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MECH&AE 263E · MAE 263EBionic Systems Engineering

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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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.

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

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one of
  • all of
    • MECH&AE M20
    • MECH&AE 82
  • equivalent
  • · could not read "equivalent" (no course number found)
  • · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "courses M20, 82, or equivalent" — grouping is a best reading

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
      • MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students1 more beneath
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series1 more beneath
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables1 more beneath
  • MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
    • MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLABanother path to it
    • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applicationsanother path to it

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.

Unlocks

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.