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First-Year Introductory Subjects

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.00A	Fundamentals of Engineering Design: Explore Space, Sea and Earth	Spring
2.00C	Complex Environmental Issues	Spring
2.S00	Introduction to Manufacturing	Spring
2.S01	Introduction to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles	Spring

Core Undergraduate Subjects

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.00	Introduction to Design	Fall
2.001	Mechanics and Materials I	Fall, Spring
2.002	Mechanics and Materials II	Spring
2.003[J]	Dynamics and Control I	Fall, Spring
2.004	Dynamics and Control II	Fall, Spring
2.005	Thermal-Fluids Engineering I	Fall, Spring
2.006	Thermal-Fluids Engineering II	Fall, Spring
2.007	Design and Manufacturing I	Spring
2.008	Design and Manufacturing II	Fall, Spring
2.009	Product Engineering Process	Fall
2.013/2.733	Engineering Systems Design	Fall
2.014/2.734	Engineering Systems Design and Development II	Spring
2.016	Hydrodynamics	Fall
2.017[J]	Design of Electromechanical Robotic Systems	Spring
2.019	Design of Ocean Systems	Spring

Dynamics and Acoustics

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.032	Dynamics	Fall, Spring
2.034J	Nonlinear Dynamics and Waves	Spring
2.065/2.066	Acoustics and Sensing	Spring

Solid Mechanics and Materials

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.071	Mechanics of Solid Materials	Spring
2.073	Solid Mechanics: Plasticity and Inelastic Deformation	Fall
2.074	Solid Mechanics: Elasticity	Fall
2.075	Mechanics of Soft Materials	Fall
2.080J	Structural Mechanics	Fall
2.081[J]	Plates and Shells	Spring
2.082	Ship Structural Analysis and Design	Spring

Computational Engineering

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.086	Numerical Computation for Mechanical Engineers	Fall, Spring

System Dynamics and Control

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.12/2.120	Introduction to Robotics	Spring
2.121/2.122	Stochastic Systems	Spring
2.131	Advanced Instrumentation and Measurement	Spring
2.132/2.133	Measurement, Instrumentation, Control and Analysis	Fall
2.14/2.140	Analysis and Design of Feedback Control Systems	Spring
2.145/2.147	Design of Compliant Mechanisms, Machines & Systems	Fall
2.151	Advanced System Dynamics & Control	Fall
2.152	Nonlinear Control System Design	Spring
2.154	Maneuvering and Control of Surface and Underwater Vehicles	Fall
2.155/2.156	Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Engineering Design	Fall
2.160	Identification, Estimation, and Learning	Fall
2.165	Robotics	Fall
2.171	Analysis & Design of Digital Control Systems	Fall
2.174	Advancing Mechanics and Materials via Machine Learning	Spring
2.177/2.178	Designing Virtual Worlds	Fall
2.183[J]/2.184	Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement	Spring
2.18[J]/2.180[J]	Biomolecular Feedback Systems	Spring

Fluid Mechanics and Combustion

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.20	Marine Hydrodynamics	Fall
2.22	Design Principles for Ocean Vehicles	Spring
2.23	Hydrofoils and Propellers	Spring
2.25	Fluids Mechanics	Fall
2.28	Fundamentals and Applications of Combustion	Fall

MEMS and Nanotechnology

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.37/2.370	Fundamentals of Nanoengineering	Spring

Thermodynamics

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.42	General Thermodynamics	Fall
2.43	Advanced Thermodynamics	Spring

Heat and Mass Transfer

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.51	Intermediate Heat and Mass Transfer	Fall
2.55	Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer	Spring

Energy and Power Systems

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.60[J]/2.62[J]	Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion	Spring
2.611/2.612	Marine Power and Propulsion	Fall
2.63	Interfacial Engineering	Fall

Experimental Engineering

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.670	Mechanical Engineering Tools	Fall, Spring
2.671	Measurement and Instrumentation	Fall, Spring
2.674	Introduction to Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory	Spring
2.675/2.676	Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory	Fall
2.678	Electronics for Mechanical Systems	Fall, Spring
2.679	Electronics for Mechanical Systems II	Spring

Oceanographic Engineering and Acoustics

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.680	Marine Autonomy, Sensing, and Communication	Spring
2.681	Environmental Ocean Acoustics	Fall
2.683	Marine Bioacoustics and Geoacoustics	Spring
2.688	Principles of Oceanographic Instrument Systems -- Sensors and Measurements	Fall, Spring
2.689J	Projects in Oceanographic Engineering	Spring

Naval Architecture

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.700/2.701	Principles of Naval Architecture	Fall
2.702	Systems Engineering and Naval Ship Design	Spring
2.703	Principles of Naval Ship Design	Fall
2.704	Projects in Naval Ship Conversion Design	Spring
2.705	Projects in New Concept Naval Ship	Fall, Spring

Optics

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.71/2.710	Optics	Fall
2.718/2.719	Photonic Materials	Spring

Design

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.70/2.77	Fundamentals of Precision Product Design	Fall
2.72/2.720	Elements of Mechanical Design	Spring
2.729	D-lab Design for Scale	Fall
2.734	Engineering Systems Design and Development I	Spring
2.739[J]	Product Design and Development	Spring
2.74/2.740	Bio-inspired Robotics	Fall
2.777/2.778	Large and Complex Systems Design and Concept Development	Fall

Bioengineering

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.75/2.750	Medical Device Design	Spring
2.782[J]	Design of Medical Devices and Implants	Spring
2.787	Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine	Fall
2.788	Mechanical Engineering and Design of Living systems	Fall
2.793J/2.795J	Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems	Fall
2.797J/2.798J	Molecular Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics	Spring

Manufacturing

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.810	Manufacturing Processes and Systems	Fall
2.813	Energy, Materials and Design	Spring
2.814/2.834	Exploring Sustainability at Different Scales	Fall
2.83	Energy, Materials and Manufacturing	Spring
2.830J	Control for Manufacturing Processes	Fall
2.853/2.854	Introduction to Manufacturing Systems	Fall
2.888	Professional Seminar in Global Manufacturing and Innovation & Entreprenuership	Spring

Engineering Management

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.96/2.961	Management in Engineering	Fall

Advanced Topics and Special Subjects

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.984	The Art and Science of Time Travel	Fall
2.991	Get 2 Know MechE	Fall
2.C27/2.C67	Computational imaging: physics and algorithms	Fall
2.S973/2.S795	Sports, Data and Engineering
2.S981	Engineering of Nanoscale Materials	Spring
2.S988	Translational Engineering	Fall
2.S990	Fiber and Textile Engineering	Spring
2.S992	Teaching and Learning Mechanical Engineering with Generative AI	Spring
2.S994	Pappalardo Lab Apprentice	Spring
2.S997/2.S979	Founder's Journey: Launching and Scaling Hardware Startups	Spring
2.S999	Science and Technologies for Climate	Spring

Thesis, Research and Practice

Subject ID	Title	Class Offered
2.C01/2.C51	Physical Systems Modeling and Design Using Machine Learning	Spring

Class Offered

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