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ME 597Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering

Units
0.50
Faculty
Engineering
Subject
Mechanical Engineering

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 4 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled, 2 lecture sections. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Various courses dealing with selected topics at the undergraduate level in automation and control, solid mechanics and machine design, materials engineering and processing, fluid mechanics, and thermal engineering. Courses offered when resources permit.

Prerequisites

None listed.

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Fall 2026 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 001544749 / 65M 11:30–12:50
Th 13:30–14:50

Winter 2027 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 00149190 / 48F 14:30–17:20
LEC 701198681 / 9999Online or by arrangement

Reviewed on UW Flow

100% liked it18% easy100% useful

From 15 ratings and 3 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • If you're in mechatronics engineering, this is one course you have to take! Incorporates a lot of the materials we've learned over the years like control systems, linear algebra, and noise filtering. It's pretty much teaching you how to program robots! Pretty cool course but it's a lot of work, labs and assignments take a lot more time than you think they will.

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  • (My topic was on mobile robotics) Super Hard. Interesting content, useful in the real world if that's what you are interested in. Labs took a lot of time, but it was great when you got something working and saw the robot plan a path or map an area. 24 hour take home exam which took the full 24 hours, however he did say it was harder than he wanted it to be and he usually only has it set for 16 of the 24 hours. No midterm, just 2 assignments, 3 labs (first isn't much, but the next 2 take time) and one final exam.

    Jan 2015 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • If you really want to know the materials, it takes fair amount of extra study and review hours

    Dec 2012 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

3 posts and comments in 3 threads mention ME 597, September 2015 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Winter 2024

ML Application Course in MSCI and ECE, Advice 2 points, 5 comments

“I am currently a computer science student who's interested in sit in (and probably try asking professor for some of the assignments) of some of the machine learning related course. …”

u/tendstwofiftytwo: “… C9nsider sniping a seat in MTE544 in the Fall with Yue Hu or take ME597 topic autonomous Mobile Robots in the winter. These courses are basically the same. Covering modeling,controls,localization,pathfinder being heavily labs based. …”

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Spring 2018

Fall 2015

Free talk FRIDAY 21 points, 71 comments

“Mod is asleep... here's the free talk friday.”

u/Massiah89: “Today is my last day of work at a full time job in manufacturing engineering that I've held for 1.5 years. …”

u/annihilatron: “… You'll have to ask Prof Waslander to see when he will be offering it next - it's offered as ME 597/ME 780 - Autonomous Mobile Robotics, and is a mix of 4th year MTE/ME students and graduates students. …”

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