MECH&AE 157 · MAE 157Basic Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Laboratory
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Methods of measurement of basic quantities and performance of basic experiments in fluid mechanics, structures, and thermodynamics. Primary sensors, transducers, recording equipment, signal processing, and data analysis.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 101, 102, 103, 105A, 105D, Electrical and Computer Engineering 100.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 157
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- MATH 1Precalculus
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- MECH&AE 102Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- EC ENGR 100Electrical and Electronic Circuits
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
- MECH&AE 103Elementary Fluid Mechanics
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MECH&AE 105AIntroduction to Engineering Thermodynamics
- MECH&AE 105DTransport Phenomena
6 direct requisites. Showing 50 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MECH&AE 157
- MECH&AE 157AAerospace Design Laboratory
- MECH&AE 157DAerospace Design Laboratory I
- MECH&AE 157EAerospace Design Laboratory II
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.