This class was great! Davoyan is a great professor who gives engaging lectures and clearly cares about the material. He also cares about learning more than grades. His class was fun and the assignments were easy: homework assignments that you would get extra credit for completing, a take home midterm, and a take home final. We were given several days for the take home tests. Would take again!

This is probably the single least interesting class I have ever taken at UCLA. The entire content is just pathetically surface level versions of classes that you take in the MAE department (namely 102, 103, 105a, 105d, and C150R), and the professor's lectures are mundane.
He also refuses to post slides before class starts, and with a ton of diagrams, it is nearly impossible to get all the necessary info in order to succeed without spending an additional few hours afterwards compiling the notes on your own. It makes the lectures themselves completely obsolete.
If you're an aerospace engineering student and you haven't invested too much time into the space track, I highly suggest doing the aeronautics track instead. This is coming from someone who loves space. This is a waste of your tuition and you are much better served getting your education with the people doing the aeronautics track. The whole of the 161 series is a joke, but this class is especially stupid. It made me feel like I was in high school physics again. I honestly cannot believe that the UCLA aerospace program allows this class to not only be offered, but be a core requirement of the most popular aerospace track. Complete waste of time, tuition, and effort.