ECE-554
FAULT-TOLERANT/COMP SYS
Not in Fall 2026
Term
Overview
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that discussion is a clear strength. Best for students who will actually talk in class instead of sitting silent. The sample is still thin, so treat this as directional rather than definitive.
DepartmentELEC&CMP
Terms offeredSpring
Typical enrollment35–35
Semesters of data1
4.6
Hrs / week
22
Responses
35
Enrollment
63%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
4.6
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
4.3
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
4.9
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
2.9
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysislow
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 73 comments across 1 sections
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that discussion is a clear strength. Best for students who will actually talk in class instead of sitting silent. The sample is still thin, so treat this as directional rather than definitive.
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
Lighter lecture burden
Student comments describe this as more discussion-, seminar-, or workshop-driven than lecture-dependent. The lecture burden itself does not sound like the main source of friction.
Strengths
• Discussion is a clear strength; students repeatedly describe the class conversation as engaging and useful.
• Readings, films, or outside materials come up repeatedly as a real strength rather than filler.
Tradeoffs
• There is no single dominant complaint theme, but the feedback is not uniformly glowing either.
Best fit for
Best for students who will actually talk in class instead of sitting silent.
Watch out for
• Most of the signal comes from a limited sample, so be careful about over-generalizing.
• A large share of the evidence comes from one instructor's version of the course, so this may not generalize cleanly.
Student Responses
fault detection, fault correction, fault diagnosis/repair and fault recovery
Spring 2025 · Sorin, Daniel
How to do fault tolerance. Everything is some form of redundancy (albeit in cool unexpected ways often).
Spring 2025 · Sorin, Daniel
The professor selects a list of classical paper in fault-tolerance area. I know little about this area before. I learn the source and details of many widely-used fault-tolerance methods.
Spring 2025 · Sorin, Daniel
Fault detection, correction, diagnosis, and recovery; different types of faults and their impacts on computer systems, along with corresponding fault tolerance techniques
Spring 2025 · Sorin, Daniel
what kinds of fault model we use to evaluate design what kinds of fault tolerance strategy we use to detect and repair fault what's the trade off between these fault tolerance mechanism
Spring 2025 · Sorin, Daniel
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2025 | Sorin, Daniel 4.4Rate My ProfessorsQuality4.4Difficulty3.7Would retake81%Based on 68 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | 4.6 | 2.9 | 4.6 | 35 |
Instructor
Sorin, DanielCOMPSCI
Also teaches
COMPSCI-550 ADV COMPUTER ARCHITEC IECE-250D COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE4.4