BIOENGR 121
Introduction to Microcontrollers
Grades
3.91
Average grade awarded in BIOENGR 121. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
94%
of the 104 letter grades
D, F or W
1.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 104 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 3.83 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 20 · 19.2%
- A 76 · 73.1%
- A- 2 · 1.9%
- B+ 1 · 1.0%
- B 2 · 1.9%
- B- 1 · 1.0%
- C 1 · 1.0%
- D 1 · 1.0%
Percentages are of the 104 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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCHMIDT, JACOB J reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.91 | 104 | 4 | 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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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.
In Winters
Ran in 1 of the last 3 Winters, so it turns up in Winter sometimes rather than dependably.
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
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Requisite: course 120 or equivalent. Hands-on introduction to basic and advanced concepts involved in development of projects using microcontrollers in robotics and motion, light and sound, sensing and data acquisition, signal amplification and filtering, communication with specialty integrated circuits, and computer interface using the Processing language. Use of the Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to explore digital and analog input/output, Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) and Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C), Inter-Integrated Circuit Sound (I2S), interrupts, timing, use and writing of software libraries, and other topics. Exploration also of ESP32 and RP2040 microcontrollers. Students construct and analyze first-order passive filters, operational amplifier (op-amp) circuits, and related material. Students are equipped to make creative software and hardware projects, and develop their own instrumentation for subsequent laboratory or design projects. Project-based homework has small theory component. Includes final design project. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
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