Smith, Aubrey  

One of the most useless teachers out there. Shows you the quality of a bmed education at cal poly

Smith's biggest problem is that she is new to teaching, and new to Cal Poly. You really don't have a choice of which professor to take, it's an introduction course to the BMED and GENE programs. Overall, it isn't too bad. Optional final, busy work homework, no midterm. She can get fairly annoying over the course of the class however. She just needs some time to learn that a bunch of freshmen are not going to pay any attention or devote any energy to a intro class. Some may call her a bitch or unprepared or unorganized. They may be right to do so, but I just chalked her ability (or lack of) to teach up to her being new.

OK, so no one was ever going to like this class. The subject material was "No Duh!" stuff and the lectures were quite boring overall. But Ms. Smith didn't make things any better. She took everything way too seriously considering the trivial nature of the subject matter and really seemed to think school isn't place to have fun. Yells frequently.

Aubrey calmed down a lot this quarter from last and actually had to teach us something that was relevant to our college education. Unfortunately, due to poor planning, a malevolent chalkboard, and ineptness with technology her main lecture was very unclear and let to a 10 minute break in class where all the students debated the number of significant figures in an equation while she checked in the book. Statics went slightly better, but again she was unclear on how she wanted the formatting. Statistics she got lost halfway through the material. The subject matter was quite basic however, so it wasn't much of a problem, except that HW was graded on an extremely nitpicky level. That said, if you visited Aubery in office hours she was very nice and willing to explain things and usually gave you points back on your HW. Not very good with names.

First of all, this class was co taught by her and professor Walsh. This review will be for Smith only. Aubrey is not a very good teacher. She is new to teaching so she tends to get very boring in class. Since this class was huge she pretty much lost everyone. Now this class is easy since quizzes and homework is 90% of your grade. Her lectures are basically from wikipedia. Literally from wikipedia i saw a whole slide of hers, word for word from wikipedia. Overall she is new so give her some time but for now she sucks.

Aubrey is truly amazing. She co-taught the class with Walsh and did a great job. Although she may go pretty fast at times she is extremely organized and kept me interested the entire two hour lecture. I don't know if it was because i had a raging crush on her or that I just liked hearing her heavenly voice talk about god knows what, but one thing is for certain, my eyes never left the front of the room. Maybe we can go to the olive garden sometime?

She's new (not to Cal Poly, but to her teaching position). But I don't take that as an excuse for being incapable of running a class. She can only help as far as her course "troubleshooting flowchart" allows her to, and approaching her for technical help reveals her gaping lack of knowledge in basic engineering fundamentals. Having had her as both lab T/A and prof, I must say - and I'm sorry to say it - that she simply isn't cut for the position. What in the world was the BMED department thinking?

I was unfortunate enough to have the displeasure of being one of her first students in BMED/ENGR 481 Senior Project. I can't really comment on how well she can teach since there was very little material to be taught in this class. The whole point of the class was to find and begin work on a senior project (which in my, and probably many others opinions requires 0 homework assignments). The class should have been more or less a type of office hour for students to come and get help finding a project NOT a babysitting rendition which is what we got. We were given hw assignments each week which were a complete waste of time for the students and simply a way for Aubrey to flex her non existent authoritative muscle. Here is a list of some of the assignments we were given: -Come up with 30 (that's right 30) senior project ideas and write a paragraph on each -Read 2 full senior projects and write 2 pages of critique on each -Take a personality test (doesn't sound too bad until you realize that its 100 damn questions long) -Submit a 20-40 page ROUGH DRAFT of your senior project The last one is utterly ridiculous. Considering that many students didn't have an assigned project until week 4 or 5 to have this completed by Finals Week is insane. Furthermore the length is ridiculous, senior projects should be concise and to the point not extenuated upon to reach some minimum length requirement. My senior project when finished was nearly 50 pages but the vast majority of it was data, graphs, data analysis and conclusions - none of which could possibly be completed BEFORE running the experiment which is what she was expecting. I think I handed her 20 pages including references and citations and later scrapped the majority of it when I went to write my actual senior project. To sum things up Aubrey is better qualified to babysit and hand out busy work then to actually teach students relevant material. If she took this approach to a senior project class I can only imagine the horrors of which she unleashed the BMED 110 kids.

Very extremely unorganized! She keeps giving wrong information and keeps changing the due date so frequently that she doesn't even remember! Setting unrealistic goals for assignments. Did not prepare well for the entire class the entire quarter.