Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.35 GPA, 67.4% A/AB (n=43 letter grades).
Fall 2026
Nuclear Engineering Materials
Nuclear Engineering Materials covers the fundamentals of fuel and cladding behavior, focusing on thermal, chemical, and radiation damage properties.
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Charles Hirst
Summary
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Historical reviews of Adrien Couet: The course involves a non-trivial amount of work; students must be prepared to treat it as a four-credit course and put in effort outside of class to learn the material.
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Prerequisites
Course mapM S & E 350 or 351, graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students
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Professors
Fall 2026Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Adrien Couet: Charles Hirst is the current instructor, but all reviews concern Adrien Couet. Couet is described as an expert who supports students, though some find his lectures disjointed and his grading harsh. Reviews disagree on his teaching style, with some calling him rude and others praising his dedication.
ADRIEN COUET is recorded teaching in Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Fall 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
CHARLIE HIRST is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. 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 | 6 / 48 | 0 |
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 27 / 48 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews of Adrien Couet: Recent reviews praise Adrien Couet as an excellent, knowledgeable, and supportive teacher who offers interesting material, though the course is demanding and requires significant student autonomy.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.33 GPA, 63.0% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.31 GPA, 70.4% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.35 GPA, 67.4% A/AB (n=43 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Adrien Couet: The course involves a non-trivial amount of work; students must be prepared to treat it as a four-credit course and put in effort outside of class to learn the material.
Historical reviews highlight significant frustration with exam conditions, specifically the lack of an equation sheet and unclear assignments, alongside complaints about disjointed lectures and harsh grading.
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About this comparison
1320 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
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Nuclear Engineering Materials
Recorded 2026-09-07Nuclear Engineering Materials
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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