ME 5655 — Dynamics and Mechanical Vibration
4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: fallBostonOnlineTraditionalVideo Streaming
Covers dynamic response of discrete and continuous media. Topics include work and energy, impulse and momentum, Lagrangian dynamics, free and forced response to periodic and transient excitations, vibration absorber, free and forced response of multiple degree-of-freedom systems with and without damping, method of modal analysis, vibrations of continuous media such as extensional, torsional, and bending vibrations of bars, and approximate methods of analysis. Permission of instructor required for undergraduate students.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | 2 | 17 | 148 | 11% | 65.5 |
| Summer A 2024 | 1 | 12 | 49 | 24% | 37.0 |
| Fall 2024 | 2 | 16 | 135 | 12% | 59.5 |
| Summer A 2025 | 1 | 16 | 49 | 33% | 33.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 2 | 26 | 125 | 21% | 49.5 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 16% · T 0% · W 25% · Th 0% · F 17%
Common patterns: async (41% of sections), W (25% of sections), F (17% of sections), M (16% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Hamid Nayeb Hashemi (100% of students) · reviews
Summer A
- Hamid Nayeb Hashemi (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
Official catalog (ME course descriptions) · All ME courses · Plan it at numap.app