# TIM OSSWALD — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison [View on UW Courses](https://uwcourses.com/instructors/TIM_OSSWALD--instructor_db4e9ea38d07c11120b2edce) ## Dataset ### revision e243353dcb7d79b7247ced91d69443ef4c2a6349 ### repository twangodev/uwcourses ### schema version 6 ### importer version 7 ### projection id 85abe9ff8837c2c5a134368dcc4cfc85eb723524b21ddeb3d2e953887d2f0c8f ### observed at 2026-09-07T15:55:43.033547+00:00 ### built at 2026-09-11T07:45:51.576183+00:00 ### courses 8951 ### current instructors 5754 ### limited false ### terms * 1272 * 1264 * 1262 * 1254 * 1252 * 1244 * 1242 * 1234 * 1232 * 1224 * 1222 * 1212 * 1204 * 1202 * 1194 * 1192 * 1184 * 1182 * 1174 * 1172 * 1164 * 1162 * 1154 * 1152 * 1144 * 1142 * 1134 * 1132 * 1124 * 1122 * 1114 * 1112 * 1104 * 1102 * 1094 * 1092 * 1084 * 1082 * 1074 * 1072 ### term 1272 ### departments | subject | count | | --------- | ----- | | AAE | 90 | | ABT | 20 | | ACCTIS | 36 | | ACTSCI | 14 | | AFAERO | 10 | | AFRICAN | 87 | | 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He cares about his students and doesnt write trick questions in the exams, its mostly the class structure I have a problem with.", "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/828843", "quality_rating": 3, "difficulty_rating": 4 }, { "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:01:48.688519+00:00", "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4", "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTM2MzAyOTQ5", "source_instructor_id": "rmp:828843", "instructor_name": "Tim Osswald", "course_label": "ME310", "course_id": "ME 310", "course_uid": "course_144155603c58477b09f7bb94", "review_date": "2022-05-10 22:56:28 +0000 UTC", "comment": "He definitely is very knowledgeable on the material for lecture and is very passionate. A bit hard to pay attention to as he goes off on a LOT of tangents. Exams were surprisingly difficult in comparison to the labs and lecture material.", "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/828843", "quality_rating": 4, "difficulty_rating": 3 }, { "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:01:48.688519+00:00", "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4", "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTMzNTc0NjI5", "source_instructor_id": "rmp:828843", "instructor_name": "Tim Osswald", "course_label": "ME417", "course_id": "ME 417", "course_uid": "course_86280689fd02225b9d3fd366", "review_date": "2020-08-10 16:35:14 +0000 UTC", "comment": "This class is definitely worth taking if you are looking to work for any plastics manufacturing company. It is more in depth than ME 313 or ME 418 (also taught by Tim). You should prepare for exams with practice problems from the book. Sometimes you have to use excel for homework problems. 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