ECE-545
FOUND NANOELEC & NANOPHOTONICS
Offered Fall 2026
Term
Overview
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that teaching clarity stands out. Best for students who want a structured class rather than chaos.
DepartmentELEC&CMP
Terms offeredSpring
Typical enrollment7–13
Semesters of data2
4.1
Hrs / week
11
Responses
20
Enrollment
55%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
3.8
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
3.6
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
3.8
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
2.8
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysismedium
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 16 comments across 2 sections
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that teaching clarity stands out. Best for students who want a structured class rather than chaos.
Student Reports
How hard is the A?
A is doable but not automatic
The signal here is more do-the-work-and-you-should-be-fine than easy-A chatter. Students do not describe the A as automatic, but the evidence also does not paint grading as punishing.
Homework Load
Moderate homework load
Homework load looks moderate. The recurring signal is steady weekly work, but not a course that turns every assignment into a grind.
Lecture Load
Regular lecture load
Lectures matter here, but the evidence points to a fairly standard lecture burden rather than a course dominated by long or exceptionally dense lectures.
Strengths
• Teaching clarity stands out; students repeatedly say the material is explained clearly and effectively.
Tradeoffs
• There is no single dominant complaint theme, but the feedback is not uniformly glowing either.
Best fit for
Best for students who want a structured class rather than chaos.
Watch out for
• A large share of the evidence comes from one instructor's version of the course, so this may not generalize cleanly.
Student Responses
Surface plasmons, metamaterials, and nanofabrication/characterization techniques.
Spring 2025 · Litchinitser, Natalia
I learned about photonic crystals, metasurfaces and plasmons.
Spring 2025 · Litchinitser, Natalia
I work in the field of nanotechnology that focuses primarily on cancer treatment. Being in this class helps me learn that nanotechnology can also be used in other applications such as sensing, imaging, aircraft. I also enjoy the final project that pushes me to look deeper into how nanotechnology is being used in cancer treatment and make a detailed powerpoint presentation to present it to everyone in class. I had to read a lot of papers to learn more about different nanomaterials used in cancer treatment, the process of FDA approval, etc.
Spring 2025 · Litchinitser, Natalia
Majority of the necessary concepts and equations to conduct reasearch in optics field. Nanofabrication machines and how they work. Numerous applications with the use of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Spring 2025 · Litchinitser, Natalia
Nanophotonics, nanotechnology, nanofabrication
Spring 2025 · Litchinitser, Natalia
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2025 | Litchinitser, Natalia 4.1Rate My ProfessorsQuality4.1Difficulty1.8Would retake89%Based on 9 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | 3.8 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 7 |
| Spring 2024 | Litchinitser, Natalia 4.1Rate My ProfessorsQuality4.1Difficulty1.8Would retake89%Based on 9 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | — | — | 5.0 | 13 |
Instructor
Litchinitser, NataliaELEC&CMP
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