MECH&AE 183A
Introduction to Manufacturing Processes
Lecture and lab. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 2 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.
Grades
3.53
Average grade awarded in MECH&AE 183A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
58%
of the 724 letter grades
D, F or W
0.8%
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: 724 grades over 12 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 12 terms ran 3.10 to 4.00.
Historical grades for LI, XIAOCHUN, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 29 · 9.1%
- A 77 · 24.3%
- A- 59 · 18.6%
- B+ 83 · 26.2%
- B 47 · 14.8%
- B- 17 · 5.4%
- C+ 1 · 0.3%
- C 2 · 0.6%
- C- 2 · 0.6%
Percentages are of the 317 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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| LI, XIAOCHUN reviews ↗ | 3.51 | 3.51 | 317 | 5 | 52% | very light | Closed by the department |
| KIM, CJ reviews ↗ | 3.27 | 3.24 | 186 | 3 | 39% | light | not teaching it |
| GOYAL, VINAY KUMAR reviews ↗ | 3.87 | 3.91 | 158 | 3 | 95% | - | not teaching it |
| LEE, DAVID E reviews ↗ | 3.56 | 3.57 | 63 | 1 | 56% | - | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, 3 mentions in past reviews
- Projects mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 4 reviews; source checked about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 5 courses long before MECH&AE 183A. 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 Falls
Ran in 5 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, three hours; laboratory, four hours; outside study, five hours. Enforced requisite: Materials Science 104. Manufacturing fundamentals. Materials in manufacturing. Solidification processes. Metal forming processes. Material removal processes. Welding/joining. Rapid prototyping. Electronics manufacturing. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology. 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 3 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
Closed by the departmentLecture: 62 enrolled
Seat risk
no historyThis limit is on the class, so it applies to all 2 discussions below.
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 39 and 72 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 60 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 MECH&AE 183A 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.
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 62.
How readings and alerts work
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