Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.41 GPA, 68.3% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.30 GPA, 52.2% A/AB (n=46 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.43 GPA, 65.1% A/AB (n=63 letter grades).
Fall 2026
Civil and Environmental Engineering Decision Making
CIVENGR 494 teaches planning, designing, and managing civil and environmental engineering systems using optimization, decision analysis, and economic evaluation techniques.
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Paul Block
Summary
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Historical reviews of Andrea Hicks: Homework aids learning and is graded on completion with answer keys provided beforehand, while exams are graded fairly.
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Prerequisites
Course mapMATH 217, 221, graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students
- MATH 221
- graduate/professional standing
- member of Engineering Guest Students
- MATH 217
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Prerequisite text tree
- Any of
- MATH 221
- graduate/professional standing
- member of Engineering Guest Students
- MATH 217
Professors
Fall 2026Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews for Andrea Hicks describe the course as highly recommended, noting that she genuinely cares about student learning. Reviewers report that homework aids learning through provided answer keys and completion-based grading, and that exam grading is fair and supportive.
ANDREA HICKS is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
PAUL BLOCK is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, 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 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 76 / 85 | 0 |
| DIS 301 | Classroom Instruction | 26 / 25 | 0 |
| DIS 303 | Classroom Instruction | 25 / 25 | 0 |
| DIS 302 | Classroom Instruction | 25 / 25 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews for Andrea Hicks highlight a supportive instructor who prioritizes student learning through fair grading and helpful homework structures.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.30 GPA, 52.2% A/AB (n=46 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.57 GPA, 70.9% A/AB (n=55 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.43 GPA, 65.1% A/AB (n=63 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Andrea Hicks: Homework aids learning and is graded on completion with answer keys provided beforehand, while exams are graded fairly.
Historical reviews of Andrea Hicks: Students report that the instructor genuinely cares about teaching and learning, making the course highly recommended.
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Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Fall 2026.
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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
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Selected offering source records
Civil and Environmental Engineering Decision Making
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
LLM outputs across runs
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Model & dataset provenance
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