BME 2000

Guilford is outspoken, egotistical at times, smart, willing to help, and an overall great professor. This class is almost all group work (with a few individual assignments thrown in throughout). The group work itself is hands on and involves a lot of compromise and people picking up slack when others can't fill in.

That being said:

Hold your group accountable
Work together
Be flexible, even if the instructions change
Keep up with your lab notebook

guilford is pretty cool but this class is really boring

Do not fall for the course forum from before Guilford reworked the class. Not an easy an A as it seems. The material seems to be interesting and useful - and some of it is. But at the same time, this is all stuff you can watch a YouTube video and learn on your own in 30 minutes. Guilford is a good, funny lecturer and person in general, but does not care about you nor your grades. To sum up the class, there are two product archaeology report that make up 20% of your grade, and he doesn't even teach you how to write them/give you a rubric -and then indirectly scolds the class about the 80% average. Nothing was graded until the last week of class so you have no idea how well you are doing except for the tricky video quizzes. ZERO stars.

The class has been reworked since the last GPAs reported so don't expect this to be an easy A. The class is still being reworked so prepare to be a guinea pig. The material was interesting sometimes and incredibly boring at other times. Grading was extremely slow and feedback is unobtainable. Just one of the classes you have to get through. The only difference now is your GPA may suffer.

Probably my least favorite BME class taken to date. Dude makes the class out to be a breeze, but grades even the simplest assignments with an iron fist. One trick question wrong on a weekly quiz gives you an 80. Did I mention that's half a percent off of your final grade? It's ridiculous.

The class seemed interesting at first (and it is at times), but quickly devolved into watching a weekly video and then taking a quiz based on the video (where some questions aren't even covered). These quizzes make up a massive amount of your final grade, so if you miss one question, it really bones you in the end. Since we're on the topic of grading, Guilford does it extremely slowly. Most of, if not all, the grades I got were in the last week of the class. Hell, he just uploaded the grade for an assignment we did in February yesterday (yes, May 11th).
As other reviewers have said, the class is currently being reworked and is definitely not an easy A. Also, pray to the random number generator that you get a good group to work with, because about 40% of your grade in this class is groupwork.

Lol. Good luck to you.

A really good course to take in your first semester as a newly declared BME major! Prof Guilford is awesome and makes it a priority to give ample time for assignments as well as the resources necessary to succeed. This class has so many small assignments gathered throughout the semester that you can complete fairly easily if you pay attention to the skills he teaches in class (you REALLY should listen to him). And for the love of it, PAY ATTENTION TO WHEN HE TEACHES YOU TO USE ZOTERO!! You will use this in Cell Bio for your paper with 15+ sources and will legit save you hours and so much stress. The things you learn in this class may seem silly when viewed in isolation, but at the end of the class, you really see how much you know. Personally, I went from not knowing how to make a cube on CAD to being able to 3D print fairly complicated designs and program microcontrollers. The final project of designing and building (frequently by 3D printing) an IV pump is a really good learning experience, but just make sure that you set a good group dynamic from the beginning otherwise it can became burdensome with freeloaders. I cannot tell you how many of my classmates had to suffer the brute of this project because their groupmates consistently blew them off. Don't be that person! The skills you learn in this class will carry with you for the rest of your career as a BME!

This course is definitely not as easy as was proposed by previous years. Grading is pretty tight, so losing a few points on some assignments could be the cost between an A- and A in my experience. For this semester, the class really emphasizes on CAD than other tools. I personally enjoyed the class, for I like to CAD and work with microcontrollers. Because of online learning at the end of this semester, the final project was changed to what is usually done. Personally, the final project was not thought through. The time frame given to write the final project took hours out of my week for the grade given at the end. Professor Guilford did not make it any easier with his grading either! However, this class was definitely fun for me and well worth my time. If you keep up with the weekly CAD assignments and sparse quizzes, it should be alright. We didn't really touch upon microcontrollers or ImageJ too much (5 assignments in total for these). I'm not sure if this semester was harder because of the switch to online learning, but I would say this class definitely took some time and effort. Last half of the class online was just watching lectures, doing quizzes, weekly assignments, and then the final group project. Sadly, we didn't really get to do any hands-on workshop stuff other than soldering this semester.

Nice, easy (compared to other BME) classes. Don’t write it off completely but this class is not one to stress over. Guilford has a brash personality that you will either love or hate. His dog Samson is the best dog ever and is frequently brought to school. Guilford is a busy guy but he makes sure to be available for his students. There’s a big design group project at the end of the semester.

Pros:
- hands on
- not high workload
- available TAs and professor
- wide range of skills learned

Cons:
- can be deceptively easy until the night the assignment is due and now your CAD won’t come together

Advice:
- keep up with the weekly assignments
- don’t procrastinate the final project
- pet Samson