2025 Fall
MECENG C278 01 - LEC 01
Adv Designing for the Human Body
Grace D O'Connell
Class #:30342
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Mechanical Engineering
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
39
Enrolled: 1
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 40
Waitlist Max: 15
Open Reserved Seats:
9 reserved for Mechanical Engineering: Graduate Students and 5th Year Graduate
Students
30 reserved for Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering Students
Hours & Workload
11 to 9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 to 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week.
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Course Catalog Description
The course provides project-based learning experience in understanding product design, with a focus on the human body as a mechanical machine. Students will learn the design of external devices used to aid or protect the body. Topics will include forces acting on internal materials (e.g., muscles and total replacement devices), forces acting on external materials (e.g., prothetics and crash pads), design/analysis of devices aimed to improve or fix the human body, muscle adaptation, and soft tissue injury. Weekly laboratory projects will incorporate EMG sensing, force plate analysis, and interpretation of data collection (e.g., MATLAB analysis) to integrate course material to better understand contemporary design/analysis/problems.
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions
There will be no credit given for MEC ENG C178 / BIO ENG C137 after taking MEC ENG 178.
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Reserved Seats
Reserved Seating For This Term
Current Enrollment
Open Reserved Seats:
9 reserved for Mechanical Engineering: Graduate Students and 5th Year Graduate
Students
30 reserved for Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering Students
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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Associated Sections
None