Homeworks are very complex but Rambo is super willing to help you through them. You can tell he really loves his subject. Exams are fair and a lot easier than the homework.

Useful if you care about circuits. Lab is cool.

Start the homework early. It also helps to have a good relationship with the people that sit with you as classwork is easier completed as a team. Lab reports aren't terrible if you understand what they're talking about.

Flipped classroom makes the class harder than it needs to be.

Fundamentally important but very boring.

Circuits 1 is fundamental to most other 3000/4000-level courses that will be offered for the ECE department. It teaches you A LOT about circuit simplification; and depending on the professor will dive deeply into RLC / intro level power.

Voltage Division, Mesh-Current Analysis, Node-Voltage Analysis (More important than Mesh), Thevenin & Norton Equivalent Circuits, RLC Circuits, common configurations (Wheatstone Bridges.), Power.

Rambo is exceptionally intelligent, and used to work at a very high level (believe at Intel?), and is one of the few professors teaching with only a BSEE, however, he can struggle to be succinct, and does enjoy recording / putting on a character for the class. If you get to know him, he is a great individual and someone to aspire to be like.

Be ready for daily assignments at the end of class, with assistance from TA's. Be ready for long homeworks on Pearson. Do not do them the day before, sometimes you can, but that's not a wise risk. There is a study section in the Pearson app that reviews much of the content outside of the textbook itself.