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ENGR 87

Introduction to Engineering Disciplines

4 units

Sections & times

Lecture and discussion.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 6 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 5 hours ago.

Grades

3.79

Average grade awarded in ENGR 87. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

82%

of the 337 letter grades

D, F or W

0.0%

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: 337 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 3.66 to 3.89.

Historical grades for HORMOZI, SCHEHEREZADE J, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 39 · 20.1%
  • A 98 · 50.5%
  • A- 33 · 17.0%
  • B+ 18 · 9.3%
  • B 4 · 2.1%
  • C 2 · 1.0%

Percentages are of the 194 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.

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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
BRANDENBERG, SCOTT JOSEPH reviews ↗ 3.79 3.79 337 5 82% - not teaching it
DOUGLAS, CATHERINE E reviews ↗ 3.84 3.84 194 3 88% - not teaching it
HORMOZI, SCHEHEREZADE J reviews ↗ 3.84 3.84 194 3 88% average Closed by the department
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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Reviews for ENGR 87

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.

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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, four hours; discussion, four hours; outside study, four hours. Introduction to engineering as professional opportunity for freshman students by exploring difference between engineering disciplines and functions engineers perform. Development of skills and techniques for academic excellence through team process. Investigation of national need underlying current effort to increase participation of historically underrepresented groups in U.S. technological work force. Letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

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 7 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 51 and 76 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 51 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

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 · Hormozi, S.J., Santos, V., and Douglas, C.E. · 46 enrolled

Filled by 46 over about 2 months

0 to 46 enrolled across 3 readings, +46.

17 Aug 15:079 Sep 07:091 Oct 23:12
dibs read 168 of the 758 hours its hourly record covers, 22%, and did not look in 590. dibs had no hourly record before 31 Aug, which is the other 331 of 1089 plotted.Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 1 Oct 23:12, 0 to 46. The line joins two or three readings, which is too few to read a trend from. dibs read 168 of the 758 hours its hourly record here covers, 22%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 590 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 31 August at 10:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 331 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
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.