Donna Brown - University Of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Professor: Donna Brown
Department: Engineering
College: University Of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: ECE120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
She is very nice, and very smart. She sometimes struggles with the microphone or projector. However, if you listen to what she has to say about the subject matter, it is very clear and well communicated. Excellent professor. She is also a very nice person in general. She cares for her students.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I felt like 90 minutes for exam is impossible task. Exam was very long.I really hate this class.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Her lecture was crystal clear and everything, but GOD DAMN. However, online quizes, problem sets, AND labs that take hours to complete is a bit excessive, and a lot of it is unnecessary. After all these years in the department, I think she would have realized by now that this isn't our only class. Thank god this class is being replaced.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
If you go to class and stay on top of the material, ECE 290 is not a hard class. It's just very time consuming. The class may be a lot of work, but it's not busy work, you learn a crap load. Hard class, but fair and very competent professor.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She probably needs to just go away. Forever.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Her lecture is crystal and clear, however, I don't like she use quiz every lecture to force u go to class. She is too strict on hwk and format, which makes written hwk extremely painful, it took me avg 6,7 hours to finish one written. And she is very rude and weird on compass board, she almost never replied my post
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Ugh, most painful academic experience of my life. Written homework SUCKED. Took so long to do and often confusing. She was often rude on the web board which I thought was unacceptable. Exams were pretty tough but not quite as bad as the homework. Still, exam averages were around 60%. This is basically the epic **** work of the ECE major.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Brown life does not stop at ECE Illinois that is all I can say. Let me tell you: <<What goes around comes around>>
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This woman is very old. She needs retiring. She focuses much on failing the students. If your are an average student please take this class during the summer to avoid her. Only geniuses needs to enroll with her. The exams are very tough and just an 1H30min. Please think again if you are planing to take this course with her.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She is a very hard professor, but she knows what she is talking about. ECE290 is one of the hardest, if not the hardest course to take as an ece underg at uiuc. The difficulty of the exam is about the same as the written hw, not cool! It is tough! Since the hw would probably take u 6 or 7 hrs to do, and u only have 90 minutes on the exam.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
so hard
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very unprofessional. You ask her a question about something that she never covered in the course material and the answer is invariably "you should already know the answer to that." You are better off going directly to the TAs. Overall, plan on spending a lot of time teaching the material to yourself.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Yeah, of course, good prof. at UofI which has prestige eng school, but hard, sucks for those who aren't bright, tests are freaking hard given by her, sign... I read all comments left by others, none of them are useful for those who aren't that bright, My recommendation is take the course over the summer, it's much much easier, that avoids her! yo!
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very clear in what she says, but the exams and the homeworks are hard and you need to give it time to do well.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
she's tough. written homework is ridiculously long and vague. Other than that, she seems to know what she's doing
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very organized. I learned a lot from her. It was a lot of work but worth it.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
There's no question she's a tough professor, but in the best way possible. But, when you come to a tough engineering school, tough is what you get. The rigorous treatment in digital logic design gave me a rock solid foundation in the topic. Combine that with ECE385, and you've got some killer skills
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I thought she was a good lecturer, at least by the standard the ECE department sets. Unfortunately, many students found her homework assignments to be very vague. However, she is a very helpful prof, and the assignments were usually made clear after lengthy discussion on the message board.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Overall a good professor. She was pretty clear in her presentation of the material and the exams are pretty consistent from year to year (read: use the practice exams!).
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: ECE290
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great professor! Class is hard though.
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