MAT SCI 200
Principles of Materials Science I
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 1 discussion. 1 discussion is open. The oldest of these readings was 14 hours ago.
Grades
3.62
Average grade awarded in MAT SCI 200. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
74%
of the 121 letter grades
D, F or W
1.7%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 121 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.39 to 3.82.
Historical grades for HOSSAIN, MD SHAFAYAT, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 6 · 18.8%
- A 19 · 59.4%
- A- 6 · 18.8%
- F 1 · 3.1%
Percentages are of the 32 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 | Fall 2026 |
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| YANG, YANG reviews ↗ | 3.47 | 3.42 | 53 | 2 | 53% | - | not teaching it |
| XIE, YA-HONG reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.74 | 36 | 1 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
| HOSSAIN, MD SHAFAYAT reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.82 | 32 | 1 | 97% | - | Closed |
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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
No reviews were listed in the BruinWalk source checked 7 days ago. Assignment details are unknown. Check the current syllabus.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before MAT SCI 200. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for MAT SCI 120, 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 Falls
Ran in 4 of the last 5 Falls.
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. Requisite: course 120. Lattice dynamics and thermal properties of solids, classical and quantized free electron theory, electrons in a periodic potential, transport in semiconductors, dielectric and magnetic properties of solids. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
ClosedLecture: 40 of 40 · 4 over enrolled
Instructor
3.75Predicted GPA
Historical records for HOSSAIN, MD SHAFAYAT; 32 letter gradesSeat risk
high riskThis limit is on the class, so it applies to the discussion below.
1 discussion, all open. Lecture reads closed, so its 1 open discussion cannot be reached from here. No waitlist listed.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 1 discussion
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Open
1 seat left.
44 of 45 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 22 and 36 a term over 4 terms, summer excluded, most recently 32 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking MAT SCI 200 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Hossain, M. · 40 of 40 · 4 over enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 10 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 3.
How readings and alerts work
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