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 …

Introduction In our mechanical engineering curriculum, we teach a required upper level mechanical engineering course entitled "Mechanical Design". This course is primarily focused on teaching students how to apply theories of stress and strain prediction to determine if arbitrary mechanical parts and structures are likely to fail under static and …