Cared heavily on students learning rather than exams. Little homework, but i see it as a downside because it was hard to retain a lot of what he is saying. There is no textbook, everything is based off lectures he gives so its important to attend almost all of them. Lots of topics to cover in 10 weeks but was manageable. very different from ece134.

Super chill professor and lectures were clear. Guest lecturers were cool as well. Tests and HW weren't bad. Thank god I could take this class instead of the dreaded CHEM 1A.

Disclaimer: This is the first quarter ECE 6 was offered. Class was very easy as a result but Smith obviously cared about us learning the chemistry groundwork for EEs (class was definitely geared for Electrical Engineering majors). TAs were definitely subpar but that's transient. Course material could have been easy or hard; Smith made it easy.

terrible at teaching, just reads off slides which are screenshots of the textbook. worse, roark (TA) stole prof York's hw problems and changed them to include useless info or connections to his research, making the problems SUPER confusing and unclear. learned nothing, then took 144 with York (insanely good teacher) and that cleared everything up.

It's hard material, but a good class.

Horribly structured, just reads off his slides which are just examples from a textbook. When he does explain a problem, he chooses to explain the algebra and not the electrodynamic content itself. Goodluck. Read Griffths. Slides are largely disorganized and very confusing.