better than kauffman but still really really hard go to snider's office hours

She's really enthusiastic about teaching, and she really knows what she's talking about. Sometimes she gets a little pressed for time in lecture, but she's really easy to talk to in office hours. If you can't go to her scheduled office hours, she's very willing to make special appointments with students, as well. I recommend taking her classes if you have the opportunity. Tests are tough but fair, and the curve will fill out nicely.

Homeworks and tests were pretty difficult. Make sure you prepare well for the tests.

This professor is very knowledgable but hard. I had a tough time in this class because the material was difficult, the examples in the book were misleading, and some of the answers were incorrect. The midterms were really hard and the averages were very low. If you don't need to take this class, don't take it.

Look at the average GPA. 2.3. That should say enough, not even mentioning that this is an upper level engineering course.

This course was hard and the professor was not accomodating.

the class is not extremely hard. homework assignments can be tricky, but many times test and quiz problems are similar to the homework. the class is rather dry but not too hard if you put in the effort to understand.

I found the homework rather easy, but then Professor Giffen's quizzes and exams were extremely difficult. She always added a twist to the problems on the quizzes and tests, which always threw me off. Overall though, this class is pretty useful. The average on the second exam was only a 50% and she refused to curve any higher than a C-. Be prepared to spend a lot of time memorizing the uses of various distributions. She also awards very little partial credit for problems.

Seems easy in class, but it's impossible on tests...Daria is very unhelpful.

This class starts out easy and gets hard. Most people don't like Giffen, but this was my third semester with her and I had no complaints. The class was not impossible, but it requires progressively more high-level thinking while maintaining a constant level of memorization requirements.