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Professor Hu, is a professor who truly understands and cares about Thermodynamics. His lectures can be a bit confusing to following, but his lecture notes make for it ten times over. His exams were fair and he was always willing to talk to students regarding content, logistics, grades, etc. He is a very solid choice from the MSE department.Rate My Professors ↗
Its evident that Professor Hu deeply cares and I did learn a lot from his course. I just find his teaching style mediocre at best and found myself learning 90% of the material outside of lecture. To be fair, his lecture notes are very good. Youll have the resources at your disposal, youll just be learning it on your own.Rate My Professors ↗
Jiamian is one of the best and nicest professors I have had so far in the university. MSE330 is not an easy class by any means, but he did his best to teach it. He has by far the best supplemental material for a class I have seen, his lecture notes are immaculate. Dont get scared by the number of derivations, you are not required to learn them.Rate My Professors ↗
Prof. Hu has a true passion for this topic and Material Science as a whole. The excitement he has for the topic helps to make the course easier. This course requires a good understanding of calculus topics and perseverance, but the end result is a great understanding of Thermodynamics.Rate My Professors ↗
This class was absolutely ridiculous. First, he teaches you from his mentors unpublished textbook that has mistakes in it and it is not very helpful with learning the content. If you get a good grade in this class you're simply lucky. The WORST class I have ever taken at UW and refuse to take another class with him ever again.Rate My Professors ↗
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MS&E 299 is an independent study course conducted under faculty supervision.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Fall 2022 · limited sampleMS&E 330 introduces the thermodynamics of materials, covering equilibrium constants, solutions, heterogeneous equilibria, and electrochemistry.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 2.93 GPA, 51.7% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Fall 2024: 2.94 GPA, 37.5% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2025: 2.84 GPA, 39.3% A/AB (n=28 letter grades).
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Fall 2025MS&E 699 is an independent study course in Metallurgical Engineering requiring consent of the instructor.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades).
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Fall 2022 · limited sampleMS&E 790 is a master's research or thesis course conducted under faculty supervision.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
MS&E 890 is a supervised research course for pre-dissertator students.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
MS&E 990 is a research and thesis course for Ph.D. students under faculty supervision.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.
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