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ENGR 1BI

Introduction to Engineering Design: Bionics

2 units

Sections & times

Lab.

Spring 2027: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 8 days ago.

Grades

3.97

Average grade awarded in ENGR 1BI. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

98%

of the 57 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: 57 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.89 to 4.00.

Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 17 · 29.8%
  • A 39 · 68.4%
  • C+ 1 · 1.8%

Percentages are of the 57 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 Spring 2027
SCHMIDT, JACOB J reviews ↗ 3.96 3.97 57 4 98% - 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.

Reviews for ENGR 1BI

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.

dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.

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From the registrar's catalog

Laboratory, three hours; outside study, three hours. Students use concepts in mechanical engineering, bioengineering, electrical engineering, and computer science to develop a robotic hand/arm that can complete series of unique tasks. Lecture topics cover mechanical design, bionics, rehabilitation, musculoskeletal systems modeling, controls, motors and actuation, and programming. Student projects culminate in oral presentation and final competition that tests versatility and robustness of robotic arm. Letter grading.

Sections in Spring 2027

Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 17 a term over 4 terms, summer excluded, most recently 10 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Spring 2027

Read once so far, so there is no line to draw yet.

What turns this into a chart

A second reading is what turns this into a chart: courses come round within about three hours, and a lecture somebody is watching goes to the front of the pass. Watching is on the lecture's own page, not this one.

How readings and alerts work

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From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking ENGR 1BI was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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