MAE Course Offerings

All students enrolled in MAE courses are expected to meet prerequisite and performance standards, i.e., students may not enroll in any MAE courses or courses in another department which are required for the major prior to having satisfied prerequisite courses with a D or better.

The majority of MAE courses have enrollment restrictions which give priority to or are open only to declared engineering students and/or to students who have been admitted to an MAE major. Where these restrictions apply, students may submit an Enrollment Authorization System (EASy) request for review. Students are advised that they may be dropped at any time from course rosters if prerequisites and/or performance standards have not been met.

While most lower-division courses are offered more than once each year, many upper-division courses are offered only once per year, and courses are scheduled to be consistent with the curricula as shown in the 4 year/3-year plans. When possible, the department does offer select large enrollment courses more than once each year.

MAE students will not graduate with more than one D grade in any course within their major. This includes the required math, physics and chemistry courses.

ACADEMIC YEAR: 2024-2025

Course offerings and instructors are subject to change.

Course offerings page is updated every summer for the upcoming academic year.

Resources:

MAE Official Course Descriptions (UCSD Catalog)

Schedule of Classes (Course Registration Information)

Previous course offerings (by Academic Year) :

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
COURSE	FA24	WI25	SP25
MAE 2 Introduction to Aerospace Engineering	✔
MAE 3 Introduction to Mechanical Design	✔		✔
MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills
MAE 7 Spatial Visualization
MAE 8 Probability and Statistical Methods for Engineering	✔	✔	✔
MAE 11 Thermodynamics	✔
MAE 20 Elements of Materials Science	✔	✔
MAE 21 Aerospace Materials Science	✔
MAE 30A Statics and Introduction to Dynamics	✔	✔
MAE 30B Dynamics and Vibrations		✔	✔
MAE 40 Linear Circuits	✔	✔
MAE 92A Design Competition - Design, Build, and Fly Aircraft
MAE 101A Introductory Fluid Mechanics	✔	✔
MAE 101B Advanced Fluid Mechanics		✔	✔
MAE 101C Heat Transfer	✔		✔
MAE 101D Intermediate Heat Transfer			✔
MAE 104 Aerodynamics	✔		✔
MAE 105 Introduction to Mathematical Physics	✔		✔
MAE 107 Computational Methods in Engineering	✔		✔
MAE 108 Probability and Statistical Methods for Mechanical Engineering	✔
MAE 110 Thermodynamic Systems	✔
MAE 113 Fundamentals of Propulsion	✔
MAE 114 Space Propulsion		✔
MAE 117A Elementary Plasma Physics
MAE 118 Introduction to Energy and Environment		✔
MAE 119 Introduction to Renewable Energy: Solar and Wind			✔
MAE 120 Introduction to Nuclear Energy		✔
MAE 122 Flow and Transport in the Environment	✔
MAE 123 Introduction to Transport in Porous Media
MAE 125 Building Energy Efficiency		✔
MAE 126A Environmental Engineering Laboratory (EnvEng students can take MAE 171A as a substitute)
MAE 126B Environmental Engineering Design (EnvEng students can take MAE 156B as a substitute)
MAE 130 Advanced Vibrations		✔
MAE 131A Solid Mechanics I	✔		✔
MAE 131B Fundamentals of Solid Mechanics II		✔
MAE 133 Finite Element Methods in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	✔
MAE 142 Dynamics & Control of Aerospace Vehicles	✔	✔
MAE 143A Signals and Systems	✔	✔
MAE 143B Linear Control		✔	✔
MAE 144 Embedded Control and Robotics
MAE 145 Introduction to Robotic Planning and Estimation
MAE 146 Introduction to Machine Learning Algorithms
MAE 148 Introduction to Autonomous Vehicles	✔	✔	✔
MAE 150 Computational Methods for Design	✔		✔
MAE 152 Introductions to Manual and CNC Machining	✔		✔
MAE 154 Product Design and Entrepreneurship	✔
MAE 155A Aerospace Engineering Design I		✔
MAE 155B Aerospace Engineering Design II			✔
MAE 156A Fundamental Principles of Mechanical Design I	✔	✔
MAE 156B Fundamental Principles of Mechanical Design II		✔	✔
MAE 160 Mechanical Behavior of Materials		✔
MAE 165 Fatigue and Failure Analysis of Engineering Components	✔
MAE 166 Modern Concepts in Nanotechnology
MAE 170 Experimental Techniques	✔		✔
MAE 171A Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I		✔	✔
MAE 175A Aerospace Engineering Laboratory I		✔	✔
MAE 180 Orbital Mechanics	✔	✔
MAE 181 Space Mission Analysis and Design
MAE 182 Spacecraft Guidance and Navigation
MAE 184 Flight Simulation Techniques			✔
MAE 185 Computational Fluid Dynamics			✔
MAE 190 Design of Machine Elements	✔
MAE 190 Radiation and Light Sources			✔
MAE 190 Marine Robotics
MAE 191 Sustainable Engineering of Design	✔

GRADUATE COURSES (M.S. Plan II)
COURSE	FA24	WI25	SP25
MAE 200 Controls		✔
MAE 201 Mechanics of Fluids	✔
MAE 202 Thermal Processes	✔
MAE 203 Solid Mechanics and Materials	✔
MAE 204 Robotics		✔
MAE 206 Energy Systems		✔
MAE 208 Mathematics for Engineers	✔	✔
MAE 209 Continuum Mechanics Applied to Medicine / Biology			✔

MAE 207's "Topics in Engineering Science"
COURSE	FA24	WI25	SP25
Advanced Astro Dynamics Instructor: Rosengren
Air-sea Interactions Instructor: Hao
Design & Control of Haptic Systems Instructor: Morimoto
Introduction to Photonics Instructor: Poulikakos		✔
Medical Device Experience I Instructor: Friend
Medical Device Experience II Instructor: TBD			✔
Multiphase Flow & Heat Transfer Instructor: Saha
Experimental Spectroscopy for High Energy Density (HED) Physics Instructor: Beg			✔
Inertial Fusion Energy Instructor: Campbell			✔

^ MAE 207's to be offered at the discretion of the Instructor in which topics of current interest in Engineering will be presented.

Prerequisites: consent of instructor (RE: MAE 207, See Schedule of Classes ea. quarter for details)

GRADUATE COURSES (PhD & MS)
COURSE	FA24	WI25	SP25
MAE 205 Graduate Seminar (required for PhD only)	✔	✔	✔
MAE 210A Fluid Mechanics I	✔
MAE 210B Fluid Mechanics II		✔
MAE 210C Fluid Mechanics III		✔
MAE 211 Introduction to Combustion
MAE 212 Introductory Compressible Flow		✔
MAE 213 Mechanics of Propulsion
MAE 214A Introduction to Turbulence and Turbulent Mixing			✔
MAE 215 Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer
MAE 217A Introduction to Gas Discharge Plasma Physics	✔
MAE 217B Introduction to Non-magnetized Hot Plasma Physics		✔
MAE 217C Introduction to Magnetized Hot Plasma Physics			✔
MAE 218A Introduction to High Energy Density Physics (MHD and Pinches)
MAE 218B Introduction to High Energy Density Physics (Laser-Plasma Interactions)
MAE 219 Design and Control of Haptic Systems	✔
MAE 220A Physics of Gases
MAE 221A Heat Transfer	✔
MAE 221B Mass Transfer		✔
MAE 221C Convection Heat transfer		✔
MAE 221D Radiation Heat Transfer			✔
MAE 223 Ocean Tech Design & Develop			✔
MAE 224A Environmental Fluid Dynamics I			✔
MAE 226 Advanced Dynamics
MAE 227 Convex Optimization for Eng			✔
MAE 231A Foundations of Solid Mechanics
MAE 231B Elasticity			✔
MAE 231C Inelasticity		✔
MAE 232A Finite Element Methods in Solid Mechanics I	✔
MAE 232B Finite Element Methods in Solid Mechanics II		✔
MAE 232C Finite Element Methods in Solid mechanics III
MAE 235 Computational Techniques in Finite Elements	✔
MAE 238 Stress Waves in Solids
MAE 240 Space Flight Mechanics			✔
MAE 242 Robot Motion Planning			✔
MAE 243 Electric Power Systems Modeling			✔
MAE 244 Renewable Energy Integration
MAE 247 Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems
MAE 248 Safety for Autonomous Systems		✔
MAE 249 Soft Robotics	✔
MAE 251 Structure and Analysis of Solids	✔
MAE 253 Advanced Ceramics
MAE 254 Energy Materials & Applications			✔
MAE 256 Radiative Transfer for Energy Applications			✔
MAE 259 ODE Simulation Methods
MAE 261 Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics		✔
MAE 262 Biological Fluid Mechanics
MAE 263 Experimental Methods in Cell Mechanics			✔
MAE 265A Electronic and Photonic Properties of Materials	✔
MAE 265B Magnetic Materials: Principles and Applications
MAE 266 Biomaterials and Medical Devices			✔
MAE 267 Nanomaterials and Properties
MAE 269 Bioinspired Mobile Robotics			✔
MAE 270 Multidisciplinary Design Optimization		✔
MAE 271A Thermodynamics of Solids		✔
MAE 271B Solid State Diffusion and Reaction Kinetics			✔
MAE 271C Phase Transformations
MAE 272 Imperfections in Solids			✔
MAE 274 Model Reduction		✔
MAE 276 Mechanics of Soft Materials		✔
MAE 279 Uncertainty Quantification
MAE 280A Linear Systems Theory	✔
MAE 280B Linear Control Design			✔
MAE 281A Nonlinear Systems		✔
MAE 281B Nonlinear Control			✔
MAE 283A Parametric Identification: Theory and Methods	✔
MAE 283B Approximate Identification and Control
MAE 284 Robust and Multivariable Control
MAE 285 Design of Micro/Nanoacousticofluidic Devices
MAE 286 Hybrid Systems	✔
MAE 288A Optimal Control
MAE 288B Optimal Estimation
MAE 289A Mathematical Analysis for Applications
MAE 289B Real Analysis for Applications		✔
MAE 289C Functional Analysis and Applications			✔
MAE 290A Numerical Linear Algebra	✔
MAE 290B Numerical Methods for Differential Equations		✔
MAE 290C Computational Fluid Dynamics			✔
MAE 292 Computer-Aided Design and Analysis
MAE 294A Introduction to Applied Mathematics I	✔
MAE 294B Introduction to Applied Mathematics II		✔
MAE 294C Introduction to Applied Mathematics III			✔

MAE Course Offerings

ACADEMIC YEAR: 2024-2025

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

COURSE

FA24

WI25

SP25

GRADUATE COURSES (M.S. Plan II)

COURSE

FA24

WI25

SP25

MAE 207's "Topics in Engineering Science"

COURSE

FA24

WI25

SP25

GRADUATE COURSES (PhD & MS)

COURSE

FA24

WI25

SP25