Johnson, Ian  

Young guy. Kept lectures interesting, funny. Didn't need recommended books, gave us all notes. Learning matlab is hard but should be useful.

Entertaining guy but crappy as a teacher (according to basically everyone I know in his classes). He tends to do the minimal work in making sure students get the material during lecture. Not very merciful when it comes to basically anything either.

Dr. Johnson was an okay professor. He's a really funny guy, and definitely seems like he knows his stuff. If you ask the right questions, most of the time he is able to clarify things for you. That being said, a lot of the time his presentation of certain subjects in class is lacking. He will tell you to read a section of the book before class, then in lecture he will just do the simplest example from the book on the board, and then assign homework on much more difficult problems (in which often times the simple example doesn't help to solve at all). His grading, or rather his TA's grading was ridiculously harsh. I did much better than my peers average on every assignment, lab, midterm, and even scored a solid A on the final and I still only got a B+ in the class after he supposedly "curved the class to a B-." My advice, go to office hours and fight for every point back on your assignments as possible, because with the often stupid grading in this class you are going to need it. Overall I like Dr. Johnson as a professor, but the lack of clarity with his grading is what really brought him down in my eyes.

Having transferred to Cal Poly after attending two different junior colleges with some excellent and some not so great professors, I can say that Johnson was one of the worst that I have had. As mentioned in other reviews, he basically just copies the easiest examples out of the book and calls it lecturing. He is emphatic about the fact that his name is on the class which means that at the end of the day he is responsible for your grade. I find it troubling then when the TA's grading the homework take all of the points away for a problem were a calculation was done in the calculator and then he resentfully gives back only some of the points. Lazy, arrogant and condescending are words which I believe describe Johnson. I'm glad that next year's students don't have to take his class as he is not longer going to be at the school. I sincerely hope that the rest of my time at this once great school is not just more of the same as it would be a terrible waste of the thousands of dollars spent.

I really liked Ian. This is a hard class that I needed to study more for. I tried to work by myself on homework and labs at the beginning, but quickly realized that wasn't cutting it. Working in groups during lab sections really helped. The class is hard due to having to understand equations as well as programming. I learned more in this class than any other so far at Cal Poly. He is definitely the funniest professor i've had yet.

I had Professor Johnson for Aero 300, the required aero class at the end of the sophomore year on the flowchart. I think he was newer to the department (spring 2016) because I had never seen him before, and he referenced an older professor who was no longer teaching it a couple times. 300 is weird because it is both easy and hard. It is all about mathematical concepts of estimating to a degree of error to solve problems that don't have exact values, which saves in computational time for future computer programming. Because of this, the class is all very "step-by-step" and algorithmic which tailored to my preferred way of learning. The hard part is knowing when to do certain steps and not making computational mistakes, as well as learning matlab and doing the labs correctly. Back to the professor.... he was funny and very personable, and is relatively young so he can relate to the college lifestyle. He did a good job at teaching the material in the time allotted, but I felt like the lectures were rushed just to fit everything into 10 weeks. I learned a lot from the textbook, but that's just college in a nutshell. I would recommend professor Johnson.

he sure does like his women, wet!!