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Professor Anex is a great professor. Yes, he makes his classes difficult but he is also extremely accessible outside of class to help and makes a big effort to make students learn. he is the best professor i have encountered at UW and the only reason why he has a low rating is because he actually challenges his students.Rate My Professors ↗
I had anex for BSE 249 and though I will say that he was enthusiastic during his lectures, I would not recommend him to others. Test questions seem to want to trick you instead of testing your knowledge of the topics. Only a few people get A's in the class. Lecture environment is a little fearful, as he describes most of the topics to be simple.Rate My Professors ↗
Took 249. Bad teacher! Lectures are hard to follow and make little sense. Grading on exams is very tough. Self taught most of the material.Rate My Professors ↗
Rob's fine. That's it really. As he teaches it feels as if he is teaching himself at the same time. The number of mistakes he makes while explaining things makes it more confusing. 'No stupid questions' is not true for him. He encourages questions, but make sure yours isn't dumb. Make a group chat with class members, it's the only help you'll get.Rate My Professors ↗
Annex is very knowledgable about the courses, however very bad at translating that information to students, disrespectful towards students, lectures dont really help with homework alot, bad professor overallRate My Professors ↗
The worst professor period!!!Rate My Professors ↗
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AGROECOL 990 is a research course for independent thesis or degree project work.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
Applies basic engineering principles like mass/energy balances and fluid flow to agricultural and biological systems.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 2.24 GPA, 6.5% A/AB (n=31 letter grades); Fall 2024: 2.67 GPA, 6.4% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Fall 2025: 2.32 GPA, 13.6% A/AB (n=44 letter grades).
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025BSE 399 is a coordinative internship where students arrange and complete work under faculty and site supervision.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleBSE 699 is a special problems course allowing for individual advanced work in Biological Systems Engineering under faculty guidance.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
BSE 990 is a research course for graduate thesis preparation under faculty supervision.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
CIVENGR 890 is a supervised research course for pre-dissertator students.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
CIVENGR 990 is a thesis course conducted under faculty supervision.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
| Term | Course | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2026 | AGROECOL 990 | Research |
| Fall 2026 | BSE 249 | Engineering Principles for Biological Systems |
| Fall 2026 | BSE 399 | Coordinative Internship/cooperative Education |
| Fall 2026 | BSE 699 | Special Problems |
| Fall 2026 | BSE 990 | Research |
| Fall 2026 | CIVENGR 890 | Pre-dissertator's Research |
| Fall 2026 | CIVENGR 990 | Thesis |
Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.
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