EC ENGR 597A
Preparation for MS Comprehensive Examination
Tutorial.
Winter 2026: 52 sections. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
Graded S/U, so there is no average to report.
Graded S/U: 228 records over 6 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.
- S 36 of 36
Counts are out of 36 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALWAN, ABEER A reviews ↗ | S/U | 20 S/U | 2 | - | - | Open, 5 seats left | |
| RAZAVI, BEHZAD reviews ↗ | S/U | 35 S/U | 3 | - | - | Open, 2 seats left | |
| KAO, JONATHAN CHAU-YAN reviews ↗ | S/U | 36 S/U | 3 | - | - | Open, 7 seats left | |
| POTTIE, GREGORY J reviews ↗ | S/U | 10 S/U | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| KADAMBI, ACHUTA reviews ↗ | S/U | 11 S/U | 1 | - | - | Open, 8 seats left | |
| YANG, LIN reviews ↗ | S/U | 46 S/U | 4 | - | - | Open, 6 seats left | |
| HE, LEI reviews ↗ | S/U | 34 S/U | 3 | - | - | Open, 7 seats left | |
| ABIDI, ASAD A reviews ↗ | S/U | 36 S/U | 3 | - | - | Open, 3 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 Winters
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Winters, so it turns up in Winter 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
Tutorial, to be arranged. Limited to graduate electrical engineering students. Reading and preparation for MS comprehensive examination. S/U grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 52 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Tut 1 Time TBAOpen
Abari, O.
no grade history9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 2 Time TBAOpenno grade history
3 seats left. 7 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 3 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Tut 4 Time TBAOpenno grade history
5 seats left. 5 of 10 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Tut 5 Time TBAOpen
Arnold, C.W.
no grade history9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Tut 6 Time TBAOpenno grade history
5 seats left. 5 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 7 Time TBAOpenno grade history
4 seats left. 6 of 10 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Tut 8 Time TBAOpenno grade history
6 seats left. 4 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 9 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 10 Time TBAOpenno grade history
6 seats left. 4 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 11 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Tut 12 Time TBAOpen
Christofides, P.D.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Tut 13 Time TBAOpen
Cong, J.J.
no grade history9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 14 Time TBAOpenno grade history
2 seats left. 8 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 15 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 16 Time TBAOpenno grade history
6 seats left. 4 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 17 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 18 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 19 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 20 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 21 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 22 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 23 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 24 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 25 Time TBAOpen
Joshi, C.J.
no grade history9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 26 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 27 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 28 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 29 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 30 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 31 Time TBAOpenno grade history
4 seats left. 6 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 32 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 33 Time TBAOpenno grade history
2 seats left. 8 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 34 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 35 Time TBAOpenno grade history
4 seats left. 6 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 36 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 37 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 38 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 39 Time TBAOpenno grade history
2 seats left. 8 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 40 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 41 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 42 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 43 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 44 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 45 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 46 Time TBAOpenno grade history
6 seats left. 4 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 47 Time TBAOpenno grade history
6 seats left. 4 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 48 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 49 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 50 Time TBAOpen
Narang, P.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 51 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled -
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Tut 52 Time TBAOpen
Choi, J.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled -
not checked yet
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 12 a term over 6 terms, summer excluded, most recently 11 in Winter 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 597A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
Your experience could be the first.
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Seats over time in Winter 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 52 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.
Tut 1 · Abari, O. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 1 of 10.
Tut 2 · Abidi, A.A. · 7 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 7 of 10.
Tut 3 · Ahmadi, E. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 2 of 10.
Tut 4 · Alwan, A.A. · 5 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 5 of 10.
Tut 5 · Arnold, C.W. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 1 of 10.
Tut 6 · Babakhani, A. · 5 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 5 of 10.
Tut 7 · Cabric, D. · 6 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 6 of 10.
Tut 8 · Candler, R.N. · 4 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 4 of 10.
Tut 9 · Carbajo, S. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 2 of 10.
Tut 10 · Chang, M.F. · 4 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 4 of 10.
Tut 11 · Chen, X. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 12 · Christofides, P.D. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 13 · Cong, J.J. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 1 of 10.
Tut 14 · Cui, X. · 8 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 8 of 10.
Tut 15 · Diggavi, S.N. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 16 · Dolecek, L. · 4 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 4 of 10.
Tut 17 · Emaminejad, S. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 2 of 10.
Tut 18 · Fragouli, C.P. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 19 · Gupta, P. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 20 · He, L. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 21 · Iyer, S.S. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 2 of 10.
Tut 22 · Izhikevich, L. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 2 of 10.
Tut 23 · Jalali, B. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 24 · Jarrahi, M. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 25 · Joshi, C.J. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 1 of 10.
Tut 26 · Liu, J.M. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 27 · Kadambi, A. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 2 of 10.
Tut 28 · Markovic, D. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 29 · Mehta, A.M. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 2 of 10.
Tut 30 · Ozcan, A. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 31 · Pamarti, S. · 6 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 6 of 10.
Tut 32 · Rahmat-Samii, Y. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 33 · Razavi, B. · 8 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 8 of 10.
Tut 34 · Roberts, I. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 2 of 10.
Tut 35 · Roychowdhury, V.P. · 6 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 6 of 10.
Tut 36 · Sehatbakhsh, N. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 37 · Srivastava, M.B. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 2 of 10.
Tut 38 · Tabuada, P. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 1 of 10.
Tut 39 · Tian, Y. · 8 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 8 of 10.
Tut 40 · Vandenberghe, L. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 41 · Wang, K.L. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 42 · Wang, Y. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 43 · Wesel, R.D. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 44 · Williams, B.S. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 1 of 10.
Tut 45 · Wong, C. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 1 of 10.
Tut 46 · Yang, C.K. · 4 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 4 of 10.
Tut 47 · Yang, L. · 4 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 4 of 10.
Tut 48 · Zhang, Y. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 49 · Zhou, L. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 50 · Narang, P. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 51 · Kao, J.C. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 3 of 10.
Tut 52 · Choi, J. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 0 of 10.
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.