MECH&AE 162D · MAE 162DMechanical Engineering Design I
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to seniors. First of two mechanical engineering capstone design courses. Lectures on engineering project management, design of thermal systems, mechatronics, mechanical systems, and mechanical components. Students work in teams to begin their two-term design project. Laboratory modules include CAD design, CAD analysis, mechatronics, and conceptual design for team project.
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
Enforced requisites: courses 94, 156A (or 183A or M183B), 162A (or 171A).
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 162D
- MECH&AE 94Introduction to Computer-Aided Design and Drafting
- MECH&AE 156AAdvanced Strength of Materials
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
- 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
- MECH&AE 183AIntroduction to Manufacturing Processes
- MAT SCI 104Science of Engineering Materials
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- MECH&AE M183BIntroduction to Microscale and Nanoscale Manufacturing
- CHEM 20AChemical Structure
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 4ALPhysics Laboratory for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
5 direct requisites. Showing 44 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 162D
- MECH&AE 162EMechanical Engineering Design 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.