EC ENGR 279AS
Special Topics in Physical and Wave Electronics: Lecture 1
Grades
3.89
Average grade awarded in EC ENGR 279AS. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
92%
of the 226 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 226 grades over 8 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 8 terms ran 3.70 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 56 · 24.8%
- A 118 · 52.2%
- A- 33 · 14.6%
- B+ 14 · 6.2%
- B 4 · 1.8%
- B- 1 · 0.4%
- P 2 of 252
- S 23 of 252
- I 1 of 252
Percentages are of the 226 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), satisfactory (S), and incompletes (I).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BABAKHANI, AYDIN reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.97 | 91 | 4 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| WANG, YUANXUN reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.74 | 68 | 2 | 78% | - | not teaching it |
| IYER, SUBRAMANIAN SRIKANTESWARA reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 4.00 | 22 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| ZHOU, LEO reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.96 | 17 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| JALALI, BAHRAM reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.78 | 15 · | 1 | 80% | - | not teaching it |
| AIELLO, CLARICE DEMARCHI reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 11 · | 1 | 91% | - | not teaching it |
| JOSHI, CHANDRA J reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 4.00 | 2 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| JOSHI, CHANDRASHEKHAR JANARDAN reviews ↗ | S/U | 12 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.
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Workload and assignments
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In Falls
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Falls, so it turns up in Fall 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, on hour; outside study, seven hours. Special topics in one or more aspects of physical and wave electronics, such as electromagnetics, microwave and millimeter wave circuits, photonics and optoelectronics, plasma electronics, microelectromechanical systems, solid state, and nanotechnology. May be repeated for credit with topic change. S/U or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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