Favorite Professor

[IcSyU]

Originally Posted by price26

I had Alexander for 102, it was a challenge, but I think everyone I took it with enjoyed taking class with him for the most part, he would probably be up towards the top of my list.

Took 102 with Alexander last semester...glad I did. Most I've learned in a class so far. Yeah, the tests sucked, but I enjoyed going to class because he made it fun and not godawful boring.

[Jeremy]

Linda Lind - Special Education

[IcSyU]

Originally Posted by Jeremy

Linda Lind - Special Education

We had a Linda Lind who teaches little kids at the school I went to elementary school.

[drmwevr08]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

I'm an idiot...

Sorry, not on topic but too good a chance to completely take you out of context.

[CyinCo]

Originally Posted by clonefan_80

The guy's name is Bill Bathie.................WITH IT! I just had him this past semester and his tests were brutal, I ended up alright though. It was awesome to count how many times he would end a sentence with "with it." Must be some nervous habit of his or something.

I was thinking of Al Joensen. I never had Bathie but I do recall him be a tough teacher.

[CyinCo]

Originally Posted by mramseyISU

I think it's back now but they shot themselves in the foot not hiring a replacement for Van Gerpen when he left. I'm not sure if any of the others are back or not though. All the people I was friends with in the department got shuffled around (and I've only been out a couple years).

Jon VanGerpen was my IC engines prof. He did a good job. He was also doing a lot of research in alternative fuels. I think ISU did really screw up if they cut him and that program.

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by drmwevr08

Sorry, not on topic but too good a chance to completely take you out of context.

I'll be the first to admit to qualifying, idiot-wise, on several occasions in my life....

[CycloneErik]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

I'm an idiot. I'm confusing Apt, my advisor, for Wilt, who is the completely awesome professor.

Dr. Wilt was the bomb. Do you remember how excited he used to get in class???

There is a man who loved his subject. May he rest in peace....

And I'm enough of a dork to think I should correct you.

"What do I know?!?!?! I'm just some pointy-haired old professor?"
His enthusiasm was just incredible!!!!!

If you were his grad student, it was a little different intensity, because you got called out all the time, even when you were right. At the same time, you become a much better student, because you know that his expectations are very high for you. (But, at 20, I didn't really comprehend that, and pulled a Wesley of my own) Stupid, stupid decision.

[linkshero]

Originally Posted by matmann22

I see Fred is still being Fred. Back in the Mid90s his favorite daily saying was how great his Boston Chicken stock was doing (is it still Boston market now after the bankruptcy? ) >

I graduated in 94 and had Choobineh around 91-92. I'm happy to hear he is still teaching.

He gave our class $2000 to invest at the beginning of the semester, and then took our profit to Peoples and bought drinks the entire night.

The fist day of class he told us all to take our student loan check and invest $2000 in Dell stock. Any student that listened and then sold it before 98 would have turned that $2000 into a cool $125000.

I also remember him coming into class all excited because he just bought a 586DX2 ?? (I think). He payed $5600 for it and it was "so fast". That computer was obsolete within 8-9 months.

I wouldn't say he was the best, or my favorite, but I remember his class like it was last summer.

I will never forget WYSIWYG or PCMCIA because of him!

[TxCycloneFan]

Originally Posted by linkshero

...PCMCIA because of him!

People Can't Memorize Confusing Idiotic Anagrams

[PolkCityClone]

My fav was a lesbian, feminist, women's libber who always sat on her desk with her legs spread. It was a summer class. I didn't learn much, because I was always staring at her panties. I think she knew they showed with the short shorts she wore.

I think the class was some thing like women in modern culture. Oh, and she hated men.

[CyForPresident]

Originally Posted by moo-u

STRITZEL, JOSEPH A., Emeritus Professor of Agronomy. B.S., 1949, M.S., 1953, Ph.D., 1958, Iowa State.

anybody remember J. Stritzel?

I'll never forget when set us farm oppers up the first day.

He'd say, how many of you young men have told a girl you loved her?? Instantly,
every (almost, there were a few gals that took winter quarter even back then)
hand would shoot up and he'd say, all serious like....and, how many of you
said it just to .........

He had a way of making you wish there was a penny close by to crawl under.

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He was before my time but I have seen him at the Agronomy banquet before. After they introduced him, he stood up and yell "GO CYCLONES!!!" while waving his cane in the air. I've heard he was an awesome professor but can't say from experience.

[Al_4_State]

Originally Posted by cycloneryan

Dirk Deam was awesome. He is a political science professor. He is fairly tough but his classes make you think like no other professor did at ISU. Amazingly smart too. I think he was an aerospace engineer before he went to law school.

Dirk Deam is a straight up bad ***. Loved his classes, and he wrote my law school letter of recomendation. Great guy. Also, Kathleen Waggoner. Very intimidating, but a great prof. She teaches a Poli Sci course that is designed to be exactly like a first year law school class (as does Deam) and basically tells you on the first day of class that if you aren't seriously considering law school, then drop the class then and there. I learned a ton in her class. Also, David Stuart was great for History of Rock (music 304). The man has great taste in music.

[Aclone]

Originally Posted by Cydar

Lester is a great guy!!
I'll have to tell him about your post!!

Never had Les for class, but he and his wife Connie are great folks.

Originally Posted by RyCy04

Mike Crum - Transportation

I used him as a reference for pretty much every logistics class I had and still use him to this day for projects I do in my career. He was, and still is, always happy to help.

Mike had to be the most accomodating, helpful prof I've ever had. And if I ran into him on the street ten years later, he'd still recognize me.

I'd also add Dr. Peter Orazem, who I had for Labor Econ back in the Eighties--I think he just does grad classes now, but he was just out of grad school himself then. Once I had trouble on a test, because I wasn't great with graphs, and I sat down with him and explained the underlying theory--which was what he wanted anyway.

Then Reed Crawford for Labor Econ. The last I knew he had moved to N.C. State, but he was used and abused in the Presidents Office here for years before he left. Any bad news to comment on? Reed gets to do it. Any good news? I got that one...

I'd also add my Prof for a summer term in Medeival English Lit, but he was a last minute fill in when the original prof died, and last I heard, he was somewhere in Wisconsin. Darned if I can remember his name.

Jane Smiley for Creative Writing. It's hard to top that Pulitzer, let alone a rare PhD in the subject.

Yeah, there are more.

How about best advisers? New thread?

[Kyle]

Haven't looked at the whole thread, but I'd have to go with Dirk Deam. He's in the political science department and I had him for Constitutional Law 1 & 2. He was great.