MECH&AE M20
Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
Also listed as C&EE M20: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.83
Average grade awarded in MECH&AE M20. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
91%
of the 855 letter grades
D, F or W
1.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 855 grades over 7 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 7 terms ran 3.65 to 3.93.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 348 · 40.7%
- A 391 · 45.7%
- A- 36 · 4.2%
- B+ 17 · 2.0%
- B 21 · 2.5%
- B- 11 · 1.3%
- C+ 5 · 0.6%
- C 6 · 0.7%
- C- 6 · 0.7%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- F 12 · 1.4%
- P 1 of 858
- I 2 of 858
Percentages are of the 855 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KHALID JAWED, MOHAMMAD reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.83 | 417 | 3 | 91% | average | not teaching it |
| GAO, EDWARD XIANG reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.82 | 328 | 3 | 90% | light | not teaching it |
| RUETER, MARCUS OLAVI reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.86 | 110 | 1 | 93% | - | 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
- No exams, said by 6 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 7 reviewers
- 8 problem sets, said by 8 reviewers
- 1 project, said by 3 reviewers
Read from 42 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
dibs has not read a class page for MECH&AE M20 in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Springs.
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
(Same as Civil Engineering M20.) Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisite: Mathematics 33A. Fundamentals of computer programming taught in context of MATLAB computing environment. Basic data types and control structures. Input/output. Functions. Data visualization. MATLAB-based data structures. Development of efficient codes. Introduction to object-oriented programming. Examples and exercises from engineering, mathematics, and physical sciences. Letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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