Coolest instructor........makes nice animations n graphics............interactive classes..........helpful n friendly

Good learning experience. Slides were useful and prof had a laid back, easy to follow style. Had excursions which was cool.

He gave chocolates in class and his every example involved food somehow

He is a very good professor, much better than any other prof for Materials

I did feel he played a few "tricks" on the quizzes and exams which bothered me. Gets a good rating because he often made the classes very entertaining and was fairly organized and clear

Really awesome, super funny and entertaining..I had no interest in the course going into it and left wanting to do research in Materials Science! Ramsay is the bomb. Fact.

Very nice prof. He is helpful. However, his tests are insanely tough. He plays all sorts of tricks, things which you will never think of! But he is a really nice person, though and very dedicated. However I'll rather have a prof who is not nice to you and gives easy tests. lol

good prof, very dedicated.. but like to play tricks on exams

He was really helpful, he personally helped me a lot and he's really funny. He made the class pretty interesting and has a lot of extra resources for the class.

Very cool guy, tries his best to make lectures interesting. :)

He keeps lectures interesting

Cool prof, really nice and likes to keep his lectures interesting.

Lecture content was completely irrelevant to what was tested. Did not do one example problem all semester..

good prof, had to watch online lectures to understand tho

Very good prof. enthusiastic and clear. The course was very well organized. Tons of videos and study aid materials were made available online. Overall a good experience.

Go to lectures for sure since that's what he mostly tests on and you'll soon realize you can't try to learn from the textbook yourself. His class was the most enjoyable by far. He's very encouraging when you ask questions and doesn't try to make you feel stupid like some other profs I've had.

Great teacher. Conveys his messages clearly. Easily the best professor I've had at UofT so far. His tests are not tough, but tricky. You can't do well in the exams with just formulae. You need to read the textbook, understand what he says and you will do well.

interesting lec

he's really cool !

Best prof in the first year engineering. Literally made me hate I'm not an MSE. Would retake the course every semester if I could. His lectures are the coolest in the whole first year and he's such a nerdboy. Amazing guy.

Great prof.

One of the best professors in first year Engineering. Inspirational and humorous lectures. The tests should not be hard once you have high school knowledge in physics and chemistry.

He was my best Professor during first year, despite being a little disorganised since it's a new course, he was very inspirational and genuinely interested in the material he teaches. And he would transfer that passion to the students.

Best Prof I've ever had, makes learning genuinely fun.

Really an amazing and caring prof! I always really looked forward to his lectures and they brightened up my day. He made a great effort to make sure students understand and feel confident with their abilities. I hope to be in one of his classes again in the future.

Great prof! All lectures were posted on YouTube, so class isn't mandatory. Although final exam was very difficult.

Very understanding of students and any circumstance they may have. Passionate about the material and was really enjoyable to learn from. Only criticism is that this passion for students can sometimes deter time from learning the material. Be prepared to do some self-learning

Cares about students actually understanding what is being taught in class.

Scott Ramsay is easily the best prof in first year. As someone who had lots & lots go wrong during my first semester (including right up to the day of the final), Prof. Ramsay was always so understanding of everything that was going on; always willing to help. His lectures were fantastic & I used his office hours pretty often; I loved his class.

Easily the best professor I could have asked for. He teaches so incredibly well, and you can always tell hes so passionate about the material. He did end up having to speed through the last topic in the course (electrochemistry), but that was because he had taught the previous subjects so well. Tests range from very easy to reasonable. Recommend!

good guy

Without a doubt one of the best professors in first year engineering. His lectures are always engaging, and actually made me excited to go to school at 9AM. The midterms and final were all easy, and he teaches incredibly well, so you learn a lot and get a good grade :)

Professor Ramsay knows how to make students concentrate. Although one of his lectures is starting at 9am on Mondays, he always prepare interesting materials, from FCC structure to bed of nails. Textbook use will not affect his credibility; his lectures are descriptive enough! In my opinion, if you are in his APS110 session, then you are lucky.

One of the best first year engineering professors. He is constantly making lectures interesting and engaging. Due to his amazing lectures and detailed short videos he posts, learning his material becomes fun and easy.

If you go to lecture, you will learn a ton from Ramsay, but even if you don't, his short topic videos are an absolute godsend. You could learn the entire course off of them. Overall a really funny and caring prof.

probably the best 1st year teacher, hes capable of making you want to go into MSE

Really loved having him as my prof!

Best first year prof, truly passionate

Very engaging professor in lectures. The class was great and the online support videos were very helpful. The use of tophat is my only complaint.

I took APS164 which is an online course which revolves around professor Ramsay's online textbook. Although I had a different professor, I made through the course thanks to his textbook, which is very organized, clear visuals, and easy to read, which puts elements of active learning. Excellent well-established course, especially for current pandemic

Took the online course but he wasn't teaching it. We followed his top hat textbook which is amazing and was a hard carry for me through the course.

Gives good lectures with demonstrations in front of the class. Empathetic and willing to help with any question related to the material. Course does require you to purchase TopHat, which is a horrible piece of software.

Passionate guy, really cares about the students and not giving us anxiety.

Really nice professor, I got to speak with him during one of the Meet Your Prof dinners and he was very kind. He clearly enjoys what he does and it makes learning that much easier. One of my favourite profs in first year. The midterm was tougher than I expected, but I forgive him ;)

A real light during first year engineering here at UofT. Genuinely interested in his craft which shows in his videos. One thing I would say is some test material seems to be inadequately covered in the textbook homework, but other than that, great prof and great class!

Great guy

Best prof last semester, great short videos which go over what you need to know for each topic. Not to mention he is very charismatic.

Even though I got a low mark in his class, he was one of the best professors I've had. His lectures are very useful in understanding the course material, and his excitement towards the content is infectious.

my first teacher at u of t and he is one of the best teacher I've ever seen

I love APS110

I love this course.

The class uses TopHat as the main textbook/lecture website and if watch the lectures, and TAKE NOTES, and pay attention to the questions on TopHat, you'll do well. The only in-person aspect of the class was the tutorials, and I showed up to maybe 2, but doing past exams really helped. Ramsey is so passionate about chem, it motivated me to do well.

Ramsay is a gem of the first semester of first-year engineering, his love for his studies and for the course material radiates from lectures. He's gentle, charismatic and he really cares about his students. Readings and the lectures were a joy to do, lectures were high-res and has different camera angles. Would do anything to take his class again.

As a graduating student, I can say that Prof Ramsay is hands down one of the Engineering Dept's best professors. He teaches his content (which is tremendously important going forward) effectively and strives to make the course as entertaining and engaging as possible.

A beacon of hope in the ninth circle of hell that is first year eng.

Only course I looked forward to in first year eng. Love the guy.

He's a great professor, one of my favorite's in fact! he explains everything well, is super patient and an amazing person overall. Never gets angry either and inspired me to chose my major.

Great prof. would recommend

APS 110 is the best first-year eng course the workload is relatively light and marks are easy to get. Make sure to do all your work and pay attention in lectures. Exams are reasonable and easy to understand as long as you studied.

amazing

Absolute beauty of a prof. Somehow made 9AMs enjoyable.

great

Hands down the best teacher I've ever had. He has amazing demos, usually on Fridays, which are super interesting and help you learn. The exams are very reasonable, not too hard and a couple past exam questions are often recycled. He is super, super passionate about the course and it's almost impossible for that to not rub off on you. Best teacher.

An absolute gem of a prof. Tophat (online textbook) is sufficient enough to get you a good mark in the course, but I highly recommend going to the lectures because he always has cool demonstrations here and there. I regret missing so many lectures because it was at 9 am. Ramsay's enthusiasm always brought a smile to my face (and all students).

Prof Ramsay was great!! He really cares about students and does everything in his power to help people succeed. Sometimes lectures are kinda slow-paced, but he always makes them fun with humour sprinkled in.

Absolutely amazing professor! He keeps students engaged during classes and use analogies to make course materials easy to understand! In order to help students, he did a research with his team to find out how to help students to achieve their best. You're in good luck if you have him!

The goat

BIG UP TO CRODIE PROF. RAMSAY. HE'S AN EXTREMELY CARING AND UNDERSTANDING PERSON WHO IS HERE TO HELP YOU SUCCEED. HIS VIDEOS IN THE TEXTBOOK ON THE TOPHAT PLATFORM ARE EXTREMELY USEFUL AND GUIDED ALL OF OUR COHORT THROUGH THE COURSE EXTREMELY WELL, MAKE SURE TO TRY ALL QUESTIONS YOURSELF!!!

Prof Scott Ramsay is such an amazing professor. He always motivates students during lecture and he does exciting experiments on Fridays (i.e. creating Pikachu with polymer mixture). You can catch up course material using tophat textbook but his lectures are definitely helpful. Amazing class!

I could go on and on about Ramsay! His lectures are so engaging since he does a lot of cool demonstrations and he explains things very clearly! His textbook is extremely similar to the lectures and explains things clearly and concisely as well. The midterm and final exam were very fair and were direct reflections of our learning.

Love this prof, many clear explanations and demonstrations in the lecture, favorite prof in my first year

He's a really amazing prof who genuinely cares about students. The school is lucky to have him.

LITERALLY THE BEST PROFESSOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! his classes motivate me to wake up everyday BETTER THAN BENDERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

amazing prof. will be missing him in second year

love his tophat videos

The greatest prof at uoft by far, there is absolutely zero contest. His lectures are amazing and his textbook is affordable and far better than every overpriced online textbook that UofT sells and charges you 100 bucks for it. This is the only class worth attending in your first year, skip every other class.

He's the GOAT of first year eng. Even though the lectures are at 9am I look forward to them because he's literally that good. Even the textbook is made by him and he makes class so fun that time flies. Seriously I love this man.

Simply the best

Amazing prof. Love his textbook so much. Pretty much got a final grade of 100 in his class

I love this guy. I'm not even in his lecture section, but he's literally light years ahead of Bender... his classes are interesting and packed with information in a way that is so easy to remember. He's just amazing at explaining concepts using every day examples so that you can remember them effortlessly. Also the most compassionate prof ever :)

I love Scott Ramsay! I would take his classes a million times over! Might switch to MSE just for him!!!!!!

Amazing prof. Great youtube channel too

Professor Ramsay seems passionate about what he teaches and cares for the wellbeing of students (he rescheduled a midterm due to concerns put forth from other students). In addition, he's sort of jacked. The difficulty of the course is fair. It's almost impossible to find a better professor teaching a first year engineering course then this man.

Ramsay was my favourite professor in my first semester of uni. As an ECE, I am not at all interested in the content taught in the course, but Ramsay was so engaging that I wanted to go to his lectures anyways (even though they were in the mornings, and all the content is in his online textbook).

this prof is very good, and I managed to see him at both the midterm and the final. But the finals were marked weird so....

Great professor with a great textbook. Genuinely enthusiastic about what he teaches and is a great guy willing to help students after class.

peak professor, just do tophat and ull be fine. but pay a bit more attention to thermos bcuz tophat doesn't cover it that well.

very clear logic, loves to give vivid examples

Ramsay my GOAT! Great lectures and textbook. You can tell you actually likes teaching. He made a labubu in class as part of a demonstration and brings it with him every lecture. It doesn't get better than this y'all

One of the best Prof I've ever had! His lectures are amazing and he shows demo. His notes are very helpful so I recommend that you attend his lectures because he doesn't upload his notes. Also attend tutorials because they cover lot helpful examples. The tests were also very fair. Best Prof.