ADET 3102
Design and Prototyping for Entrepreneurs · 2 instructors on record · 6 sections
That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.
Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.
Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.
This course introduces entrepreneurs to product design and prototyping principles, including the fundamentals of Design Thinking. Design Thinking has demonstrated its value in developing innovative, user-friendly products and services for all types of organizations. The course provides a detailed overview of design and prototyping techniques and best practices through case studies, demonstrations, guest experts, and lectures. Students will work individually and in small teams to apply these techniques through project-centered assignments grounded in specific design challenges. These projects foster critical thinking, creative exploration of options, customer research, experimentation, rapid prototyping, feasibility testing, and iteration. Design and Prototyping for Entrepreneurs will build problem-solving, creativity-boosting skills that are essential components of an entrepreneurial mindset.
Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them.
| Rank | Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Macauley KenneyAdvancing Studies | 813 records | 78th | 27th |
| 2 | Emily YoungAdvancing Studies | 783 records | 78th | 27th |
How this board is orderedPositions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.
Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Overall is the instructor's blended score for THIS class only, and its one contributing source is Boston College's evaluations for the sections in the row's record count — nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Workload and Challenge are RANKS against every class we hold, not scores: BC's questions all sit near the top of the 1-5 scale, so a raw number would put almost every row in the high eighties and tell you nothing. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item, which students answer positively about courses that stretched them — it is not a measure of difficulty or grading. Neither column is ever marked better or worse.
The line
All 13 items · means across 6 recordsBar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.
Game log
6 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Young | Fall 2025 | 02 | 70 | 78 | — |
| Macauley Kenney | Fall 2025 | 02 | 80 | 78 | — |
| Emily Young | Spring 2025 | 01 | 88 | 82 | 60 |
| Macauley Kenney | Spring 2025 | 01 | 86 | 82 | 60 |
| Emily Young | Fall 2024 | 01 | 76 | 64 | 60 |
| Macauley Kenney | Fall 2024 | 01 | 78 | 64 | 60 |
How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.