MAT SCI 104
Science of Engineering Materials
Grades
3.23
Average grade awarded in MAT SCI 104. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
48%
of the 1,562 letter grades
D, F or W
5.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 1,562 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 2.90 to 3.58.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 169 · 10.8%
- A 320 · 20.5%
- A- 261 · 16.7%
- B+ 222 · 14.2%
- B 208 · 13.3%
- B- 125 · 8.0%
- C+ 75 · 4.8%
- C 68 · 4.4%
- C- 36 · 2.3%
- D+ 17 · 1.1%
- D 18 · 1.2%
- D- 19 · 1.2%
- F 24 · 1.5%
- I 8 of 1,570
Percentages are of the 1,562 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOORSKY, MARK S reviews ↗ | 3.39 | 3.41 | 270 | 4 | 51% | average | not teaching it |
| BANERJEE, AMARTYA SANKAR reviews ↗ | 3.04 | 3.03 | 236 | 4 | 41% | very light | not teaching it |
| HE, XIMIN reviews ↗ | 3.47 | 3.49 | 189 | 3 | 61% | light | not teaching it |
| POZUELO, MARTA reviews ↗ | 3.24 | 3.24 | 151 | 4 | 49% | light | not teaching it |
| KAKOULLI, IOANNA reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.39 | 129 | 2 | 58% | very light | not teaching it |
| SCHWALBE KODA, DANIEL reviews ↗ | 3.24 | 3.24 | 127 | 3 | 55% | - | not teaching it |
| BESCHER, ERIC P reviews ↗ | 2.92 | 2.87 | 122 | 3 | 35% | heavy | not teaching it |
| BALONIS, MAGDALENA reviews ↗ | 3.16 | 3.15 | 72 | 1 | 46% | - | not teaching it |
| HUANG, YU reviews ↗ | 3.08 | 3.03 | 63 | 1 | 30% | average | not teaching it |
| KIM, LAURA reviews ↗ | 3.12 | 3.09 | 61 | 1 | 39% | light | not teaching it |
| YANG, YANG reviews ↗ | 2.90 | 2.80 | 53 | 1 | 32% | light | not teaching it |
| PEI, QIBING reviews ↗ | 3.29 | 3.31 | 45 | 1 | 40% | average | not teaching it |
| MARIAN, JAIME reviews ↗ | 3.40 | 3.47 | 44 | 1 | 59% | light | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 7 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 11 reviewers
- Labs mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 104 reviews 17 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 4 courses long before MAT SCI 104. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MAT SCI 104 in Summer Session A 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 20B and CHEM 20L, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, eight hours. Requisites: Chemistry 20A, 20B, 20L, Physics 1A. Corequisite: Physics 1B. General introduction to different types of materials used in engineering designs: metals, ceramics, plastics, and composites, relationship between structure (crystals and microstructure) and properties of technological materials. Illustration of their fundamental differences and their applications in engineering. Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
From the people who took it
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