Phil Loewen - University of British Columbia

Professor: Phil Loewen
Department: Mathematics
College: University of British Columbia
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: MATH264
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Very good and respectable prof, also a piazza god
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: MATH264
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Amazing professor, who inspires conceptual understanding and learning rather than hard work. study smart
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: ELEC211
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Amazing professor and also one of the hardest (if not the hardest) courses I've ever taken. His energy during lectures is great, and he makes the content very interesting. Even then, the midterms are very challenging so study off anywhere you can. The exam questions are unique and really test your understanding.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: MATH264
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is a good person, always there to help. But he tries to make the scienceengineering course concepts look like a novel to read. It will be good if his teaching and notes are not wordy.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: MECH255
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
A great prof
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: MATH316
  • 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:
Took his class during the summer and as a professor he is great. The content could be difficult if your not keeping up but overall the final exam and previous exams felt straight forward and definitely do able.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: MATH316
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
I'm not sure what all the complaints on difficulty are about, or where they came from, but my experience with dr. Loewen has been positive all-round. He is an excellent teacher, giving a well balanced mix of theory and example, and his tests are absolutely fair and manageable, not to mention he marks very fairly. Take him if you want to learn math.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: MATH316
  • 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:
Dr. Loewen is really nice, and genuinely wants to help students learn. However, he tends to over complicate things and a simple subject can be explained in such a way that confuses even Einstein.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: MATH257
  • 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: Mandatory
Comment:
A really nice guy and really clear in lecture, but an ineffective professor. The experience overall left a bad taste - exams were much more difficult in comparison to what was actually taught and the requirements on the syllabus.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: MATH316
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Exams are extremely difficult; the questions showing up can be unpredictable. However, he is very helpful in and outside of class and genuinely a really nice guy. He's funny, speaks clearly and has enthusiasm for what he teaches. Loewen didn't really use a textbook which would have made it easier for me personally to follow along in class.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: MATH257
  • 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:
Hardest exams in the first three years of civil engineering for sure. They are not relevant to the course material whatsoever. Pierce is far better from what I have heard. I don't ever do these things but he was that bad.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: MATH257316
  • 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:
Unreasonable evaluations all around. Assignments focus on abstract stuff, useless to prepare you for exams. Very little examples done in class - useless derivations and proofs only. Had to teach myself. No effort to make the course relevant to engineering, and the majority of the class happens to be in engineering. Take it with Pierce if you can.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: MATH316
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
So incredibly helpful and understanding of students, and non-judgemental, although the course is very tough. Taught myself out of textbook mostly but his in class notes are more thorough. Go to his office hours!! Difficult but reasonable exams.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: MECH221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
An anomaly: a quick, clever thinker, enthusiastic and engaged, whom I cannot at all recommend. Explanations were absurdly complex, with no reference points or labels. He managed to confuse me about material I’d already learned and practiced on my own! My math friends explained the same material in a fraction of the time, and far more clearly.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: MATH256
  • 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:
I should have skipped every class and taught myself the course. This guy's useless.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: MECH221ODE
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This is the hardest teacher I have ever had. He makes the material much harder than it needs to be. Others i have spoken to, who have taken this course with a different prof, have found the course to be trivial. Our course consisting of the brightest minds was %30. I relied on Paul's notes, khan academy, and chegg to get by,
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: MECH221ODES
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
His tests are absurd. Basically impossible to understand what they hell he is asking. You can go into a test knowing the content and still fail hard due to the fact that you couldn't answer the indecipherable cryptic questions.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: MATH340
  • 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:
Super clear notes & stuff. Boring lecture. If you are math major hes pretty good. For non-math major, avoid. BTW, easy on marking (exam), but super loooooooooong homework takes 4ever to finish.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: MATH317
  • 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:
Oh man where do I even start. Average lectures. Nothing phenomenal. HOWEVER: HIS EXAMS ARE KILLER! If you thought your life was tough enough as is, you clearly haven't taken Loewen's classes. Take something else with another professor is all I can say. I still have nightmares about how horrible it was (and I got a decent mark).
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: MATH340
  • 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:
to be honest, his lectures were average math class, be there,and take notes. BUT his final was unbelievablly hard and long!! nobody in my class finished it! it was just ridiculous!!run fast, run far from his class, especially summer sections. you will have self-esteem issues after his exams, trust me,i regreted already.
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