i am a fan of katie byl. very interesting class, fun but difficult hw. exams are excellent bc they are more conceptual than computational, unlike teel's 147a exams

i am a fan of katie byl, very conceptual and overall excellent exams and hw. the nyquist shading thing was cool

She has a lot of reading you have to do on your own, and the learning in class was kind of all over the place. I knew how to solve 2 problems of the 4 problems on the final and got a C- on it. Homework takes very long to do.

Great Professor. Is highly intelligent, and does her best to make students succeed. Lecture slides are posted online and are extremely thorough. Sometimes her strong intuition can get in the way during lecture causing tangents, where it would be easier to follow if she went through an equally rigorous but more relaxed and interactive approach.

Arguably the worst teacher I have had in my educational career. She assigns homeworks 2 days before they are do, her hints on HWs either are just completely wrong or mislead you, her grading is skewed and way too harsh for the ambiguity of the questions. Currently, I spend about 20 hours a week on the class, and am barely receiving a B. Steer clear

She is very knowledgeable, but she cannot convey it to her students. Tends to go off on tangents throughout her lectures and falls behind, leaving us to watch an additional async lecture. Lectures and labs were not in sync. Non-traditional midterm was very unorganized and basically left students to test and grade the exam. A lot of self-teaching.