MECH&AE 101
Statics and Strength of Materials
Grades
3.55
Average grade awarded in MECH&AE 101. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
73%
of the 1,308 letter grades
D, F or W
2.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 1,308 grades over 12 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 12 terms ran 2.35 to 3.86.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 168 · 12.8%
- A 505 · 38.6%
- A- 278 · 21.3%
- B+ 107 · 8.2%
- B 76 · 5.8%
- B- 56 · 4.3%
- C+ 40 · 3.1%
- C 26 · 2.0%
- C- 16 · 1.2%
- D+ 11 · 0.8%
- D 6 · 0.5%
- D- 2 · 0.2%
- F 17 · 1.3%
- I 6 of 1,314
Percentages are of the 1,308 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GUPTA, VIJAY reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.85 | 678 | 5 | 93% | light | not teaching it |
| JIN, LIHUA reviews ↗ | 3.19 | 3.18 | 365 | 3 | 44% | light | not teaching it |
| NORDENDALE, NIKOLAS reviews ↗ | 3.48 | 3.47 | 131 | 2 | 66% | very light | not teaching it |
| LIU, YUE reviews ↗ | 3.55 | 3.55 | 80 | 1 | 73% | - | not teaching it |
| CHATTERJEE, AMIYA K reviews ↗ | 2.84 | 2.62 | 54 | 2 | 28% | heavy | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, 5 mentions in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 4 mentions in past reviews
Based on 94 reviews; source checked about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 4 courses long before MECH&AE 101. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MECH&AE 101 in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisites: Mathematics 31A, 31B, Physics 1A. Review of vector representation of forces, resultant force and moment, equilibrium of concurrent and nonconcurrent forces. Area moments and products of inertia. Support reactions, free-body diagrams. Forces in simple models of mechanical and aerospace structures. Internal forces in beams, shear and moment diagrams. Stress and strain components in solids, equilibrium equations, Hooke’s law for isotropic solids. Bending and shear stresses in beams. Deflection of symmetric beams and indeterminate problems. Stresses in thin-walled pressure vessels and in circular cylinders under torsion. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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