COM SCI M152A
Introductory Digital Design Laboratory
Lab.
Fall 2025: 6 sections. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Also listed as EC ENGR M116L: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.94
Average grade awarded in COM SCI M152A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
97%
of the 2,008 letter grades
D, F or W
0.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 2,008 grades over 13 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 13 terms ran 3.83 to 3.99.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 427 · 21.3%
- A 1,394 · 69.4%
- A- 127 · 6.3%
- B+ 33 · 1.6%
- B 11 · 0.5%
- B- 6 · 0.3%
- C+ 1 · 0.0%
- C 2 · 0.1%
- D+ 1 · 0.0%
- F 6 · 0.3%
Percentages are of the 2,008 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SARRAFZADEH, MAJID reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.94 | 2,008 | 13 | 97% | average | 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
- No exams, said by 1 reviewer
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
- 4 projects, said by 1 reviewer
- Group works mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 4 labs, said by 2 reviewers
Read from 38 reviews 16 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before COM SCI M152A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for COM SCI M152A in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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 M116L.) Laboratory, four hours; outside study, two hours. Enforced requisite: course M51A or Electrical and Computer Engineering M16. Hands-on design, implementation, and debugging of digital logic circuits, use of computer-aided design tools for schematic capture and simulation, implementation of complex circuits using programmed array logic, design projects. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 6 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lab 1 MW 10:00am-11:50amOpen
Seseri, A. and Sarrafzadeh, M.
3.94predicted, all instructors · 2,008 grades3 seats left. 27 of 30 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Lab 2 MW 12:00pm-1:50pmOpen
Wu, Y. and Sarrafzadeh, M.
3.94predicted, all instructors · 2,008 grades7 seats left. 23 of 30 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Lab 3 MW 2:00pm-3:50pmOpen
Ehsani Oskouie, H. and Sarrafzadeh, M.
3.94predicted, all instructors · 2,008 grades6 seats left. 24 of 30 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Lab 4 TR 10:00am-11:50amOpen
Khosravi, S. and Sarrafzadeh, M.
3.94predicted, all instructors · 2,008 grades13 seats left. 17 of 30 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Lab 5 TR 12:00pm-1:50pmOpen
Do, Q. and Sarrafzadeh, M.
3.94predicted, all instructors · 2,008 grades15 seats left. 15 of 30 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Lab 6 TR 2:00pm-3:50pmOpen
Beikzadeh, M. and Sarrafzadeh, M.
3.94predicted, all instructors · 2,008 grades17 seats left. 13 of 30 enrolled -
not checked yet
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 20 and 30 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 20 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking COM SCI M152A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2025
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 6 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lab 1 · Seseri, A. and Sarrafzadeh, M. · 27 of 30 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 27 of 30.
Lab 2 · Wu, Y. and Sarrafzadeh, M. · 23 of 30 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 23 of 30.
Lab 3 · Ehsani Oskouie, H. and Sarrafzadeh, M. · 24 of 30 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 24 of 30.
Lab 4 · Khosravi, S. and Sarrafzadeh, M. · 17 of 30 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 17 of 30.
Lab 5 · Do, Q. and Sarrafzadeh, M. · 15 of 30 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 15 of 30.
Lab 6 · Beikzadeh, M. and Sarrafzadeh, M. · 13 of 30 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 13 of 30.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.