MECH&AE M256A
Linear Elasticity
Lecture. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 2 sections. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 55 minutes ago.
Also listed as C&EE M230A (open, 0 of 20 enrolled): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.70
Average grade awarded in MECH&AE M256A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
71%
of the 161 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
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: 161 grades over 8 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 8 terms ran 3.53 to 3.89.
Historical grades for CARMAN, GREGORY P, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAL, AJIT K reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.66 | 139 | 8 | 67% | average | Open, 14 seats left |
| SEPULVEDA, ABDON reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.93 | 22 | 1 | 95% | - | 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.
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Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
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
(Same as Civil Engineering M230A.) Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Requisite: course 156A or 166A. Linear elastostatics. Cartesian tensors; infinitesimal strain tensor; Cauchy stress tensor; strain energy; equilibrium equations; linear constitutive relations; plane elastostatic problems, holes, corners, inclusions, cracks; three-dimensional problems of Kelvin, Boussinesq, and Cerruti. Introduction to boundary integral equation method. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 12:00pm-1:50pmOpen3.68predicted, all instructors · 161 grades
30 seats left. 10 of 40 enrolled low risk
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Lec 80 Time TBAOpen
Mal, A.K. and Zhou, U.
3.66predicted, this instructor · 139 grades14 seats left. 21 of 35 enrolled low risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 11 and 22 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 18 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
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 · Carman, G.P. · 10 of 40 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 2 months
Lec 80 · Mal, A.K. and Zhou, U. · 21 of 35 enrolled
Filled by 3 over about 2 months
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.