ENGR 182EW
Technology and Law
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 4 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.
Grades
3.82
Average grade awarded in ENGR 182EW. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
88%
of the 618 letter grades
D, F or W
1.0%
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: 618 grades over 8 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 8 terms ran 3.67 to 3.97.
Historical grades for VILLASENOR, JOHN D, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 17 · 5.1%
- A 249 · 74.6%
- A- 38 · 11.4%
- B+ 7 · 2.1%
- B 23 · 6.9%
Percentages are of the 334 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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
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| VILLASENOR, JOHN D reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 334 | 4 | 91% | light | Closed by the department |
| ZIPPERSTEIN, STEVEN E reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.74 | 284 | 4 | 83% | - | 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
- 1 exam, said by 2 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 paper, said by 5 reviewers
- 1 group work, said by 3 reviewers
- 1 presentation, said by 2 reviewers
Read from 14 reviews 17 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before ENGR 182EW. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for ENGCOMP 2 and ENGCOMP 2I, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 4 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, three hours; outside study, five hours. Requisite: English Composition 3, 3D, 3DX, 3E, or 3SL. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 181EW, 183EW, 185EW, or 188EW. Places engineering in broader societal context through examination of some of key ethical, legal, and regulatory issues and frameworks relevant to design and deployment of emerging technology products and services. Historical examination of ethical and legal frameworks generally and in relation to technology. Exploration of series of specific contemporary technology-related topics to examine their broader ramifications. Topics may include driverless cars, algorithms and artificial intelligence, social media, digital privacy, and impact of technology on employment. Offers students tools enabling them to think more proactively and holistically about ethical and societal dimensions of their work as technology creators. Satisfies engineering writing requirement. 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 5 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 MW 8:00am-9:50amClosed by the department3.88predicted, this instructor · 334 grades
78 enrolled no history
4 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 4 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)
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Dis 1A
M 10:00am-11:50am · Slichter Hall 2834
Closed by the department21 enrolled
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Dis 1B
M 12:00pm-1:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 7608
Closed by the department19 enrolled
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Dis 1C
T 12:00pm-1:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 7608
Closed by the department19 enrolled
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Dis 1D
T 2:00pm-3:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 5225
Closed by the department19 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 79 and 92 a term over 4 terms, summer excluded, most recently 92 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 ENGR 182EW 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.
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 · Villasenor, J.D. · 78 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, freed 6 seats.
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.