MAT SCI 296
Seminar: Advanced Topics in Materials Science and Engineering
Seminar.
Fall 2025: 30 sections. 17 sections are open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month 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
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no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
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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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
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| HE, XIMIN reviews ↗ | S/U | 48 S/U | 4 | - | - | Open, 18 seats left | |
| GOORSKY, MARK S reviews ↗ | P/NP | 5 P/NP | 4 | - | very light | Open, 16 seats left | |
| HUANG, YU reviews ↗ | S/U | 46 S/U | 4 | - | - | Open, 14 seats left | |
| PEI, QIBING reviews ↗ | S/U | 148 S/U | 9 | - | - | Open, 17 seats left | |
| DUNN, BRUCE S reviews ↗ | S/U | 76 S/U | 7 | - | - | Open, 13 seats left | |
| MARIAN, JAIME reviews ↗ | S/U | 10 S/U | 1 | - | - | Open, 17 seats left | |
| YANG, YANG reviews ↗ | S/U | 10 S/U | 1 | - | - | Open, 19 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.
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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
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 2025
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 30 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Sem 1 Time TBAOpenno grade history
18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 2 Time TBACancelled
No instructors
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Sem 3 Time TBACancelled
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Sem 5 Time TBAOpenno grade history
13 seats left. 7 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 6 Time TBAOpenno grade history
16 seats left. 9 of 25 enrolled -
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Sem 7 Time TBACancelled
No instructors
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Sem 8 Time TBAOpenno grade history
18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 9 Time TBAOpenno grade history
14 seats left. 6 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 10 Time TBACancelled
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Sem 11 Time TBAOpenno grade history
17 seats left. 3 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 12 Time TBACancelled
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Sem 13 Time TBAOpenno grade history
18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 14 Time TBACancelled
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Sem 15 Time TBAOpenno grade history
17 seats left. 3 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 16 Time TBAOpenno grade history
19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 17 Time TBAOpenno grade history
17 seats left. 3 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 18 Time TBAOpenno grade history
19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 19 Time TBACancelled
No instructors
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Sem 21 Time TBACancelled
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Sem 22 Time TBAOpen
Wang, K.L.
no grade history19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 23 Time TBAOpenno grade history
18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 24 Time TBAOpen
Weiss, P.S.
no grade history19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 25 Time TBACancelled
No instructors
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Sem 26 Time TBAOpen
Xie, Y.
no grade history19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 27 Time TBAOpenno grade history
19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 28 Time TBAOpenno grade history
19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled -
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Sem 29 Time TBACancelled
No instructors
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Sem 30 Time TBACancelled
No instructors
no grade historyno enrollment count published -
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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.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking MAT SCI 296 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2025
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 17 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. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 2 of 20.
Sem 5 · Dunn, B.S. · 7 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 7 of 20.
Sem 6 · Goorsky, M.S. · 9 of 25 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 9 of 25.
Sem 8 · He, X. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 2 of 20.
Sem 9 · Huang, Y. · 6 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 6 of 20.
Sem 11 · Kakoulli, I. · 3 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 3 of 20.
Sem 13 · Balandin, A.A. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 2 of 20.
Sem 15 · Marian, J. · 3 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 3 of 20.
Sem 16 · Mosleh, A. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 1 of 20.
Sem 17 · Pei, Q. · 3 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 3 of 20.
Sem 18 · Raman, A.P. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 1 of 20.
Sem 22 · Wang, K.L. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 1 of 20.
Sem 23 · Wang, Y. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 2 of 20.
Sem 24 · Weiss, P.S. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 1 of 20.
Sem 26 · Xie, Y. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 1 of 20.
Sem 27 · Yang, J. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 1 of 20.
Sem 28 · Yang, Y. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 1 of 20.
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.