MECH&AE 270A · MAE 270ALinear Dynamic Systems
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to analysis of linear systems in state-space form. Review of linear algebra results such as the Cayley-Hamilton theorem and singular value decompositions. Study of solution of the state equations, stability, transmission zeros, controllability, and observability. Also covers realizations of transfer functions, minimality, and model reduction.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- 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
Requisites: course 171A, Mathematics 33A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 270A
- MECH&AE 171AIntroduction to Feedback and Control Systems: Dynamic Systems Control I
- MECH&AE 107Introduction to Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
2 direct requisites. Showing 12 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.