MECH&AE C274
Digital Control and Learning of Physical Systems
Grades
3.83
Average grade awarded in MECH&AE C274. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
86%
of the 21 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: 21 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+ 8 · 38.1%
- A 8 · 38.1%
- A- 2 · 9.5%
- B+ 1 · 4.8%
- B 1 · 4.8%
- B- 1 · 4.8%
Percentages are of the 21 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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TSAO, TSU-CHIN reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.83 | 21 | 1 | 86% | - | 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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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
The chain dibs can see is 7 courses long before MECH&AE C274. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MECH&AE C274 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 EC ENGR 141, MATH 3B, and MECH&AE M20, 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
Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Enforced requisite: course 171A or Electrical and Computer Engineering 141. Topics include Z-transforms, digital control system analysis, discrete-time system modeling of continuous-time systems, model-based pole placement methods (root locus, state feedback, full-order state observer feedback), data-based adaptive learning methods (adaptive finite impulse response filters, least mean squares steepest decent learning, adaptive identification, feedforward, and disturbance rejection control), and digital control practice by simulation and real-time control experiment. Concurrently scheduled with course C171B. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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