EC ENGR 3
Introduction to Electrical Engineering
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
-
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 all professors, 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRIGGS, DENNIS M reviews ↗ | 3.59 | 3.59 | 1,542 | 13 | 70% | 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
- 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 Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 4 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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 Winter 2026
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.
Your experience could be the first.
No student reviews are available to read on dibs for this course yet. Took it? Tell the next person what helped, what was hard, and how you spent your time.
Looking for more perspectives?
External reviews are separate and do not count toward the dibs rating.