EC ENGR 296
Seminar: Research Topics in Electrical Engineering
Seminar.
Fall 2026: 50 sections. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 4 hours ago.
Grades
Graded S/U, so there is no average to report.
Graded S/U: 63 records over 5 terms.
In the A range
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no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
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no letter grades in the record to count
Taken pass/no pass
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this course is graded S/U, not pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 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.
Historical grades for ABIDI, ASAD A, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
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| OZCAN, AYDOGAN reviews ↗ | S/U | 10 S/U | 1 | - | - | Open, 18 seats left | |
| SRIVASTAVA, MANI B reviews ↗ | S/U | 30 S/U | 3 | - | - | Open, 13 seats left | |
| PAMARTI, SUDHAKAR reviews ↗ | S/U | 23 S/U | 2 | - | - | Open, 12 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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
In Falls
Ran in 2 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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
Seminar, two hours; outside study, four hours. Advanced study and analysis of current topics in electrical engineering. Discussion of current research and literature in research specialty of faculty member teaching course. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 50 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Sem 1 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 2 Time TBAOpenno grade history
18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 3 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 4 Time TBAOpenno grade history
17 seats left. 3 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 5 Time TBAOpenno grade history
17 seats left. 3 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 6 Time TBAOpenno grade history
18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 7 Time TBAOpenno grade history
17 seats left. 3 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 8 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 9 Time TBAOpenno grade history
19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 10 Time TBAOpenno grade history
19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 11 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 12 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 13 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 14 Time TBAOpen
Fletcher, A.
no grade history20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 15 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 16 Time TBAOpenno grade history
19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 17 Time TBAOpenno grade history
17 seats left. 3 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 18 Time TBAOpenno grade history
19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 19 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 20 Time TBAOpenno grade history
17 seats left. 3 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 21 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 22 Time TBAOpenno grade history
11 seats left. 9 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 23 Time TBAOpen
Joshi, C.J.
no grade history20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 24 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 25 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 26 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 27 Time TBAOpenno grade history
19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 28 Time TBAOpen
Mori, W.B.
no grade history20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 29 Time TBAOpenno grade history
18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 31 Time TBAOpenno grade history
18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 32 Time TBAOpenno grade history
12 seats left. 8 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 33 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 34 Time TBAOpenno grade history
19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 35 Time TBAOpenno grade history
19 seats left. 1 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 36 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 37 Time TBAOpenno grade history
14 seats left. 6 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 38 Time TBAOpen
Soatto, S.
no grade history20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 39 Time TBAOpenno grade history
13 seats left. 7 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 40 Time TBAOpenno grade history
16 seats left. 4 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 41 Time TBAOpenno grade history
18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 42 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 43 Time TBAOpenno grade history
18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 44 Time TBAOpenno grade history
13 seats left. 7 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 45 Time TBAOpenno grade history
18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 46 Time TBAOpenno grade history
16 seats left. 4 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 47 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 48 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 49 Time TBAOpenno grade history
18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 50 Time TBAOpenno grade history
20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled low risk
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Sem 51 Time TBAOpen
Choi, J.
no grade history18 seats left. 2 of 20 enrolled low risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 12 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 11 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 296 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 50 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.
Sem 1 · Abidi, A.A. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, same seat count, but the seat count moved and came back.
Sem 2 · Alwan, A.A. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, same seat count, but the seat count moved and came back.
Sem 3 · Ahmadi, E. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 4 · Babakhani, A. · 3 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 1.
Sem 5 · Cabric, D. · 3 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 2.
Sem 6 · Candler, R.N. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 1.
1 to 2 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Sem 7 · Carbajo, S. · 3 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 3.
Sem 8 · Chang, M.F. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 9 · Chen, X. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 1.
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Sem 10 · Cui, X. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 1.
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Sem 11 · Dolecek, L. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 12 · Diggavi, S.N. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 13 · Emaminejad, S. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 14 · Fletcher, A. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 15 · Fragouli, C.P. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 16 · Kadambi, A. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 1.
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Sem 17 · Gupta, P. · 3 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 2.
Sem 18 · Gharesi Fard, B. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 1 of 20.
Sem 19 · He, L. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 20 · Iyer, S.S. · 3 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 3 of 20.
Sem 21 · Kao, J.C. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 22 · Jarrahi, M. · 9 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 7.
Sem 23 · Joshi, C.J. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 24 · Liu, J.M. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 25 · Jalali, B. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 26 · Markovic, D. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 27 · Mehta, A.M. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 1 of 20.
Sem 28 · Mori, W.B. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 29 · Ozcan, A. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 2.
Sem 31 · Roberts, I. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 2.
Sem 32 · Pamarti, S. · 8 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 7.
Sem 33 · Pottie, G.J. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 34 · Rahmat-Samii, Y. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 1.
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Sem 35 · Razavi, B. · 1 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 1.
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Sem 36 · Roychowdhury, V.P. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 37 · Sehatbakhsh, N. · 6 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 2.
Sem 38 · Soatto, S. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 39 · Srivastava, M.B. · 7 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 5.
Sem 40 · Tabuada, P. · 4 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 3.
Sem 41 · Tian, Y. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 2.
Sem 42 · Vandenberghe, L. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 43 · Wang, K.L. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 2.
Sem 44 · Wang, Y. · 7 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 4.
Sem 45 · Wesel, R.D. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 1.
1 to 2 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Sem 46 · Williams, B.S. · 4 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 3.
Sem 47 · Wong, C. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 48 · Yang, L. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 49 · Yang, C.K. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 2.
Sem 50 · Zhang, Y. · 0 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 of 20.
Sem 51 · Choi, J. · 2 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 2.
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.