Slivovsky, Lynne  

Let me start off by saying that I am thoroughly convinced that Professor Slivovsky is a lesbian. That's right, a dyke. Not that it has anything to do with her ability to teach. With that said, let's move on. Slivovsky is a relatively new professor, which is of course why I am one of the first to evaluate her. She does a fairly decent job of presenting material and does not collect homework. This can be both good and bad; e.g. you are lazy like me and don't do the homework and then don't do as well on the tests as you could have, or you actually do the homework but it never gets graded. The tests, for me, were always too long; I never finished everything. The final was slightly better. Honestly, I haven't a clue as to how I ended up with an A; either I aced the final or the grades were curved...or the gods decided to smile upon me. Anyway, she's an okay professor. Not the best, but not the worst. I had to give her a "C" because she just didn't have her lectures coordinated with the labs. It was like, by the end of the week or often the beginning of next week, we would finally be learning the theory behind what we did in lab on tuesday (or wednesday). Hopefully she'll improve with time.

Although the quarter isn't over yet, I wanted to share my thoughts before having to present them through whatever emotional state I am left in as a result of the grade I receive. So, here it goes. I wanted so much to be mad at Slivovsky after I consistently underperformed in her class. The truth is, I can't. Slivovsky is a nice lady and a good Engineering teacher. She is demanding, in that she doesn't give partial credit for scribbling something down: in fact, she doesn't give much partial credit at all. I know everyone says that they want you to learn the concepts and not just how to solve problems, but she really means it. How do you succeed? Well, you should read the book, but a better strategy is to write down every single thing she puts on the board and look it all over before a test. Some of the stuff on which I screwed up that seemed incredibly hard at the time had, in fact, been given to us earlier, which made me feel quite stupid. Know your enemy and know yourself, says Sun Tzu, and a thousand victories will be yours. What else? Well, the quizzes are pretty easy, but they only make up 15% of your grade. You should try to talk to her if you have a problem with the material, she is helpful in office hours. Homework is assigned and collected, but not graded -- if you are on the borderline and you did the homework, you get the higher grade. There's a curve -- the average on the first midterm was in the vicinity of 65% (CSCs are at an advantage -- the first two weeks will be very reminiscent of CSC 141). A word to the wise, though: I took this class simultaneously with Math 143, CPE 103, and Physics 131 and I am, as a result, quite nearly dead, and my GPA is going to take a bit of a hit. Be careful: you might need to take this one during a light quarter. She is to be avoided for the 169 lab section though: she is much tougher there, I hear, and the lab final is a killer. Try to get Clarkson: he's laid back. Is she a lesbian? I don't know, but I would buy it. Not exactly comely, although she would look better with long hair, I think.

It's hilarious how students took a priority to get Mealy for this class but got a rude awakening when Lynne popped up instead...poor bastards. Maybe God was angry at them. Not fair. She's fine as a last resort, but you really should stay away if you can. Anal as hell when it comes to grading (I'm a CSC, so I couldn't give less of a damn about hardware). EE's might like her, though I doubt it, because she isn't very personally likeable. Not unlikeable, though, mostly just bland. If you do have to take this, get some easy courses along with it if you want to do well and look at the lecture notes, or just shoot for a C. It's heartbreaking to work that hard and get a C. It sucks. I have the utmost respect for you real engineers out there. Have fun.

An okay professor. Kinda just goes with the flow on homework and such. Homework wasn't collected and she doesn't check, its more for your benefit. When you come to class just prepared to take a lot of notes. The bored gets full of it. Each lecture is just seriously a straightforward lecture. She dishes out a whole buncha information to you, its hard to keep up if you lag behind on the reading and don't do homework. Quizes and tests were a bit difficult, no notes on tests.

Crummy prof--wants to be tenured, so she screws over her students. Stay the hell away.

This teacher is better than people gave her credit for in my class, but she was bound to teaching off powerpoints that weren't even written by her most of the quarter. She is decent in office hours if you have a topic you need help with, she'll go step by step and explain how to do anything, and will help with lab problems too if you need it. The quizzes and midterms weren't too bad, she often said she'd put stuff on the test that was covered just before the day of the exam and it'd never be on there. However, EVERY SINGLE exam there was an exact homework question that she had graded from the homework, so it's helpful in more ways than one to do the homework or at least look at the posted solutions online. This class isn't too difficult if you can wrap your head around 1's and 0's, Slivovsky is definitely sufficient to teach this course but the information just doesn't show it too well. FYI: the text book is absolutely awful, stick to knowing how to do the selected homework and quizzes, it's useful to glance over but way too dense to try and actually learn anything from it without the lecture accompanying it.

Slivovsky is a professor who seems to know the material, seems to have a fair amount of experience in the field, and upon reflection her tests were fair. But she is really, really, really bad as a professor. She lacks even a modest amount of charisma, she fades into the background noise when she's lecturing and often her lectures are the third or fourth most interesting thing going on in the room. Not good. So, she's boring. It seems petty to dismiss her for that reason alone. It's not just her style, though--she's a pretty weak lecturer overall and has a hard time emphasizing the important points of a particular concept, not to mention pinpointing student difficulties or coming up with examples that clarify the point at hand. She seems to be constitutionally unable of putting herself in her students' shoes, and her approach to this course is essentially to go over all the material briskly but lightly--after all, it's all review for her, right? I'm not a hardware kind of guy and I'm not that good at this stuff, but if you are, you might get through this class okay. If you don't know the stuff already, take someone else if possible. But, then again, isn't that kind of like saying that you should take this woman if you don't need to learn anything? Well, I'll just say it: don't take this woman if you want (or need) to learn the material, because she is incapable of teaching it to you. And if you do take the class and you don't already know the stuff, you will not be likely to squeak through with more than a C. I got straight A's my first two quarters here. I'm willing to work hard for a class if it's necessary. For this class the teacher was no help, and since the book in use is crappy, learning the material was simply not possible.

If you want to pass or learn don't take this class with her.

Professor Slivovsky is metiocre at best. She is a nice lady once you get talking to her, but boring to listen to and very lazy. We never received back any work past week 4 and she was rarely at her scheduled office hours.

Well, I'm a CPE so coding isn't hard. I took the lab with her too. It was pretty easy if the lab stuffs doesn't srew up every so often. She is a good teacher, she won't answer your question right away, but guide your way through it so you see the reasoning. Her tests are based entirely from her lecture and homework, and count on that you'll see at least one problem from the homework in your test. Actually, I think this class is pretty easy.

Slivovsky seems like a new teacher. She shows that she's been in the industry for a long time, BUT that doesn't mean she's qualified to teach. I've been lost for the last 7 weeks and she took 2 weeks off for vacation or what not. That to me is simply irresponsible. Her homework? what homework, she's lazy to not assign any and then when she says she'll have quizzes, she throws ONE in on some random day. and quizzes are 10% of your grade. Which means, that if you don't go to that one class, you missed your shot at an A. its ridiculous that this teacher can have such a high rating. Perhaps she's ok in 129, but she's seriously not well alert of student's difficulties and needs since she just lectures and expects us to find the material in the book, which may I add that she never assigned any reading. It's more of a do it yourself, teach yourself this course and you should be fine. I plan on failing since her exams are beyond what she taught. And she gives you a set of sample homework problems for the exam one lecture before the actual exam?

I am not sure what to say. This teacher just did not understand that EE students are not CPE students. She expected EE student to be able to compile and run codes on the lab final, which amounts to 25 percent of his/her lab grade. I am very astounded by slivosky way of lab final, because not only I was not prepared(even after I spend more than nine hours each week learning really hard for the lab). she also deducted points from my lab final for each help I seeked from her. I was completely disappointed for all of the work I spent this quarter in this class, I should have not even ask for her help, and work on my own and be like anyone else, who couldn't even get the codes to compile, and get a B. In conclusion, don't ask for her help in the lab final, because if you do, you might get F even if you have a perfect running program. Stay away from her if possible. She doesn't help you learn, and she's a hard grader. I should have taken Dr. Mealy instead.

Poly let Slivovsky teach this class on her own for the first time and it shows. I can also see why she has never been allowed to do it alone before. She doesn't seem to really care enough to learn the material very well. The class is really fun, but Slivovsky can make it frustrating with her BS answers instead of just admitting she doesn't know the answer to your question. Her laziness can get really annoying. But her grading is fair and the class is interesting and fun. I am sure she would be fine with Liddicoat holding her hand.

Can somebody please tell me what the F!@## happened in this class??

Let\'s just say that this class generated a lot of amuzing comments among the EE students...Seemed like her entire class suffered from Tourette\'s Syndrome for the quarter, not good..

Great teacher. Very open ended class. Any questions, she was really helpful to address and answer.

The woman is boring. She Is terrible at conveying the material. She always has some round about answer that leaves you still confused. Shes completly worthless as a teacher. Shes usually late to everything. Often doesnt show up for office hours. Its hard to believe shes allowed to teach. Lidicoat is way better. Heck anyone is. Workload is easy not much to do and if your CPE the projects are simple the coding is done in C and its exactly the same as CPE 316 except you use C instead of assembly. Dont worry you should pass her class. If your EE just partner up with a CPE and youll be fine.

Many people will warn you about her and its not BS. . . she is pretty horrible. . .the course work is pretty much the same for this class no matter who you take it with. . . so youd tend to think its the same class. . .. wrong, she manages to screw over students pretty badly, if you go in and ask for help she just wont, she assumes you understand everything and doesnt feel like she needs to help you, basically the course reader was supposedly written by both Liddicoat and her, it really seems likes shes riding Liddicoats shirt tails, getting a free pass for being a professor off his work, basically take Liddicoat or Bell they're at least fair

Lynne is an awesome teacher and it's really hard to get a bad grade in her Capstone class as long as you make some sort of effort. She is very flexible with deadlines and has a very fair feedback/grading policy. Take her for Capstone if you can.

Lynne was a great professor for CPE 350. She was always really open to answering any questions students had. Not too hard of a class, ask Lynne for help when you need it and you'll be fine.

She can deadlift twice your weak af body weight.

I'm surprised that there are no recent reviews of Lynne on here, but I'd imagine that's because she almost exclusively teaches upper division classes. I took her for Capstone 1 and 2 and she was amazing! She is always willing to help and has a lot of experience with pacing projects. That being said, she does expect you to hold you own weight in whatever your project is. She is not going to hold you hand through a project and if you fall short of the goals you set yourself, her disappointment can hurt. She has very little busywork as compared to other Capstone professors, but there are some papers and reflections you have to do. Still totally manageable.

Wow! I have read the comments before mine, and I am a little surprised. She is not all that bad. She is quite fair, does not trick you, or hurt you in anything at all. She is not the most communicative ever, but she doesn't bite, and she is actually nice to talk to if you get a chance. No, she is not the most helpful outside of class, but that is cool with me, I have never been into bothering teachers so I wouldn't have to read the book. One way or another I have been enroll in classes with her since more than a year ago. Took her for senior project, and so did a lot of people. For beeing so lazy as some say, I always find her busy in her office, staying late helping somebody. And she does know her stuff, no matter what the other guys say. I run out of words. All A's so far. Yo think she is bad, check O'Gorman out.