MECH&AE 263E · MAE 263EBionic Systems Engineering
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to design principles for bionic systems, including wearable robotics and implantable devices. Neural control of movement, neuromusculoskeletal modeling, actuator design, sensor integration, robotic control, neural interfacing, surgical techniques for amputation, and fundamentals of orthopaedic implants.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
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 M20, 82, or equivalent.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 263E
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
2 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.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.