Do yourself a favor, and don't take ECE 712 with him.The lectures are horrible, the course is just MATLAB coding for one pointless problem, and you learn very little.He won't help you with the coding part either.Homework is excessive, even in groups of four. The course doesn't reflect the quality you'd expect from UW–Madison. Just terrible overall.

Flipped classroom. Exams, Homeworks, and in-class exercises are all graded automatically with no feedback. Lectures are old and prerecorded (not even by him)! Unsure what the University is paying him to do.

There isn't feedback on any of the work. Lecture videos are rushed and outdated. Exam format awards no partial credit, and is an anxiety inducing format. Lectures are flipped and Steve switched the class to 8 am, because it fit his schedule better. Steve is very knowledgeable, but the way he runs this course is lazy and selfish. Waste of money.

This prof is not friendly. He does not care your grade or have 3 midterm in one day. I had some physical issues but refused to request makeup exam. What a incredible masterpiece

A perfect fit to teach a tough course. Always shows up enthusiastically ready to teach and help students understand circuits better. He actually wants you to learn and succeed in engineering rather than just teaching a class because he has to. Just a great guy

Professor teaches hard material but is incredibly helpful and willing to adapt to his students. Best professor I have had in college, even with the difficulty of circuits he made it enjoyable.

FOR ECE230. 230 is a flipped-classroom class, so Professor Fredette doesn't have too much of an impact on the class. With that said, he is a solid teacher and gives good answers when you ask him a question. If you're thinking of taking a flipped class like 230 with Professor Fredette, he's probably one of your best options.

ECE 376 was a hard class for me but I have to admit, Steve was an amazing professor. Steve truly cares about his students and answers questions really fast outside of class. Your grade for this class, however, heavily depends on how much effort you put into this class.

The most condescing "professor" I've had. A glorified TA, as he re-uses lecture videos from another professor and makes all assignment online and auto-graded, meaning he puts in little to no work. Too much weight put into online, no partial credit, fill in the blank, exams. Never ending assignments that make up only 25% of your grade.

Professor Fredette is at UW to work in wempec, not to teach. As such, he did not create his own hw, exercises, exams, videos, or discussion slides. He also never lectures so he has done the minimum effort of any professor I've taken. The class just sucks, take mechatronics instead because who in the world analyzes circuits by hand anymore.

Worst class I've ever taken, you watch outdated lectures, listen to this guy give a poorly done short speech, then are quizzed on what you just learned every single day for 15% of your grade. If you want to do well your options are to study material before he teaches it, or not show up and learn it yourself. And he wonders why no one shows up...

Constantly talked about how he was a "5 star professor", but refused to listen to students problems with workload in the class. The class is "flipped" meaning you watch lectures that he never made, recorded years ago, to go into class to work on exercises that he rushed out in a day and not even get half way through them. Never ending homework!!!!

Recorded lectures go so fast you need to pause every 2s to write. Exercises are impossible to finish in class and have large penalties for mistakes. Plus there's hw every week. Steve calls himself a 5 star professor, but refuses to acknowledge that students are struggling because he allows this class to keep being taught like this.

The worst class I've taken at UW. Outdated, "flipped environment" where you pay for lectures and instead work on exercises that were rushed in a day by the professor. Doesn't take responsibility for his content because he didn't make it. Acts upbeat and nice but really condescending and rude when answering questions.

Arguably the best professor I have ever had in my life.

He's a really nice guy who you'll get along with great, but I'm not really sure what his job is for the class. All of the online lectures are videos recorded years ago by someone else, and the in class lecture is a "flipped" classroom where you spend time working on what is essentially homework and is required attendance for some reason.

Hes extremely upbeat every class period and was always happy to answer questions while groups worked. The class was pretty tough, but the class environment really made it feel not as bad. He was also extremely easy to set up accommodations with and was very approachable.

I have had the honor of being a student for and ta-ing with Steve. He gets a lot of flack for having difficult classes but the thing is he will never test you on something he hasn't taught. ECE376 isn't meant to be a cake walk and a majority of his naysayers are people who fail to understand that. Great guy and professor. You will learn something.

Great guy, took him for two classes. Gives lots of worked examples that help with the homework. Do problems out of the textbook because most of his exams come from textbook examples with numbers/values changed. Easy class if you use the textbook

I liked the flipped course option. He gave lots of worked examples.