Syllabus and other logistics
Table of contents
- MECH532/620 Home Syllabus Project
- Complete Syllabus
- Instructor: Theresa Honein
- Teaching Assistant: Sebastian Naja
- Grading
- Gradescope
- Piazza
- Exams Schedule
- Exams & Solutions
- Downloading Matlab
- Active Learning
Complete Syllabus
You can find the complete syllabus here.
The main points are summarized below.
Instructor: Theresa Honein
- Email: th72 at aub.edu.lb
- Lecture: TR 2:30-3:15 pm in Bechtel 209
- Office Hours: T 3:30-6 pm, W 1-3pm and Th 3:30-5 pm in Bechtel 532 (subject to change within the first two weeks of the semester)
Teaching Assistant: Sebastian Naja
- Email: sbn07 at mail.aub.edu
- Office Hours: TBD
Grading
| Item |
532 |
620 |
| Attendance |
Bonus |
Bonus |
| Assignments |
40% |
30% |
| Quizzes |
30% |
30% |
| Project |
|
15% |
| Final Exam |
30% |
25% |
Gradescope
You will submit all your homework on Gradescope (Entry Code:NGJ4KB).
Piazza
For homework advice or conceptual questions, please use Piazza. If you have non-conceptional or non-homework/exam related questions, please use email. Class group chats besides Piazza are not allowed. Please let me know if you do not have access to our Piazza page.
Piazza Signup Link: https://piazza.com/aub.edu.lb/fall2025/mech532620
Piazza Discussion etiquette:
- Ask HW questions only in HW posts.
We’ve created individual posts for each problem from homework. Please ask questions, discuss problems, or help out in those
posts only. Before asking a question, read through (or search) the whole post to see if your question has been answered. The same applies for Problem Sets and Exams.
- Don’t post answers on Piazza.
Please don’t give away the answer on Piazza. You can explain things in a way that still lets other students figure out the
essence of the problem on their own, but don’t spoil the problem.
- Try to make posts public.
While not violating Rule 2, try to make your questions public, because others might have the same question and we don’t
need to answer them multiple times.
- Piazza is not OH. 5 minute-test.
If you think your questions may take more than 5 minutes to answer, please come to office hours.
- Piazza is not for pre-grading.
Please do not use Piazza as a medium to ask instructors to check your homework in advance. We simply cannot check every
student’s homework through Piazza.
- Post a screen shot of any resource referenced.
Your question should be self-contained. The responders should not have to scan through PDFs to even figure out what the
question is. Ask yourself: am I referring to some lecture note/HW solution/discussion solution/past exam?
If the answer is yes, post a screen shot of the relevant part.
Exams Schedule
| Exam |
Date |
Location |
| Exam 1 |
TBD classtime |
TBD |
| Exam 2 |
TBD classtime |
TBD |
| Final Exam |
TBD between December 3-12 |
TBD |
Exams & Solutions
| Semester |
Exam 1 |
Solution |
Exam 2 |
Solution |
Final |
Final Formula Sheet |
Solution |
| Fall 2025 |
Exam |
Solution |
Exam |
Solution |
Final |
Final Formula Sheet |
Solution |
Downloading Matlab
Please visit https://matlab.mathworks.com/, and select sign in from the to right corner of the page, please sign in with your AUBnet account, after signing in you will find MATLAB button on the top of the page, click on MATLAB and select install MATLAB, will redirect you to another page, please click on download for windows, and save the file, after download has completed, please start the installation, will ask you to sign in again, and accept the license agreement, select the license and click next, click next on the location of the installation, please select needed modules to install and click next, pleas check add shortcut to desktop, and uncheck improve MATLAB,, click next and then click begin install.
Active Learning
Check out these two excellent videos of Professor Noel Perkins from the Univesity of Michigan at Ann Arbor explaining the active learning techniques he uses to teach dynamics! Part 1, Part 2. We will using these techniques ourselves.