MECH&AE 157D · MAE 157DAerospace Design Laboratory I
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to seniors. First in two-course aerospace engineering capstone design series. Study of aerodynamics, trajectory analysis, propulsion, computational fluid dynamics, flight control, and instrumentation. Students work in teams to begin their two-term design project. Laboratory modules include structures, trajectory analysis, aerodynamics, propulsion, and sensors.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
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 105A, 150A, 157 or 157W, 171A.
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MECH&AE 157D
- MECH&AE 105AIntroduction to Engineering Thermodynamics
- MECH&AE 150AIntermediate Fluid Mechanics
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MECH&AE 103Elementary Fluid Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MECH&AE 157Basic Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Laboratory
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MECH&AE 102Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies
- EC ENGR 100Electrical and Electronic Circuits
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
- MECH&AE 157WBasic Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Laboratory with Writing
- MECH&AE 105DTransport Phenomena
- MECH&AE 171AIntroduction to Feedback and Control Systems: Dynamic Systems Control I
- MECH&AE 107Introduction to Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
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MECH&AE 157D
- MECH&AE 157EAerospace Design Laboratory II
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.