Has anyone had any of the teachers?
I need to choose between Leu and Bristow for ME279
And need to choose between Leu for ME363 and Okafar for ME253or353

Thanks for the info

ratemyprofessors.com kthx

thanks but i already looked there
i could only find okafar on ratemyprofessor

Bristow's a freshly minted PhD, former UMR grad and isn't yet 30, and perhaps not 27. He's a natural-born US citizen (if that matters to you) but he IS a new teacher, and I haven't heard anything about any of his classes. Controls is his interest area and specialty, so there.

Dr. Ming Leu is a professor I've had the pleasure of being associated with on the CAMT design program here on campus. His interest areas include new-age manufacturing technologies, rapid prototyping and one-off development. He's a fully endowed professor, been here for 9 years now and this is the first I've heard of him actually teaching a normal undergraduate class on campus (not to say that he hasn't, and he's taught ME 363 countless times in the past.) I've not had any great amount of experience with either of these people on a day-to-day basis and therefore can't make a judgment about them one way or another.

ME 363 would be an incredibly awesome class to take but there's no sections of it next semester, that I'm aware of--although since the lectures are available online, maybe they'll let you do an independent, who knows. If you haven't had ME 253, Okafor won't typically let you into ME 353. Okafor is a decent professor in his own right but he's a little eccentric and VERY particular about the way he runs his class. He can be a little hardheaded.

That's what I know.