BIOENGR C135
Orthopaedic Biomechanical Engineering
Grades
3.54
Average grade awarded in BIOENGR C135. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
63%
of the 90 letter grades
D, F or W
1.1%
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: 90 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 3.33 to 3.78.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 3 · 3.3%
- A 39 · 43.3%
- A- 15 · 16.7%
- B+ 11 · 12.2%
- B 11 · 12.2%
- B- 6 · 6.7%
- C+ 3 · 3.3%
- C- 1 · 1.1%
- D 1 · 1.1%
Percentages are of the 90 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 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SANGIORGIO, SOPHIA NICOLE reviews ↗ | 3.54 | 3.54 | 90 | 3 | 63% | - | 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.
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Workload and assignments
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What comes first
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In Falls
Ran in 3 of the last 3 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
(Formerly numbered 125.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Requisites: Physics 1A, 1B. Overview of central topics of orthopaedic biomechanical engineering, with focus on orthopaedic implant performance and how to evaluate new and existing implants. Topics include orthopaedic and biomechanical terminology and basic anatomy; introduction to free body diagrams and calculations of joint reaction forces; material versus structural properties; introduction to stress analysis; mechanisms of fracture patterns and fracture fixation; biomechanics of total joint replacement; contemporary bearing materials and tribology; design and evaluation of total joint replacements; and introduction to spine biomechanics, spine implants, and pure moment testing. Concurrently scheduled with course C235. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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