MECH&AE 157W
Basic Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Laboratory with Writing
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Grades
3.89
Average grade awarded in MECH&AE 157W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
95%
of the 332 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
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: 332 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.81 to 3.95.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 32 · 9.6%
- A 213 · 64.2%
- A- 70 · 21.1%
- B+ 7 · 2.1%
- B 6 · 1.8%
- B- 4 · 1.2%
- I 1 of 333
Percentages are of the 332 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIN, NEIL reviews ↗ | 3.98 | 3.99 | 106 | 4 | 100% | light | not teaching it |
| HU, YONGJIE reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.89 | 84 | 3 | 99% | - | not teaching it |
| JU, SUNGTAEK reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.93 | 55 | 2 | 98% | - | not teaching it |
| SEPULVEDA, ABDON reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.89 | 31 | 1 | 94% | - | not teaching it |
| LAVINE, ADRIENNE G reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.72 | 29 | 1 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
| GAO, EDWARD XIANG reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.58 | 27 | 1 | 67% | - | 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 presentation, said by 1 reviewer
- 4 labs, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 2 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 7 courses long before MECH&AE 157W. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MECH&AE 157W in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 20B and MATH 3B, 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.
From the registrar's catalog
Laboratory, eight hours; outside study, ten hours. Requisites: courses 101, 102, 103, 105A, 105D, Electrical Engineering 100. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 157. Engineering measurements and analysis in fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer. Primary sensors, transducers, recording equipment, signal processing, and data analysis. Replicates communication processes that students can expect in engineering careers. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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