Who Was Your Best Prof...and Why?

I've had Stoff and Graham!

Both awesome. Graham was a great man.

Anybody have Uri Treisman? That man made freshman calc awesome (very hard to do). I remember he created a couple math majors in that class, and he always has HOT TAs.
 
Anyone take Lamphear? Taught me military history and East African history and made me care a ton about both subjects. He was an amazing lecturer. I took him in his last semester before he retired, and his final exam was completely opinion-oriented:
"What was your favorite part of the class? Your least favorite?" It was amazing (I got an A).
 
I couldn't agree more about Dr. Patt. He was by far and away my favorite. Had him for EE306 (I think that's the first one) and again for EE360...I think it was N but I took too many 360 classes to keep them straight. I enjoyed every single lab assignment in that class...specifically the pipelined LC3...great stuff.

I do not, however, share the same sentiment with Lipovski. I got stuck with him for EE319K and EE345...L I think...took all of those as well because I was apparently suicidal. He was definitely an extremely smart guy but he was sooooooo boring. I remember trying to just stay awake in his classes.

Valvano was a pretty cool dude as well. I enjoyed his 345 class (M?) too...it was in CBA and I got to check out the hotter side of campus 3x a week.
 
westpx - my freshman year was the last year that the ECE dept ran the "EE301" class rather than Patt's redesigned 306. I'm bummed I missed that, but 360N rocked, as stated.

Who was the total douche that taught the 2nd round of circuits that actually took attendance? Miss more than 3 classes, auto-F? Whomever that was, the final was so hard that the guy I partnered with, who had like a 96 going into it, made a B, and I made a weak, weak C.

Only had Valvano for one class, but he rocked. I wish I'd have gotten to know him better.
 
I assume you're referring to EE411...I had Arapostathis for that class. He was the greek guy with the thick accent. I had to sit in the 2nd row just to try and listen to the guy. I learned more out from going to the TA during office hours than I did sitting in that class.
 
no, not Aropathastis (sp) - he was just another face in the crowd, got a B in 411. Who knows, I don't wanna go look at my transcript - it's been 8 damn years.
 
Good Lord, how do y'all remember the class number?? I guess it hasn't been 20+ years for all of you.

Forgie was the most entertaining I can remember. Of course it is easier to spice up Civil War history than it is Statics & Dynamics, Physics, or Organic Chemistry.
 
I graduated in 05 so it hasn't been too long for me. When they start tacking on random letters to classes that gets confusing pretty quickly.
 
History is probably the easiest subject to make compelling. I'm glad I teach that, and not math.
 
The best overall was John Daly for Interpersonal Communication Skills. That class was the most fun I had in any level of school.

I'll say my next favorite was Wynn for History of the Soviet Union and Stalinism or something like that. I was fascinated by those topics and he made them come to life for me.

Least favorite was Morgan for Roman Empire and his smug teaching assistant that had a beard and thought he was remotely intelligent.
 
John Daly was a really nice guy. I was fortunate enough to get to know him outside of that class of 500. Also, it was one of the few classes i had that had 90% attendance every time. There were even a few classes with standing room only. he was one of my favorites.

My top prof was Dr. Mark Knapp. I had him for Interpersonal Communication, Communitcation of Close Relationships and Lying and Deception. He was a really nice guy and taught really well. He is also the only prof I still have any contact with.
 
Nolalonghorn16:
I took Lamphear for Military History and it was the most interesting History class I had at UT. He had a passion for the subject that was quite infectious. Excellent teacher.
 
For undergrad, Devendra Singh. I can't remember the name of the course, but it was something in the Psychology department about genders. He's hilarious and brilliant.

For law school, Guy Welborn. Another hilarious genius. The type that really makes you want to learn. Not just some yahoo who could care less about teaching and is just there to do research and write.
 
Forgie as well, for all the aforementioned reasons. I have never seen anyone freehand maps on a chalkboard the way he did.

I did enjoy Davies but only had one class, Dr Foote however was an inspriation and whose lectures were way above par.

Dr Morgan in the classics is one I remember distinctly as having been very engaging with students.
 
Palaima was an ***. The TAs didn't like him and neither did the students. I thought after I had escaped his classics course (one of the like 8 ppl with an A out of a class of 300--something he was proud of), he decided to sit on Antone's Blues course. Cliff's eyes would glaze over every time that douchebag started talking about Dylan.
 
Had several excellent history profs:

Lamphear, Military History
Hunt, History of Science
Morgan, Roman Empire

The thing they all shared was a passion for the subject matter and uncompromisingly high standards. Only the top 10% got an A in their classes. They were also funny. Morgan particularly had a brutally piercing wit.
 
I'll always be fond of Don Graham as a teacher because I turned in the two required essays with my final exam -- without asking him beforehand -- and he didn't penalize me for it. I received an "A" in the course.

The worst teacher I had was a world literature teacher that described herself as a "Marxist-Feminist-Leninist." Practically every story we read related to the oppression of women through the ages.
 
Absolutely agree. Morgan and Lamphear were, by far, my favorite professors while on campus. I took 3 classes with Lamphear and 3 classes with Morgan. If I had to choose b/t the 2, I'd pick Morgan who's wit and satirical comments made the class a joy to attend.

I still remember taking Morgan for the 1st time, Roman, The Republic. As you recall, he gave 3 exams over the term. As we were furiously scribbling in our blue books near the end of time, he pulled out a large, black trash bag and popped it open, careful to make as much noise as possible. As the entire class looked up, he peered over his glasses, which always hung precariously on the end of his nose, and stated, in his biting Welsh tongue, "For the garbage you are about to give me". It was at that moment that I knew I had found my favorite professor.

Plus he kept the single worst review he had received in his office, on the wall for all to see. Hilarious.
 
UT J-school: Dr. Don Heider.

He shaped my thinking about how to be a more responsible and ethical broadcast journalist, and really showed me how to analyze things that way. It has helped me immensely even from the other side of the camera. My class was small, and Heider had just come to UT at that time. He quickly made us believers and made us all be very strategic about what we might see out there in the real world. I quit broadcast journalism three years later, but still carry much of Heider's teachings with me to this day.

Another vote for the late Mike Quinn. Media Law and Ethics. A required course for j-schoolers but what I learned the most was not so much in the readings (yeah, you still had to study!), but just listening to what Quinn had to say from his experiences was just fascinating.

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