Favorite Professor

[HOTDON]

Dana Haugli - Aerospace 160 and 161.

I should have liked him, but for whatever reason he just seemed like he had it in for me. Maybe he wasn't a fan of having ME's taking up seats in his classes.

Brian Dewall was probably my favorite. Multiple degrees, ex military, had an article published in Playboy, hand builds high end furniture, writes contemporary fiction, scotch fan, and still found time to teach us. If half of his storys were half truths, he's a legend.

I liked Dr. Pate too. Fun to listen to, and lived and breathed the material he was teaching. Anyone know if the Creativity and Imagination class I took with him my senior year was ever offered again?

 

[bigsag]

My favorite professor was Daniel Bietz. Taught biochemistry my first year in Vet. school back in '71-'72. As he stated many times : "If you understand biochemistry; you understand life."

 

[GOPCyclone]

I have to give a shoutout to David Carter-Lewis. Took Physics 198 from him. You could tell he loved his subject with a fiery passion. I, however, did not. Credit to him for spending more time explaining stuff to me than anyone with an elementary understanding of physics has a right to.

 

[fwiw]

I like to regale my students with a tale from the first exam I ever had with Kottman. That man was absolutely brutal, but it was awesome and memorable. The fact that he let nothing slide made you either strive to excel or quit.

In one way, kind of a Tim Floyd of history profs.

That's a great way to put it ... if you paid attention and put in the work you would get your money's worth, that's for sure. Even though the two classes I took with Kottman were electives and really had nothing to do with my major, they were certainly two of the most memorable ones I ever took.

Another was the calc class in one of the top floor classrooms in Beardshear over the winter. The windows were so drafty there were snow drifts on the window sills. Seriously. The instructor was pretty d*** good, she was a total math nerd, but she did a great job in less than ideal conditions.

 

[GOPCyclone]

My favorite professor was Daniel Bietz.

Bietz = an awesome guy. I didn't know him from school, but rather from church. Still an awesome personality, though.

 

[Entropy]

My favorite professor was Daniel Bietz. Taught biochemistry my first year in Vet. school back in '71-'72. As he stated many times : "If you understand biochemistry; you understand life."

I think you mean Don Beitz. I had him as well for BBMB 501.

 

[ISUAlum2002]

Not true. I had a handful who weren't fit to scrub crap off the inside of a dorm hall toilet. I won't name names, though I'd like to. I wrote a 5-page condemnation of one of my management professors one semester before the course evaluation. I'm sure the business college staff had fun using it to light their campfire or something. :realmad:

Sounds like it might have been Roy Johnson.

I remember the day after he handed out the course evaluation sheets he came in and immediately started berating the class about all the negative comments that were made about him. Talking about how he was never prepared for class, always late, didn't seem to know the coursework, etc. etc. Up until then, I had thought the profs weren't supposed to be able to see any comments until after the semesters were over. I had a whole new view of the evaluation sheets after that.

 

[GOPCyclone]

Sounds like it might have been Roy Johnson.

I remember the day after he handed out the course evaluation sheets he came in and immediately started berating the class about all the negative comments that were made about him. Talking about how he was never prepared for class, always late, didn't seem to know the coursework, etc. etc. Up until then, I had thought the profs weren't supposed to be able to see any comments until after the semesters were over. I had a whole new view of the evaluation sheets after that.

YES! Holy crap. What year was that, cause we had the same problem with him! He would've gotten a whole lot more static from us, except nobody was brave enough to go toe-to-toe with Tom Chacko. There aren't many people that I have nothing good to say about, but Johnson was one of them...

 

[ISUAlum2002]

YES! Holy crap. What year was that, cause we had the same problem with him! He would've gotten a whole lot more static from us, except nobody was brave enough to go toe-to-toe with Tom Chacko. There aren't many people that I have nothing good to say about, but Johnson was one of them...

It was either fall of 2001 or fall of 2002, I can't remember for sure. I honestly didn't mind Roy too much because he was a bit of comic relief in the middle of the day for me. His seemingly arbitrary grading was a bit annoying but it was only mildly worse than all the other business management profs' grading habits.

As long as you go into his class realizing you aren't going to learn much, you'll be fine.

 

[GOPCyclone]

It was either fall of 2001 or fall of 2002, I can't remember for sure. I honestly didn't mind Roy too much because he was a bit of comic relief in the middle of the day for me. His seemingly arbitrary grading was a bit annoying but it was only mildly worse than all the other business management profs' grading habits.

As long as you go into his class realizing you aren't going to learn much, you'll be fine.

I had him Fall of '08. I've never seen anyone so worthless in my life. I wouldn't hire him to break rocks at a rock quarry.

 

[GOPCyclone]

I think you mean Don Beitz. I had him as well for BBMB 501.

Yes! That's right. Confusion on my part. Great guy, nonetheless.

 

[Entropy]

Yes! That's right. Confusion on my part. Great guy, nonetheless.

He was my favorite part of that class. The rest of the professors were great scientists, but terrible instructors.

 

[NickTheGreat]

I've gotta second the Lee Burras one. He was an AWESOME prof.
Also Peggy for EM306. Was able to get Statics and Mechanics out of the way in one class :yes:
Terry Alexander for Econ 101? First ISU class and learned a lot from it.

 

[rebecacy]

I think you mean Don Beitz. I had him as well for BBMB 501.

Very good friend of mine -- huge Cardinal fan.

 

[oldman]

Prof Wright for Calc III. Retired. He'd get these different colored chalks out and be talking non-stop, but writing very slowly, so you could always keep up. Hilarious to boot.

 

[tccoach]

Dawn MacDonald - PE...I took a badminton class (insert joke here) but seriously she was amazing...she was nearing retirement age and could still beat up on anyone in the class....even Justus Thigpen if I remember right.

 

[Natejj]

I liked Dr. Pate too. Fun to listen to, and lived and breathed the material he was teaching. Anyone know if the Creativity and Imagination class I took with him my senior year was ever offered again?

Nope. That was only a one time shot for whatever reason. Pate left ISU a few years ago and is a Texas A&M now. Doug Beck (academic advisor) is also at A&M now.

 

[bowlfan912]

Dr. Prieto from LAS 211. Great class down to earth guy, one of my favorite classes.