MAT SCI 110
Introduction to Materials Characterization A (Crystal Structure, Nanostructures, and X-Ray Scattering)
Grades
3.19
Average grade awarded in MAT SCI 110. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
41%
of the 244 letter grades
D, F or W
2.5%
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: 244 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 2.89 to 3.33.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 2 · 0.8%
- A 47 · 19.3%
- A- 50 · 20.5%
- B+ 49 · 20.1%
- B 32 · 13.1%
- B- 24 · 9.8%
- C+ 16 · 6.6%
- C 10 · 4.1%
- C- 8 · 3.3%
- D+ 1 · 0.4%
- D 3 · 1.2%
- D- 1 · 0.4%
- F 1 · 0.4%
- I 1 of 245
Percentages are of the 244 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOORSKY, MARK S reviews ↗ | 3.26 | 3.27 | 195 | 4 | 45% | heavy | not teaching it |
| MOMENT, AARON reviews ↗ | 2.97 | 2.89 | 49 | 1 | 24% | - | 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.
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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.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 5 courses long before MAT SCI 110. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MAT SCI 110 in Spring 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.
In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Enforced requisite: course 104. Modern methods of materials characterization; fundamentals of crystallography, properties of X rays, X-ray scattering; powder method, Laue method; determination of crystal structures; phase diagram determination; high-resolution X-ray diffraction methods; X-ray spectroscopy; design of materials characterization procedures. Letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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