Favorite Professor

zdorr40 · 06-12-2008, 12:20 PM

Dan Zhu was a decent teacher, but we seemed to get taxed quite a bit as she constantly asked us to do the "excises" in the book.

travman23 · 06-12-2008, 12:22 PM

Thought of 1 more bad one:

Jan Duffy (Accounting). Wow, talk about someone that needed to keep her personal life to herself. She'd tell stories about dumb things she has done that you normally don't tell people. I didn't do bad in her class but nearly every exam the whole class would bomb so she would hand them back, let us take them home and give us 1/2 credit for each problem we got right after re-working them. Not the greatest teaching method probably plus she's mess up all the time in lecture and by the time she finished working a problem it was a big confusing mess of smears on the overhead.

I think some of the good and bad ones I had in the college of business have either retired or moved on because I can't find them in the list anymore. Had a marketing prof that was the bomb. One lecture was just on beer company marketing which was a fun one to cover.

jahfg · 06-12-2008, 12:25 PM

Brottman
John Hagge

travman23 · 06-12-2008, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by zdorr40

Dan Zhu was a decent teacher, but we seemed to get taxed quite a bit as she constantly asked us to do the "excises" in the book.

I had her for Visual Basic. Did well in that class but if she just gave us the complete PowerPoint slides lecture would have been pointless because she would just read them to us word for word, give us a quick quiz then the last 45 minutes or so was "work time." Someone was messing with her once using net send feature in Windows command and would put messages like "someone is asleep in the back of the room." She would get confused then start looking around the room trying to find someone asleep. LOL

Cybone · 06-12-2008, 12:29 PM

The toughest class I ever took at ISU was Political Psychology. Fascinating subject, but the professor (She isn't at ISU anymore) was a piece of work. The first day of class, she walks in and notices all of the men in the room and proceeds to inform the class the males in the class are entitled to opinions but they will always be wrong. She especially hated any of the ROTC students in the class and would regularly ridicule them. Came away with a B+ in the class, but I hated her.

zdorr40 · 06-12-2008, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by Cybone

The toughest class I ever took at ISU was Political Psychology. Fascinating subject, but the professor (She isn't at ISU anymore) was a piece of work. The first day of class, she walks in and notices all of the men in the room and proceeds to inform the class the males in the class are entitled to opinions but they will always be wrong. She especially hated any of the ROTC students in the class and would regularly ridicule them. Came away with a B+ in the class, but I hated her.

Wow. She sounds like a peach.

drlove · 06-12-2008, 12:33 PM

Jim Kliebenstein in the Ag Bus department.

Cyclone62 · 06-12-2008, 12:35 PM

What did you have Brottman for jahfg?

Someone to run away from if you're caught in his Lit Crit and Theory class: Carl Herndl. What a dick. Made everyone in the class feel like morons because we're 20 and when he was 20, he was two years away from his phd. I just stopped going to class after a while, took the F and told him that it wasn't worth my time to take the final. His response was that he wasn't teaching that class in the fall. Happiest day of the semester.

Transient · 06-12-2008, 12:40 PM

Dr Adrian Bennett for Chinese History, you could tell he really enjoyed his work. He took a trip to China once and brought back the uniform they wore in the 70's, looked funny as heck on him.

TxCycloneFan · 06-12-2008, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by Cybone

There was a suggestion at one time of raising the money and getting signatures to rename Music Hall after "C".

Don't know what ever became of that. It would be nice to get some portion of the Music Hall named after him. Great Man, Great Musician, Phenomenal Educator.

I'd write a check for that. He meant a lot to me.

4429 mcc · 06-12-2008, 12:49 PM

Barbra Mack gave it to you straight up. Tough but fair.

For Curtis' class my house had some old "practice study test" so we always did well on those otherwise very hard tests.

jdoggivjc · 06-12-2008, 12:54 PM

Wow - I'm surprised no one mentioned Anne Clem from Accounting. Probably my favorite professor my entire 6 years up there (and I only took 1 Business class in that time). She was humorous, she explained things well, and she didn't **** anyone off. My favorite line from her was when she was explaining something on stocks. She said something like "...if _____ happens you're SOL. And if you don't know what SOL means, it means you're not getting your money." She then had this knowingly smirk on her face and the entire class erupted in laughter. On class evals I was able to look at about 10-15 of them sitting on the table. No one strayed from the first two "positive" columns.

I also like Eric Northway. The guy's a Christian, but he doesn't push religion in his class - he just puts the facts out there in class and lets you make up your own decision.

In JLMC, I really liked Lulu Rodriguez, Erin Wilgenbush, and Barbara Mack (I know, that one's a rare opinion).

CyinCo · 06-12-2008, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by mramseyISU

I think it was a combination of things. I do think she was in over her head for one thing. I also think that she made some bad choices in how to deal with the budget crunch. She pumped resources into nano tech and VR which I would have been fine with but there were no courses offered to go along with it. That came at the expense of CAD, hydraulics, IC engines and a couple other areas (totaled 7 courses in one semester). I know a number of people met with her regarding those cuts (including myself) and she came off as very condescending to every one of us.

IC Engines is gone? IC Engines and Turbomachinery was my specialization.

Ficklone02 · 06-12-2008, 01:10 PM

I enjoyed Choobineh as well. Jack Blanshan was a good lecturer, and was always good for some laughs. I'm probably the only one, but I really got a kick out of listening to Lehman B. Fletcher's rants. (Econ) I was not an Econ major, but just had this distinct style about him that cracked me up.

SeattleClone · 06-12-2008, 01:15 PM

Stephen Harper - Math 165/166
Jim Bernard - ME 421
Jene Hughes - English 314

Honorable mention to the Acct (???) teacher whose name and class number I forgot because that class was my last final ever before graduation and she went out to the bar with us after the test.