Quality 1/5Difficulty 3/5
Have taken her classes twice. Definitely not by my choice. So so boring. So hard to sit through lectures. Tests were not that hard but very low preparation and guidance was offered beforehand.Rate My Professors ↗
Current instructor
Tina Xu
What students say
Original student reviews · all captured dates
Quality 3/5Difficulty 2/5
Prof Xu does not have particularly interesting lectures, and she does not deliver them with much passion. However, they are very organized, and contain all the info you need to complete the HWs and do well on the exams. The HWs are straightforward, the project was mostly graded on completion, and exams were open note.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 3/5Difficulty 3/5
Nice professor but boring lectures (just reads off slides mostly). Turned in first homework late because I mixed up the time and she was nice and excused it. Graded project and homework easily, but exams were decently hard. Lots of extra credit if you just go to class.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 3/5
Avoid if possible. She reads directly off the slides, cannot answer questions or clarify well, and often tests you on foreign things you have never seen or practiced, including questions with terminology you've never covered. Some exams were super easy, and others were impossible. Honestly hard to prepare for. Would never recommend to anyone.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 4/5Difficulty 2/5
I really enjoyed ISYE 412 with Tina. Her grading is clear, and the exams are exactly what she outlines they will be. While lectures can be dull and include unnecessary information, Tina is both intelligent and likeable. This course is a very easy A if you actually study for the exams and spend a little bit of time on the HW.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 4/5Difficulty 2/5
Her lectures are boring and tough to sit through, but the class wasn't that hard. Homework was similar to the problems in class, she offered up to 3% extra credit for going to lecture, and the group project was relatively easy. There was a lack of guidance on preparing for the exams and the group project as the expectations weren't always clear.Rate My Professors ↗
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Classes with Tina Xu
ISYE 312 teaches data management and analysis fundamentals for industrial engineers, focusing on database strategies, preprocessing, visualization, and modeling with MySQL and R.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Tina Xu’s lectures are consistently described as boring and monotone, with slides that are rarely helpful. While she is personally nice and offers extra credit for attendance, she provides little guidance for exams. Reviewers disagree on difficulty, with some finding exams easy and others finding them decently hard.
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2026ISYE 412 teaches the fundamentals of using data analytics to make data-driven decisions, emphasizing the application of modeling strategies and analytics principles to industrial engineering problems.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Tina Xu reads from dense slides and provides illegible handwritten examples, which reviewers find unhelpful and boring. Some students report she is irritated by questions and fails to clarify concepts, leading to poor course quality ratings.
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2026Covers inspection data, quality control sampling plans, process control charts, and reliability models.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2026Recorded teaching history
Explore courses taught by this instructor →Browse recorded courses
| Term | Course | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2026 | ISYE 312 | Data Management and Analysis for Industrial Engineers |
| Fall 2026 | ISYE 412 | Fundamentals of Industrial Data Analytics |
| Fall 2026 | ISYE/ME 512 | Inspection, Quality Control and Reliability |
Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.
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