ECE-449
SENSOR&SENSOR INTERFACE DESIGN
Offered Fall 2026
Term
Overview
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that students generally rate the course well. Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
DepartmentELEC&CMP
Terms offeredFall, Spring
Typical enrollment23–27
Semesters of data2
33
Responses
50
Enrollment
66%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
4.2
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
3.8
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
4.4
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
3.1
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysismedium
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 90 comments across 2 sections
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that students generally rate the course well. Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
Student Reports
How hard is the A?
A is doable but not automatic
The signal here is more do-the-work-and-you-should-be-fine than easy-A chatter. Students do not describe the A as automatic, but the evidence also does not paint grading as punishing.
Homework Load
Moderate homework load
Homework load looks moderate. The recurring signal is steady weekly work, but not a course that turns every assignment into a grind.
Lecture Load
Lighter lecture burden
Student comments describe this as more discussion-, seminar-, or workshop-driven than lecture-dependent. The lecture burden itself does not sound like the main source of friction.
Strengths
• Instructor ratings are strong even when the comments do not cluster around one obvious positive theme.
Tradeoffs
• There is no single dominant complaint theme, but the feedback is not uniformly glowing either.
Best fit for
Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
Watch out for
• A large share of the evidence comes from one instructor's version of the course, so this may not generalize cleanly.
Student Responses
Revisited egr101 concepts, like pugh matrices and gantt charts, and developed a good understanding of the raspberry pi.
Fall 2024 · Brooke, Martin
1. A lot of mechanical engineering: how to operate a table saw, how to design parts/a system, etc. 2. How to effectively break-up work and collaborate with a team- this was the best team project I have ever done 3. How to combine software, hardware, and mechanics into one large project
Fall 2024 · Brooke, Martin
System design, teamwork, power analysis
Fall 2024 · Brooke, Martin
Learned how to work with nonideal devices as well as in a big team.
Fall 2024 · Brooke, Martin
I learned more about and got to practice iterative design, brainstorming, and presentation skills
Fall 2024 · Brooke, Martin
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | Brooke, Martin 3.4Rate My ProfessorsQuality3.4Difficulty1.9Would retake88%Based on 14 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | 4.2 | 3.1 | — | 27 |
| Spring 2024 | Brooke, Martin 3.4Rate My ProfessorsQuality3.4Difficulty1.9Would retake88%Based on 14 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | — | — | — | 23 |
Instructor
Brooke, MartinELEC&CMP
Also teaches
ECE-461 OCEAN ENGINEERING4.3ECE-534 GRAD RAINFOREST ENGINEERINGEGR-101L ENGR DESIGN & COMMUNICATION4.0