give us 15min to finish them, when the quiz in reality would take 35min. Sets you up to fail!
He is incredubly challenging to understand. Thick accent and incredibly spontaneous with his speaking. Gives quizzes at random, regardless if he has given a lecture over the subject. MUST TURN IN QUIZ before the time, or elseyou will receive zero credit. If you have a choice to take a different professor, DO IT!
Surprised by the poor comments on here. I have never been the strongest at programming, but I don't think Ijaz' class was difficult. Lectures were quite boring, but still covered the topics in depth and concisely. Exams were reflective of everything given in class. On top of that, Ijaz was kind and respectful. Don't be dismayed by the comments here
Dr. Ijaz is awesome, people are hating on him, but he is super helpful in his office hours and cares a lot about his students. He is willing to work with you individually and explain the programs you do not understand. One time my group left his office before getting help from him, and he ran after us to make sure we figured it out.
I'm really surprised with all the negative reviews for professor Ijaz. He was nowhere near as bad as what many people here have said. Attendance is mandatory, but he was very kind and helpful and taught the material in depth well. He was always looking for people to help and answer questions for, and he always answered the questions well.
Steer clear, take a different prof. ENGR 102 is in generally a difficult class, but Dr. Ijaz in no way makes it easier. There are weekly textbook readings online with participation points and group and individual assignments weekly that are incredibly difficult. Class is supposed to be 1 hr lecture and 3 lab, but he uses entire 4 hrs for lecture
His lectures don't really explain anything. If you are having difficulties with your group, his attitude is "tough luck". If you ask for clarification, he just repeats what he's already said.
Ijaz spends too much time lecturing and doesn't leave very much time for in class work on labs. Aside from that he is excellent and very accessible and kind outside of class. Labs are easy A/100s. Quizzes are relatively easy if you've already done the labs and read the book. Midterm is hard, final is impossible. Labs and quizzes make up for tests
Took ENGR 102 my 1st semester. 2 people from my 4 group dropped before the end having never contributed. I had to do the group + individual projects on my own each week; TAs will be your BFFs, go to them for grade adjustments--Ijaz won't help you. He's not in touch with his students. Pop quizzes, class takes too much time. Avoid taking his class.
I know Dr. Ijaz assigns more homework than other honors professors. Quizzes were difficult. Lectures took up a lot of the class period, leaving less time to work on assignments. He is more helpful in office hours than in lectures and is accessible outside of class. Very kind, but in my opinion, made the class more difficult than it had to be.
Prof Ijaz is a nice man, and he tries to be helpful to his students. Unfortunately, he misses the mark somewhere. As another review said, he is out of touch with his students. If you ask a question, be prepared for the answer to not actually answer the question. The quizzes we had felt more like exams. Every question was there to trick you. :(
He gives one example of some random useless thing and expects you to take a quiz over it 30 seconds after. He expects students to be as smart as he is. Class is horrible. Boring lecture and he reads slides at lightning speed. Avoid him. Good luck if youre stuck with him.
Hard to follow, just constantly is talking and hard to grasp material. Would go over time every single class yet held the class responsible for the last 15 slides which he starts to go through when the class is meant to be over.
Very nice guy, extremely helpful. He doesn't teach with the elitist vibe a lot of professors have. He is more than happy to dumb things down and teach the most simple things. That said, the course is hard and he basically reads off PPT slides. The formatting of the class suffered a lot going to online. Quizzes, homework, and lectures don't line up
Take anybody else other than this man.
He spends way too much time on the unimportant topics and never finishes the notes. Can not answer questions. Reads very fast from the slides and gives no time to write notes. Gives random pop quizzes over topics he barely covered. He expects you to be an expert in what he is talking about. Would recommend any professor over him.
Dr. Ijaz will assign homework and pop quizzes over lecture material that was barely/not covered. His lectures start painfully slow as he goes over seemingly useless information, and then never has enough time to finish the important parts of the lesson. Dr. Ijaz has good intentions but is not an effective prof. Only 217 professor with a final too.
The only ENGR217 professor to assign group projects, pop quizzes, and excessive homework. Additionally, the TAs are very tough on grading the Lab assignments, much more tough than my TAs for 216. He made the final optional but it can hurt your grade if you take it. Please take another professor for this course.
Bad communication! Very rarely responses to numerous emails, and he doesn't even answer the question or fix the problem. Lots of difficult pop quizzes and HWs that barely related to lecture topics. The TAs sometimes grade the labs pretty hard, but the labs aren't too difficult, just time consuming. Save yourself the headache, don't take Ijaz.
Ijaz does pop quizzes during class, which is what makes lecture mandatory. Usually, the quizzes would be like 1-10 questions with about 5-15 minutes to take them. He does not answer emails so office hours are your best bet if you need to talk to him. He doesn't lecture, he does "discussions" so be prepared to talk during class. Not super organized
One of the worst profs I've ever had. Very unorganized, and just reads off the slides in lectures. Doesn't answer his email at all, which with combined with his unorganized class makes for a bad environment. ENGR217 as a whole is a disorganized class so not entirely his fault, but it is a much easier class with other profs.
Lectures are boring, he just reads off the slides. He gave a pop-quiz in the beginning of the year that majority of the students failed. He said he was not going to drop it but he eventually gave in at the end of the semester. Does not reply to his emails and not very organized. The only thing that saved me was that the final was optional.
Ijaz was okay. He doesn't really engage with his students much. It kinda seemed like he was just talking to himself during lectures most of the time. Homework is fine. Quizzes are always lame, just use the powerpoints. Other than that, Ijaz could have been more engaging.
He makes us yell "Howdy!" at the start of class to raise energy levels and then proceeds to read monotonously off his slides for the next hour. I remember finishing an entire episode of "How I Met Your Mother" and he was still on the same slide. This section is harder than others due to the surprise quizzes and unintuitive HW assignments. Avoid!
Average professor, very boring lectures, has random pop quizzes over previous lecture so take notes and be prepared, pop quizzes are at start of class, rest of lecture is extremely boring, PowerPoints are provided, no tests, just lab reports, occasional HW, and Pop quiz, very difficult to get a hold of and ask questions, kind prof but cant teach.
Hes so unfair compared to every other ENGR 217 prof because he was the only one who gave quizzes. Doesnt even bother to respond to emails and the times Ive asked him questions during lecture he just disregards me. You should As on the labs if you had an easy-grading TA like I did. Final was optional which is the only reason I made an easy A.
Super confusing, thick accent, no care for his students. Try your hardest to get another prof. The only reason I got an A in this class was because the final was made optional and the class is Lab heavy. Luckily, the TA's graded super easy, got 100's on most of them.
Fairly challenging compared to other 217 profs but not hard. The final is made by the department so can't blame Ijaz. Quizzes were a little confusing at times. Labs aren't too bad although it depends on your work ethic. Not the best prof but would definitely recommend him again.
Possible to get a good grade in the class once you learn how the system works but it won't be thanks to the professor. He never responded to a single person's emails all semester. Be prepared for short quizzes about the lectures that nobody understood.
Great professor. He really tries to make the best use of class time and challenge us. Often had quizzes in class, but they were not bad. This is usually a blow off class, but I actually enjoyed Dr. Ijaz's lectures that gave a unique perspective on the Physics we already learned in 207. Guest speakers.
Professor Ijaz was easily one of the worst professors I've had. His lectures are purely read off a slideshow and he gives excessive amounts of homework. He assigns homework with topics he hasn't taught us and then never shows us or gives us guidance, which makes easy assignments hard. If you've never coded before, avoid this professor.
Dr. Ijaz is the worst professor I have ever had. His class is a lot harder then any of the other ENGR 216 section. I would take anyone else over him you will have home works assignments every week and be ready to spend at lest 3 hour trying to figure out what to do, and then go to his lecture and make a zero on the quiz. I ran out of character.
Dr. Ijaz Is not a good professor please read the reviews and do not take him you will thank me later this guy is just awful..
Dr. ijaz is not a good professors be ready for a lot of quiz that you will make a zero on and that he will not drop. Dr. ijaz is just not a nice person in general. At the end of the semester he got the department chair to make the final exam mandatory so that he could make his students have study for something that was going to be optional.
Really solid likeable who knows what he is talking about. I felt as though the quizzes before class forced me to actually learn the material. Only complaint is that access to help on the homework was extremely difficult to find and if you didn't understand a certain concept you were out of luck.
This guy is just awful please DO NOT take him !!!
Torn about this guy. 216 is a disaster, there is no clear direction, you cover something different every single week and I truly think this prof was handed a disaster of a class. His lectures are not good, be prepared to teach yourself a lot, that said, he actually seems really nice and is clearly very intelligent, get to know him, and good luck.
This guy is awful, but this class over all is worse. After no one had to take the final exam for 2 years they decided to make everyone take the final, and told us the last week of class. With this Ijaz was the only one to make his students take it proctored and closed note. Save yourself some trouble and take this class with someone else.
Do not take this guy he teaches you nothing .
He gave us the wrong formula sheet for the final, and he never responds to emails no matter how urgent. Even when they're from TAs. Ijaz is the worst prof I've had at tamu
He gave us the wrong formula sheet for the final, and he never responds to emails no matter how urgent. Even when they're from TAs. Ijaz is the worst prof I've had at tamu.
I took the class Fall of 2020, Completely unresponsive to emails. Highly unorganized material, HW heavy with random due dates/forgetful to post HW, pop quizzes every class that make a huge part of your grade, combines every section so you have 0 clues who you're supposed to be working with.
He's good at communicating in person but do not expect him to respond to emails. I've written him emails numerous times through out the year with no responses to any of them. Also this year the final was mandatory which wouldn't be too bad if his review didn't literally state "All topics aren't covered and some may be irrelevant."
Terrible teacher doesn't explain anything just reads directly off of the slides and never elaborates.
Terrible professor. He is IMPOSSIBLE to reach outside of class. The homeworks are messy and difficult and the in class quizzes are usually just 1 question so you can easily get a 0 on it. The only saving factor was the lab portion since the TA's were easy graders. I learned nothing the entire semester. Don't take him.
He'd put 2 hours of material into a 50 min. lecture... and never finish the slides for that day. You will have to read/teach yourself. Read slides ahead of time b/c of in-class quizzes. Try to get A's on the labs b/c they are 54% of your grade. I'm pretty sure I only got an A b/c I had a good TA. Didn't learn anything from Ijaz, find someone else.
DO NOT TAKE IS GUY.
Do not take. He is caring and passionate about engr and helping students but will test on content he has never mentioned/is not in his slides. He will also make it through 10% of the lecture in class, & gives quizzes every week with a short time limit and no explanation of what they cover. And Hw covers content he goes over after it is due.
If you want a prof. that can absolutely bore you to death and you dont really learn anything out of it then i highly recommend this prof. to you. Every time im in the class i literally want to fall asleep after 30 minutes of him talking.
As a teacher and professor goes you can't get any worse. Not lenient at all on anything, impossible to reach outside class, and gives awful lectures. Will focus on nitty-gritty and tiny details (like dates on a history test) on tests instead of concepts. Lectures uninformative, slides unhelpful, textbook not used, review useless.
Solid prof, the work in engr 217 is difficult in general, at least with Ijaz he obviously cares about his students and wants them to succeed.
Lectures are boring but Ijaz wants his students to do well and will meet people halfway. Good prof overall
He constantly goes over his allotted time for lecture just for us to leave having learned little. I give him a 2 because I believe it is partially due to the fact that the class itself is very unorganized and unnecessary .
Hes not a bad guy, but just a horrible professor, arguably the worst I have ever had. He never responds to emails and his lectures are extremely disorganized and often barely relate to our labs. If you dont have any prior experience with python, youre pretty much toast with this class, just hope you have good TAs.
I don't think anyone learns anything from him; lectures are boring, long, and the class is unnorganized. He assigns homeworks and quizzes every week that are both useless and class doesn't prepare you for. There's no way to make-up points if you miss them and the final is ridiculously hard. The average for the final was a 50 and there was no curve.
Awful prof for engineers! Quizzes barely cover material, and he gives pop quizzes the first few weeks of class. It takes forever for exams, papers, and labs to be grades. Read the textbook!! He mentions it once in class, but they helped me get through the exams. His lectures are also boring (I did fall asleep a few times).
While I do think learning coding skills is a helpful trade, I don't think Mr. Ijaz does the best job at teaching it. Long lectures on mundane topics were very frequent (1 1/2 hour lectures for a 2 hour class period), labs were often confusing, and quizzes every week that were on not-so-solid topics. He tries to be engaging, but it doesn't work.
Prof. Ijaz has a lot of homework compared to the other professors who taught this class. He is very smart as well as enjoys and knows what he is talking about. However, he goes way too in depth in the lectures than is necessary to teach the subjects. This is a lab class and the labs are pretty solid.
The average on the final exam was 55 for all of his sections and there was no curve (other professors in this class had curves when their average was a 95). Lectures are super boring at a slow pace until the last 10 min where he goes through 30+ slides (no joke) and goes 10 minutes over class ends. Labs are easy and should give you a 100 for those.
The lectures just cover conceptual things and some history, but offers almost no help for the quizzes, homeworks and final exam (he barely goes over any problems, you pretty much have to teach yourself). The labs are fairly easy if you go to them and work on the lab report with your group. The final exam is very hard with no partial credit given.
Ijaz himself was unforgiving and honestly not helpful at all. His lectures were boring and hard to follow. The zybook is your saving grace, and if you put in the work outside of class to actually learn python then you'll be okay. If you can take another prof with better lectures, do so.
Spend the effort getting high A's on labs, homework, and quizzes. The homework is fine, the labs are ok depending on who grades it, but the quizzes were honestly terrible. Most of the time it was choose all that apply (with 8 choices) and the answers weren't on the note slides. Dude is a joke. The final will make or break your grade, so be careful.
This prof is so frustrating. He rarely responds to emails and the grading info on the syllabus is very unclear. He didn't tell us until 3 days before grades were finalized that the textbook activities were required. >:( The lectures were okay but the TA's are better teachers tbh. The quizzes are super hard, literally everyone fails them.
Dull lectures. Instruction and resources were plentiful, but it was hard to identify what was really useful. Quizzes and exams would sometimes ask very specific questions. My prior experience with CS from high school greatly helped. Ijaz really cares, and he was attentive and helpful in labs. Overall, I found the experience to be lacking.
He was a nice guy, but all he did was lecture and most people had no clue what he was talking about. He never explained things very well, really only did really good if you already had prior knowledge. I do not recommend taking him. Also he never posts grades.
He is a nice person. He like to give long lectures but is always helpful during office hours. Make sure you go to his office hours and ask questions. My biggest problem with him is that he didn't respond to emails very well.
Absolutely ludicrous how much work he expects you to do for a two-credit hour lab class. Roughly 2-3 hours of required reading before each lecture. Lectures are just over-explained PHYS-207 material and he finds the best ways to teach it as boring as humanly possible. Homeworks & quizzes are weekly and will take up roughly 3-4 hours. Laughable.
Garbage, Birds fly upside down over this guys class because its not even worth s******* on.
Just don't take him. Useless rambling lectures that he holds you past time for. Ridiculously long homework for a 2 hour class and not all of the problems are graded.
This guy is horrible. The homework takes HOURS to complete, only a small fraction of the problems are graded. The quizzes are only 2 questions. Know what that means? Mess up your rounding, or understand the concept but didn't get the exact answer that's hard coded as an answer? TOO BAD, HERE'S A 50 FOR THE QUIZ. This guy is among the lowest profs.
Slopiest, most unprofessional professor I have ever had. I made an account just to leave my warning. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS. He assigns 10-200 of pages of required reading before each class then rambles about unrelated material during class. Weekly pre-lecture quizzes that contain a multitude of mistakes every week that are never fixed.
Assigns weekly homework that is far more difficult than what is taught in class along with an almost weekly "post-class quiz" that is equally as difficult. Some homework assignments are multiple pages long worth of problems, with one of them being 8 pages. Other professors for same class do not assign homework or quizzes weekly.
I do not understand where the positive comments about this guy come from. The first couple classes he is not too bad because it seems like your learning a lot in class, then the homework hits. Almost nothing on the homework are covered during lectures same with the weekly quizzes. Compared to other profs he assigns by far the most HW too.
Never in my life have I ever met a professor that doesn't care about his students whatsoever. Never responds to any of my emails, gave an absurd amount of work, and his lectures have ZERO correlation to the homework and quizzes. He also always ends the class 10 minutes late, as if this is the only class I'm taking. Avoid at all cost.
Arguably one of the worst professors I've ever had. His lectures are just a summarized version of topics we cover in 207 and almost always goes over time. The worst part is the group project only he gives. He genuinely expects sophomore engineering students to create a detailed design to solve a major world issue in a month. Avoid him at all costs.
Horrible professor! NEVER responds to emails or messages, lectures have NOTHING to do with what we are being quizzed on, always ends class late! Oh and he assigns SO MUCH READING as if this was the ONLY CLASS I am taking. I made the mistake of taking him, do not make the same mistake!
2 quizzes a week, multi-page 4+ hour homework, a group project way outside the scope of the class, and a final exam worth 20%. No formula sheet given. Never once answered any of my 4 emails. Labs are an easy A but only worth 50% of the grade. In a lab course. Considering dropping, essentially nothing graded and the Q drop deadline in in 2 days.
Horrible professor. Don't know how he's still employed by the university. Assigns a ridiculous amount of irrelevant reading only to give homework that is next to impossible to solve without hours scouring other resources. As of now, there are 2 weeks left in the semester and I have not received a new grade since the beginning of September... beware
WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT TAKE THIS GUY. Grades take forever to get back, and assignment criteria can be confusing. Due dates for assignments are seemingly random and sometimes the assignment is unrelated to class material. He doesn't show up for his short office hours. And he constantly runs 5-10 min over his class "discussions" (AKA: Monologues)
Giving it a 1 rating because I couldn't give a 0. The worst professor. The exams are nothing like homework, which is nothing like lectures. There are no proper resources provided, even for self-study.
This guy just stinks tbh
Doesnt teach or explain anything, randomly assigns homework with no schedule to follow.
This class is poorly organized no matter who your teacher is, but it is so terrible if you have Ijaz. 3 homework assignments per work with no schedule or regularity, random essays and group projects with unclear expectations. The final is nothing related to the practice exams provided. He holds you for 10 min after class to finish his lectures
Class itself is awful. Ijaz makes it intolerable. I took it later in my degree and I can attest his class contains some of the most unnecessary and needlessly longform material I've experienced. 8am's are better than this lecture. The final is extensive with material that makes or breaks getting an A or B if you've done well in lab. Just don't.
Ijaz is a inspirational professor. He makes you want to love engineering. He fails really at it so damningly that it's inspirational. Do not email him, he legit never responds. Do not assume due dates; he changes them and sets them randomly. Do not assume the slides help. They literally don't. Do not assume going to class is worth. He just rambles.
Dr. Ijaz makes the course 20 times harder than other profs, Assigns 14 question homework every week that takes a good 5 hours to complete, making the classes so enjoyable so that about 5 people comes to the lecture out of approximately 60 people. He goes over the time limit casually, and never reachable outside of class. 10/10 would recommend.
Ijaz was an absolute joke. Assigned crazy long homeworks, with quizzes that never made sense. Don't assume due dates are when stuff is due, he regularly changes them days before. Went the first day and he went 15 min past class time, rambling over random stuff, so I never went again. Can't contact him at all, and a very hard final. Avoid the pain.
Absolute joke of a professor. There was no structure. He gives you a billion things to read to "discuss" in class but he actually just rereads everything you were supposed to read. 1 homework and 2 hard quizzes EVERY week. never responds to emails. always runs at least 10 mins late and gets mad when you try to leave. Final was very difficult too.
I don't recommend this class to any student. The lectures are extremely boring and pointless. He talks about unnecessary details for 50 minutes and rushes all the important information 10 minutes after class. The homework is difficult and you have weekly prelecture quiz and post lecture quiz. Just look for other professor.
Professor Ijaz sucks, no offense oops. But also his lectures (the first three that I attended) were so bad and just a waste of my time. I was so thankful I could skip class because I took full advantage of that. Just try your best on the labs, they give you a really good rubric on each one.
Dr. Ijaz cannot teach this class properly. He fails to finish all the slides within 50 minutes and takes 10 more minutes after class ends to still skim through the material, he gives out pre and post class quizzes which are hard to do and the final is extremely difficult. If you have this professor next semester, please drop and take someone else.
Going to class is a waste of your time if you take this guy. His lectures are boring and they aren't helpful with the material. Chegg will be your friend for homework. He is super nice and helpful though. If something is wrong in your lab or you are having trouble with a group he will help you.
It's clear that A&M doesn't care about students, given that this guy still works here. Responds to NO emails, assigns ridiculous homework for a 2cr course, you're better off skipping & learning by yourself than showing up to his worthless lectures. Final exam will easily knock you down by a letter grade. This guy should not be allowed to teach.
Somewhat decent person, but overall a terrible professor. If you get Ijaz and can't get into another section drop the class & wait for a semester when you can get someone else. He will give 10x the reading and homework, and he is impossible to reach outside of class. The final exams are terrible and he does not curve or round grades up from an 89.8
Only answered one of seven emails sent. Assigned group projects outside the scope of the class. Auto-graded final worth 20% with no partial credit. One 5 hour assignment plus pre and post-class quizzes every week and several hours of pre-class readings. Much more work than other professors teaching the same class. Slight final grade curve.
Ijaz sounds like a nice guy, but is not a good teacher at all. Will hold you 10 minutes over while only covering a handful of slides the entire lecture. Quizzes and homework were unpredictable, and this class was very disorganized and comical at times. A random group project was also assigned midway through the semester, so be ready for anything.
Professor Ijaz is kind, but the methods of teaching through slides (sometimes irrelevant to the weekly quizzes and homework) makes it hard to enjoy his class. He sometimes holds you 5-10 minutes past class and does not respond to emails.
His lectures always went 10 minutes over time, and he had random assignments. We had a project that no other class had and the homework took so long to do. The quizzes were just 2 questions and he does not drop a single grade. If you end up with him, focus on the lab reports and make sure they are thorough.
Ijaz doesn't respond to any emails ever, I emailed him numerous times throughout the year with no responses ever. Most people don't show up to lectures because no one is paying attention anyways. He assigns about three quizzes a week along with homework. I had an A in the class all semester until the final, also my B was an 89.23% so he won't round
Dr. Ijaz gets a fair amount of hate and review-bombing here, but I think he is one of the easiest professors to talk to (in-person) I have had so far. The bad news is he does not curve (even 89.5 to an A), and he assigns more work than the other professors. I wish I could rate him higher but I feel like it would be a disservice to other students.
Worst prof I've ever had. Doesn't respond to emails, HW takes up to 6 hours, class is extremely unorganized, quizzes are 1or 2 questions no partial credit, starts class early and/or finishes late AND still never makes it through half the lecture slides. Assigned an entire extra project no one else had, final was hard, he won't round. DO NOT TAKE!!
Awful. entire grade rested on the final and he never answered any of my 5 emails throughout the semester.
Ijaz is not a good professor by any means. Classes are supposed to be 50 min, but he will regularly take 5-10min longer than the alloted time to get through the material. Lectures are very boring and even though he seems fairly nice, I just don't have anything good to say about his teaching capabilities. At least his accent isn't super thick
Ijaz is easily the worst professor you could take for 217. Lectures are worthless (don't attend) and homework is tedious. In addition there is a 1 or 2 free response question quiz before and after each lecture that is miserable because you can just take 0's for simple errors. Never responds to emails and never has office hours.
Each week he sent out a long powerpoint, which he would then read off for the lecture and get about halfway through. He would keep the class 15 minutes late so he could do 2 slides. On homework and tests, he would hard-code the answers in Canvas, so if you were 1 hundredth off you would get the question dead wrong.
This class was bad. Lectures never made sense, he didn't follow his own slides, and the post class quizzes were extremely different compared to the lecture material. Pretty much unreachable by email too. I had an issue with the final exam scheduling and even his own TA couldn't get a hold of him to fix it. Material itself isn't too bad just study
I don't recommend taking Professor Ijaz at all whatsoever. His lecture slides are extremely long, and he never actually gets through them all in one lecture. The slides don't provide any helpful examples or worked out problems. Please don't take him. I could go on all day about why he's a terrible prof.
The material covered isnt what's tested of the student. Muhammad Ijaz claims that this isnt a programming class, but that's not the case.
He gets very off topic in lectures and some of the info presented is straight up wrong. Homework not related to lectures and he got confused when a question was asked. Group project had no real feedback and no clear grading criteria. The only day attendance was above 30% was when we had to present the project. Final had same questions as quizzes
This professor gets off-topic during his lectures and doesn't cover material that students are tested over. There are quizzes and homework every class over things he doesn't teach. Would be better if you took time to teach yourself instead of attending the useless lectures. Drop the class if you have him; I know I wish I did...
His lectures are not helpful at all. The "pre-class readings" help little to none and there is no grading rubric in the syllabus. He is inaccessible outside class and does not read email. While he does have office hours, they are exclusively on Zoom and early morning (usually 9-11 or 10-12). Quizzes can contain material not taught in lecture.
Terrible professor all around. He would go on tangents unrelated to lecture and take as much as 10-15 minutes after the class had already ended to continue his lecture! Utterly unprofessional. Took this class last a year ago and came back to rate because I wouldn't want anybody to have to suffer through this mans class for a whole semester.
1) HIS LECTURES ARE MORE BORING THAN WATCHING PAINT DRY. 2) HE NEVER EVER IN ANY UNIVERSE RESPONDS TO EMAILS AND GRADE IS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON THE FINAL. 3) QUIZZES ARE WORDED WORSE THAN THE TEXTS FROM MY GRANNY WITH DEMENTIA. WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1) HIS LECTURES ARE MORE BORING THAN WATCHING PAINT DRY. 2) HE NEVER EVER IN ANY UNIVERSE RESPONDS TO EMAILS AND GRADE IS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON THE FINAL. 3) QUIZZES ARE WORDED WORSE THAN THE TEXTS FROM MY GRANNY WITH DEMENTIA. WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He is not good. Had him for ENGR 102 and PHYS/ENGR 217, he just explains the sides, but has no idea what is going on and he does not help. AVOID.
While it is evident that he cares, English isn't his first language, so it's hard to understand him sometimes. At least for this semester, the whole class was graded on Labs and his pre-class and post-class quizzes. He dropped HW early on. The pre-quizzes usually are conceptual, and you get 2/3 chances, same for post-quizzes, but with calcuations.
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Lectures are boring, rushed, and have too much information for a one-hour section. Need to rely on other classes to learn most of the content. Assigns weekly homework quizzes, but they're not too hard. Has a final exam, but no other exams. Lab part of the class is separate and depends on your TA. Not good at communicating with students
As an AERO student, I do not really need to be an expert in E&M physics. This year, Ijaz's class served as a light review for PHYS 207, which I took previously. He did not assign much homework, instead using weekly quizzes to test understanding, which I greatly appreciated, as I have had an otherwise packed semester. Also, he is very caring.
Worst professor I've ever had. Teaches by sending masses of Wikipedia articles. Pre and post-class lecture quizzes don't reflect his slides at all. Be ready to google tons of answers. Final is tough but thats just a 217 thing in general, but if you get stuck with him try your best to transfer into another prof's lecture period.
He NEVER answers emails. In person he seems like a nice guy- but a HORRIBLE professor. He assigns homework that is 1-2 questions long with horribly typed questions, guaranteeing you won't get a 100 but rather a 50 or 0 due to a simple misunderstanding from terrible grammar. He assigns an insane amount of reading that doesn't help at all.
Terrible... pre-lecture and post-lecture assignments ONLY have 1-2 MC questions so it's either 100/50/0. Lab grades are not tough. DO NOT TAKE HIM
Avoid this guy at all costs. Had him for ENGR 102 and ENGR/PHYS 217 and he is complete cheeks. He does not understand the concepts at all. Only bonus is you do not have to go to class, and if you understand what is going on in labs you will do fine.
Lectures are non-sensical and/or often derailed on small details that overall matter very little to the coursework. Stopped attending after the first few because I found I was completely misunderstanding things by the time PHYS 207 actually taught them. The class was pushed up for an unnecessary and poorly explained project of little importance.
The post class test are only 1-2 questions and worth 22% of the class which is ridiculous. I would try to avoid at all cost.
Literally the worst professor you can have the misfortune of taking. Doesn't bother teaching you anything in lecture so don't waste your time going. Has a group project that no other professor does that you spend three class periods working on. Did not go over or provide any materials to aid with preparing for the final.
Ijaz would be a decent Uncle. However he is a dreadful as a prof. I cannot express in words how completely useless he is at teaching. He stopped working examples in class because people wouldn't do the problems for him. He doesn't respect your time or respond to emails (assigns 3 chapters a week for a one hour lab course). Avoid avoid avoid avoid.
Now here's a guy who will tank your GPA. Canvas quizzes are legitimately impossible even if you go to the lectures, and take a whopping 30 percent of your grade. Also the lab itself is awful, I can't believe that A&M thinks that this lab/lecture is actually worth anyone's time.
Terrible lectures. No point in even coming to class
If I could give him a zero, I would. Avoid. Ijaz thinks he's THE MAN, and that his lectures are SO amazing. He is what you call out of touch with reality. He talks about useless things that don't pertian to his quizzes. Quizzes are also 2 questions, free response, that you need to round perfectly. He's from industry and is NOT meant to teach.
I honestly did not go to class at all. He gets a high rating because he cancelled our homework for the year. As replacement, he had preclass and postclass canvas quizzes. You can use any resources and have 2 tries. Can't speak on him at all, but I had a good experience.
Drop him and take it another semester if you get stuck with him. Unaccesible outside of class, terrible lectures, 2 hard quizzes a week, thick accent cant understand him, practice problems in class are done so fast and messy you cant understand, final is dependent on luck, you can get a bank of easy questions or super hard ones. Worst prof ever.
Ijaz seems to care but is simply bad at his job. Readings unhelpful, "lectures" mostly rambling, lack content. HW difficult and time consuming. Quizzes not too difficult but self study. Pointless group "project" at end. No final exam review/info. Final is thankfully problems from quizzes. Lab worth 50%, graded separate. Make sure to understand 207
There are no words to describe the absolute hatred I have towards this class. More work outside of class than any other 217 class, lectures are pointless , PROVIDES ZERO INFORMATION ON WHAT WILL BE ON THE FINAL, and does an end of the year project THAT NOT A SINGLE OTHER 217 professor does. If you're begging to fail out he may be your guy!
He is the worst professor I have ever taken. If I could give a 0 I would. His post class quizzes are impossible and missing one problem can tank your grade. The final is just like those quizzes. Avoid at all costs.
Ijaz made 217 more difficult than it needed to be. His lectures were very hard to follow and were not relevant to our assignments. He did not set clear expectations for the final and left everyone confused. I would avoid if you can.
I would NOT recommend taking 217 with him. If you have him do what you can to change instructors but if you have to stick with him, lectures are not helpful. THE MAJOR DOWN OF THIS CLASS IS THE QUIZ QUESTIONS AND THE FINAL ARE ALL RANDOMIZED QUESTIONS. You could get some of the hardest questions and your classmates could get very easy questions.
That brother should be flipping burgers, you can essentially perfect in the lab portion and still get a C in this class.
Nice prof, gave hard hw first month and then switched to quizzes (async and easy google find). Final was just questions from the quiz bank. Super chill guy who wants everyone to do well. I got like a 10 on the final and still made a B, so just do well on the labs and quizzes and you'll be solid.
If you want a professor who won't round you up .76%, has 2-question impossible quizzes, gives no partial credit, and only responds to half your emails, Ijaz is for you. He did re-open a post class assessment for me once and is one of the few coherent professors with an accent though.
He says a lot of stuff that he doesn't put on the slides. Slides can be incoherent. Quizzes are HARD: 2 questions all-or-nothing. Tip: Each quiz has several attempts. even if u get 100 on ur 1st attempt, i suggest u just click through all of them. Ur final is EXACTLY like quizzes but w/ diff. numbers. Redo ur quizzes for final & it's an easy A.
Ijaz is better than most people say. He gives two quizzes a week, one is copying from the slides and the other is similar to the practice questions, a google search helps too + multiple tries. The final is just a question bank from all the quizzes so try to use all your attempts even if you get a 100. Do well in the labs they are 50% of your grade.
He's intelligent, but struggles to dumb down concepts and explain well. It's more productive to not attend class and to read the posted slides on your own. Weekly pre-class quizzes are multiple choice and post-class quizzes are semi-difficult calculations. Overall, not difficult, just put in some effort on this + the labs and you'll be fine.
Seems like a great dude, but really tends to ramble in lectures. Be sure to do well on weekly assignments and study for the exam.
DO NOT TAKE WITH IJAZ. He is a nice guy but oh my God if you get him switch out. The preclass and post class quizzes are actually sent from hell and same with the final. Lectures are the worst thing you could think of because they make zero sense whatsoever. Just save yourself the struggle and get into any other section than his
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So, with there only being 1 lecture each week for this course, you would think it would be somewhat simple for the professor to show up to class or at least let us know he would not be able to, a day or hours in advance. Professor Ijaz did not do either of those two things, and it was only the second lecture. This is going to be a great semester.
DO NOT TAKE THIS GUY!!! He gives impossible quizzes that I have got zeros on, and they are worth 30% of the grade. For those who took 216, you know how impossible the final is, therefore you can not sacrifice any bit of your grade due to these quizzes.
Professor Ijaz is in my opinion the worst prof I have ever had at A&M. And Professor Ijaz beat out some other terrible professors to be the worst one. Random/Off Topic project, post class and pre-class quizzes that were pass or fail, and a final that made no sense at all. Labs are the only good thing because he is not involved, the TAs are.
This guy is the worst professor I have ever had to deal with. Post-tests are insane and are weeks ahead of the topics he teaches. He cannot make the lectures easy to understand. He uses 46 minutes of the 50-minute class to lecture. He uses the last 4 minutes to do example problems and rushes through them, making them impossible to understand.
I'm convinced this guy actually believes his lecture is THE most important one out of any class. He started the first day by trying to be all philosophical but its literally an electricity and magnetism lab. He also refuses to talk about why his quizzes are 2 questions, 40 minutes, and impossible to get contestant grades with.Worst. Professor.Ever.
Worst professor on this campus and its not even close. This guy talks about nonsense for the first 40 minutes of the lecture, then when it comes to the practice problems that are actually useful he rushes through them in 10 minutes without taking a single breath. Don't bother even trying to ask him questions because hes on autopilot during lecture.
Make pre and post class tests really difficult and worth 30 percent of the grade for a 1 hour credit class
Worst professor at this university and its not even close. Not sure how this guy even has a job still. Lectures are completely unrelated to the quiz material.
Truly the worst A&M, neigh, humanity has to offer. He is proof that A&M searches for the worst physics professors to teach these labs. Tests are due on seemingly random days throughout the week. His lectures feel like practical jokes. He makes his class harder, but his teaching doesn't make up for the difficulty spike. Extremely blinded by his ego
I don't know where TAMU gets these professors from, but please do not take him. It pains me to leave such a bad review. He is a nice man, but calling lecture a "discussion" and then you being the only one to talk does not make it a discussion. Part of me thinks 217 is flawed conceptually and its not even the professors, but I can't change that.
Worst prof at A&M. Get ready for post class quizzes that will tank your grade and a final so difficult it will cause psychoses. The professor will not assist you outside of school with any concerns or questions. The lectures are about as useful as a coffee mug with a hole in it. Lie, cheat, and steal to get out of taking 217 with this professor.
Ijaz is an escaped Walmart greeter who lied on his resume to become a professor at A&M. This prof could not teach this class worse if he tried. Ijaz's ego is so large it requires its own zoning laws. If you are assigned this professor make like his hairline and run away. The final for this class is harder than melting tungsten with a bic lighter.
Ijaz will do anything but teach the class effectively. HW workload is absurd, content moves significantly faster then 207 and ridiculous HWs are 30% of your grade. Final is the exact same questions as HWs. Ijaz doesn't teach he tortures. Invest in CHAT GPT 4 and this class will be a breeze.
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I remember one time I asked a question and he was the most rude professor I have ever encountered. This class and 216 are obviously a complete joke and some professors are able to recognize that. Ijaz is not one of them and takes it way to seriously. Yes there is a project but its very easy and we got a 100. You get extra attempts on quizzes.
The worst professor I ever had. The workload is unreasonable, especially for a 2 credit-hour course. Some of the readings he assigned were over 200 pages, and he always expected us to read them. His lectures are not engaging, and he loves to yap. Often times what he is saying does not match the slides. His tests are also bad.
I was very scared to have this professor during the summer because of the reviews. And I think he saw the reviews because during class he had us do a survey for feedback and it seems like he is dedicated on becoming a better professor. He does yap a lot in the lecture and beware of the post class test, but that is the only complaint I have.
Bad lecturer, but genuinely a good person. Never had to go to class. Workload was light. Final was relatively easy.
I took this professor over the summer and had a very good experience. Before the lecture, you are expected to complete a pre-class test in Canvas and a post-class test after the lecture. If you study and make notes for each weekly pre-class and post-class test to study for the final, you will get an A in the class. The professor is very accessible.
He is hands down THE worst professor I've ever taken its not even close.
Tough class, but ChatGPT and Unstuckstudy ai were lifesavers for study prep. Lectures can be dry, but staying engaged and doing the work pays off. Not the best professor, but manageable if you put in the effort.
The most boring lecture you will ever attend in your life, but there is good news: you don't have to go! I probably showed up to half the lectures and I'm pretty sure I lost knowledge. No more than half of the class will ever be there, and you really can't blame them, because much less than half of the words that come out of his mouth are useful.
Lots of bad reviews on this professor. He receives more reviews per semester than kids show up to his class. I don't know how you can rate a prof bad if you didn't go to his class. He is boring, but its the class curriculum that is at fault. 217 is useless. Ijaz grades fair, and is extremely caring. If you have an issue he will fix it
217 itself shouldn't exist as a lecture, just like 216. Ijaz works with what he has, and he genuinely cares about his students. You take a bunch of quizzes outside of class; some are super easy, and others you just take a 50; some are super easy, and others. Same drill as 216. Build your grade up as much as possible, and prepare to tank the final.
same as 216, cirriculum is the same but ijaz does give more "homework" than other profs. he definitely cares and tries a lot for students. grading wise his averages are lower but he seems to care a lot.
Honestly, seems like a bad prof but that could just be 217. Two online quizzes per week, outside of class, one conceptual and one calculation, these quizzes are super easy and you get 2 attempts, can easily average over a 90 on them. Obviously the final is an assumed horrible grade so build up pts before lmao. Ijaz is pretty annoying to listen to.
Dr. Ijaz was extremely disorganized and would I not recommend his class in any form or fashion. Lectures were unhelpful and boring and consisted of long wordy slideshows where he would ramble the entire class. Most of the students in my section made 20s on the final and he put out zero study materials to go off of. Do not take his class!
Avoid at all costs. Thought the reviews might've been exaggerating: no. Readings you're expected to do, pre and post-lecture tests, lectures where he speaks at 1000 WPM through a 60-slide presentation of the most unnecessary information ever. The final was 38 questions of the most unnecessarily detailed and tricky workouts just trying to waste time
Ijaz tries so hard to seem enthusiastic and caring in theory, but really, he'll never offer real assistance. He stands by his belief that assigning chapters to read prelec and having pre&post lec assignments, that we will learn proficiently and understand any problem he throws at us. he made the final was stupid difficult & there was no review
terrible very difficult exam does not teach no preparation expects you to know things. very nice guy tho
Let me start off by saying that Dr. Ijaz is a great person - legit one of the nicest profs at A&M. I just did not learn much during lectures. In my opinion he taught WAY too fast which doesn't help in actually understanding the material. Furthermore the post class tests have two or three questions, so if you miss one then it screws over your grade.
Professor Ijaz is so caring and helpful in this class. He is always willing to work with you on the toughest matters in his office hours, and he has TONS of OH. He is understanding of your circumstances and he is willing to work with you for a better grade or to change exam dates if there is a conflict. I would take him again and recommend.
Idk y he has a 1 on rate my prof. He good prof, bad course, can't blame the dude. Lectures terrible, attendance wasn't mandatory, I didn't go half the time. Prof nice in person and added 5-point curve to my letter grades. Number one tip is to complete the post-class quizzes. The final exam was a copy-paste from the post-class quizzes.
Very nice man, absolutely horribly structured class. His lectures drag way too long on the theoretical content while he could be doing helpful practice problems. Quizzes are not easy and have few questions so its easy to tank your grade with them. Final is just quiz questions copy pasted. 217 is horrible regardless, but Ijaz at least tries to help.
Not sure why he gets a bad rep—he's not bad at all. 217 is just poorly structured, and he does his best with it. Lectures aren't great; he spends too much time on irrelevant material and rushes practice problems at the end. The final is based on post-class quizzes, so understand those. He also adds a generous curve to the final grade.
If you're scared of taking him because of these reviews, don't worry. Just go to class and pay attention when he does practice problems. The conceptual stuff you can learn in PHYS 207 or through videos, he doesn't really explain it well anyways. The practice that he does is basically exactly like the hw and final. You'll get an A if you try.
217 is a really bad class, but Ijaz is a nice guy. His lectures were really boring, stopped going after two. The pre post class quizzes are the same thing as the final, so studying those should help. Added a curve at the end of semester.
Not as bad as what the previous reviews suggest. He is not the best at lecturing, but the pre-lecture and post-lecture quizzes are not that difficult (you get two attempts for each quiz). Studying the pre-lecture and post-lecture quizzes will greatly prepare you for the final. Make sure to do good on the labs and quizzes and you'll be fine.
Not a great lecturer but 217 also just sucks. quizzes and tests make up most of the lecture half of 217 so do good on those and the labs and youll be fine. group project at the end was pretty easy. there might be extra credit for attendance, that was the only reason I was going after the 2nd week.
50% labs, 20% final, 30% canvas quizzes. The labs are straightforward. There are 2 quizzes every week (2-4 questions) with 2 attempts. These easy to ace if you read the slides or GPT. The final was exactly like the quizzes so memorize them. Ijaz was a stale, rambling lecturer, so skip the lectures and self-study the slides if you feel like it.
He honestly wasn't as bad as all of these reviews are saying. 217 just isn't that great of a class. He does speed through his lectures, but always provides the examples worked out after class, which help on the post-class quizzes.
Look he certainly isn't the best teacher out there but if you have to take him it isn't the end of the world. The quizes sucked and the lectures didn't cover how to do the problems anyways, but if you put in enough work in the lab, getting a B in the class wouldn't be too hard. I didn't learn much from his lectures though.
Horrible professor BUT, relatively easy class. An A is so doable. First, know/memorize how to do the post lecture quizzes. They are literally copy paste from the exam. DO the practice problems before the post lecture quizzes. I got every single workout problem right on the exam bc I knew how to do every hw. His lectures are useless and boring.
Ridiculous amount of outside work for a 2-hour credit, and seems to think this is the most important class you'll ever take.
Read off of slides, gets distracted, never returns to slides Talks just to talk You will be teaching yourself pre, post lecture quizzes
Dr. Ijaz is really bad at teaching and lecturing, but 217 as a class isn't too bad. He will give more work than other 217 profs. Ijaz's final is almost exactly pulled from quiz questions though, which is nice.
WOW!, where do I even start with Professor Ijaz. Someone who is truly passionate about their work. This man wakes up every day puts on the same slacks and white shirt and proceeds to absolutely rip off 217 lectures. I belive that this man is doing gods work because the content of this course is unbearable. . But his unwavering passion persists.
He is not the worst option for 217. You don't need to read anything he tells you to. Just look it up for the pre and post class quizzes which can both be done after class on your own. The final was pulled directly from the quizzes. You will have to learn on your own, but he gives you the material you need. Take Ijaz over Jacques Richard.
I think Ijaz hate is so forced. The course itself is just as annoying and unnecessary as 216, but he's a super caring guy. Lots of work for 2 credits (pre and post class quizzes, HW) but it gives a nice cushion. The final is HARD but same as HW questions. Work is all chat-GPT-able, but he has example solutions that are the EXACT same as the HW.
Ijaz is a nice and understanding guy but doesn't give great lectures. You don't need to look at any readings, just do all the pre/post tests and hws on time because he doesn't accept late work. Understand how to solve the problems because the final comes straight from these questions. An A is easy to get as long as you do good on your labs.
One of the more passionate teachers. He does make 217 a bit tedious with the amount of assignments, especially for a 2 hour class, but they aren't too bad. Basically physics 2, so if you understand elec and magnetism you should have no problem. The final has questions straight out of the hws. Besides one, labs are easy, but TAs grade roughly. Nice
He is the Goat of A&M.
In general a pretty uninspiring professor. I skipped almost every single class because of it, as the class just seems to be a waste of time. Of course it is required for most of the ENGR majors but also Ijaz doesn't really help us learn the content.
I didn't want to fix the brakes on my bikes because I would've rather crashed my bike and get concussed and be put into a coma than attend another one of his lectures again or take his final again
You can tell he cares about this class and is passionate about engineering, but that's where the good reviews stop. Lectures are not helpful, and there is an absurd amount of reading expected outside of class. Pre and post class quizzes almost every week. The final was easy to prepare for, though, as other reviews say.
Phys 217 is a badly structured class but this prof made the best of it. The class is only 45 mins a week for a lot of content. Most of the credit lies in the final exam. Most people score badly, but if you study hard it will be fine. It's not his fault the class is structured this way. He is always super caring, positive, and helpful. Great prof.
The class is structured terribly but Ijaz is a great guy, super understanding and let me submit homework late once. The lectures aren't the best but he genuinely tries his best and he's super friendly. The exams are identical to the homeworks and quizzes as well.
Ijaz is a very enthusiastic professor. He's always happy and he's also very kind when he wants to help people out. Though sometimes he would go through a few practice problems after class would end and wouldnt let us leave, Ijaz is genuinely a really nice professor. A difficult final due to time but questions come from previous assignments.
He needs more time than one 50 minute lecture a week. He's a super nice guy who wants the best for everyone, and the workload isn't terribly bad. People complain about the pre and post class tests as well as the homework, but they took like an hour or two every couple weeks - not bad at all. Pretty light final. If you cant get Cornejo, take Ijaz.
Tbh I don't get the over 150 1 star ratings, as I dont think he was a bad professor. He's very nice and genuinely wants his students to succeed. Lectures were unengaging but the material itself was not too difficult. Final exam was almost identical to the homework, just different numbers. Dont be afraid to take him for 217
The workload is very manageable, and the final is as well. Simply reviewing the quizzes and homeworks made the final relatively easy. Also the homework is not bad at all. I don't think he deserves such a bad rating and I'm confused as to why he has one.
Definitely not the worst choice for 217 professor. There are some weeks without homework which is nice. He is a very sweet person and for sure wants you to do well, but the class isn't very helpful. You lowk gotta tank the final but it is just homework and quiz questions with different numbers.
Makes an already useless class more confusing by skipping relevant slides in lectures. You're better off not paying attention in class and going over it yourself later. Exam was unreasonably hard for this class, but this class warrants an easy exam imo. LOTS of homework thats just busy work. TAKE CORNEJO.
Do not take him for 217 he is the worst professor
Beware of this guy if you have a large course load, he gives tons of homework and assignments while other profs give under 10 assignments all year. This is the hardest A I have had to work for.
He is a great guy, but that's all that is positive to his class. While you could do all of the homeworks and 40 assignments he gives, you get under a 70 on the final you don't get the grade you want. While you could argue it's the course, many other professors make it easy to get an A, except for Ijaz.
Unengaging lectures, I recommend skipping and learning from AI for the homework.. Final was a bank of 22 workout post class questions and 20 pre class questions. If you study those this class is an easy A. He is a super nice guy and is very accessible, but lectures just aren't worth going to. Overall his 150 1 star ratings are unwarranted imo
Lots of homework and group projects. It's doable though and he's a pretty chill guy. However, the final is really hard, its alottttt of questions under a very short time constraint.
He was chill. I lowkey went to his class like 2 times the whole semester other than the final, and prolly could've gotten an A if I hadn't forgot to do a couple homework assignments. The final was online and he curves the final. The labs themselves weren't too bad, there was one really long one but the rest were shorter than the 216 labs.
Overall, he's a very nice dude and cares about his students a lot. Lectures are not great, but the class is very very doable. The homework and quizzes are not hard, just remember to do them. If you learn the homeworks and do well on the labs, you should be able to pull an A in the class
I would blame half for the low rating due to 217 lectures content faster than dp 207. Regardless, I did not learn much from the lectures and honestly just do my work in class or not show up. Post-class tests and the final exam are homework problems, which makes the final review slightly more manageable. The content makes more sense at the end.
Ijaz gets a bad rep; He's not a bad prof but the material of 217 is just bad. the final absolutely cooked all of us and dropped pretty much everyone from an A to a C, but he curved most of us up to a B. lots of hw and quizzes but its free grade boosters, and the final is similar to the hw but just asks different things, same format. very nice prof.
Light work class ngl, the final is meant to cook everyone, but he def curves final grades fs. I showed up once for the entire sem and I got an A just do ur work and you will be fine make sure to keep ur grade as high as possible so the final doesn't tank you horribly.
Very nice man, very bad professor. It's clear he cares about the material, but he does not teach it well. I learned nothing from any of his lectures. He assigns pre and post lecture quizzes, a homework assignment for each unit, and a completely infeasible amount of prereading. The only reason he is not a 1 is because he curved the class at the end.
There are flaws in this class but they are not at all his fault. Tries his best to get people engaged. An A grade usually comes down to the final exam. attendance to lecture prob not needed if you are well versed in the material. expect more hw with this prof
I think Ijaz cares about improving lectures, but the material essentially the same as covered in 207. There is like one additional unit that is covered. There is also so much homework, and no feedback on your solutions. The final exam is *very* similar to the homework, so if anything please remember to religiously memorize their solutions.
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