Co-authored by co-instructors Jason K. Moore and Kenneth Lyons. Course Description Introduction to Mechanical Vibrations is a 30+ year old upper level elective in the mechanical engineering curriculum at the University of California, Davis. It is a classic mechanical engineering course that stems from the courses and books of Timoshenko …

My first quarter as a lecturer at UCD ended this past Friday with my final exam for my mechanical design course. I think the quarter went really well and that my students developed some solid design skills. Mike Hill, a veteran Prof. in our department, hit the nail on the …

Jonathan Woolley and Vinad Narayanan are hosting a building energy efficieny journal club next quarter. Hi folks, Vinod Narayanan and I are hosting a small graduate level journal review course for Winter quarter - it should be an interesting forum for discussion on a range of current issues surrounding energy efficiency …