ECE-566
ENTERPRISE STORAGE ARCH
Not in Fall 2026
Term
Overview
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that students generally rate the course well. Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
DepartmentELEC&CMP
Terms offeredSpring
Typical enrollment14–17
Semesters of data2
6.7
Hrs / week
27
Responses
31
Enrollment
87%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
4.7
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
4.8
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
4.9
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
3.5
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysismedium
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 71 comments across 2 sections
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that students generally rate the course well. Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
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
• Instructor ratings are strong even when the comments do not cluster around one obvious positive theme.
Tradeoffs
• There is no single dominant complaint theme, but the feedback is not uniformly glowing either.
Best fit for
Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
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
I think Tyler not only wants us to memorize technical knowledge, but also to gain insight and develop intuition when facing new challenges. I've been inspired by this — although I still can't always grasp the key point of a problem perfectly, at least I've started trying to think in that direction.
Spring 2025 · Bletsch, Tyler
RAID design, NAS, and SAN architectures, as well as related protocols like NFS and ISCSI. storage internals and efficiency
Spring 2025 · Bletsch, Tyler
1. High Available Storage techniques. 2. File systems. 3. How to do benchmarks of tools and understand trade offs.
Spring 2025 · Bletsch, Tyler
1. dive into interesting filesystem knowledge. 2. useful and underlying storage knowledge in the real world. 3. knowledge about high availability and disaster recovery solutions to understand how businesses ensure reliability
Spring 2025 · Bletsch, Tyler
RAID File system HA
Spring 2025 · Bletsch, Tyler
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2025 | Bletsch, Tyler 4.8Rate My ProfessorsQuality4.8Difficulty2.9Would retake95%Based on 44 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | 4.7 | 3.4 | 6.7 | 14 |
| Spring 2024 | Bletsch, Tyler 4.8Rate My ProfessorsQuality4.8Difficulty2.9Would retake95%Based on 44 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | 4.8 | 3.6 | — | 17 |
Instructor
Bletsch, TylerELEC&CMP
Also teaches
ECE-350L DIGITAL SYSTEMS4.5ECE-458 ENG SOFTWARE MAINTAINABILITY4.8ECE-495 SPECIAL TOPICS4.6ECE-560 COMPUTER & INFO SECURITY4.7