MECH&AE 166A
Analysis of Flight Structures
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisites: courses 82, 96. Not open to students with credit for course 156A. Introduction to two-dimensional elasticity, stress-strain laws, yield and fatigue; bending of beams; torsion of beams; warping; torsion of thin-walled cross sections: shear flow, shear-lag; combined bending torsion of thin-walled, stiffened structures used in aerospace vehicles; elements of plate theory; buckling of columns. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Yes, he's a tough professor. But if you just listen to the lectures, and seriously spend time on the hw problems, you should be fine. You also need to study the material. The test is exactly like homework, and sometimes are exact homework problems. You also need to understand the philosophy REALLY well and understand HOW to do problems, not just copy notes. The final isn't anymore difficult than the midterm, its just a bit "ugly". You really have to prove to him that you know your stuff and that youve listened to him in lecture. ( a lot of the word problems are things he says over and over, but not necessarily write on the board). Our TA was basically useless, but I still managed to pull a good grade, which goes to show that you can ace this class if you put the time in.
Yes, he's a tough professor. But if you just listen to the lectures, and seriously spend time on the hw problems, you should be fine. You also need to study the material. The test is exactly like homework, and sometimes are exact homework problems. You also need to understand the philosophy REALLY well and understand HOW to do problems, not just copy notes. The final isn't anymore difficult than the midterm, its just a bit "ugly". You really have to prove to him that you know your stuff and that youve listened to him in lecture. ( a lot of the word problems are things he says over and over, but not necessarily write on the board). Our TA was basically useless, but I still managed to pull a good grade, which goes to show that you can ace this class if you put the time in.
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2021 - Super nice/chill professor. He's pretty loveable, even if you hate the topic you can't hate him. The exams are open everything and graded with a good perspective, i.e. if you don't have time to solve something and write how you would've done it, you'll get plenty of credit, or if you screw up and write "this is definitely wrong bc of X, Y, Z" then you'll get credit for being able to recognize something went wrong. I don't think there are any other professors teaching this class right now, but that's a good thing, he's a gem.
Fall 2021 - Super nice/chill professor. He's pretty loveable, even if you hate the topic you can't hate him. The exams are open everything and graded with a good perspective, i.e. if you don't have time to solve something and write how you would've done it, you'll get plenty of credit, or if you screw up and write "this is definitely wrong bc of X, Y, Z" then you'll get credit for being able to recognize something went wrong. I don't think there are any other professors teaching this class right now, but that's a good thing, he's a gem.
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