MAE 3310

You must take this class as a Mech/Aero to graduate, there is no getting around it.

Momot is a very kind Professor and holds the most amount of office hours I've ever witnessed (a record 21 hours per week, 5 hours MWF and 3 hours TTh during Fall '24). I got an A in this class by attending OH weekly, even multiple times a week.

Put heavy focus on getting perfect scores on homeworks and quizzes. For homeworks, make sure to show your code input and output if you're using Matlab or Symbolab (when allowed by Professor) or else you'll lose points for not showing your work. Then try your best to get a high grade on the only midterm (30% of your grade) as the final is a heavy hitter too (35% of your grade).

Keep good notes throughout the class and a masterfile of all the important equations (easily more than 50 eqns and variations of said eqns that you'll learn), it'll be helpful as you study for the midterm and final. The textbook can be confusing sometimes as the writing is rather dense, but it is useful for getting answers on conceptual questions and finding equations fully written out. Expect to spend ~8 hours per week outside of class doing homeworks and quizzes. My most effective learning was done within office hours, its when concepts clicked for me and equations began to make sense.

This class is basically a repeat of strength of materials, with some more advanced content integrated in. There was a midterm and a final, both worth 30% each. Make sure you do well on these. Weekly assignments consist of homework and quizzes. Two of the homeworks were group assignments, the first of which being a slightly complicated assignment to design a child safety latch. Momot’s lectures consisted of PowerPoints and sample problems. He’s not a bad lecturer, but he does get sidetracked fairly often. #tCFF23

Decent course. There is one midterm and one final, as well as weekly problem sets (which are so-so) and weekly collab quizzes, rinse and repeat. The quizzes are moderately hard and it's easy to screw up on them because of the way some of the questions are worded. I definitely feel as if I could have done better on them. As for the content of the course, it's basically Strength of Materials 2 / Statics 3. You learn a lot about mathematically advanced theories about the concepts introduced in those previous courses. Don't let the course name deceive you: It's really 2% "aerospace" and 98% "structures". Perhaps it's to cater to the aero kids to make it feel like they're actually doing aerospace stuff, idk. Some of the problems involve something like an airfoil or a propellor but it's not like you're actually learning much about the parts of an aircraft or spacecraft.