MECH&AE 279 · MAE 279Dynamics and Control of Biological Oscillations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Analysis and design of dynamical mechanisms underlying biological control systems that generate coordinated oscillations. Topics include neuronal information processing through action potentials (spike train), central pattern generator, coupled nonlinear oscillators, optimal gaits (periodic motion) for animal locomotion, and entrainment to natural oscillations via feedback control.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
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Requisites: courses 107, M270A.
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MECH&AE 279
- 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
- EC ENGR 100Electrical and Electronic Circuits
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity4 more beneath
- MECH&AE M270ALinear Dynamic Systems
- MECH&AE 171AIntroduction to Feedback and Control Systems: Dynamic Systems Control I
- EC ENGR 141Principles of Feedback Control
- EC ENGR 102Systems and Signals
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