BME 281LMechanics of Deformable Solids Laboratory
- Units
- 0.25
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Subject
- Biomedical Engineering
When it runs
- F24
- W25
- S25
- F25
- W26
- S26
- F26
- W27
- S27
Ran in 3 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.
Laboratory experiments for students taking BME 281.
Prerequisites
- Complete all of the following
- Students must be in level 2A or higher
- Enrolled in H-Biomedical Engineering
Antirequisites
None listed.
Leads to
No course lists it as a requisite.
Fall 2026 sections
| Section | Class | Enrolled | Meets |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAB 001 | 4850 | 23 / 25 | M 09:00–11:50 |
| LAB 002 | 4851 | 22 / 25 | W 09:00–11:50 |
| LAB 003 | 5034 | 22 / 25 | Th 09:00–11:50 |
| LAB 004 | 8206 | 21 / 25 | F 09:00–11:50 |
Reviewed on UW Flow
67% liked it63% easy73% useful
From 24 ratings and 4 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.
Awful. Horribly organized. TAs need to get their act together. I genuinely have never taken a worse course. Expectations for the lab reports were clarified sometimes as late as 2-3 days before the submission date, feedback (if you were lucky enough to get any) was completely useless (random question marks with no comments) and TAs were generally unhelpful. An average of 10 questions had to be asked on Piazza per lab just to understand what the discussion questions were attempting to ask. An introductory English course like ENGL 109 should probably be required for these TAs.
Nov 2020 · didn’t like it · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this
Chris is chill and this course was a GPA boost. Sometimes lab report instructions are confusing, but Chris replies to emails fast. Make sure to read the lab manual beforehand, cause it occasionally does not tell you all the info you need to collect to do the reports, so think ahead.
Nov 2025 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this
Pretty good lab, very helpful TAs. You get to use some basic machinery that you might use later on in life. The lab reports were a little long and the marking for those was a little hard.
Dec 2021 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this
Pretty useful course for report writing in the future but very long and tedious. The reports were pages and pages long with practically 3 experiments combined into one. One of the reports was due over a week after final exams were finished which was not great. But TAs are very nice in person and they help you a lot when you ask them questions.
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