He doesn't care about teaching; No office hours. It's the quarantine, he just posts 20 minutes total of pre-recorded lectures of him clicking poor-quality ppt. Labs & lectures are basically a total tangent or lectures are always behind & unrelated to lab. The 2 Hrs lecture per week never happened. You can only learn so much reading on ur own.

The labs took a long time to complete and the midterm/final written exam were a train wreck. We were too busy doing our labs in order to learn all of the theoretical stuff we were taught in lecture. This class should be split into two. Not really El-Soussi's fault, he's a good guy and does try his best. I don't think he actually failed anyone.

Very clear and helpful teacher. He took an engineering outlook on teaching us the material, but still provided proofs when asked. Very fair and helpful. He was present for office hours before every class. The class is easy, but extremely time consuming (lab requirement eats 15+ hours a week).

Great guy, so nice! Will get a good grade if you try!

Excellent prof.!!! Super nice and helpful, he put everything online even extra practice problems! So approachable, and his T.A.s are very helpful as well. At the end of the quarter the whole class was cheering because we convinced him to teach 6c.

Great professor! Physics alone is a hard subject to teach, but he did a good job of it. Lecture is definitely mandatory for helpful hints on hw and midterms, and bring your iclicker for extra credit points! Midterms are very fair and he tells you what to study! Good sense of humor too!

Easy class and good professor. Accent and teaching style take getting used to (a day or two) but he is a good professor and genuinely wants to help people succeed. If you read and understand the examples in the book as well as the HW, you are good to go. Class attendance is optional, but you can earn 5% EC thru iClicker. Curve is crazy, 80% is A-.

i dont know why hes getting such a poor rating, but i just had him this quarter and he was awesome! he really wants everyone to do well and he will help you out when you go to his office. you do need to come to class to get the extra credit but if you dont care about the 5% you dont need to come to class because all his lectures are on gauchospace.

By FAR the worst teacher that i have EVER had. He would get confused trying to teach, and his students had to correct his mistakes all the time. He didn't even seem like he knew what he was doing, and yet he was still cocky about it!

He's a nice guy and all but he should not be teaching the class. He consistantly made mistakes while working problems on the board and stalled out whenever a student asked him a question in class.

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Very nice guy who is not fit to teach upper division classes. Does not lecture with much sophistication and seems to favor "turn the crank" modes rather than providing a global framework to solve and understand hard problems. This class is essential to EE and the quick pace of summer coupled with his lack of completeness will kill you later on.

Very nice guy, but also a bit boring. Tests are fairly straight-forward

Read the book, work the problems and the tests are simple. The only reason that i went to class was for the xtra credit. He wants everyone to do well and wa very nice to all.

This guy was really nice but he just doesn't know how to lecture! If you really want to learn the material, don't take him. CLAS is a must for this class. Also, the final was REALLY hard compared to the midterms. Don't take El Soussi unless you can figure out physics on your own!

I hate physics and i still do...midterms were pretty easy but the final was impossible...just a huge level of inconsistency and lack of clarity

Pretty nice, gives you deadline extensions and stuff for hw. Lets you use a notecard for tests. The midterms were easy. The final was impossible!! Study your butt off and pray for a miracle!

A bit crazy, do not listen to his propganda.

Hella nice guy. I hate physics and still do, but @ least I didn't hafta listen to an ass up there. Tests are fair. I fear taking gwinn next quarter since i hear hes a jerk.

I hate this subject but he didn't make it any easier.I thought he went too fast and his writting sucks so it was hard to read the board.

If you gotta take physics take him. Okay at lecturing, hw can get hard as hell. Exams are actually on easier side. Gives out pts. when nobody shows for class. Usually does a few problems in class & expects you to complete hw. take CLAS, they give answers to hw.

i thought he was ok as a lecturer--he will do his best to help you out such as extending deadlines, grading leniently, explaining things again, etc. he thinks he's so damn charming and that gets kinda annoying, but if you have to take physics, you might as well have him.

worthless lecturer. no structure, bad teaching, doesn't know what he's talking about, didn't learn anything. he should never teach physics again. let's hope he sticks with ece classes from now on.

Nice guy who tries to help his students out as much as possible and doesn't make tests too hard. We didn't have a final when I took it so that was a big plus.