MECH&AE C162A · MAE C162AIntroduction to Mechanisms and Mechanical Systems
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Formerly numbered 162A.) Analysis of mechanisms and mechanical systems. Covered topics include kinematics, dynamics, and mechanical advantages of machinery; displacement, velocity, and acceleration analyses of linkages; fundamental law of gearing and gear trains; and force and power analysis. Concurrently scheduled with course C294B.
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
Enforced requisites: courses M20 or 20P (or Computer Science 31), 102.
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needs reviewconfidence 0.90 · from UCLA’s structured data- · "MECH&AE 20P" is not in this catalog version
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE C162A
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MECH&AE 102Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
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