Students liked the professor’s teaching style and the practicality of the material. The downsides of the course included the large amount of content and confusing homework assignments. Some students suggested making the homework assignments more rigorous or more clearly defined. Overall, students said this is a useful course that wil give you a solid understanding of optics. Students should have a good mathematical background.

Students praised this course for presenting a well-organized introduction to image processing. Students had issues with the course; multiple students felt they weren’t given enough examples of how to solve problems so they weren’t sure what to expect on exams. Suggestions for improvement included a widespread desire by students that the instructor go over a variety of examples in order to help students better understand concepts. Prospective students should know that students found it important to have a decent understanding of signals and systems and that a good knowledge of basic probability, statistics and multivariable calculus was helpful when taking the course. 118