Firas Mansour - University of Waterloo

Professor: Firas Mansour
Department: Physics
College: University of Waterloo
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: PHYS115
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Man his class was tough but he's amazing. You will probably pass, even if it feels like you won't.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: PHYS125
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He seemes like a good man, but as a Professor sadly just not very good. Notes are limited, extra hard questions are in lectures. The way he explains things isn't great either.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: PHYS115
  • Grade Received: D+
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
The course was constantly plagued by technical issues. The videos and live lectures were rarely useful. I often found that I had to watch Khan Academy videos to understand anything that was going on.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: PHYS101
  • Grade Received: D-
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
One of the best professors Ive ever had. Cares about student learning and ensures that concepts are well explained. An true inspiration to us all!
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: ECE105
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Don't get me wrong he a great guy to be around with, full of amazing stories to tell you. But I'm rating him as a professor here and I will never take his class again. The biggest problem is he skip steps when explaining things. I find myself wasting so much time on the internet filling up the knowledge gap, plus remote learning makes it worse.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: ECE105
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
A decent dude and a physics prof. Gave him a 2 because its SOOOO obvious that he has a few class favourites and the whole class is kinda centered around that. If it wasn't for that he would have gotten an easy 4.5. At least he isn't bad at teaching.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: ECE106
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Mansour's tests are fair, however, you won't learn ANYTHING by going to his classes. He tries to justify not teaching any of the content by saying that it'll make you put in more effort, but in reality it just means that you aren't given the right resources to learn. Your TA will probably teach you more in 1 tutorial than he will the entire term.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: ECE105
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The reason I'm passing this course
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: PHY115
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He's a great guy!
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: ECE105
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Great professor. He gives great lectures, and he really gets to know the students. He likes to focus on key concepts, and moves really fast, so pay attention. Go to the lectures. His review sessions are also absolutely essential. Get the textbook, and do problems like your life depends on it. Beware the midterm (for real it's really hard).
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: ECE105
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
His lecture is very interesting.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: ECE105
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Absolutely loved this guy. My best lectures in ECE 1A term. His lectures were clear and hilarious at the same time. The man really makes a class lighten up. Would recommend Professor Mansour to anyone anyday.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: PHY115
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Good prof overall.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: ECE105
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Would definitely recommend! He's a great prof, explains the material well. Must warn you though, some people find his way of teaching to be unique and non-traditional, and hence end up not attending the classes. He explains the subject very well, and makes sure you understand why it works the way it is supposed to.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: ECE105
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: No
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Amazing Professor loves to make classes interesting. Tells random stories about himself to get the concept of what he is trying to teach. I would love to take him up again for any other course in the future. The course itself is very tough and requires a lot of thinking.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: PHYS112
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He's probably a little crazy but overall pretty good.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: ECE106
  • 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:
Absolutely amazing prof. His constant jabs at students and comments about baklavas and his stories are great. He made every lecture entertaining and focused a lot on theoretical concepts which was great.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: ECE106
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He's a knowledgeable professor, pretty interesting class, respectful person. Definitely learned a lot from him, however need to pay 100% attention to his lecture, he goes REALLY FAST during his lectures
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: ECE106
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He's a knowledgeable professor, pretty interesting class, respectful person. Definitely learned a lot from him, however need to pay 100% attention to his lecture, he goes REALLY FAST during lectures.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: ECE106
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great prof, definitely enjoys teaching. Sometimes his lectures were confusing.
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