I took this class when I was considering whether to switch my major from CS to CSE. This class is designed to be a fun intro to EE, but unfortunately made me certain that EE is not for me.

The lectures were fairly boring, and people often cheat on the quizzes (which weren't even that hard to begin with).

There was a group project where you build a line-following robot car. Unfortunately, my group suffered quite a few setbacks. (To be exact, we blew the main fuse three separate times, one of which was because the TA gave us the wrong fuse.) In the end, we spent too much time just getting the circuit to work, and didn't have time to even consider implementing a more intelligent algorithm, which was probably the more fun part – and this is considering we both actually had some background in building circuits prior to the class. Through the entire process, we felt the teaching staff was less supportive than they could have been.

He didn’t really teach. A lot of self teaching. The project is 50% if you’re grade and you’re pretty much guaranteed a good grade on that project. No midterms but quiz every lecture

It really helps to know Arduino before going into this class, though I think it would be manageable to survive if you have no experience with it. Taking Physics 1B before this is recommended, since Briggs will expect you to know how RC circuits work right off the bat. I didn't take Physics 1B before, and it was a struggle on the quizzes. You can fail some of the quizzes and still get an A, since the quizzes aren't worth too much. The first few weeks will be fast, but once you start working on the car, the class gets a lot easier. This quarter, he screwed over a lot of the class by changing his grading distribution (for example, you needed a 92 for an A-) and not following his syllabus (he didn't drop a quiz when he said he would) because I think he didn't want to curve down.

Weekly in-class quizzes until week 6, after week 6 the focus of the class shifted to the final project (programming a line-following car)
Lecture topics felt a bit disconnected and not too thorough but they covered useful topics (node voltage analysis especially, filters, opamps)

There are weekly quizzes. Briggs is super nice and everything is reasonable; the project can be done in a decently quick amount of time as long as you have some prior coding experience. It could be tough otherwise. Get a good group for the project, and the class will be pretty fun!

Briggs managed to fit more content into the first few weeks of the class than any other prof I’ve had. Tbh I quite liked it though, kept me very focused and then it chilled out later in the quarter