If you're doing engineering because you like engineering, Tom's the best professor you can get. This guy's ability to get difficult concepts across is insane. He's extremely smart and makes sure you understand the concepts in a very difficult class. 370 is a lot of work and that too in groups. If you're willing to work hard, you will enjoy Tom.

Tom is one of the most intelligent professors on campus and absolutely brilliant in actually making sure that his knowledge gets through to you. Don't be fooled by the negative feedback others have on him. If you're taking a class to 'learn' and to get better technically, specially in 370, Tom's your guy, if it is to 'power through', he's not.

The fact that he has been banned from teaching ME 361 and is currently under investigation for his terrible teaching of ME 363 should tell you all you need to know about him.

Tom is maybe one of the smart professor's on campus, whatever that means. He just seems to know so much about all areas of physics and engineering. The problem is this guy is built for grad students. Do not get him as a TA for 370. Other sections had normal TA's and would give bi-weekly presentations. Those would last 20-40mins max. Tom's were 2 hr

Extremely well-versed in all things engineering and physics. His ability to clearly and concisely convey difficult topics is phenomenal. He expects a lot out of you, but that is the nature of ME370 -- the capstone ME lab course. If you wanted an easy last semester, tough luck, this class is hard. He is extremely thorough, but is a fair grader.

One of the smartest people I've ever met and definitely one of the better professors at UW's college of engineering. He has an unbelievable understanding of all things related to engineering and physics and this is the perfect course for him to display that. The amount I learned from this class cannot be put into words.

When I originally got Prof Krupenkin as TA for ME370, I was upset because I had heard horror stories... yet he ended up being one of the best teachers that I have ever had. The work load was reasonable, and he had a clear way of explaining the material. You will learn a lot from him. Rumor is that he was under the microscope and made some changes.

He looks like a genius; like Einstein. Problem is: he canNOT teach, whatsoever, and if you have him for lab, he canNOT help and it sucks to be you! This class, in general sucks, but he makes it that much worse by sucking the life out of you. His practice exams do very little good in prepping you for the exam. In general, he's a bona fide outsider.

The class is brutal, large amount of work and no lecture or discussions to go over material. Do the experiment and then you're on your own to figure everything else out for the 15 page report and 45 minute presentation. First midterm was extremely difficult

Lecture is worthless and his powerpoints are mostly material that was copy and pasted out of the text books. Assignment problems can be easy but most are impossible and very different from any examples given but the tests are similar to the easiermedium difficulty homework problems.

Absolute worst teacher I've had at the UW. We never got a syllabus or anything letting us know what the course was going to cover. The first homework assignment wasn't assigned till 6 weeks into the course and we only had 3 homework assignments all semester. The tests were horribly written, often missing things that were needed to solve a problem.

Krupenkin's research must be a special sort of amazing for them to keep him around as professor. He is the worst professor I have ever had. I learned everything from the book and nothing from his lectures. He really does not care about teaching at all. Seriously, avoid him like the plague.

This guy is bad news. He was gone the first 2 weeks and seemed to wonder why we were all behind. Most certainly one of the worst professors I've had. I did better teaching myself by watching online videos. If you have a choice, pick a different professor. You may think all the reviews are from jaded students, think again. Stay away!

The guy looks like Albert Einstein's brother and sounds just like Frankie Four Fingers from the movie "Snatch". Apart from that, nothing novel about going to his lectures. I went to 3 this semester, and did about as well as everyone else. Go to drop-in tutoring if you don't understand. It'll be your saving grace.

This professor was gone for the first two weeks of class for a vacation. In those two weeks we learned nothing relevant to the course. Because of this all chapters learned were glossed over and not taught well. Exams are not like the homework or examples done in class. If you can teach yourself the material you will do okay, maybe.

He is not easy to understand and the ta's he chose were not great. Had to teach almost everything to myself and dynamics is not an easy topic to learn on your own. Homework takes a while, and tests trip you up if you dont conceptually know the material perfectly.

This man is the single worst professor ive had in my college career. Teaches nothing in lecture, and his syllabus doesnt even have us covering the last 2 chapters of material we need in the course. His exams are barely based off the material, and he gives no materials for preparation.

From the other comments you might have figured out you have to teach yourself thermodynamics and this is entirely correct. Never in my career as a student have I ever had such a terrible professor. I did end up getting an A in the course, but it was not easy. This semester they increased the difficulty of the class. Should be called R-134.

He is very boring and unhelpful, but the first three weeks he poses some interesting questions. The book he chooses is supposedly the best thermo book available. However, the class is easy.

Going to class is pointless. Have to teach everything to yourself out of the extremely dry, boring book. The midterms are all ridiculously easy, averages were all around 100. Final was difficult, but was almost identical to homework problems.

Like everyone else said. Yea you have to teach yourself, but this is a research university so it's kind of to be expected. One of the smartest prof I have had, but I wouldn't bother going to class unless you like the theory. If you can do the homework, you'll do fine on the tests.

Couldn't understand a word he said, but the exams were definitely easy.

You basically have to teach yourself the material form the book but if you can do the homework you'll ace his easy midterms. I had over 100% going into the final and I thought it was excessively difficult. Don't bother going to lecture its pretty worthless other than when he'll tell you that there's a test at the end of the week.

If you enjoy teaching yourself Thermodynamics and paying to do it take this professor. Useless lectures that would be better spent doing absolutely anything else and the midterms were incredibly inconsistent. Very obvious that he was forced to teach this course.