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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I took Professor Catton for MAE 157 during Fall Quarter 2013. His lectures can get very boring and off-tangent at times. But its fine, since the quizzes in the class are based off the lab manual/powerpoint slides from another professor. For lecture courses, I wouldn't recommend Catton, but for a lab class, his class isn't that bad and I feel that the grading was nice. Also, he is a very knowledgeable man, but isn't very good at lecturing. As I mentioned, there are quizzes before every lab. To prepare for those, just read through the lab manual andor powerpoint slides. They consist of three questions and are not difficult. Most questions are based off the objective of the lab, simple equations, etc. For the lab reports, there were three group lab reports, four individual summaries, one individual lab report, and one error analysis HW assignment. Not bad as long as you do everything that is required for the reports.
I took Professor Catton for MAE 157 during Fall Quarter 2013. His lectures can get very boring and off-tangent at times. But its fine, since the quizzes in the class are based off the lab manual/powerpoint slides from another professor. For lecture courses, I wouldn't recommend Catton, but for a lab class, his class isn't that bad and I feel that the grading was nice. Also, he is a very knowledgeable man, but isn't very good at lecturing. As I mentioned, there are quizzes before every lab. To prepare for those, just read through the lab manual andor powerpoint slides. They consist of three questions and are not difficult. Most questions are based off the objective of the lab, simple equations, etc. For the lab reports, there were three group lab reports, four individual summaries, one individual lab report, and one error analysis HW assignment. Not bad as long as you do everything that is required for the reports.
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this guy is pretty cool. I don't have strong feelings about him one way or another. since this was a lab class I didn't find out about his lecturing prowess. this is all irrelevant anyway. this one time we were doing the data acquisition lab and he kept coming and asking us if we finished it and we would be like "...just one more to go" but he kept doing it every 15 minutes and we were like whatever so then we finally finish it and we left and went downstairs and exited the E-IV building and we see this guy coming out the parking lot swerving and shit. he saw us too. turns out that there was a jamba juice promotion that ran until 5PM where they gave free jamba-juice with a coupon that you had to print (they sent an email to everyone) and he didn't want to miss it so he ran to his car as soon as we finished and raced out the parking lot. [unlikely but the first part is true] he gave me an A though so I like him but not as much as I would have if he had gave me an A+.
this guy is pretty cool. I don't have strong feelings about him one way or another. since this was a lab class I didn't find out about his lecturing prowess. this is all irrelevant anyway. this one time we were doing the data acquisition lab and he kept coming and asking us if we finished it and we would be like "...just one more to go" but he kept doing it every 15 minutes and we were like whatever so then we finally finish it and we left and went downstairs and exited the E-IV building and we see this guy coming out the parking lot swerving and shit. he saw us too. turns out that there was a jamba juice promotion that ran until 5PM where they gave free jamba-juice with a coupon that you had to print (they sent an email to everyone) and he didn't want to miss it so he ran to his car as soon as we finished and raced out the parking lot. [unlikely but the first part is true] he gave me an A though so I like him but not as much as I would have if he had gave me an A+.
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Winter 2024 - Alright this class is definitely not a walk in the park but is definitely not the worst thing to take. The class has 6 labs and will likely change depending on what quarter you take it in. 5 of the 6 are with your group with the last one being solo. For each lab you're given roughly 1 and half weeks to work on. The labs are NOT the same level of difficulty. Anything involving fluids is easy, anything involving stress-strain analysis is mid, and anything involving heat transfer or thermo is painful & really long. For example, the thermodynamic analysis lab where we evaluated a refrigeration system wasn't difficult but was painfully long to analyze the data. We had to make 4 T-s Diagrams, 2 Mollier Diagrams, get COP coefficients ideal and non-ideal, Superheat, and then 3 P-V diagrams. This is just the data analysis by the way, so once this is done you still have like 80% of the report to write. BUT, professor Hu is not a demon. He grades generously and you'll get anywhere from a B ~ A depending on the level of effort you put into it; so not all hope is lost. Also, your experience in the class is dependent on you group members. So please choose a decent group if you can, if not just hope for the best. Lastly, remember how I said there is an individual report ? Yeah, you get to have the enjoyment of writing one of those beasts on your own. But be smart, in the beginning of the quarter he lets you choose your group # and depending on your #, you'll be given a different solo lab report. Now you didn't hear this from me, but the easiest solo lab report is the flow measurement one :) Also do not confuse this class with 157W, that beast is different.
Winter 2024 - Alright this class is definitely not a walk in the park but is definitely not the worst thing to take. The class has 6 labs and will likely change depending on what quarter you take it in. 5 of the 6 are with your group with the last one being solo. For each lab you're given roughly 1 and half weeks to work on. The labs are NOT the same level of difficulty. Anything involving fluids is easy, anything involving stress-strain analysis is mid, and anything involving heat transfer or thermo is painful & really long. For example, the thermodynamic analysis lab where we evaluated a refrigeration system wasn't difficult but was painfully long to analyze the data. We had to make 4 T-s Diagrams, 2 Mollier Diagrams, get COP coefficients ideal and non-ideal, Superheat, and then 3 P-V diagrams. This is just the data analysis by the way, so once this is done you still have like 80% of the report to write. BUT, professor Hu is not a demon. He grades generously and you'll get anywhere from a B ~ A depending on the level of effort you put into it; so not all hope is lost. Also, your experience in the class is dependent on you group members. So please choose a decent group if you can, if not just hope for the best. Lastly, remember how I said there is an individual report ? Yeah, you get to have the enjoyment of writing one of those beasts on your own. But be smart, in the beginning of the quarter he lets you choose your group # and depending on your #, you'll be given a different solo lab report. Now you didn't hear this from me, but the easiest solo lab report is the flow measurement one :) Also do not confuse this class with 157W, that beast is different.
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