Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (UCSD)

Upper-Division course
MAE 171A. Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I (4)    Design and analysis of experiments in fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, and control engineering. Experiments in wind tunnel, water tunnel, vibration table and material testing machines, and refined electromechanical systems. Laboratory report writing; error analysis; engineering ethics. Prerequisites: grade of C– or better in MAE 101C (or CENG 103C); MAE 160, MAE 141A or MAE 143B, MAE 170, and senior standing in engineering major or consent of instructor.