Dennis Mell

Good, interesting lectures, explains topics well, assigns reasonable amounts of homework. Very likable guy. Tests were often given in format that encouraged cheating, but that's about the only complaint. Known to lecture from his segway.

12/9/2016

Prof Mell is a great lecturer; he's very thorough and always paying attention to the class to make sure we are understanding. His homework is hard, tests are tricky, and he's not always organized, but at the end of the day class with Dmell is a great experience. The class would be pretty hard if you didn't go to lecture, but the book is helpful.

11/3/2015

I have mixed feelings about him. He is a great guy. Super engaging and tries to tie everything that we are learning in to the different subsets of engineering. When I am in class I like him and taking the tests are fine. Outside of class is hell. The homeworks are ridiculous. They are online and not only hard but just sometimes wrong. lab sucks

10/28/2015

Very unhelpful, I set up times to meet him for help twice since I had other classes during his office hours, but he was not in his office either time I went to meet him. Explanations are hard to follow in class and he expects you to just learn from the textbook. Assumes students all already know what to study/what problem solving methods to use

3/20/2014

Mell was very bad at conger entry explaining things in class. I would describe it as a lot of hand waving, saying ok a lot, and then writing numbers out of thin air and then the circuit is solved. Every time I have gone to office hours, he is never there and he doesn't answer emails.

2/26/2014

Systems Engineering Lab is a pretty cool class, and Mell is a great teacher for it. He knows the material really well and explains it very well if you're confused. No exams, tests, or hw, just keep your lab notebook in good shape for your midterm/final interviews with Mell.

12/11/2012

Best professor I have every had here. If you don't have him as a teacher, you are missing out. If you go talk to him about things you don't understand, he will work with you until you do.

2/21/2012