MECH&AE 166C · MAE 166CDesign of Composite Structures
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
History of composites, stress-strain relations for composite materials, bending and extension of symmetric laminates, failure analysis, design examples and design studies, buckling of composite components, nonsymmetric laminates, micromechanics of composites.
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 requisite: course 156A or 166A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 166C
- 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
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- MECH&AE 166AAnalysis of Aerospace Structures
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.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MECH&AE 166C
- MECH&AE 262Mechanics of Intelligent Material Systems
- MECH&AE M297CComposites Manufacturing
- MAT SCI M297CComposites Manufacturing
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.