Siva Sivoththaman - University of Waterloo

Professor: Siva Sivoththaman
Department: Electrical Engineering
College: University of Waterloo
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: ECE222
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Good Prof
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: ECE231
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Awesome prof. Easy. read slides, do his tutorials and should be fine. Hard to stay awake in his lectures. If you are an avg student, you can afford to skip his classes and do something better with your life.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The guy teaches like this stuff really matters in life. A very knowledgeable person. Knows his****. Very easy and straightforward exams. Read his slides like 5 times and u'll pass exams with 80s. I am happy to have him again for ECE 231
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This course is the easiest course i have ever taken,just to help you prepare he is going to give stuff from his tutorial problems and not to forget his slides and extra slides he puts up, thats it. His exams are quite easy as I said and he is a really nice professor. Kind I would say!!!!
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: PHD201
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is a one of the best professer. He is friendly, kindly. His lectures are good. I love his talent and characters.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • 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:
one of the worst prof ever. Especially his attitude towards students who need help, he just ignore the emails and don't reply phone calls. Students who can't keep up, he looks down at them. I totally hate him
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The material is fairly easy, but mainly consists of concepts. His assignments are not mandatory, which makes it very difficult to keep up with such a boring course. His verbal communication is average, and his slides sometimes lack critical concepts that he tries to explain in class.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: ECE213
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
good
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: NE100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Trying to stay awake in this class is painful...
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: NE100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very good prof. Cares about the students.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • 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:
Dry method of teaching, very dull, skims over a lot of important details that we are expected to know. Overall, the course itself is extremely convoluted, so you can't blame the prof for that.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: ECE332
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
OMG!!!! human brain has a limit of memorization!! 1000000000 slides of non sense notes!! this course is stupid and the prof is useless and will never give hints!
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I kid you not, this is a direct quote from his lecture notes: "Since v!=infinity, the electron collisions with lattice ions result in velocity loss." This is the crap we have to memorize for the final. Almost 1000 slides of it.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This is the most boring course ever. I don't know if I should blame on the prof or the material itself. This is the course/prof that you don't need to go to b/c it'll put you straight to sleep.The material for the final is MASSIVE and nonsense!btw,the prof finished an entire chapter in TWO lectures!
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This prof is one of the most awesome profs you can have. He can make hard things seem easy and has to the point, easy to understand, clear and organized lectures.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I was very interested in this course, but now totally hate waterloo.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
His midterm was basically the tutorial questions, compensating for his lack of teaching ability basic literacy.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: ECE209
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Maybe he used to be a good professor, but his 209 lectures and lecture notes are full of mistakes, inconsistencies. He generally doesn't know a lot of a subject he is teaching and is also not a good teacher. I can't understand why anyone had given him good ratings...
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