ENGR 181W
Critical Thinking and Writing for Chemical Engineers
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 6 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 6 hours ago.
Grades
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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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What comes first
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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, nine hours. Requisite: English Composition 3. Focus on critical thinking and writing for chemical engineers. Offers broader societal context through the examination of ethical issues related to chemical engineering. Students develop skills to more effectively communicate their thoughts and their work. An engineering ethics component focuses on case study while a technical component focuses on concepts from four chemical engineering core courses. Students gain tools to think more critically and holistically about the ethical and societal dimensions of their work as chemical engineers. In-class writing and exercises are designed to help students with homework, team project, debate, and final laboratory report. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 7 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 MW 10:00am-11:50amClosed by the department
Chang, J.P.
no grade history74 enrolled no history
6 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 6 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (6)
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Dis 1A
R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Dodd Hall 162
Closed by the department17 enrolled
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Dis 1B
R 2:00pm-3:50pm · Haines Hall A76
Closed by the department19 enrolled
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Dis 1C
R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Boelter Hall 5419
Closed by the department18 enrolled
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Dis 1D
R 2:00pm-3:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 6201
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Dis 1E
R 12:00pm-1:50pm
Closed by the departmentno enrollment count published
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Dis 1F
R 10:00am-11:50am · Boelter Hall 5273
Closed by the departmentno enrollment count published
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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.
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What a flat run means, and where a line starts
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Lec 1 · Chang, J.P. · 74 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, same seat count, but the status went closed to closed by the department, the cap went 74 to 84, the cap stopped being published, and the seat count moved and came back.
How readings and alerts work
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