Julius Ross

You will definately leave his class with enough notes to write a textbook. The man knows his stuff and is quite charming. No one should make less than a C+ in this class.

Prof Ross is really good! He cares about students and answers all dumb questions patiently.Office hours are very useful.Concepts get cleared up like no one's business.Highly recommended! His assignments test understanding of material and how you synthesize it as well. They help you understand the material in detail.Good preparation.His exams are reasonable, not easy and not undoable.

I thought Professor Ross was a good teacher. Mainly, though, I recall teaching myself the material - I barely went over his notes and mostly looked in the book for examples on how to do problems as well as to practice. Class consists of Ross writing notes on the board, occassionally interacting with the students. You will definately spend a lot of time in the math help room, along with the rest of the class, especially right before Webworks problem sets are due. Overall, he's a fine Professor and I recommend taking Calc. I with him.

Good professor overall, always has time for his students. Only two complaints: 1. Green Board + White Chalk + Flourescent lighting glare in Room 203 makes me one sad panda. (ie. bit hard to see). But that's not his fault. 2. Occasionally have to erase an example when something goes wrong along the way, but that's acceptable as it is not common. Recommend this class if you are a math major / need linear algebra too asap / want to challenge yourself. Engineers probably better off taking Calc 3/4, but this is still a very good class. Bit challenging at times, but grading is always fair. Overall, probably an A for Julius, though. He's very, very good.

I loved this teacher. His exams are really easy, but the homework assignments are killer. They are due every friday morning, so my thursday nights are pretty much wasted on Calc homework. I probably wouldnt find it too bad if he would just come to my room to help me, but oh well, that's life. Never take Calc III Honors, unless you hope to have a reason to commit suicide, but, definitely take any other class taught by him, because he is a good professor.

Wonderful professor! I took Calc II with him and would recommend it to anyone. Everything he does is so fair and he is really there to help you. Showing up to office hours is really helpful if you need help understanding the concepts. He pretty much teaches straight out of the book, but it is still important to go to class because the examples he uses in class are similar to test questions. The averages on his exams were pretty decent, so there was not a heavy curve on the exams. However, he applies a huge curve to grades at the end of the semester. Plus, he speaks English fluently (with a cute British accent) and that is rare in the math department. Definitely take his classes!

Reasonable and rewarding.assignments help understanding.exams are good too.

Prof. Ross is a great teacher. He knows the material and genuinely wants you to do well. The material is hard, especially if you haven't been exposed to Calculus before and even if you have, expect to spend a LOT of time doing the homework and webworks. Some of the Webworks did bring tears to my eyes and some of the homework problems were impossible (and I have no idea why he would assign those impossible ones at the end of the sections but he does). The midterms were fairly easy, most of the problems aren't as hard as the webworks but there are always one or 2 that are a bit difficult; the important point is to not focus tooo tooo much on one type of problem and completely overlook others that you need to know. Plan to spend lots of time in the helproom (I sure did, about once a week for a couple of hours) but definitely take advantage of the first midterm since it tends to be a bit easier than the second one. Pretty decent curve, especially in Calc 2. Overrall he's a great Prof. and you just have to deal with the class. Take him, he's probably the best out there.

The first semester was markedly better than the second. He seemed more interested in the single-variable material because it was more theoretical and abstract whereas the second semester got dampened by some pretty technical math and boring machinery--as such, he made mistakes and was routinely unprepared. Julius made up for it by being a pretty lenient professor, making easy exams and being fairly generous about giving back lost points on homework. He explained things well in office hours for those who bothered to go. His exams were really easy and never mothing more than the homework problems.

Ross is a great choice, especially if you need to take calc II. He is very well organized, even in his teaching format-- he writes notes on the board as he teaches so that, if you copy them, you end up with a little textboiok in calcII by the end of the semester. He's extremely accessible, and very committed to helping his students to do well. He's a generally nice guy, he knows hte material and, best of all, he can actually speak English- which is difficult to come by in the math department. I would DEFINITely recommend taking him for calcI, II, or, as I understand he's teaching in Fall 2005, Honors CalcIII.