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.

Course load was way too much. covered the same content and textbook PHYS 110A and PHYS 110B in the span of 10 weeks. Homework was the most confusing thing on the planet. Professor also went to fast to cover these topics, expected us to read 50 pages of the textbook a week to fully understand. homework had to be turned in in-person as well.

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.

Does not teach the material and only solves problems in class. Expects students to read 1-2 chapters per week. Good luck.

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.

Smith is a very good teacher and an expert in matrix analysis. Lectures were very polished, however some of the in-class examples were very difficult to understand. Seems that he has changed the format of this class and homework/tests are quite reasonable. Watch out though, the final had a lot of computation.

Smith is one of those rare professors who knows how to bring real-world experience to the classroom. He really knows his stuff and is an awesome instructor.

Don't buy the textbook. Lots of drafting that is based on cleanliness, and precision. Project due every week, time consuming, not really worth the 2 credits. Should be worth 4 for all the work. Ron was cool, super bald, I'd take a class with him again but I don't want to do the work.

--worst professor i have seen.--teaches maths with powerpoint. can you imagine you being taught matrices and linear algebra using ppt slides??--ridiculous.

Expects A LOT from students, and assigns massive home works that really demands a lot of work. Seems a little out of touch with the academic level of the students. Not too hard on grading.

Expects A LOT from students, and assigns massive home works that really demands a lot of work. Seems a little out of touch with the academic level of the students. Not too hard on grading.

Smith is a bada$$ and takes no crap from students. Knows material very well and has a lot of experience to put it into a practical context. Doesn't seem to care if students understand, however uses this leverage to put more (advanced) interesting ideas forth. Assigns a lot of work-prelabs to be turned in before lab. Tests are absolutely insane.