ME 180: Optics and Lasers in Engineering

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours

Catalog page 356

Prerequisites: senior standing; ME 010, ME 110, ME 170A

Description: Focuses Mechanical Engineering on principles of optics and lasers, wave equations, interferometry, diffraction, laser-material interactions. Applications in analytical characterization including confocal microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, mechani- cal deformation analysis, scanning probe microscopy, ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry, photolumi- nescence, optical detectors, and lasers in materials processing.

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Enrollment History (from UCR Banner, not catalog)
Year F W S Su Total
2025-26 27/30 27/30
2023-24 25/40 25/40
2022-23 26/40 26/40
2021-22 18/40 18/40
2020-21 18/30 18/30
2019-20 18/60 18/60
2018-19 57/60 57/60
2017-18 60/60 60/60
2016-17 60/60 60/60