This guy is goated. By far the best lecturer I've ever had, assignments were easy (lectures prepare you well), and he was extremely nice.

Was enrolled in Math of Engr but the teacher put me in another Canvas CMPSC both about matrixes, resulted in a fully wasted quarter for this class, never answered to my mails. I recommend to double check that especially if its your 1st quarter at UCSB. Great guy and course other than that

Only take 111with the goat GIBOU. The lectures are hard to follow but you can look things up. Weekly hws on jupyter notebook. Midterm and Final were both just another hw assignment taken at home.

Professor Gibou makes ME17 a somewhat unique experience. The class is graded by a few homework assignments and take home "exams" which are really just more projects. Some concepts can be hard to grasp but he is happy to answer questions and will help you succeed. Grading was somewhat unpredictable but never overly harsh. Try to attend lecture.

Prof. Gibou is great! He lectures using the blackboard and takes time to write out equations. He basically goes over HW/exam problems during the lectures. The class is super easy if you remember intro linear algebra and know python. My only gripe is that we aren't provided notes/slides/textbook sections as reference.

Homework is based on what is taught in class. Do NOT skip lectures in the last three weeks because the last assignment is MUCH harder than the previous ones. Picky yet unclear grading guidelines for formatting the homework reports, though it's not a big chunk of the grade. Good lecturer.