MECH&AE 166C

Design of Composite Structures

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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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.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 156A or 166A.

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Requires

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
  - MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications2 more beneath
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
  - MATH 31A

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.