MECH&AE M270A · MAE M270ALinear Dynamic Systems
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Same as Chemical Engineering M280A and Electrical and Computer Engineering M240A.) State-space description of linear time-invariant (LTI) and time-varying (LTV) systems in continuous and discrete time. Linear algebra concepts such as eigenvalues and eigenvectors, singular values, Cayley/Hamilton theorem, Jordan form; solution of state equations; stability, controllability, observability, realizability, and minimality. Stabilization design via state feedback and observers; separation principle. Connections with transfer function techniques.
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
Requisite: course 171A or Electrical and Computer Engineering 141.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE M270A
- 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
- EC ENGR 141Principles of Feedback Control
- EC ENGR 102Systems and Signals
2 direct requisites. Showing 9 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.
MECH&AE M270A
- MECH&AE 270BLinear Optimal Control
- MECH&AE M270COptimal Control
- CH ENGR M280COptimal Control
- MECH&AE M272ANonlinear Dynamic Systems
- CH ENGR M282ANonlinear Dynamic Systems
- CH ENGR 283CAnalysis and Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems
- MECH&AE 273ARobust Control System Analysis and Design
- MECH&AE 277Advanced Digital Control for Mechatronic Systems
- EC ENGR M242ANonlinear Dynamic Systems
- MECH&AE 279Dynamics and Control of Biological Oscillations
7 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 10 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.