EC ENGR 3
Introduction to Electrical Engineering
Lecture and lab.
Fall 2025: 1 lecture and 7 discussions. 1 lecture and 3 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
3.59
Average grade awarded in EC ENGR 3. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
70%
of the 1,542 letter grades
D, F or W
1.3%
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: 1,542 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 3.28 to 3.77.
Historical grades for BRIGGS, DENNIS M, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 404 · 26.2%
- A 427 · 27.7%
- A- 256 · 16.6%
- B+ 169 · 11.0%
- B 106 · 6.9%
- B- 57 · 3.7%
- C+ 50 · 3.2%
- C 33 · 2.1%
- C- 20 · 1.3%
- D+ 7 · 0.5%
- D 4 · 0.3%
- D- 5 · 0.3%
- F 4 · 0.3%
- I 3 of 1,545
Percentages are of the 1,542 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRIGGS, DENNIS M reviews ↗ | 3.59 | 3.59 | 1,542 | 13 | 70% | light | Open, 4 seats left |
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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 6 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 7 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 8 reviewers
- Projects mentioned, no number given, said by 8 reviewers
- Labs mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers
Read from 28 reviews 17 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
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
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, eight hours. Introduction to field of electrical engineering. Basic circuits techniques with application to explanation of electrical engineering inventions such as telecommunications, electrical grid, automatic computing and control, and enabling device technology. Research frontiers of electrical engineering. Introduction to measurement and design of electrical circuits. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 8 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 R 8:00am-9:50amOpen3.59predicted, this instructor · 1,542 grades
4 seats left. 195 of 196 enrolled -
not checked yet7 discussions, 3 open: Lab 1A, M 8:00am-9:50am, Lab 1E, R 12:00pm-1:50pm, and Lab 1F, F 8:00am-9:50am.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (7)
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Lab 1A
M 8:00am-9:50am · Engineering IV 18132J
Open1 seat left.
27 of 28 enrolled
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Lab 1B
M 10:00am-11:50am · Engineering IV 18132J
Closed28 of 28 · 1 over enrolled
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Lab 1C
T 8:00am-9:50am · Engineering IV 18132J
Closed28 of 28 · 1 over enrolled
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Lab 1D
T 10:00am-11:50am · Engineering IV 18132J
Closed28 of 28 enrolled
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Lab 1E
R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Engineering IV 18132J
Open2 seats left.
26 of 28 enrolled
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Lab 1F
F 8:00am-9:50am · Engineering IV 18132J
Open1 seat left.
27 of 28 enrolled
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Lab 1G
F 10:00am-11:50am · Engineering IV 18132J
Closed28 of 28 · 1 over enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 121 and 195 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 195 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 EC ENGR 3 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.
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.
Lec 1 · Briggs, D.M. · 195 of 196 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 195 of 196.
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.