MECH&AE 182C · MAE 182CNumerical Methods for Engineering Applications
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Basic topics from numerical analysis having wide application in solution of practical engineering problems, computer arithmetic, and errors. Solution of linear and nonlinear systems. Algebraic eigenvalue problem. Least-square methods, numerical quadrature, and finite difference approximations. Numerical solution of initial and boundary value problems for ordinary and partial differential equations.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
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 M20 (or Civil Engineering M20 or Computer Science 31), 82.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 182C
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
3 direct requisites. Showing 8 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 182C
- MECH&AE 250DComputational Fluid Dynamics for Compressible Flows
- MECH&AE 250ESpectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics
- MECH&AE 250HComputational Fluid Dynamics for Incompressible Flows
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.