MECH&AE 157
Basic Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Laboratory
Description: Laboratory, eight hours; outside study, four hours. Requisites: courses 101, 102, 103, 105A, Electrical Engineering 100. Methods of measurement of basic quantities and performance of basic experiments in fluid mechanics, structures, and thermodynamics. Primary sensors, transducers, recording equipment, signal processing, and data analysis. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2024 - Class itself is really long but that's the department's fault more than it is Dr. Lin's. Dr. Lin would let us leave early if he finished lecturing early which was super chill. Content itself was pretty easy. The reports were kind of long which is typical of 157 classes, but according to my friends, he was much more reasonable than other professors with the requirements he expected. He is the best professor for this course.
Fall 2024 - Class itself is really long but that's the department's fault more than it is Dr. Lin's. Dr. Lin would let us leave early if he finished lecturing early which was super chill. Content itself was pretty easy. The reports were kind of long which is typical of 157 classes, but according to my friends, he was much more reasonable than other professors with the requirements he expected. He is the best professor for this course.
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Spring 2019 - This class is pretty bad but its a requirement for the major. This prof assigns 9 reports of which 5 are full group lab reports, 3 are group summaries, and 1 is an individual report. This class can either be the biggest time drain or pretty chill depending on your group members. Unfortunately for me, my some of my partners were pretty useless and left me and the other members to do all the work. The summaries are quite easy as they do not require great attention to detail as most of the work and data does not need to be shown. The reports are extremely difficult since the lab manual is very confusing and none of the TAs and professors knew anything. In fact, asking them questions was quite useless and wasted time. This was essentially the blind leading the blind. A person's best bet would be to ask people who already submitted the reports what they did. The individual report, although daunting at first, is quite easy so long as you can partner up with a friend and split up the data reduction, and show different data and graphs in the main report. All of these labs are pretty bad, but the saving grace is that you really only need to spend 1-2 days a week on this. Hopefully you get good group members or this class is actually a living hell.
Spring 2019 - This class is pretty bad but its a requirement for the major. This prof assigns 9 reports of which 5 are full group lab reports, 3 are group summaries, and 1 is an individual report. This class can either be the biggest time drain or pretty chill depending on your group members. Unfortunately for me, my some of my partners were pretty useless and left me and the other members to do all the work. The summaries are quite easy as they do not require great attention to detail as most of the work and data does not need to be shown. The reports are extremely difficult since the lab manual is very confusing and none of the TAs and professors knew anything. In fact, asking them questions was quite useless and wasted time. This was essentially the blind leading the blind. A person's best bet would be to ask people who already submitted the reports what they did. The individual report, although daunting at first, is quite easy so long as you can partner up with a friend and split up the data reduction, and show different data and graphs in the main report. All of these labs are pretty bad, but the saving grace is that you really only need to spend 1-2 days a week on this. Hopefully you get good group members or this class is actually a living hell.
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