MECH&AE 154S · MAE 154SFlight Mechanics, Stability, and Control of Aircraft
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Aircraft performance, flight mechanics, stability, and control; some basic ingredients needed for design of aircraft. Effects of airplane flexibility on stability derivatives.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 150A, 150B.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 154S
- MECH&AE 150AIntermediate Fluid Mechanics
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MECH&AE 150BAerodynamics
- MECH&AE 103Elementary Fluid Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields3 more beneath
2 direct requisites. Showing 11 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MECH&AE 154S
- MECH&AE 154APreliminary Design of Aircraft
- MECH&AE 154BDesign of Aerospace Structures
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.