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CH ENGR C216

Surface and Interface Engineering

4 units

Sections & times

Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.

Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 4 hours ago.

Grades

3.86

Average grade awarded in CH ENGR C216. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

94%

of the 18 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: 18 grades over 1 term, 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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 2 · 11.1%
  • A 9 · 50.0%
  • A- 6 · 33.3%
  • B+ 1 · 5.6%

Percentages are of the 18 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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
CHANG, JANE PEI-CHEN reviews ↗ 3.81 3.86 18 · 1 94% - 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.

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Reviews for CH ENGR C216

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.

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From the registrar's catalog

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Introduction to surfaces and interfaces of engineering materials, particularly catalytic surface and thin films for solid-state electronic devices. Topics include classification of crystals and surfaces, analysis of structure and composition of crystals and their surfaces and interfaces. Examination of engineering applications, including catalytic surfaces, interfaces in microelectronics, and solid-state laser. May be concurrently scheduled with course C116. Letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: 18 a term over 1 term, summer excluded, most recently 18 in Fall 2024. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

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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.

Lec 1 · No instructors · -

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over the 1 day before that, same seat count, but the status went waitlist to cancelled.

Both readings say 0 seats.

15 Sep 16:4216 Sep 13:2217 Sep 10:02 · 4 hours ago
dibs read 12 of the 43 hours plotted, 28%, and did not look in 31.Seats from 15 Sep 16:42 to 17 Sep 10:02, 0 to 0. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 31 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
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.