Fall 2026

Process Design

CBE 450 teaches the analysis and design of chemical processing systems and equipment.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Styliana Avraamidou

Summary

1 / 7

Historical reviews of Ross Swaney: Students report that project information is scattered across multiple PDFs and lectures may not align with tests, requiring significant self-directed learning and trial and error.

Grade history

↗
average GPA
letter grades
A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors

Prerequisites

Course map

CBE 326, 426, and 430

CBE 450

This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.

Prerequisite text tree

Professors

Fall 2026

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.55 GPA, 86.6% A/AB (n=67 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews of Ross Swaney: Ross Swaney receives mixed reviews for CBE 450. Some students find him helpful and challenging, while others criticize the course as uninspired and poorly organized. One review notes significant frustration with the lack of structure and relevance of lectures to projects.

ROSS SWANEY is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

STYLIANA AVRAAMIDOU is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

Schedule loads here as you scroll.

SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction26 / 600
DIS 302Classroom Instruction16 / 350
DIS 303Classroom Instruction10 / 270

Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.

Meeting source records
Download part 1

Student experience

the class

Historical reviews of Ross Swaney: Ross Swaney is helpful and challenges students to think independently, though his lectures can be long-winded and the course structure is often disorganized.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.27 GPA, 57.5% A/AB (n=73 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.27 GPA, 59.4% A/AB (n=32 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.55 GPA, 86.6% A/AB (n=67 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Ross Swaney: Students report that project information is scattered across multiple PDFs and lectures may not align with tests, requiring significant self-directed learning and trial and error.

Historical reviews of Ross Swaney: Some reviewers found the course uninspired and poorly thought out, noting that they learned more from TAs and classmates than from the lectures.

Topics

  • Chemical processing systems and equipment

Skills

  • Analysis and design of chemical processing systems and equipment.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Fall 2026.

average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor

Grade distribution · % of letter grades

A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

Grades over time

Through Spring 2026

More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data

Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

GPA

Higher than % of other courses in this group.

Course GPAs · red marks this course’s range

letter grades

More recorded grades than % of other courses in this group.

Typical course in this group: letter grades.

About this comparison

1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.

Download part 1
Selected offering source records
CBE 450 · Fall 2026

Process Design

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records 
[
  {
    "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4",
    "semester": "1272",
    "observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00",
    "offering_id": "1272:220:002687",
    "course_id": "CBE 450",
    "course_uid": "course_1e3326060f20e7f92c226d9a",
    "term_id": "1272",
    "source_course_id": "002687",
    "source_subject_id": "220",
    "title": "Process Design",
    "credits_min": 3,
    "credits_max": 3,
    "typically_offered": "Fall, Spring"
  }
]
Rate My Professors

Student reviews

Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

Read original reviews
Download part 1
Madgrades

Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

Explore recorded grades
Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

View the dataset on Hugging Face
Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
LLM outputs across runs
Download part 1
Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

Download part 1
Model & dataset provenance 
{
  "model": "nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4",
  "model_revision": "1355db6a052410cfd62085d94b58866fd0f2c3c5",
  "task_version": "14",
  "output_id": "f8d664a5b2c563d4eeb761bf5675669002b47cbd6222eed504523ef055ca3e8e",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
  "dataset_revision": "e243353dcb7d79b7247ced91d69443ef4c2a6349",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00"
}