Wells, Diana  

what can i say, in my short college career ive been able to recognize the good teachers from the bad teachers...and diana is a bad teacher. i had her for an intro general engineering course, and i learned nothing. she never once taught us anything, that is if she showed up to class. she was in class about 2/3's of the time, the other time it was cancelled or llinda smith taught, or even the other engr 111 teacher. she had no will to teach us, and it seemed like she didnt want to be in class. when asked about a problem in the homework she would ask someone in the class to do it, if no one would she would ask a random person. then after that she would always say she would post the answers in the library. (she never said where in the library). The final was absurd, there were problems on it that were never introduced in the class. oh ya to make it better, there were seniors and juniors in this freshman intro class, and she thought making it a challenge for these students was a good idea. what about the real students in the class? it gets better, the highest grade in the class was a "B"! so seniors who have taken mechanics and dynamics and diffy q and all that good stuff couldnt even get an "A" in a freshman intro class?? that tells you something about the teacher and what she is doing with her class. dont take Diana if you have the choice!

Who was this lady?I can remember seeing her about two times. This is a horrible class set up to fail. I am sorry you have to take it.

Holy Moly! ENGR 213 is the biggest waste of your time... EVER! One statment made in this class by one of the many lecturers was, "Engineers use scientific principles to make stuff." Oh my God, REALLY?!?! Had I known all this time that is what engineers did I would have no reason to be educated here! At any rate, professor Gould-Wells is just about as lazy as they come. She was hardly able to get tests back before the end of the quarter. Lazy, didn't want to be there, didn't care about the students. F

Diana Gould-Wells only lectures once in this class, during the last week; the other 9 weeks are various guest lecturers that talk about bio-engineering stuff ranging from alcohol manufacturing to cow manure. This is therefore not so much a rating of her as a professor but a rating of the class itself, because you don't actually have a choice of professors when you take this class. Your grade is a critique of a scientific journal, a midterm, and a final. That's it. Your grade on the critique depends on who grades it--herself, or one of her TA's. The TA's are much more lenient. If you are so unfortunate as to have your critique graded by Diana, don't expect to debate it with her and if you do, don't expect a grade change. The midterm and final ask rather obscure questions about the rather obscure material that was presented in class. However, they are also curved insanely, as is the final grade. I got a 85% on both the midterm and the paper, so I either did ridiculously well on the final (unlikely) or the class grades were curved--or, more appropriately, boosted. In conclusion, this class is relatively painless.

This course is the worst I've ever taken at poly. I'm sorry the school supports her. Good luck. The final had 1/2 questions of material no one ever saw. It must have been curved rediculously. The midterm was easy, there was a paper, 3 hw's (she lost one of mine, coincidentally one I got an F on).

Diana seems to have no passion for teaching whatsoever--her lectures are monotounous and lack interaction with the students. To make matters worse she is prone to tell the class something, and than expect something totally different. Be careful with her grading policy. She began our class stating in the syllabus that should would have not "+" or "-" grading, and then lo and behold when the grades came through there was. Her class was easy, but don't expect to learn too much