This professor cannot teach or does he know how to grade. He tells you how to complete an assignment but then tells you that is how to do it if you want to receive a C. His rubrics are all based upon his own opinion and has no standards. Avoid at all cost!!!

Absolutely steer clear of this professor. Not only are his tests incredibly deceiving, his teaching style is confusing and he fails to listen to class's advice for improvement. You will have multiple projects and quizzes a week as well. Put in 110% effort and still struggled for a C & I am an honors student.

Avoid at all costs. Does not have a clear syllabus stating assignments, just kind of makes up assignments as course goes along. Class is only worth 100 points, he gives multiple assignments that are only half a point up two points. Assignments are long and tedious and they get graded harshly. Has unrealistic expectation of students.

Do not even bother taking his class. The HW is what killed my grade. If you do, make sure you have a good plan. His work is hard & time consuming. Spent 6 hours on 1 HW assignment when there were 4 per week. He doesn't teach, he reads the book & only shows diagrams. If you like working hard on assignments to not get full credit - he's your guy!

I took ITM 220 with him as a four-hour class once a week. It was by far the worst four hours of the week. He will lecture the whole time. At the beginning of every class, you will have at least one quiz. He will never let you out early he keeps you right to the end of the class if not longer. Also at the end of every class he takes attendance.

Don't take this unless you want to do loads of work everyday. He gives long assignments that are barely worth any of your grade. Easily the hardest class my friends and I have taken. Tests are really hard and he likes that students find the tests hard. If you can TAKE ANOTHER TEACHER I wouldn't recommend.

No, just no. The only good thing I took from this class was getting good friends from going through this exhausting semester. He grades very meticulously an his tests are VERY misleading. Just because you know the concept does not mean you're going come out of this class with a rewarding grade. Has the mentality of "Professor always knows best"...

He gives a lot of assignments I found really pointless and expects dumb things to come from you. I wouldnt say he is a very good teacher as he expects too much of you and can be very confusing. There have been countless times in this class I have been extremely frustrated with him and I know the majority of my classmates are the same. Wouldnt take.

DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS. He speaks way too fast during lectures to the point you can't even understand him. He gives an insane amount of homework to the point where you want to drop out. He is a hard grader on all of the homework as well. You take a test at the start of each class. His explanations are super long and confusing and don't help at all.

Rather a joke of a class due to his unorganized teaching style and unrealistic demands. He doesn't provide you with a master schedule with all the mandatory assignments, instead, he chooses to post due dates for different assignments in various different places. Second he spends a good chunk of every lesson bragging about his time in the air Force.

Do not take this class with this professor. It is beyond confusing and he intentionally try's to make students lives harder. The homework is ridiculous and passing is almost impossible. Avoid this professor for sure.

Alot of assignments, presentations and inclass assignment, he make students suffer

Whatever you do, don't take ITM with this professor. Even if it's your last option, take it next semester. You will be putting more into this 200 level class than most upper levels. I've never had so much work for a class. This is an easy class that he makes impossible. The fact that I had an A and still felt compelled to write this says something.

Do not take proff rutherford. His classes are deadly boring and he assigns the most amount of homework that has no real value. During class you better pay attention because there are about 5 or 6 graded inclass assignments each class. His homework assignments are unrealistic and a waste of time. Worst Proffesor at UT

In all my years as a student, I have never had a worse teacher/professor in my entire life. He gives way more work than necessary. I have peers in the same class with different professors and they like the class and do not have nearly as much work. He consistently refers to his class as the most important class in the school, DONT TAKE HIM.

This professor did not care about his students at all. He would not respond to emails for days. His class was very very very unorganized, it seemed as if he never had a plan for the class. He assigned a ton of work each week which never made any sense to what we were learning.

Dont take him. Four hour lectures are the worst four hours of the week. Try your hardest and still get points taken off. Pay attention to detail as the assignments are like breaking into fort knoxs just to undestand what you are doing. IF you do get prof, rutherford good luck.

If you have to take this class and end up with Scott Rutherford as your teacher, just wait another semester to take it seriously. This class should've been an easy A but he makes the class 10x more difficult than it actually is. Man actually assigned like 3 homeworks a week for no reason. Worst professor I've had at UT.

Wouldn't recommend taking this professor. Worst 4 hour class, makes you stay longer than the time. Attendance is mandatory. Weekly term quizzes, assignments due every week, very detailed and complicated. A couple group projects, pay attention in class because he does in class graded activities. Take time to look for a different class.

DO NOT TAKE HIM. Absolutely the worst professor for this class. He does not stop talking and takes something simple and makes it like rocket science. The class could be done so much quicker and he even changes the course to add a ton of unneeded information that makes you lose any interest in the class. Help yourself out and do not take him ever.

Don't go into this class thinking it's tech heavy, it's not. He's really understanding if something happens, just email him. But don't expect a fast response, it took hours or days for him to reply to any of my emails. His assignments are too vague, you follow everything and do it how he showed you, so you think it's right but it's usually not.

STAY AWAY! He makes this class way harder than it needs to be. The homework load is ridiculous and the grading criteria does not make sense. Literally pick anyone else.

horrible lecture at 8am was horrible he would ramble and use the whole class time. had 80 word vocab quizzes every week, numerous papers that were very hard to understand what to do and were 10 pages long attendance was mandatory and would give zeros all the time a lot of in class assignments numerous projects. the worst class ever and bad prof

This was defenitly the worst class I have taken at Tampa. He gives so much work every week and thinks that his class is your full time job. He keeps you till the last second of class in a 4 hour which is crazy. You also don't learn anything because everything he says is just all over the place.

Intense homework that takes forever to do, lots of group projects on top of other homework. Takes up all the class time till the last minute and expects you to treat the class like a full time job. I really don't recommend this class unless you want to be miserable.

Gives repetitive lectures for 2 hours then expects you to finish in-class activities within the last 5 minutes of class. Was often late to my next class. Doesn't help with solving issues with HW just expects you to figure it out. Has an ego problem and will weirdly threaten your grade if you are stuck on an assignment and simply just ask for help.

Over complicates every assignment has a weird way of describing assignment's with giving you every single small detail that has to be completed they way he says not much room for creativity or ability to think in your own way. Talks way to fast in class and never thinks he is wrong. Over all bad professor DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS

Terrible at time management! Always late to my next class. Cares if you are a minute late however holds you late almost every class which is funny. Instructions are awful on assignments. Not a good teacher by any means. Just word vomits in lecture, learned absolutely nothing from this class.

He is a very strict person to his students but not to himself. He will keep you late in class and act like its not a problem, but its the end of the world if you are 1 minute late. Assigns a good 4-5 hours of homework a week and makes you treat it like a full time job. Also says the phrase "Type stuff" way to much.

Single handedly the worst professor I have ever had. Assigns and obnoxious amount of work so much that it will take away from your other core classes. You can never catch up in this class even if you are on top of your work. He is quite frankly an a** and thinks this class is the most important when all it does is take an excessive amount of time

Scott should not be a professor for this class. I was genuinely excited to learn about AI in ITM as it's a very interesting topic. However, Scott completely took the creativity and enjoyment out of this class with his two hour long meaningless lectures on his own company. It was almost that he only wanted to talk about himself. Has an ego issue.

His assignments make no sense at all. Lectures go to the last second if class, I think he just likes to hear himself talk. You spend hours a week on ONE assignment a lots of group projects. This practically is a full time job. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS

This man makes this class 100x harder than it needs to be. He is rude during class, calls you out, and makes your life miserable. It's not even that I don't want to do the work, he is seriously absurd. I'm a cybersecurity major and this should be the least of my worries of the other classes. Don't take this man. He is awful

I have never had a worse professor in my life. His homework and projects can take up to 8 hours to complete. You need to follow his instructions that are literally incomplete thoughts down to the T, or you get a bad grade. He word vomits at you in class for 4 hours. He has a ChatGPT fetish. All his work is created by it, and it shows.

Buddy made me take up drinking again...............terrible class don't take it. So much more work than any other ITM professor. Loves talking about his company. I think he needs to be more like Eric Cartman.

I started expecting to learn lots, maybe I did for the first month. After that, the lessons blew. I've spent stupid hours on worthless projects & sat through ear numbing lectures, his words hold little value. He relies too heavily on ChatGPT, unable to design assignments or think critically without it. His affinity for ChatGPT might be romantic.

I have to buy a bottle of whiskey once a week to drink after his class. He is a terrible professor who has a fetish with AI. Has a very clear political opinion that shouldn't be shared in a class not dealing with politics. Loves saying "type stuff" and makes me want to drop out of this college.

Time for him to pack it up….

Every class here gets 3 hours and 50 minutes worth of teaching time. He doesn't plan accordingly and runs out of time every class. I have taken multiple four-hour lectures, and all of them let people out 45 minutes to an hour early. The class is useless; anyone could do his job. Especially when he grades and creates assignments using AI......

I have never had such a terrible professor in my life. I do take my academics very seriously and understand having to study/ do a lot of homework. This man has ruined my whole semester with his 5 billion group projects which included filling in 15 pages of google docs and then a 10 minute video we had to put together.

He preaches about time management. But yet, he isn't able to practice what he preaches. I don't care that you have a business and are a professor at the same time; that is your own choice. Get to grading, you have one assignment graded from months ago, and no, the BS autograded assignments don't count. You have over 1,000 ungraded homework points.

He needs to get to grading; we spent hours upon hours on these homework assignments. Time to get to grading, buddy. You preach time management to us, but yet you have none yourself.

If you don't have a religion, get one and pray if you take this man's class.

Buns professor he makes me wanna drink.

DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT TAKE HIM AS A PROFESSOR. I DON'T CARE WHAT ANY OF THESE POSITIVE REVIEWS SAY. AS SOMEONE WHO DOES CARE ABOUT SCHOOL AND DOES MY WORK, I CAN EVEN SAY IT IS A LIVING HELL.

I spent around 10 hours a week doing homework in his class. Would rather chop my own balls off than take him again.

This guy is the worst professor on this whole campus. I would rather eat a box of rocks than take him again.

Guy is a complete clown show. Obsessed with ChatGPT and says "type stuff" 50 times a class. Unbearable, pointless homework assignments throughout the year, for the first 2 months, be prepared to have 6 hours of HW a week. He will keep you until class ends every time. Hasnt graded a single major assignment since the first week of class. DO NOT TAKE!

Loves ChatGPT…. His nice way of not responding to our questions is telling us to use ChatGPT. Lazy professor doesn't grade anything quickly waiting on 2,000+ points worth of work from months ago.

Arguably the worst professor I have taken in my whole academic career. Everything he does is chat gpt. All of his assignments are made through chatgpt. The assignemnts are impossible to understand because each assignment has over 100 different bullet points and steps to follow. Would not recommend this class to my worst enemy

His class is like watching paint dry. University of tampa should be ashamed that they hired this dork.

This guy is arguably the worst professor I've ever had. Worst class I've ever taken. I actually never wore my seatbelt driving to this class because I would've rather been ☠️

his class in on par with domestic terrorism. i genuinely think he has a relationship with his computer and makes love to chat gpt every night.

WHY ARE YOU GIVING US HOMEWORK THAT TAKES 2 1/2 HOURS TO 6 HOURS TO COMPLETE? SCOTTY, YOU NEED TO GET A LIFE.

Scott, why is your class so annoying? You need to get laid or something. Most obnoxious professor ever.

HE GAVE US WORK ON THANKSGIVING DAY. EMAILED US THANKSGIVING MORNING, GIVING US WORK TO SUBMIT THAT NIGHT. HE NEEDS TO GET A LIFE.

HE NEEDS TO TAKE XANAX

Did my final today, thank god I am out of that class. As someone who puts a lot of work into school, I have never seen a more uptight professor who assigns bs work. #Peaceoutrutherford

The hypocrisy is insane. He has you sign a work agreement at the beginning, basically promising that you will do your work. This man did not grade half of the assignments until the weekend before grades were due. He submitted my final grade minutes before they were due but still left some assignments ungraded. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS! SAVE YOURSELF!

I find it very funny how we had very tedious projects/homeworks that he didn't even end up grading because of how last-minute he is with everything. He had us sign a work agreement, yet he can't do his job or grade.