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ME 250 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 3:55 am, Mar 23, 2006 |
2 of 2 people found the following evaluation helpful: Dr. Fitzhorn, please read this because I know you must not be reading your course evaluations. Stop belittling us, stop with your idiotic stories, stop assigning homeworks that you do not know how to do, stop losing my papers, stop skipping class because you think there are more important things to do at the race lab, stop drinking so much coffee, stop using the same 5 SAT adjectives to describe everything, stop teaching me about binary numbers, stop telling me about plasma screens in CAD courses and parabolic curve fits in a MathCAD course, stop loafing, stop trying to set up your wireless internet: it never works, stop yelling, stop typing emails when I come to your office hours, stop growing your hair, and finally, please stop working for CSU. You have wasted two semesters and 6 credits of my education, and on behalf of all of us: please quit. Was this rating helpful to you? |
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MECH 486 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 7:22 pm, Oct 28, 2009 |
1 of 1 people found the following evaluation helpful: People who complain about Fitzhorn are completely clueless. Is he a jerk who doesn't care about students? Yes. However, Fitzhorn is playing a role and really trying to teach his students a lesson. That in industry your boss or supervisor doesn't really care about you. They care about results and the bottom line. He is not there to hold your hand through everything. He is there to make you apply yourself, to accept responsibility and figure stuff out on your own. Yes he is dry and tends to repeat himself from class to class but he is also pushing you to be a better engineer. Sorry for the rant but as a engineering student you are supposed to be a good problem solver so solve the Fitzhorn problem and move on. Was this rating helpful to you? |
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MECH 100 Freshman Grade Earned: A Elective 10:29 pm, Dec 17, 2008 |
1 of 1 people found the following evaluation helpful: guy's a dick head. most worthless piece of crap i've ever seen. i dont even think he knows what he's teaching because every day is story time and he tells you about some 'really cool experiment' he did. honestly, i should have stayed home and slept rather than go to his class and be forced to fall asleep or become dumber by the minute. class is worthless and NOT REQUIRED for a reason Was this rating helpful to you? |
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ME 250 Senior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 4:37 pm, Jan 10, 2005 |
1 of 1 people found the following evaluation helpful: Prof Fitzhorn's lectures have absolutely no relevance to the class at all. I'm still not sure why I showed up. He likes to blab on about how to do things like interpret data when we become professional engineers, but nothing that actually relates to the class he is attempting to teach. The best example of his teaching I can give to you is when someone attempted to ask a question about a computer program we were using predominantly in the class. When he asked the question, Fitzhorn responded (and I quote) "SCREW THAT, LEARN IT YOURSELF" wanting us to use the help function to learn the program, b/c he would not teach the class. Seems a little out of line for a class entitled "Computer Applications in Mechanical Engr" Was this rating helpful to you? |
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ME 250 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 1:55 am, Dec 23, 2004 |
1 of 1 people found the following evaluation helpful: Where do I begin? “P Fizzy” HAS to be the worst teacher in the ME dept. I don’t know where they dug this guy up but his lectures are pointless (I went to <50% of the lectures) They might as well rename the course “ME 250 Conspiracy Theories for Engineers” because that is all that this class entails; worthless crap. Fizzys tests were Dr Dave’s sample tests from his website, and the final was a compilation of the previous two tests with a Fourier series question mixed in. This class should not have been hard, but it was, because the book was a horrible and the teacher didn’t know anything… about the subject. People say “he’s smart I’ll give him that” but in reality, no, he’s not. He looked up “everywhere” in the dictionary and came up with “ubiquitous” so he thinks he sounds smart. The first three weeks of ME250 were verbatim from ME120 when fizzy taught it, a bunch of binary stuff you wont see on the test, a couple cute drawings, then he ran out of material and prattled on about nothing for the remainder of the semester. I think there’s a bounty on his pyramid coffee cup, steal it I’ll pay you cash for it. Although I DO have to give Fizzy some credit, his class might have been a horrendous waste of time, the material he “taught” might have been entirely worthless, and although I do want to bash my head in with a brick whenever I hear “two-fitty”… He did do a good job of…wait… no, no I can’t think of anything, yeah P Fizzy totally sucks, best of luck to you if you ever get him as a prof. Thanks for wasting my tuition dollars and my time. Oh and I'm not being fastuous, he's a crappy prof and everything I said above is true Was this rating helpful to you? |
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ME 250 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 10:31 am, Dec 6, 2004 |
1 of 1 people found the following evaluation helpful: He canceled class like 10 times..which is all well and good, but he is very unorganized and bounces all around topics that seem to be not even needed for this major. Overall a worthless class that was totally unoraganized and a waste to be a part of. Was this rating helpful to you? |
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ME 120 Junior Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 10:08 am, Sep 23, 2002 |
1 of 1 people found the following evaluation helpful: I'll give him credit for being smart, but he's way to cocky about it. Student opinions don't matter. You're wrong, he's right. Period. There's no point in questioning what he says because he throws it back at you and then criticizes you for making such an "obsurd comment." You will always be inferior becuase you're just a student. Was this rating helpful to you? |
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MECH 100 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 10:56 pm, Mar 8, 2010 |
He really got into the topic and got us excited about the program with a lot of insightful comments and analogies. He grades to the .00001% with no extra credit as far as the grading scale goes. The work you do is the grade you get. I should have studied more, but I read the text and did exceptionally well on the exams- All multiple choice and a few freebies. A few homeworks are dropped, but they are a major part of the class, do not wait till the night before or just skip them! They require group collaboration and lots of time and effort, but it is worth it if Mech is for you. Overall, a bit of a challenge, but not too hard.
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MECH 100 Freshman Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 3:06 pm, Nov 18, 2008 |
Horrible
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MECH 100 Freshman Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 2:53 pm, Nov 18, 2008 |
Biggest retard i have ever heard. Has some dumb ho grade his papers unfairly not even based on content. Never have this man as a professor.
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MECH 201 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 10:15 pm, May 6, 2008 |
I have to agree to "Complete waste of time"
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ME 100 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 5:16 pm, Dec 4, 2007 |
Complete waste of time, I wish someone had told me this is not a requirement for ME 101 or ME 102. I don't even understand the purpose of the class. Homework is nothing like the lectures and who knows what is going to be put on the final. It seriously makes me not want to be an engineer. He rambles so much it's ridiculous.
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ME 102 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 12:29 am, Sep 1, 2006 |
This class was a waste of time; I took nothing away from the course when I finished. All he does is ramble about nothing, and the tests cover his ramblings so you have to go listen to him. I honestly don't understand why he teaches, he seems to hate every student he meets. It really feels like he's just "winging it" every day; he doesn't come to class with a lesson plan, only what's in his head (which is either common knowledge or useless information). I saw him outside of class once, he could not possibly have been less interested in talking to me.
Tests cover the lectures (the book is worthless), the final is basically the previous tests stapled together.
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ME 250 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 10:12 pm, May 19, 2006 |
Patrick has to be the worst professor that I have ever had. His lectures have no relevance to the course material. This is most likely do to the fact that, he doesn’t know anything about, what he is suppose to be teaching. He uses big technical words but in the wrong context. He plagiarized the whole ME 250 course from Dr. Dave’s course website. He used same exact tests,home works and other general information.I am impressed that he actually changed the name on the Syllabus. I kind of thought, that plagiarism was frond upon at CSU. He seems like a nice guy when talking to him but if you dont kiss his ass he will screw you over. I honestly cannot understand why he is still teaching.
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ME 120 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 10:26 pm, Feb 14, 2006 |
lectures had no relevance to book material, yet exams tested entirely on what he talked about in class.
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ME 250 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 12:20 am, May 8, 2005 |
Need to comment on the doofus down below that was criticizing the professor for saying that F didn't equal ma. Maybe you should learn a bit more before you complain. He is, in fact, correct. F = dp/dt. As long as the mass doesn't change, F = ma, but if the mass changes, then an additional term is introduced. The fact that you're blasting a professor for trying to point out a subtlety (not all that subtle, as it should have been clear) doesn't speak to highly of the future ME that you're trying to become. Then again, with that sort of attitude, you probably will never make it. What a gomer.
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ME 250 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 10:59 pm, Dec 22, 2004 |
Wow, there is not much to say here except that Fitzhorn is the worst professor I have ever had. Organization is to ME 250 as pole vaulting is to Stephen Hawking. Fitzhorn canceled class repeatedly, which was not a horrible loss seeing as we did not learn anything worthwhile during lecture time anyways. He will never tell you a thing in class that will help you on your homeworks. It got horrible near the end of the year when our homeworks were on Fourier Series and he hadn't even mentioned the word in class. If you want to do well in Fitzhorn's ME 250 class, copy your homework from someone who took the class from Dr. Alciatore (they are the same homeworks) and study the practice exams on www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/me250 This is Dr. Dave's website from which Fitzhorn copies his exams. On the final he mainly just recycles old questions from previous exams plus a few more questions copied from Dr. Dave's final. Don't worry about his idiotic babble during lecture time, you will never see/hear of it again.
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ME 250 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 12:26 pm, Aug 26, 2004 |
F does not equal "ma". He got really angry and shouted that once. He's an alright guy, but as a teacher- could use improvement.
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ME 120 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 12:48 am, Aug 23, 2004 |
I have no idea why everyone is ripping on P. Fizzy. Maybe these people are all lazy asses that don''t go to class or study or ever sober up. He was an excelent teacher. He was fair, fairly funny, for a professor at least, and he was a great guy to talk to outside of class. He was cool with us to. Once he came into class and said he didn''t feel like having class, so we all left! He does other things like that too. He''s great. I recommend him.
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ME 121 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 1:40 pm, Oct 31, 2003 |
firstly, it's ubiquitous. Secondarily, skullets suck, and tertiarily, kraikee!
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ME 120 Sophomore Grade Earned: Withdrawn Elective 1:28 am, Jun 2, 2003 |
Bad professor all around!! Don't take him!
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ME 120 Freshman Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 4:36 pm, May 13, 2003 |
The class starts out looking like itll be cool, but it quickly gets repetitive and lectures are pointless. The test is basically an IQ test. ProE is flawless so don't try to argue that it has errors. The best thing about this class is learning how to use ProE, and that is done on your own time. He does come off as arrogant but I have never talked to him in person and the classes I did bother to go to, don't ask me why since it was a waste of time, I pretty much slept through.
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ME 101 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 3:27 pm, Sep 26, 2002 |
Dr. Fitzhorn is the most cocky arrogant person I have met at CSU. He abuses the power that his positions gives him as much as he can. He is always right and don't you dare try to prove him wrong, because he assumes you are insulting him and he will hold it against you. The best strategy for his class is to keep your mouth shut and let him ramble about how smart he is and how stupid the students are.
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ME 101 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 11:14 pm, Sep 4, 2002 |
Profesor did not treat student's opinions fairly. The professor never told the students that they were completely right, along with no supportive comments. Also, the professor singled out certain students.
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ME 201 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 9:42 pm, May 28, 2007 |
0 of 1 people found the following evaluation helpful: I've taken ME102 and ME202 from him, and every class of his is a complete waste of time. "THE PAIN THAT IS FITZHORN" is 100% accurate Upperclassmen are smart, listen to them. He is lazy, disorganized, and wastes your time rambling with a lot of stuff that doesn't matter. He's also really annoying to listen to for an extended period of time. I want to smash his coffee cup that he doesn't even drink from! He especially upset me by weighting his ridiculously easy, insignificant tests even MORE than the time-intensive group projects he assigns. Unbelievable. Sorry fellow, lowerclassmen mechanical engineering students, you're stuck with him. Better than Dr. Dave though Was this rating helpful to you? |
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ME 120 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 12:19 pm, Nov 2, 2003 |
0 of 1 people found the following evaluation helpful: P-Fizzy is the best teacher in the department if all the other teachers could be like him it would be awsome.... o wait, id rater crush all my teeth with a pair of pliers and swallow them whole. lecturs were a joke, i left each one not questioning the material, but instead questioning myself of why i wasted my time going to them and was it really worth the hour of my time. honestly felt guilty of paying tuition that semester and reciving the services i did, instead of giving that man my tuition, i should have paid for his haircut and called it a day. he thinks hes so much smarter than everyone else, but its really just a powertrip gone bad, and everyone recognizes it. and if i hear his god damn stories for one more second i might kill myself, you did not design any motorcycle or anyting on a napkin in a bar and if you had, then you would be right and famous (which you aren't, ive seen your motorcycle) So overall, i think you should cal it a day, youve had good run so far, do the ME department a favor and transfer to the art department Was this rating helpful to you? |
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