BIOENGR 495
Teaching Assistant Training Seminar
Seminar.
Fall 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was 12 hours ago.
Grades
Pass/no pass only, so there is no average to report.
Graded P/NP: 1 records over 5 terms.
In the A range
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no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
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no letter grades in the record to count
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 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.
- P 1 of 243
- S 229 of 243
- I 13 of 243
Counts are out of 243 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.
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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| KAMEI, DANIEL T reviews ↗ | S/U | 148 S/U | 3 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| NICKLEN, FRANCES DOROTHY MARIE reviews ↗ | S/U | 58 S/U | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| STEWART, JAIMIE M reviews ↗ | P/NP | 1 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| TANIGAWA, YOSUKE reviews ↗ | S/U | 39 S/U | 1 | - | - | 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.
No reviews were listed in the BruinWalk source checked 6 days ago. Assignment details are unknown. Check the current syllabus.
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
Seminar, two hours; outside study, four hours. Limited to graduate bioengineering students. Required of all departmental teaching assistants. May be taken concurrently while holding TA appointment. Seminar on communicating bioengineering and biomedical engineering principles, concepts, and methods; teaching assistant preparation, organization, and presentation of material, including use of visual aids, grading, advising, and rapport with students. S/U grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
Open6 seats left.
42 of 48 enrolled
Instructor
Yamada-Hunter, S. and Sandoval, F.
no grade historySeat risk
medium risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 39 and 58 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 39 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 BIOENGR 495 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
Your experience could be the first.
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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.
Sem 1 · Yamada-Hunter, S. and Sandoval, F. · 42 of 48 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 12 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, freed 6 seats.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
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.