Sinha, Gyan  

Professor Sinha was new this quarter teaching as a Grad student. For his first time ever teaching, he did a good job. In the beginning, expect to spend the full three hours in class, but as you learn the basics of Autocad, the program the 2 lab per week class looks at, you'll spend a bit less time in lab. expect to spend around three hours on homework assignments per week. Make sure you study commands for the midterms and what they do. The final had a ton of material and few people finished, but I see this as something Sinha will take into account in future classes. He is very helpful in office hours and a nice guy as well. Recommended.

PERSONALITY: An approachable guy with a positive attitude that does his best to convey the material, even repeating it multiple times if necessary. He's a grad student (if that means anything in this context). Overall a good guy. LAB: so the class is a 2 unit class that's just 2 labs. You learn the material and practice it at the same time. Despite being 6 hours a week, it's pretty chill. The classroom environment isn't tense or stressful and generally you will be fairly relaxed in the class. The material isn't difficult and one could probably figure it all out without an instructor, given enough time to mess around with the controls, and with 3 hours per lab, you do have a good deal of time. So in essence, you can just ignore his instructions, but he's pretty good at explaining so it really doesn't make a difference. It's personal preference. FINAL THOUGHTS: 2 units that come relatively easy; learn a new, interesting, and very useful skill; and a pretty good professor basically sums up my experience in Gyan Sinha's CE113 class.