Lee, Jean  

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Professor Lee is a woman with industry experience before a professor and it shows in her lecture style. For many of the assignments it's unclear what exactly she wants despite being graded very strictly for non-consequential things (like the layout of your paper, or if it's wrinkled, etc.). She is a very engaging person if you are trying to learn about industry (she's worked for Apple and a variety of other companies) so she is interesting to talk to. As a professor, however, her lectures are very dry and she comes off as aloof and disinterested in the material. Some days I felt like there was no point in going to class and other days it was essential that I be there but it was completely random when. There was no final for this course, only a group project at the end.

Still recovering from her wrath

Jean Lee is not a people person although she is impressively accomplished and a smart professional, however, her class being my first major class in college, I did not have the best experience as her lectures were unclear, uninspring and awkward and I had an A all quarter until the last project which acted as our final for the class. We had to get into groups and construct a prototype of a wallet and present it to the class. My group followed all of the criteria well and went above and beyond in terms of originality even, but the the next week final grades came out and my grade had dropped to a B which meant that our project was far below average and we did not even recieve a lick of feedback. Jean Lee doesnt give a fuck about her students.

She's kinda a hardass especially about attendance, but she's also very clear about her expectations for the class.

WARNING: Jean Lee does not any sort of interpersonal skills. Asking her questions will never give you any answers. She will not help you or ever give you points back even if she is the one in the wrong. She grades very harshly for spelling, grammar and formatting among other things. Taking this class made my decision clear to switch out of General Engineering and not into MATE. If you are taking this class thoroughly research her grading rubric for every assignment. You probably won't get an A or even close if you don't try. PS: you'll never guess what company she works at, she doesn't mention it every class.

She told us on the first day that she puts all of her time and effort into her materials engineer classes and wouldn't put in time to our intro class. She wouldn't own up to grader mistakes but instead backed up their wrongful grading. Professor Lee grades papers so hard and doc points for things such as bolding answers so they stood out from the questions, minor grammar mistakes, and a wrinkle in your paper. She wasn't prepared for this class and said she had posted assignments and rubrics to poly learn but never did. She made an easy into class a lot harder than it needed to be and a class that students were always stressed about. She never had anything nice to say to everyone and would specifically pick out and talk down upon students for the way the chose to dress. absolutely no respect for students. She is so full of herself and always has to mention her job at Apple. If you are one of many unfortunate students and have to be in her class, ask her about her craziest college experience. Trust me it's so wild (sarcasm). Bottom line, if you take her class be prepared for the best quarter of your life.

I really wanted to like Prof Lee. I tried my best to be polite, to pay attention in class, etc. but she made it so hard. Her interpersonal skills are nonexistent, and she has no empathy for her students. The few times I saw her around campus, I would say hi and ask how her day was, only for her to look me in the eyes and walk away. Her graders are unfairly harsh and will mark down points for any and every little thing they can, such as making a minor grammar mistake, bolding or italicizing answers, or writing too much. Considering this was supposed to be an intro to engineering course, I learned absolutely nothing about engineering, contrary to what I had hoped for. There were useful assignments though, such as attending the career fair or researching the field of engineering we intend to major in (since nobody actually stays in General Engineering). Aside from these out of class assignments, the lectures were useless, and she occasionally gave the same lecture twice without anybody mentioning it. Furthermore, though she is a very accomplished woman in engineering, she seemed to have some bias against the women in my class. I would not take a class with Prof Lee again, and I would not recommend taking her classes if avoidable.

Professor Lee has been an excellent professor and advisor. Many students in General Engineering take ENGR 110 with the intention of switching out of General Engineering; Professor Lee did an excellent job of pointing students to resources to help them decide which major to switch into. All the assignments were designed to inform students about the different resources available to them, whether that be extracurricular activities (where Club Officers came talk about what they do), an assignment to go to the Career Fair, or exploring engineering in general. As an advisor, Professor Lee has always been very quick to get back to emails and has sat down with me multiple times to work through my ICS (Individual Course of Study).

Homework, lecture and homework subjects don't match up. Grading policy is vague but strict; she will not change grades on any assignment. Lectures are highly theoretical and poorly paced, some days it doesn't feel worth going others it's all I can do to keep up. She seems like a nice enough person and her class is interesting (because the material is, not because she makes it) but she's a harsh teacher who uses her professional career and "this is how the real world works" argument to explain away her teaching technique. Take someone with more teaching experience, you'll have an easier and more enjoyable class.

Don't take this professor, she made the class a living hell. What is taught in class is almost totally separate from what's on the homework, which is ridiculous when the homework is worth 40% of your grade. She then grades ruthlessly, taking off unreasonable chunks of points. I barely feel like I'm learning anything in the class, and I'm just trying to keep my head above water just so I don't have to retake this class again. The topics she covers are waaaay higher of a level than is necessary in an intro course. It seems like she's trying too hard to teach us every little thing she can about materials engineering, and it is not working out and is just ruining the class. One could make the argument that I'm just complaining that the class is too hard, but it is unreasonably so. An intro class should not be covering the amount and the level of material Lee is trying to cover. I'm posting this review now as a warning to students that have the option of taking her. DO NOT! It will ruin your quarter just like it ruined mine.

I was in the middle of "attempting" my homework for this class and got so frustrated I decided to write this review. I don't even know my final grade in this class yet, but all I can say is avoid it at all costs. She lectures on basically the same topic for 3 weeks and then assigns reading as well that, for the most part, doesn't match up with her lectures at all, and then she assigns homework that doesn't at all match up with her lecture OR the reading. I have a decent background in chemistry but have little to no idea what in the world she wants from us in the questions (which are pretty heavily based in chemistry). The pre-requisite for this class is only CHEM 111, 124, or 127, I am currently taking MATH 143 and the first homework had questions involving concepts I had not yet covered in MATH 143. She also has homework counting for 40% of your grade. Great right?! Wrong. She will mark you down over half points on a problem for getting only significant figures wrong. Aside from that the homework is insanely hard and vague. She will also send out about five different correction emails regarding the homework one or two nights before it is due. When I say the homework is hard, it's coming from an average students perspective, but I have some insanely smart friends in that class (we are talking 3.6+ GPA) who are struggling to get a D on the homework. She is also giving a final exam (mind you we have no other tests in this class). She said there will be no review help WHATSOEVER for the final exam. No worksheet, no review class time, nothing. Judging by the unpredictability of her homework I am prepared for the worst (especially because I have no damn clue what to prepare for). I will repeat again. Even if she is the only professor available for you to take this class, WAIT UNTIL ANOTHER QUARTER. It isn't worth your time or effort or tears... I had heard this particular class was supposed to be enjoyable, Professor Lee has made it everything but.

Her lectures and homework do not correlate very well and most the time you spend 3 hours on a homework packet typing into google each question. She grades homework with an iron fist and has ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW TO TEACH. The majority of the people in the class are failing even after putting a significant amount of work into each assignment. If you try to go into her office hours she acts like you should know everything associated with MATE even though she hasn't covered it in lecture and you have never seen it before in your life. Grades are based on homework and a final. There is absolutely no review for the final.

I really tried to give Professor Lee a break considering it was her first quarter here but honestly, she's just gone too far off the deep end. Doesn't do nearly a good enough job presenting what little material she tries to teach and on top of that, gives us homework (40% of the grade, I might add) on topics we don't cover in class. Then, to top it all off, she grades the assignments as if she purposely wants to rob you of points (Most recent assignment, I got every answer correct and still got a B on it simply due to sig figs and not doing it "her way"). Don't even get me started on the Group Projects. Just today she gave us another project that is completely based upon whether the class "likes" your opinion about a material (that you were assigned, by the way, its not like you had any choice), not whether or not your presentation is factually correct. Not to mention, the class is encouraged to dislike your opinion by the teacher! Never before have I been so disgusted in an engineering class. Only take Professor Lee as a last resort. Very smart lady, absolutely HORRIBLE teacher.

I pretty much agree with everything thats already been said here. I will say that I don't think that the problem is that she tries to cover too much content, but rather that she simply does not know how to teach. She spent at least half an hour trying to explain a concept. I had already learned that from the lab section and explained it to my confused friend sitting next to me in about 30 seconds. She has two or three analogies that she tries to apply to every situation. Instead of simplifying it, it is only more confusing. She refuses to have any kind of review, and there are no tests or quizzes, so I have no idea what to study for the final. Everything i guess. I also have no idea of where I am at with my grade because she said that she would curve the class but I don't think even she knows how she is going to do that yet. She also seems more concerned with evaluating us than teaching us. We also have had group projects where the correct answers are graded based on what most students think. This is an engineering class, not philosophy. There should be right answers and wrong answers, without debate. She has also justified some unfair grading by saying "Well it doesn't really matter in the long run. Is one question in one class really going to make a difference in a job interview someday?" Probably not but she needs to realize that my job now is to do well in class and her job is not hiring but TEACHING. I could go on much longer but will stop. This was her first quarter so hopefully she figures it out.

Confuses herself during the lecture and contradicts her own lessons and material from the book. Wastes literally entire lectures trying to go over simple things or explain her own super ambiguous questions. DO NOT TAKE HER. Drop the class and wait until you can get another teacher. You wont learn anything and your GPA will almost certainly suffer from taking her course.

Come on guys give her break. She is an extrodinarly nice lady who truly wants her students to succeed. This was her first quarter teaching, and I think in a few more quraters she will be one of the better professors at Cal Poly. It is true her lectures did not always exactly reflect the homework, but by the end of the quarter, she realized this and started giving much easier online quizzes as homework. This class is not very much work, but I still feel like I learned a lot of material (get it, material, lol). Also, her final was very easy if you went to the lecture and studied a bit. People were scared at the end of the quarter they were gonna fail, but then she stated only one person out of about 100 were probably gonna fail because they had never showed up to class or turned in an assignment. So basically if you put in minimal effort, you can get a B or C, and if you wanna put in more time, it is easy to earn an A.

Dr. Lee's lectures were very easily understood and the parallelism between each material class gave the class a nice structure. The homework assignments that she gave at the beginning of her first quarter were intense but as the quarter progressed, they became run of the mill polylearn quizzes. The in class assignments were a bit cringe worthy at times and the final was what you would expect. Tl;dr Dr. Lee for Mate210 is pretty enjoyable

It looks like most of the bad reviews are from people who were frustrated during the quarter. Now that the quarter is over I can safely say that she curves significantly. I was pretty sure I was going to get a C in this class but I ended up getting a B. I think this basically offsets her harsh grading of homework. As for her lectures, I thought they were fine. She does want to help students learn and always answered questions in detail when they are asked. That does mean that there were a few days were she repeated a good amount of material because someone asked about it. There was also a day where she got tripped up with an explanation but she corrected herself the next lecture. I think those last few points are all things that new teachers struggle with and I'm sure she will have them worked out the next time she teaches this class. Overall, she is a decent professor.

Honestly, Lee makes a class that is usually very simple and straightforward into an unnecessary difficult time. While I am taking her this quarter and have not experienced the curve yet that others may talk about, it still does not help the fact that I am spending 4 hours on a homework assignment and getting a 50% on it. I'm also not impressed with her lectures, mainly because its an accomplishment to stay awake for 30 minutes at a time. The material rarely matches up with the homework, and if it does, you most likely will need the book to explain it to you anyway. Overall, I am very upset I took this class this quarter with Lee, as opposed to taking it with Harding the next quarter. If this class isn't something you need right away, try and wait to take it with someone else. She's a nice lady, but that doesn't help with my homework taking less time or my grade improving very much. Sorry for the brutal review, but I wish someone else could have warned me before I registered, so here it is.

I do not often write reviews for professors but I just had to for Dr. Lee because I feel obligated to WARN YOU ALL!! Dr. Lee may be new to teaching at Cal Poly but at what point does that stop becoming an excuse? She does not portray the material very well at all in class and very often does not understand what you are trying to ask. She will not recognize the underlying flaws in her explanation that are leading to the question. She will consistently neglect incredibly important aspects of a concept that you later have to look up on Wikipedia to have even the slightest clue of how to approach the homework problems for that lecture. By the way the homework is quite often online...you know when professors quiz you through polylearn except most of these problems are not multiple choice so when you miscalculate (or just don't have any clue how to do something) you get zero points regardless of whether or not your work had any value. She can also be very mean and condescending. I like it when I feel I can have a decent conversation with a professor about a subject that excites you like I was hoping materials engineering would. I do however think Dr. Lee means well and is trying to improve but I think she needs to take some time to write out her lectures and use questions that come up consistently to build on them while taking note of key concepts that students are missing consistently so that she can address them. How she could get through almost two years without doing this is beyond me. Much work is needed for this very intelligent lady (I'll concede this) to become a good CAL POLY professor.

I really liked Jean Lee. I thought she was going to be terrible based on the polyratings at the start of the quarter. She was very knowledgeable on the material. Her homework assignments could be improved so that they match the lecture material better but I did not think the problems were unmanageable at all. I was able to figure them out using google and the book. The midterms and final were reasonable. Overall I enjoyed the class. I would take her again and recommend her to other people.

Many of the other evaluations have gotten the main points. Her homework and lectures don't align at all. Furthermore the way the class is structured encourages cheating. She places a big portion of your grade on her assignments which are poorly written and are more of an arithmetic practice rather than reinforcing your learned. Find people in your class and do the homework together. You won't really learn anything in this class cause she is rather ineffective at teaching, i learned more from the lab section. Take the morning section it worth waking up that early

Avoid like plague. Dr. Lee makes Mark Zuckerberg look like a completely sociable person. Dr. Lee's arrogance makes the class hard to stomach, and is an embodiment of her experience between her studies at MIT, and her work at Apple (She never fails to remind you of either). She spends much of her time focusing on the broader easier concepts in lecture, but then surprises students with material that she might not even have covered in class. She could mention something for about 5 seconds in a class, then suddenly it takes up 5 questions on her exams. Dr. Lee teaches much like the arrogant robot one would expect a career at Apple to turn a person into.

I am in class currently while writing this and I feel this moment sums up her teaching style. She just gave a student a zero on a homework assignment when he had class across campus and walked in 30 seconds late because “it was in the syllabus and he should have planned ahead.” Also the main points of other reviews are spot on.

pretty sure her class gave me cancer

Professor Lee was a great lab professor. Always willing to help and explain the material that compliments the mate 210 lecture. The labs are all fairly easy if you follow the instructions, and she will guide you if you don't know what to do. Weekly oral quizzes were fairly easy if you knew what was going on in the lab. Would recommend for the lab portion of mate 210

I am really surprised about all of the bad reviews for professor lee. I thought she was a good teacher and I would take her again if I had the chance. During our quick 1 on 1 review quizzes I thought she did an effective job of explaining some of the more difficult topics. She graduated from MIT and worked for Apple but this is her first time teaching. She improved her teaching skills every week in my opinion and Is only going to get better every quarter. Don't be afraid to take her based off the other reviews.

Professor Lee is one of my favorite of the MatE professors. She genuinely wants you to succeed, and with that I admire her greatly as a professor. She will do anything to her ability to help you understand the material, which at times is pretty confusing. Office hours were so helpful! It took a few weeks for me to understand something as simple as miller indicies, and she was very patient with me. Dr. Lee really cares about her students and really knows her stuff. Overall, a good teacher.

Dr. Lee is one of the worst professors I have ever had, and one of the least friendly or helpful individuals I have ever met.Altogether, I think she means well, but is too drawn in by her own arrogance and a lifetime of regret to teach effectively. She is a very smart woman-- she holds numerous patents and even spent some of her career at Apple. Nevertheless she belongs in industry, not as a professor. Dr. Lee has no respect for students and their efforts to succeed. In class and conversation, she invests more energy into condescension than into teaching. Her performance as a materials engineering instructor is utterly inadequate: do not expect to learn anything, achieve a high grade, or enjoy the material. Now, I should mention that my major is Materials Engineering and I love it. I also received an A in MATE 232 with Dr. Lee after hours of begrudging hard work. My biggest issue with her as a professor comes from her innate talent to turn fascinating materials topics into the drudgery that is her lectures. Non-MATEs: Avoid at all costs. Take 210 with Harding-- you will learn far more and enjoy the experience. Please do not judge the quality of our major based on this woman-- trust me, we hate her too!

10/10 Absolutely take this professor. She knows the material really well, and knows how to engage students during lecture. She made otherwise dry topics fun to learn about and gave handouts with useful diagrams and equations out almost every class. She is probably the best professor I've had thus far.

Lee does a good job explaining the material clearly in class. Some people complain that in-class material and the homework don't match up, which is kinda true but the supplemental reading she assigns covers the gaps. She just has a lot of information to cover in this class and can't go into detail for everything.

HORRIBLE professor who picks favorites and least favorites. She always is apologizing and saying that she isn't smart enough to do/ understand whatever it is we are studying, but then she is very abrasive if you are at all not confident in the material. EVERYONE in the class is struggling, but very few people feel comfortable enough to approach her. If you haven't had much background with materials, care about your grade, and don't want to try to learn quantum mechanics all by yourself, *DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!* Textbook sucked, and she was even worse! She grades people differently (some people that I did homework with got much fewer points off for the same mistakes that other people and I made). If you end up taking this class, good luck because Lee is NOT a teacher.

lee was a terrible professor. she picked favorites, and graded the homework accordingly. she's only been at poly for a year or so (used to work at apple) and she still has the competitive mindset of working at apple. claims she "wants students to succeed" but how can they when she's trying to make you fail and looking for things on certain people's assignments to take off points for just to take off points. really smart lady, but she has a hard time portraying the info to us. zero practice problems were done in class ever

Just plain terrible.

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