Edward Gatzke - University of South Carolina

Professor: Edward Gatzke
Department: Engineering
College: University of South Carolina
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Gatzke is one of the best professors I've had, but he is also one of the toughest. Make sure to go to tutoring, even if you're not struggling. He grades pretty harshly on his quizzes and exam, but you learn a lot in this class.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Gatzke makes you teach yourself with constant homework, which would be fine if there were a decent number of examples. Gives you past-exams to study for exams, but neglects to mention that they're abbreviated versions and that he inserts brand new problems on them. Extremely harsh grader. Answers emails about 48 hrs later.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Let me know if you learn something. Let Gatzke know if he teaches something.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • Grade Received: C+
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Gatzke does not explain the background/reason we learn the topics in his class. He throws concepts at you and wants you to learn them without telling you what they're used for. This makes the class very tough.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
There is only a midterm, 6 quizzes, and a final. The HW is doable, and the lab portion is the only thing that is easy. The quizzes together are worth 30% and can be easy or hard. His review sessions and powerpoint slides are unhelpful. First half of the semester, he gives you a lot of examples, but not enough in the second half to help you.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: BMEN211
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He does give a grade-boosting group project at the end of the semester. On the other hand: he only has 2 office hours a week at the most inconvenient times of the day. Little-to-no partial credit. The main learning is from YouTube videos of himself teaching the material and filling in the boxes on a packet. Tried to convince us to switch majors.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: BMEN211
  • Grade Received: D
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Gatzke is a straight up guy. He tells you what is on his mind. His gives out quaters for correct answers. But the work load is HEAVY. We did a reverse classroom for my class so lectures were online. I hated it. The concepts were hard to understand and emailing him with questions never helped. Quizzes everyday and very hard test.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Gatzke is a fun and enthusiastic professor, and he gives you quarters if you answer tough questions or find errors in his powerpoints, but I do not like his fill in the blank style of teaching. It didn't do much to help me understand the material, and it felt like I was getting tidbits of material instead of the big picture.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great professor-- lecture notes are you filling in the blanks on PowerPoints, so if you don't go to class you won't have the notes or example problems. Gives quarters for participation in class. Made a not very appealing subject very easy and relatable.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: ENCP105
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He's a fun teacher and a nice guy but this is quite possibly the most boring and useless class that you could possibly take. Nothing to do with Gatzke, this class will just make you hate yourself for signing up for this torture of boredom.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: ENCP105
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Easy class, very lenient and does his best to give you credit.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • 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:
Best teacher EVER!
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: ENCP105
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I had to take a U101 class for Capstone, but this class covered it for the Engineering students. Literally so easy: just do the couple of assignments and group project at the end (he doesn't care about them at all, really), and you'll get an A.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: BMEN211
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
No idea why a chem. eng. professor is teaching BMEN 211 but pray he won't again. Very obvious that he couldn't have cared less about the class. I've heard good things about his ECHE classes so it was easy to tell he wasn't interested in teaching this 211 class. Avoid him or find a friend who's taken the class before if there's no other option.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Gatzke is perfect. He is smart, helpful, and hilarious. TAKE HIS CLASS!!!!
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This class is super easy, but only because he says it is. He will tell you you've seen everything before, only different. You have been learning this material for years.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Gatzke is very nice and laid back both in and outside the classroom. His lectures aren't very focused, though, and his notes are difficult to follow on the board. He knows his stuff and is a fun professor to have. Be prepared to spend time in the computer lab doing homework on matlab or working on crunching data.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • 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:
Good guy, I recommend, good TAs
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
His lectures are so-so but he is great outside of class...actually cares about students. He's a really nice guy.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: ECHE550
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
very sloppy notes, not always clear, uses bell curve
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