AI Rate Professor

Engineering

Laura Demsetz

MATLAB · ENGR260 · ENGR210 · ENGN215 · ENGR215 · STATICS · ENGR230 · ENGRALL · ENGR270 · 20 lifetime ratings

AI rating
48/100
RMP rating
3.4/5
Take again
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Difficulty
3.3

The decision

if you are comfortable self-studying through a challenging, sometimes disorganized engineering course.

Best fit · Self Taught ProConceptual TeachingHard TestsMixed HelpfulnessDisorganized PaceSelf Study Needed
  • Reviews are sharply mixed, with some students calling her knowledgeable and fair while .
  • as hard, long, and sometimes poorly aligned with .
  • , and tolerate conceptual teaching are most likely to benefit.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

FairEffort

55/100

An A or B is possible with serious effort and study, but and uneven support make it far from automatic.

All authoritative evidence is treated as in-person because onlineReviewCount is 0.

Is the course easy?

Challenging

35/100

The material is conceptual and often fast-paced, with .

All course .

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

60/100

Reviews mention flexibility in grading and general support, but do not clearly prove a .

Only in-person reviews exist, and .

Is this professor recommended?

Depends

52/100

Students recommend her mainly for motivated self-starters, while many and limited help.

Recommendation and is strongly mixed.

Course guide

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Grading

Fair

55/100

but sometimes flexible, with curves and nonstandard cutoffs .

Format shift

.

Workload

Heavy

35/100

The workload feels heavy because , and work through conceptual material.

Format shift

All .

Teaching experience

Average

55/100

She is knowledgeable and , but many reviews cite confusion, disorganization, and limited helpfulness.

Format shift

All .

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

78/100

Student comments focus heavily on quizzes and exams, especially their difficulty, length, and fairness.

Format shift

All .

Luni fit check

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

20 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

In-person reviews show a polarizing instructor with strong engineering knowledge but inconsistent clarity, help, pacing, and .

Main concern

Students often struggle with , and .

What students said

“Her lectures are very quick and .”
ENGR260
“Quiz and known.”
ENGR215
“Just do the work and ask questions when you need to.”
ENGRALL

Remote format

Online

0 reviews

Low confidence

No stored summary is available for this format.

Main concern

No main concern is stored for this format.

Exam style

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Exams are usually described as hard or long, though .

Hard ExamsLong TestsCurved TestsProblem Solving

Assessment risk

Standard

42/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

In-person reviews show hard and and no clear evidence of proctoring or open-book rules.

Hard ExamsLong TestsCurved TestsProblem Solving
“Quiz and known.”
ENGR215
“ and too long.”
ENGR230
“ .”
ENGR230

Online

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“If you want an easy class to get a good grade, look for another teacher.”

Voice snapshots generated from 20 reviews, highlighting key themes in , and helpfulness. Credibility rating: High.

🎯 Teaching Quality

55/100

“Her lectures are very quick and .”

🧪

42/100

“Tests are horrible, 1st test ez, the others were too .”

⚖️

55/100

“her grading was NOT strictly 90-A 80-B and she was VERY flexible.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • She has taught me how to learn and which has often been valuable.
  • She is not very good at teaching.
  • I found that for statics all examples given in class and .

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • If you want an easy class to get a good grade, look for another teacher.
  • it is not hard to get an A or B if you actually try hard and study.
  • tests are so hard and long.

Theme 3

🙋 About Helpfulness

  • You might not get much help from her.
  • many office hrs, tries hard to help u understand the material if .
  • .

Data context

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Analysis sample

20

Recent reviews read by the AI

20

Lifetime ratings

82/100

Evidence confidence

Twenty reviews across many courses provide rich and detailed evidence, though opinions are highly polarized and older.

Inside 20 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 56
4 out of 55
3 out of 54
2 out of 53
1 out of 52

Course coverage

ENGR2305 reviews
ENGR2154 reviews
ENGR2103 reviews
ENGR2602 reviews
STATICS2 reviews
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Reported outcomes

B range results lead the reported letter grades.

1 reported outcomes

A range

0

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B range

1

B+ 1

C range

0

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D range

0

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F

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No letter grade reported

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