Scott is amazing his lectures are interesting and engaging. The material is kinda hard but if you show up to class and do your homework you'll be fine

Class is very homework heavy, with up to 6 assignments per week. Keep up with the homework assignments and you will do well on the exams. Lectures were recorded and posted to canvas during Spring 2023.

Best professor I've had at UW-Madison. He presents the information very clearly and in an interesting way. Lots of homework but you learn a lot while doing it. Exam questions are weird but they are trying to test your understanding. Very helpful over email and in office hours. Can't ask for better.

His lectures will put you into a coma.

Prof Sanders is great at teaching the material. Exam questions are very fair and are similar to but often easier than the homework. Overall great class

Really good lecturer, nice guy, and very fair tests

Yes, he does assign a lot of homeworks. Connect and handwritten/EES hw 3 times a week (about 60 hws total), but because there is so much homework it makes it less stressful to study for exams. As a result, his exams are fair and pretty easy if you understand the concepts. Grades come back super quick so you know what you have in the class.

Professor sanders is a pretty decent professor. His class is interesting, and the lectures always include examples problems which help a lot on the hw. On the other hand, there is a ton of hw and the exams dont really match up with the hw problems, so its hard to prepare for the exams. Get ready to work.

Sanders is by far the worst prof I've ever had @ my time @ Madison. HW takes 3 hrs per assignment and there are 3 HWs a week. He is unavailable, disinterested during office hours. Finally, exams and HW consistently include surprise content that was never taught or is taught in subsequent lectures. Content is not the problem, Sanders is.

He's a great guy! If you can keep up in thermo, you'll pass. The tests are a bit disjointed from the hw and classwork, prep for surprises. It'll be okay if you don't do great on exams tho because the homework is worth something like 35% of the grade.

Office hours are pretty much working with a group, and the teaching isn't that inspired. Homeworks are pretty easy, the textbook he teaches from can be found online for free, he works enough examples, and the solutions are always posted so that you can learn from every homework (online via Connect AND custom-made, merge together later in semester)

There are 3 hws a week (hardcopy & online) that can be hard and take 2+ hours, but in return his tests are very fair. ULC and having a study group are important. Lectures are a little boring but Sanders is passionate about the material and is willing to help you. One of the better engineering professors Ive had, the amount of hw is just rough.

3 midterms. Tons of homework (6 assignments every week!). Lectures a little boring but his method gets a little better later in the semester. Sometimes throws incredibly stupid things on homework we've never learned. Still probably better than a lot of thermodynamics profs.

Sanders is a nice guy and answers questions well. His lectures are really dull but relevant to material. There is so much homework - the ULC's drop-in tutoring will save your life, but be prepared to live there. The text book is also really useful, and the amount of homework prepares you well for exams, which are pretty fair and graded well.

I was frustrated with Prof. Sanders in the beginning but as time went on his teaching began to grow on me. Homework is where you'll really learn most of the material but I thoroughly enjoyed watching Sanders think out loud when explaining concepts in lecture with his sporadic hand motions and exaggerated emphasis on the concepts.

Sander's cares about students learning the material, however, if he really cared about us learning ME361, he would stop teaching it. The homeworks take roughly 3-5 hours to complete per assignment with help from the ULC. The exams are fair, but the homeworks definitely make up for the fair exams. 3 HW's per week are aggressive and take too long.

Homeworks are hard and long, and theres 3 of them per week. Lectures are not useful.

Professor Sanders is good, the problem for this class is those people that grade the hw. Those bast/ards should go to h/ell.

Sanders' lectures were very hit-and-miss. One day he would methodically go through an extremely helpful example problem, the next day my notes would be useless. However, his handouts were decent, so I suggest regular attendance. Don't be afraid to take this teacher; if you find a good study group and put in the hours, you can do well in this class.

HW is extremely hard, and the lecture is not helpful at all.

To get it out of the way; yes, he doesn't make eye contact all that much. However, he is quite a good professor. He is excellent at explaining material, and if you ask him a question, he will answer it very quickly. While his lectures are sort of dry, they never feel like they last forever, because you can tell he cares about this subject.

not Scott's fault that this course sucks. he probably does a better job with it than other people would. he is nerdy but he enjoys this subject a lot. that being said don't expect feedback or much help. expect a lot of time spent on HW and labs. he says part of the course is "troubleshooting" so things are vague. will not be fun but is required

The class is 40% homework and 12% on a project, and usually you can find the answers for the HW. The tests are fair as he expects most students to do well in them. He is not a good lecturer but he teaches straight from the book. You will have to teach yourself the material most likely but if you pay attention to the homwork, the class is manageable

CAUTION: Avoid at all costs. Terrible professor, you will not learn a thing. Lecture and homework don't relate to tests at all. Also he's extremely rude and awkward, afraid of eye contact and conversation. Open book tests make the class passable.

I learn absolutely nothing from this guy. I am currently writing a 10 page lab report for him right now. I go to lecture everyday, but the concept on this lab is completely new to me.

I don't understand the problems people had with his class. He asks a question that covers exactly what he taught and emphasized in homework and half the class fails. Then they all complain it had nothing to do with what they learned. YES IT DID!!! Maybe instead of writing equations they should have thought about it for a minute or two. He rocks.

Unclear teaching style. Spends lots of time on easy topics and little or no time on difficult ones. No grading stucture for tests. I learned nothing and still got an AB.

Funny guy-- great to talk to outside of class. Easy tests, more than fair grading (in my class the lowest average test score was in the mid 70 percents and there was one kid who got 3 hundreds, the mean was somewhere in the mid-high 80s) If you go to class, and an hour into each test: A