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MAT SCI 296

Seminar: Advanced Topics in Materials Science and Engineering

2 units

Sections & times

Seminar.

Fall 2026: 14 sections. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 67 minutes ago.

Grades

Pass/no pass only, so there is no average to report.

Graded P/NP: 5 records over 11 terms.

In the A range

-

no letter grades in the record to count

D, F or W

-

no letter grades in the record to count

Taken pass/no pass

1%

5 of 5 students passed

The registrar's own records: 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.

Historical grades for BALANDIN, ALEXANDER ALEXEE, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

No grade history is available for this professor in this course.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
HE, XIMIN reviews ↗ S/U 48 S/U 4 - - Open, 20 seats left
GOORSKY, MARK S reviews ↗ P/NP 5 P/NP 4 - very light Open, 20 seats left
HUANG, YU reviews ↗ S/U 46 S/U 4 - - Open, 17 seats left
PEI, QIBING reviews ↗ S/U 148 S/U 9 - - not teaching it
DUNN, BRUCE S reviews ↗ S/U 76 S/U 7 - - Open, 13 seats left
MARIAN, JAIME reviews ↗ S/U 10 S/U 1 - - Open, 18 seats left
YANG, YANG reviews ↗ S/U 10 S/U 1 - - Open, 20 seats left
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.

Reviews for MAT SCI 296

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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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

Seminar, two hours; outside study, four hours. Advanced study and analysis of current topics in materials science and engineering. Discussion of current research and literature in research specialty of faculty members teaching course. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 14 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 14 a term over 11 terms, summer excluded, most recently 10 in Winter 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

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Student reviews

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 14 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.

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.

Sem 1 · Banerjee, A.S. · 0 of 20 enrolled

Same seat count, but the seat count moved and came back over about 2 months

0 of 20 · 20 left
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.0 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 20 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 0 to 0. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 5 · Dunn, B.S. · 7 of 20 enrolled

Filled by 4 over about 2 months

7 of 20 · 13 left
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.7 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 13 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 3 to 7. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 6 · Goorsky, M.S. · 5 of 25 enrolled

Filled by 3 over about 2 months

5 of 25 · 20 left
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.5 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 20 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 2 to 5. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 8 · He, X. · 0 of 20 enrolled

Unchanged over about 2 months

0 of 20 · 20 left

Both readings say 0 of 20.

17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.0 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 20 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 0 to 0. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 9 · Huang, Y. · 3 of 20 enrolled

Filled by 3 over about 2 months

3 of 20 · 17 left
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.3 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 17 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 0 to 3. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 13 · Balandin, A.A. · 0 of 20 enrolled

Freed 1 seat over about 2 months

0 of 20 · 20 left

1 to 0 enrolled across 3 readings, -1.

17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.0 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 20 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 1 to 0. The line joins two or three readings, which is too few to read a trend from. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 15 · Marian, J. · 2 of 20 enrolled

Filled by 2 over about 2 months

2 of 20 · 18 left
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.2 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 18 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 0 to 2. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 16 · Mosleh, A. · 0 of 20 enrolled

Unchanged over about 2 months

0 of 20 · 20 left

Both readings say 0 of 20.

17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.0 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 20 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 0 to 0. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 18 · Raman, A.P. · 3 of 20 enrolled

Unchanged over about 2 months

3 of 20 · 17 left

Both readings say 3 of 20.

17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.3 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 17 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 3 to 3. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 22 · Wang, K.L. · 1 of 20 enrolled

Unchanged over about 2 months

1 of 20 · 19 left

Both readings say 1 of 20.

17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.1 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 19 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 1 to 1. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 23 · Wang, Y. · 2 of 20 enrolled

Filled by 2 over about 2 months

2 of 20 · 18 left
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.2 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 18 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 0 to 2. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 24 · Weiss, P.S. · 0 of 20 enrolled

Unchanged over about 2 months

0 of 20 · 20 left

Both readings say 0 of 20.

17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.0 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 20 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 0 to 0. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 27 · Yang, J. · 0 of 20 enrolled

Freed 1 seat over about 2 months

0 of 20 · 20 left
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.0 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 20 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 1 to 0. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 28 · Yang, Y. · 0 of 20 enrolled

Unchanged over about 2 months

0 of 20 · 20 left

Both readings say 0 of 20.

17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:552 Oct 00:43
dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 384. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 538 of 1090 plotted.0 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 67 minutes ago, with 20 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 00:43, 0 to 0. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 552 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 384 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 538 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.

The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.