ECE-650
SYSTEMS PROGRAM & ENGINEERING
Not in Fall 2026
Term
Instructor
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 enrollment38–38
Semesters of data2
7.5
Hrs / week
42
Responses
76
Enrollment
55%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
4.1
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
4.2
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
4.4
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
3.3
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysismedium
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 41 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
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
• 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.
Student Responses
database, operating system, web programming
Spring 2025 · Rahbar, Afsaneh
concurrency, memory allocation, socket communication with c++
Spring 2025 · Rahbar, Afsaneh
How to interact with the database How does a network work What are common security issues?
Spring 2025 · Rahbar, Afsaneh
learn the bascis of operating system, computer network, and kernel programming.
Spring 2025 · Rahbar, Afsaneh
TCP,UDP database knowledge SQL
Spring 2025 · Rahbar, Afsaneh
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2025 | Rahbar, Afsaneh 1.0Rate My ProfessorsQuality1.0Difficulty4.8Would retake0%Based on 4 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | 4.1 | 3.3 | 7.0 | 38 |
| Spring 2024 | Younes, Rabih 1.3Rate My ProfessorsQuality1.3Difficulty4.2Would retake4%Based on 25 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | — | — | 8.0 | 38 |
Instructor
Rahbar, AfsanehELEC&CMP
Also teaches
ECE-495 SPECIAL TOPICS3.5ECE-496 SPECIAL TOPICS4.8ECE-590 ADVANCED TOPICS IN ECE3.5