Ahmad Hamid

School: Drexel University
Department: Engineering
Location:Philadelphia, PA
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 Pros: None
Cons: Horrible teacher, shouldnt be teaching to undergraduate students.
No text book, does not care to actually teach.
Handouts have typos, homeworks need to be explained by TA whose overwhelmed by students.
Do anything and everything in your power to not have this professor.
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 Pros: Hamid has his own textbook for the class, which can be bought for about $30. This is the main source of information he uses.
Cons: The textbook is filled with mistakes and inconsistencies, and rarely if ever cites where the information is coming from. It's clearly obvious that he didn't even run spell check before having this thing published. Part of me wants to mark-up the textbook while I read from it and return it to him for $30 in the event I can't find a secret code he encrypted in his spelling mistakes.
This class is also taught with Brehm, who as all engineering undergraduates know, should not be allowed outside without a guardian, much less teach a college-level course. Brehm is the one who grades the homework assignment, and his solutions frequently contradict Hamid's textbook, which is kinda redundant, since Hamid's own textbook contradicts itself. So basically you get the answer wrong if the source you use doesn't match the values one of these guys pulls out of their ass. Even worse is the solutions are difficult to read, a blindfolded Michael J Fox has more legible handwriting than Brehm, and the solutions are distributed as images. Yea Brehm can't even figure out how to put solutions up as a PDF. Meanwhile Hamid is just blabbering along pretending that what he is saying is somehow being interpreted as useful information. And unfortunately, he's still not even the worst professor Drexel has to offer.
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 Pros: You learn how to fend for yourself.
Cons: The "book" he provides is awful. Spelling errors, missing tables and missing equations. He assigns impossible homeworks that never relate to anything we do in class.
Worse professor I have had at Drexel. He does not care about the students. He thinks that he is a great teacher. When you ask a question he can never answer the question. Wish he would be fired but alas he has tenure.
STAY AWAY!!!!!! STAY FAR AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 Pros: Ignites your instinct for survival
Cons: Uses a combination of board written notes and projector overheads. Both are extremely hard to follow and difficult to see or read.
Pretty much can't avoid taking him depending on your co-op cycle. May be easier to take the 300 and 301 classes and then "change your mind" about doing the structural concentration. Only problem with this is that you will not gain any structural design experience from the first two classes in the structural concentration path. CIVE 371 is significantly worse than CIVE 370 if you have Professor Hamid for both.
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 Pros: will help you if go to him
Cons: never looks at class does more job explaining theory
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 As a person, he's not an ass by any means. However, as a teacher he is worthless. For every single homework assignment (I'm not exaggerating. All of them.) I had to spend hours struggling to teach myself the material in order to complete the homework. I learned NOTHING from his notes, no matter how hard I tried. At least he's somewhat lenient on grading.
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 Smart, nice man who knows this information but is not good at conveying the information. Works of overheads and rarely does example problems. Tests are reasonable if you pick up enough of the material.

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