MECH&AE 101
Statics and Strength of Materials
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 2 discussions. 1 discussion is open. The oldest of these readings was 4 hours ago.
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
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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 GUPTA, VIJAY, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 109 · 16.1%
- A 341 · 50.3%
- A- 180 · 26.5%
- B+ 29 · 4.3%
- B 9 · 1.3%
- B- 6 · 0.9%
- C+ 1 · 0.1%
- F 3 · 0.4%
- I 5 of 683
Percentages are of the 678 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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GUPTA, VIJAY reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.85 | 678 | 5 | 93% | light | Closed |
| 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. 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 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 3 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
ClosedLecture: 130 of 130 enrolled
Seat risk
high riskThis limit is on the class, so it applies to all 2 discussions below.
2 discussions, 1 open: Dis 1A, F 8:00am-9:50am. Lecture reads closed, so its 1 open discussion cannot be reached from here. No waitlist listed.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 2 discussions
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 36 and 153 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 90 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking MECH&AE 101 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Gupta, V. · 130 of 130 enrolled
Nothing read since 17 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 42.
How readings and alerts work
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