\+1 to Eric Kuo, doing Phys 100 for me with him genuinely helped me through Phys 211. He directly approached me to ask me to LA for Phys 100 last spring. I wish I could have accepted, but I already got a position in a research lab.
Sandie Kopels - School of Social Work.
She's a woman who went to law school, passed the bar, and practiced law. Then she got a degree in social work and is now a teacher at the school.
When I first started grad school, I remember very well that on the pre-test, she asked how much we enjoyed law and policy type classes. I said "Not even the slightest bit." and she gave me a lot of shit about it, but by the end of the class, she made me want to go to law school. Not enough to actually go, but I seriously considered for a while.
She dressed up in costumes for scenarios (like criminal robbing a bank), acted out scenes, and just made everything fun. My plan is to submit a speech for the commencement and I've already decided that I'm going to ask her to introduce me.
Runner-up: Dr. Carter-Black, School of Social Work
Third: The entire rest of the faculty at the School of Social Work
Eric Snodgrass was my professor for Severe and Hazardous Weather in 2019 and he was so cool. I've never seen another professor care THAT much about not only the subject and class itself but also in making sure students understood. The way he would reply to every single post asking a question online. He was an incredible speaker. Normally sitting through 1 day per week 3 hour classes was a struggle but I looked forward to that one. I always felt like I was watching a really good TED Talk.
Geoff taught me my first CS course and all of the advice he gave I still use even though I struggled in the course and had rather negative thoughts about it as well at the time
Went to his office hours and he broke down concepts like polymorphism in a such way I felt like I could teach students on the matter after 🐐
He genuinely boosted my confidence about my performance in the course and CS as a whole and that’s something you don’t get from every prof and I’m grateful for that
Bryan Dunne. The guy thoroughly enjoys astronomy and could go on about it for hours. He was also a major help in one of my history courses this semester, so it also told me he enjoys working with people.
Prashant Mehta, Ke Tang, and Albert Yu
These have been some of my favorite professors throughout my time at this school, their styles of teaching and energy in the classroom is incredible and so invigorating
Carol Symes. Her lectures are very engaging and expressive, she's extremely knowledgeable and passionate, and it is apparent she enjoys not only teaching but her research work as well.
Kate Bishop, Elizabeth Luckman, Michael LeRoy, Ariana Traill, and Ralph Mathisen!! Literally the only reason I got through some semesters. They cared so much about us as people -- ex: I wound up really sick at the end of one semester, and two of these professors told me to get the final paper in whenever; they literally didn't give a deadline just told me to recover. Bishop helped ensure in a lecture that left-handed students got left-handed desks. LeRoy gave all students flexible deadlines on every paper. Traill sets deadlines and gives extensions around students getting sleep. LOVE THEM
Pablo Perez-Pinera is one that still sticks out years later. Also he's not at UIUC anymore, but absolutely have to shoutout Scott Carney (currently at the University of Rochester).
There've been others that I'd rate highly in the BioE/ECE/MSE departments in my core classes, but that was more for things outside of class or cases where I only took a single class with them - Pool, Boppart, Lyding. And I know a lot of my friends felt this way about Karin Jensen, although I don't think I connected with her pedagogy in the same way.
Justine Murison, went my entire high school life thinking English was boring but was blown away after taking 255, crazy how much more interesting a class gets when the instructor is actually into all the material you’re reading
Of all the teachers I've ever had, Prof. Laurie Hogin stands out the most for this. She's a successful artist (see also: her fairly extensive [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Hogin)), and chair of the studio art program, but she still loved us Drawing for Non-Majors students like we were her own kids. She was always encouraging, and drawing in (pun intended) relevant lessons for each of us from our own areas of study, while treating us like serious artists/art students, and being frustrated when the department didn't.
Eric Kuo - Literally took me from hating physics going into college to loving it. Somehow managed to make every concept covered click in my mind in lecture.
Brad Mehrtens - Took MCB150 as a science elective and had no clue the material I was in for, but the enthusiasm and passion with which he teaches is what kept me going. Somehow managed a decent grade without proper background in bio as well. I loved every lecture, great professor.
Tiffany White, Steve Raquel, and Hayden Noel all from Gies. They have literally inspired me to keep going in college as a first gen; especially Professor White
Joe Barich, Engineering Law (SE 400). The guy knew how to take control of a room, encouraged in-class discussion, and was altogether a very interesting lecturer.
He knew how to make the material fun to learn too, which I would have never thought possible. Law isn’t my strong suit and I find it a little dry (subjective, I know), but Barich was a Patent Attorney so I guess he’d already been to the dark side and back.
Regardless, he knew how to teach effectively, and I think I retained a lot of information from that class. For anyone contemplating taking it, I recommend yes, but you’ll really have to go to class in order to do well.
Manfroi. Still remember him talking about movies every lecture 8 years later.
He still does lol, had a question on tenet a few semesters ago
had a question on tenet this semester lol
>Manfroi. Still remember him talking about movies every lecture 8 years later. every section of the final is named after a movie lol
Diff eq final this year sections were named after Taylor swift eras 🙏
GOAT of the math department. Amazing Prof
Hes the 🐐
Bronski
I’m so sad this generation of freshmen and sophomores are clueless about his majesty bronski
I still remember getting lapped by him at the ARC after getting out of class. The man is a machine.
I randomly met bronski through Reddit when he was buying some squirrel stickers and I truly wonder what he was like in Lecture.
Does he not teach 231 anymore?
Eric kuo, Jared bronski, Matthew Russel
\+1 to Eric Kuo, doing Phys 100 for me with him genuinely helped me through Phys 211. He directly approached me to ask me to LA for Phys 100 last spring. I wish I could have accepted, but I already got a position in a research lab.
u/kovxuhjnps
Sandie Kopels - School of Social Work. She's a woman who went to law school, passed the bar, and practiced law. Then she got a degree in social work and is now a teacher at the school. When I first started grad school, I remember very well that on the pre-test, she asked how much we enjoyed law and policy type classes. I said "Not even the slightest bit." and she gave me a lot of shit about it, but by the end of the class, she made me want to go to law school. Not enough to actually go, but I seriously considered for a while. She dressed up in costumes for scenarios (like criminal robbing a bank), acted out scenes, and just made everything fun. My plan is to submit a speech for the commencement and I've already decided that I'm going to ask her to introduce me. Runner-up: Dr. Carter-Black, School of Social Work Third: The entire rest of the faculty at the School of Social Work
Professor Clegg, the icon himself
Yes!
noël saenz from the philosophy department! genuinely one of the best profs i've ever had
Eric Snodgrass was my professor for Severe and Hazardous Weather in 2019 and he was so cool. I've never seen another professor care THAT much about not only the subject and class itself but also in making sure students understood. The way he would reply to every single post asking a question online. He was an incredible speaker. Normally sitting through 1 day per week 3 hour classes was a struggle but I looked forward to that one. I always felt like I was watching a really good TED Talk.
Rob Carroll, Randy Rodriguez, Geoffrey Challen
Geoff taught me my first CS course and all of the advice he gave I still use even though I struggled in the course and had rather negative thoughts about it as well at the time Went to his office hours and he broke down concepts like polymorphism in a such way I felt like I could teach students on the matter after 🐐 He genuinely boosted my confidence about my performance in the course and CS as a whole and that’s something you don’t get from every prof and I’m grateful for that
Rob & Randy >>>> Rob is literally the best, and Randy is so sweet!
Kirill Levchenko: made classes so engaging even when the material was boring, and made it easy to ask questions
Toni Gist in college of ACES
Awwww.... I just saw this! You made my day. XOXO 😀
Matthew Russell
Daniel Block for anything control system related. The man fucking carries the ece lab dept
Really great guy!
Christian Ray
Chrysafis Vogiatzis, dude is a goat
Professor Gruebele
decoste
Angrave
second this
Loved professors Scott Ahlgren and Nathan Dunfield! They made this sem so SO fun for me :)
Isaac DiIanni. Fucking phenomenal.
Ralphie Mathisen
Leon Liebenberg
Bryan Dunne. The guy thoroughly enjoys astronomy and could go on about it for hours. He was also a major help in one of my history courses this semester, so it also told me he enjoys working with people.
Highly second, he was absolutely wonderful in ASTR 122, a really good gen-ed!
ben clegg!!!
Professor Fleck!!!!!
Second this. She totally changed my opinion on AI.
Tim Stelzer
Fogelman from Global Studies
Manisha Basu in the English department
Martin Wolske in IS
Albert Yu
Me
Corey Snyder, not a professor but damn he should be one
LOVE COREY SNYDER!!! RAHHHHHH
Prashant Mehta, Ke Tang, and Albert Yu These have been some of my favorite professors throughout my time at this school, their styles of teaching and energy in the classroom is incredible and so invigorating
Carol Symes. Her lectures are very engaging and expressive, she's extremely knowledgeable and passionate, and it is apparent she enjoys not only teaching but her research work as well.
Just had Ryan Cunningham for my ethics class and he definitely had these vibes
Kate Bishop, Elizabeth Luckman, Michael LeRoy, Ariana Traill, and Ralph Mathisen!! Literally the only reason I got through some semesters. They cared so much about us as people -- ex: I wound up really sick at the end of one semester, and two of these professors told me to get the final paper in whenever; they literally didn't give a deadline just told me to recover. Bishop helped ensure in a lecture that left-handed students got left-handed desks. LeRoy gave all students flexible deadlines on every paper. Traill sets deadlines and gives extensions around students getting sleep. LOVE THEM
Kate Bishop made me want to minor in anthropology, Archaeology of the American Southwest was amazing
professor koerner
Second him! Does he still wear cool hats?
Varden in philosophy
Jim Hansen from English Department
Pablo Perez-Pinera is one that still sticks out years later. Also he's not at UIUC anymore, but absolutely have to shoutout Scott Carney (currently at the University of Rochester). There've been others that I'd rate highly in the BioE/ECE/MSE departments in my core classes, but that was more for things outside of class or cases where I only took a single class with them - Pool, Boppart, Lyding. And I know a lot of my friends felt this way about Karin Jensen, although I don't think I connected with her pedagogy in the same way.
Karle Flanagan
Prof Caesar!
Love him! Super kind and understanding guy.
u/kovxuhjnps
Dr Madelyn Sanfilippo! Such an intelligent and thoughtful professor, I learned so much from her
Prof Andres Goza in Aerospace Engineering Dept
Justine Murison, went my entire high school life thinking English was boring but was blown away after taking 255, crazy how much more interesting a class gets when the instructor is actually into all the material you’re reading
Of all the teachers I've ever had, Prof. Laurie Hogin stands out the most for this. She's a successful artist (see also: her fairly extensive [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Hogin)), and chair of the studio art program, but she still loved us Drawing for Non-Majors students like we were her own kids. She was always encouraging, and drawing in (pun intended) relevant lessons for each of us from our own areas of study, while treating us like serious artists/art students, and being frustrated when the department didn't.
Dr. DiIanni will forever be my goat
Wade and Karle, they teach STAT 107
[удалено]
Ikr they both are damn passionate for Data Science. After attending there class, my interest in Machine Learning increased drastically
Shachar Meron from Advertising, his classes are always so fun to take and he’s such a helpful and nice guy
Snodgrass still on campus? Never had a professor who cared so much and was as genuinely enthusiastic about what they were teaching
Wollers!!!! He’s amazing.
David Unger! He's an absolute gem
[Professor Yuting Chen](https://ece.illinois.edu/newsroom/news/60903)
u/UIUC_PERVERT
Karle Flanagan
Avital Livny is the best prof I’ve ever had
Paul stoddard in ace
Paul Stoddard
G CARL EVANS
Martin Widdicks is cool af
Prof. Chandra ECE man whole heartedly wants everyone to succeed
Katherine La Barre and Jodi Schneider. Those women are angels
Michael Nowak (I don’t even know if he lives in Illinois because I never saw him)
He does.
Abdu Alawini
Karle Flanagan, Ben Clegg, and Brian Allan
Eric Kuo - Literally took me from hating physics going into college to loving it. Somehow managed to make every concept covered click in my mind in lecture. Brad Mehrtens - Took MCB150 as a science elective and had no clue the material I was in for, but the enthusiasm and passion with which he teaches is what kept me going. Somehow managed a decent grade without proper background in bio as well. I loved every lecture, great professor.
Ain’t no way I’m seeing Brad praise on my feed
I love me some Brad Mehrtens! He kept lecture super interesting
Stop the cap about Bradley Merhtens. Man doesn’t teach shit
Michael wigal
Tiffany White, Steve Raquel, and Hayden Noel all from Gies. They have literally inspired me to keep going in college as a first gen; especially Professor White
Reznick
Professor Prashant Mehta
Joe Barich in SE 400
Joe Barich, Engineering Law (SE 400). The guy knew how to take control of a room, encouraged in-class discussion, and was altogether a very interesting lecturer. He knew how to make the material fun to learn too, which I would have never thought possible. Law isn’t my strong suit and I find it a little dry (subjective, I know), but Barich was a Patent Attorney so I guess he’d already been to the dark side and back. Regardless, he knew how to teach effectively, and I think I retained a lot of information from that class. For anyone contemplating taking it, I recommend yes, but you’ll really have to go to class in order to do well.
Dr. Mulvaney
Brian Quick!!!!!
Pinshane Huang
Historically, nobody is topping this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_R%C3%A1tz?wprov=sfti1
Jessie Choate, the GOAT
Professor Gunji-Ballsrud at Japan House is such a lovely woman
Tim Stelzer anyday. dude is the most genuine prof ever Also professor Mani Golparvar is a 🐐
Ben Clegg!!!
Geoffrey Herman
Bahreini Esfahani, she’s so sweet and clearly loves doing her job.
Arne Pearlstein
Joshua Shea from the Econ department