MECH&AE M183B
Introduction to Microscale and Nanoscale Manufacturing
Also listed as BIOENGR M153, CH ENGR M153, EC ENGR M153: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.65
Average grade awarded in MECH&AE M183B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
76%
of the 297 letter grades
D, F or W
1.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 297 grades over 9 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 9 terms ran 3.43 to 3.89.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 20 · 6.7%
- A 123 · 41.4%
- A- 83 · 27.9%
- B+ 32 · 10.8%
- B 21 · 7.1%
- B- 11 · 3.7%
- C 3 · 1.0%
- D 1 · 0.3%
- F 3 · 1.0%
- I 3 of 300
Percentages are of the 297 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHIOU, PEI-YU reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.61 | 212 | 6 | 74% | light | not teaching it |
| CHEN, YONG reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.78 | 60 | 2 | 85% | very light | not teaching it |
| JU, SUNGTAEK reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.68 | 25 | 2 | 76% | - | 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
- 1 exam, said by 7 reviewers
- 3 quizzes, said by 2 reviewers
- 1 paper, said by 3 reviewers
- 4 problem sets, said by 4 reviewers
- 1 group work, said by 1 reviewer
- 6 labs, said by 5 reviewers
Read from 12 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
The chain dibs can see is 6 courses long before MECH&AE M183B. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MECH&AE M183B in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
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
(Same as Bioengineering M153, Chemical Engineering M153, and Electrical and Computer Engineering M153.) Lecture, three hours; laboratory, four hours; outside study, five hours. Enforced requisites: Chemistry 20A, Physics 1A, 1B, 1C, 4AL. Introduction to general manufacturing methods, mechanisms, constrains, and microfabrication and nanofabrication. Focus on concepts, physics, and instruments of various microfabrication and nanofabrication techniques that have been broadly applied in industry and academia, including various photolithography technologies, physical and chemical deposition methods, and physical and chemical etching methods. Hands-on experience for fabricating microstructures and nanostructures in modern clean-room environment. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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