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MSE

The Henry Samueli School of Engineering · University of California-Irvine

3,519 grades38 courses28 professors17 terms

Department and course prefixes as University of California-Irvine lists them in its own catalog.

3.37

average GPA across 3,519 grades

+3% vs. University of California-Irvine overall (3.28)

87%

A or B

of 3,519 grades

3.3%

D, F or withdrew

of 3,535 enrolled

A55.4%

B32.0%

C9.7%

Every term against the 3.37 department average 17 terms

Fall 2020Fall 2025

Most taken

MSE 158

Ceramic Materials for Sustainable Energy

Electronic and Optical Properties in Materials

Mechanical Behavior and Design Principles

X-ray Diffraction, Electron Microscopy, and Microanalysis

Laboratory in Synthesis and Characterization of Materials

Materials Selection and Design

Design Failure Investigation

3.11

151 grades

−8% vs. dept

Courses with a grade record · 38

100 level20 200 level16 600 level2

CourseDistributionGPAvs. deptGrades

100 level20 courses

MSE 141 · Nano-Scale Materials and Applications

3.43 +2% vs. dept 88

MSE 151 · Polymeric Materials

3.36 −0% vs. dept 191

MSE 155 · Mechanical Behavior and Design Principles

3.74 +11% vs. dept 210

MSE 155L · Mechanical Behavior Laboratory

3.56 +5% vs. dept 119

MSE 158 · Ceramic Materials for Sustainable Energy

3.68 +9% vs. dept 240

MSE 164 · X-ray Diffraction, Electron Microscopy, and Microanalysis

2.53 −25% vs. dept 162

MSE 164L · X-ray Diffraction, Electron Microscopy, and Microanalysis Lab

3.31 −2% vs. dept 123

MSE 165A · Thermodynamics of Materials

3.11 −8% vs. dept 150

MSE 165B · Diffusion and Heat Transport in Materials

3.36 −0% vs. dept 124

MSE 165C · Materials Kinetics and Phase Transformations

3.19 −5% vs. dept 126

MSE 165CL · Laboratory in Materials Kinetics and Phase Transformations

3.92 +16% vs. dept 68

MSE 173

3.46 +3% vs. dept 98

MSE 174 · Composite Materials Design

2.85 −15% vs. dept 35

MSE 175 · Design Failure Investigation

3.11 −8% vs. dept 151

MSE 178 · Fundamentals of Materials Processing: How are Materials Processed to Make Things?

3.44 +2% vs. dept 28

MSE 187 · Essential Skills in Engineering

3.97 +18% vs. dept 41

MSE 189C · Senior Design Project III

3.41 +1% vs. dept 129

MSE 190 · Materials Selection and Design

3.03 −10% vs. dept 152

MSE 195 · Special Topics in Materials Science and Engineering

3.58 +6% vs. dept 67

MSE 199 · Individual Study

4.00 +19% vs. dept 14

200 level16 courses

MSE 200 · Structure of Materials

3.59 +7% vs. dept 123

MSE 201A · Critical Analysis and Technical Communication I

3.83 +14% vs. dept 12

MSE 205 · Materials Physics

3.48 +3% vs. dept 116

MSE 241 · Nano-Scale Materials and Applications

3.70 +10% vs. dept 25

MSE 249 · Special Topics in Materials Science and Engineering

3.60 +7% vs. dept 140

MSE 255A · Design with Ceramic Materials

4.00 +19% vs. dept 11

MSE 256A · Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials

3.46 +3% vs. dept 86

MSE 259 · Transmission Electron Microscopy

3.93 +16% vs. dept 79

MSE 264 · Scanning Electron Microscopy

3.63 +8% vs. dept 14

MSE 265

3.64 +8% vs. dept 22

MSE 265A · Materials Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

3.27 −3% vs. dept 46

MSE 265B · Phase Transformations and Kinetic Phenomena in Materials

3.47 +3% vs. dept 43

MSE 271

3.83 +14% vs. dept 12

MSE 273

3.81 +13% vs. dept 10

MSE 278 · Fundamentals of Materials Processing: How are Materials Processed to Make Things?

3.73 +11% vs. dept 16

MSE 287 · Essential Skills in Engineering

3.98 +18% vs. dept 67

600 level2 courses

MSE 60 · Laboratory in Synthesis and Characterization of Materials

3.27 −3% vs. dept 153

MSE 69 · Electronic and Optical Properties in Materials

2.72 −19% vs. dept 228

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