UCLA General Catalog 1971-72 - Registrar - UCLA

1958. Soil Mechanics-Laboratory Practices.
(% course)
Lecture, one hour; laboratory, three hours. Prerequisite:
course 185A may be taken concurrently.
Laboratory experiments to be performed by the
students to get basic data required for assigned
design problems . Soil classification , Atterburg limits,
permeability, compaction , shear strength and specific
gravity determination . Mr. Lee
189A. Elements of Construction.
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, four hours. Prestanding
in engineering . Anatomy
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bidding and purchasing strategies,
contracts, costs and economics , operations research
in construction, planning and scheduling , equipment
and materials, construction methods, field engineering
techniques , observation and engineering analysis
of current construction projects in the vicinity. Field
trips. Mr. Singh
187A. Urban Transportation Systems.
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Prerequisite:
junior standing in engineering . Functional
analysis of rural and urban transportation needs and
modes of accomplishment including private vehicles,
tracks, busses, rail rapid transit, helicopter and other
aircraft; interrelationships among the various transpostation
modes and land-use planning . Mr. Emori
1978. Street and Highway Design.
Lecture, two hours ; laboratory, four hours. Prerequisite:
course 187A (may be taken concurrently).
Design of street and highway systems and compononb
including tangent sections , curves, intertraffic
controls, parking
facilities; suboptimizations on utility , safety, cost,
properties of materials , maintainability , present
needs, future needs ; individual and group design
assignments. Mr. Case
1879. Traffic Engineering.
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, four hours. Prerequisite:
course 187A (may be taken concurrently).
Elements of modern traffic engineering practice,
including design , installation , and maintenance of
uniform traffic control devices ; channelization; parking,
surface and multi-level parking structures;
traffic flow theory ; highway capacity ; pedestrian
traffic; traffic department management . Mr. Case
1870. Homan Factors in Transportation.
Prerequisite: course 180A or consent of the instructor.
Interaction of human and machine factors
in land, air, sea, and space transportation; physical,
physiological, and psychological performance demands
upon human operators; trauma-producing
forces, psychological and other stresses upon humans;
mitigation by engineering design of these harmful
effects upon humans . Mr. Case
191A. Operational and Transform Methods.
Prerequisite: courses 20A or 100 or 100A, 102;
Mathematics 13C. Formulation of equations for
linear electrical and mechanical systems ; application
of the Laplace transform for their solution;
introduction to the theory of a complex variable and
contour integration ; the inversion formula and appliation
to partial differential equations . Mr. Forster
192A. Mathematics of Engineering.
Prerequisite : course lOlA or equivalent. Application
mathematical methods to problems of in-
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terest in engineering . The main topic covered is
systems of linear ordinary differential nations.
Fourier series, transforms, and nonlinear effects are
also discussed as related to the solutions of differential
equations . Mr. J. D . Cole, Mr. Lin
1928. Mathematics of Engineering.
Prerequisite : course 192A or equivalent . Applications
of mathematical methods to engineering problems
are considered . Eigenvalue problems for continuous
systems
studied .
and the related special functions are
Mr. J. D. Cole , Mr. Liu
192C. Mathematics of Engineering.
Prerequisite : course 192A or equivalent . Application
of mathematics to engineering problems. A
survey of the classical partial differential equations,
wave , heat , and potential . The formulation of
boundary value problems and analytical and numerical
methods are studied . Mr. J. D . Cole , Mr. Liu
193A. Engineering Probabilistics and Stechastics.
Prerequisite : junior standing in engineering. Sets
and set algebra; sample spaces; combinatorics; absolute
and conditional probability; discrete and continuous
random variables ; probability distribution,
increment , and density functions ; Chebycbev's inequality
; Laplace-Fourier transforms; law of large
numbers ; central limit theorems; discrete and continuous
stochastic processes . Mr. Arunkumar
1938. Engineering Statistics.
Lecture, four hours; laboratory, one hour. Prerequisite
: course 193A or consent of the instructor.
Fundamental statistical concepts, population (system),
sample parameter, statistics ; significance tests,
confidence limits , efficient computational procedures;
risk, power functions , operating characteristic curves;
simple and multiple regression, bivariate normal
distribution ; analysis of variance, applications in
engineering and industry.
Mr. Arunkumar, Mr. Coleman
195A. Computer Aided Circuit Design.
Prerequisite : course 11OB; also, use of a computer
will be required but not taught . Piecewise analysis
of large networks . Device modeling . AC, DC and
transient analysis of linear and nonlinear networks.
Sensitivity and tolerance analysis. Computer-aided
circuit optimization . Mr. McNamee , Mr. Tomes
198. Special Courses.
Prerequisite : senior standing in engineering; enrollment
subject to approval of instructor in charge.
May be repeated for credit toward the Bachelor's
degree provided no duplication exists. Group study
of selected topics. Study groups maybe organized in
advanced engineering subjects upon approval of
instructor in charge . Occasional field trips may be
arranged . Mr. O'Neill
199A-1999 . Special Studies . (' to 2 courses)
Prerequisite: senior standing and consent of the
instructor . Individual investigation of a selected
topic, to be arranged with a faculty member. Enrollment
request forms are available in Department
Offices. Occasional field trips may be arranged. May
be repeated for bachelor 's degree credit.
199A . Computer Science Department The Staff
199B . Electrical Sciences and Engineering Department
The Staff
199C . Energy and Kinetics Department The Staff