Current instructor

Dan Negrut

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Raw average: 4.69/5 from 16 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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What students say

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Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
BEST professor ever! Not only does he have a kind heart and a good life philosophy (you'll see throughout the class), but those aren't the main reasons I'm giving him a 5. The real reason is he brought amazing donuts to the final exam ;)
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Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
Dan is a great professor who knows a lot about parallel computing both on CPU and GPU. Lectures and homeworks are well designed; lots of room to explore parallel computing with the final project. I really liked that lecture recordings were made available as well. Great class/great professor/great guy.
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Classes with Dan Negrut

Directed study projects for Computer Science juniors and seniors, arranged with a faculty member.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Pre-dissertator independent research supervised by a faculty member for students who have completed a master's degree but have not reached dissertator status.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

No recorded grade history

Independent Study course for ECE featuring directed study projects arranged with the instructor.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.83 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Advanced Independent Study for ECE involving directed study projects arranged with the instructor.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Fall 2023 · limited sample

Independent work on master's research overseen by a qualified instructor. Students demonstrate the ability to formulate, analyze, and independently solve advanced engineering problems and communicate research results orally and in writing.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

No recorded grade history

Advanced Dynamics covers kinematics and kinetics of plane and three-dimensional motion, Coriolis acceleration, linear and angular momentum, central force motion, gyrodynamics, and generalized coordinates. Was EMA 542 prior to Fall 2026.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

No recorded grade history

Overview of computing concepts for engineering modeling/simulation, covering computer architecture, software development, and software-hardware interplay.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Dan Negrut

Instructor Dan Negrut taught a course where homeworks required significant self-teaching outside of class. However, the material was not overly difficult, grading was fair, and exams were reasonable and challenging but not impossible.

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2023 · limited sample

Mechanical Engineering Projects I involves individual lab projects under staff supervision.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2024–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Mechanical Engineering Projects II is a continuation of ME 491 that applies basic mechanical engineering principles to engineering research problems.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades).

No recorded grade history

Advanced Independent Study involves directed study projects arranged with the instructor, applying advanced physical, mathematical, and mechanical engineering principles to engineering research problems.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

No recorded grade history

Recorded teaching history

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2027COMPSCI 682Senior Honors Thesis
Spring 2027COMPSCI 699Directed Study
Spring 2027COMPSCI 790Master's Thesis
Spring 2027COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Spring 2027COMPSCI 990Dissertation
Spring 2027ECE 399Independent Study
Spring 2027ECE 489Honors in Research
Spring 2027ECE 699Advanced Independent Study
Spring 2027ECE 790Master's Research
Spring 2027ECE 890Pre-dissertator's Research
Spring 2027ECE 990Dissertator's Research
Spring 2027ECE 999Advanced Independent Study
Spring 2027EMA 442Advanced Dynamics
Spring 2027ME 459Computing Concepts for Applications in Engineering
Spring 2027ME 489Honors in Research II
Spring 2027ME 491Mechanical Engineering Projects I
Spring 2027ME 492Mechanical Engineering Projects II
Spring 2027ME 699Advanced Independent Study
Spring 2027ME 790Master's Research and Thesis
Spring 2027ME 890Phd Research and Thesis
Spring 2027ME 990Dissertator Research and Thesis
Fall 2026COMPSCI 681Senior Honors Thesis
Fall 2026COMPSCI 691Senior Thesis
Fall 2026COMPSCI 699Directed Study
Fall 2026COMPSCI 790Master's Thesis
Fall 2026COMPSCI 799Master's Research
Fall 2026COMPSCI 899Pre-dissertator Research
Fall 2026COMPSCI 990Dissertation
Fall 2026ECE 399Independent Study
Fall 2026ECE 489Honors in Research
Fall 2026ECE 699Advanced Independent Study
Fall 2026ECE 790Master's Research
Fall 2026ECE 890Pre-dissertator's Research
Fall 2026ECE 990Dissertator's Research
Fall 2026ME 491Mechanical Engineering Projects I
Fall 2026ME 699Advanced Independent Study
Fall 2026ME 751Advanced Computational Dynamics
Fall 2026ME 790Master's Research and Thesis
Fall 2026ME 890Phd Research and Thesis
Fall 2026ME 990Dissertator Research and Thesis

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