COM SCI M51A
Logic Design of Digital Systems
Also listed as EC ENGR M16: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.60
Average grade awarded in COM SCI M51A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
73%
of the 1,999 letter grades
D, F or W
2.6%
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: 1,999 grades over 10 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 10 terms ran 3.22 to 3.86.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 658 · 32.9%
- A 560 · 28.0%
- A- 250 · 12.5%
- B+ 163 · 8.2%
- B 141 · 7.1%
- B- 63 · 3.2%
- C+ 55 · 2.8%
- C 37 · 1.9%
- C- 20 · 1.0%
- D+ 11 · 0.6%
- D 12 · 0.6%
- D- 11 · 0.6%
- F 18 · 0.9%
- I 3 of 2,002
Percentages are of the 1,999 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KURTZ, KEITH reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.84 | 907 | 4 | 90% | - | not teaching it |
| ABARI, OMID reviews ↗ | 3.44 | 3.44 | 652 | 4 | 61% | light | not teaching it |
| POTKONJAK, MIODRAG reviews ↗ | 3.14 | 3.10 | 182 | 2 | 40% | heavy | not teaching it |
| KORF, RICHARD E reviews ↗ | 3.45 | 3.44 | 159 | 1 | 67% | average | not teaching it |
| DARABI, HOOMAN reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.62 | 99 | 1 | 71% | very light | 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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, said by 16 reviewers
- 4 quizzes, said by 4 reviewers
- 5 problem sets, said by 13 reviewers
- 3 projects, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 136 reviews 16 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Winters
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Winters.
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
(Same as Electrical and Computer Engineering M16.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Introduction to digital systems. Specification and implementation of combinational and sequential systems. Standard logic modules and programmable logic arrays. Specification and implementation of algorithmic systems: data and control sections. Number systems and arithmetic algorithms. Error control codes for digital information. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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