COM SCI M182
Dynamic Biosystem Modeling and Simulation Methodology
Also listed as BIOENGR M182: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.65
Average grade awarded in COM SCI M182. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
75%
of the 179 letter grades
D, F or W
2.8%
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: 179 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.29 to 3.84.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 38 · 21.2%
- A 81 · 45.3%
- A- 15 · 8.4%
- B+ 12 · 6.7%
- B 19 · 10.6%
- B- 4 · 2.2%
- C+ 4 · 2.2%
- C 1 · 0.6%
- D 3 · 1.7%
- F 2 · 1.1%
- I 1 of 181
- NR 1 of 181
Percentages are of the 179 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I) and no report (NR).
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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DISTEFANO, JOSEPH reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.69 | 121 | 3 | 78% | - | not teaching it |
| DISTEFANO, JOSEPH, III reviews ↗ | 3.57 | 3.56 | 58 | 2 | 69% | - | 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.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Bioengineering M182.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, two hours; outside study, five hours. Requisites: Life Sciences 30A and 30B, or Mathematics 3A and 3B, or 31A and 31B. Recommended requisite or corequisite: Mathematics 3C, 32A, or 32T. For undergraduate students in life, computational, engineering, and mathematical sciences. Active learning approach. Introduction to explicit modeling and simulation of dynamic biological systems. Basic methodology for transforming biology, biochemistry, and physiology into system diagrams, graphs, and mathematical expressions for studying their behavior. Structural models, formulated from basic conservation and mass action laws and feedback concepts, are further transformed into first-order differential equations, and implemented in simulation diagrams for quantifying and exploring biosystem properties. Examples show how to use these explicit models to gain clarity on nature of biosystem phenomena, and frame questions and explore new ideas for research. Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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