Wave, heat, and potential equations.
4
UnitsOptional
Grading1
PasstimeNone
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeHe cares about student and only present what is necessary to understand PDE. He always gives a big picture before diving into the specific. However, the only downside is he is hard (impossible) to reach through email.
Lots of work. very difficult HW. Reasonable tests, still tough but not like the HW. Get help from and his TAs and everything gets easier. Speaks very fast and with an accent, can be hard to understand. Provides a lot of basis for what he teaches, so you get lots of intuition.
Best professor in UCSB
Perfectly good professor. Take home midterms and final,got an A+ and barely studied.
Labutin just reads off of lecture slides so I stopped attending class. All tests were online and made the class much easier. Although he's a terrible prof, the class was super easy.
Lectures weren't mandatory, there were no midterms or a final, the class was only graded by weekly homework and five online/asynchronous tests, and the lowest score is dropped. Labutin is the goat.
Karel Casteels
4.2
Michael Ludkovski
3.0