ME161/261
Dynamic Systems
Fall 2009-2010

Class: Tues/Thur 2:15 - 3:45 in Bldg. 530, Room 127.
Lab: (See schedule) in Terman 573A

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Homework Guidelines

  1. Homework is due according to the Syllabus. You must turn in a hardcopy of your homework during class. Electronic turn-ins will not be allowed
  2. To recieve full credit, you must:
  3. If you use any computation tool (e.g. MotionGenesis, Matlab, C, etc) you must submit a computational file that includes both the input commands and the output results.

Class Handouts

Program Downloads

Lab Handouts

Office Hours


Day Time Location Instructor
Sun 7:30 pm - 9:00+ pm Terman 529 LeAnn Duong
Mon 5:30 pm - 7:30+ pm Terman 529 Apoorva Rajagopal
Mon 6:30 pm - 9:30+ pm Terman 529 Alex Perkins/Katy Keenan
Tues 3:45 pm - 4:15+ pm Terman 527 Alex Perkins
Tues 3:45 pm - 5:30+ pm Terman 527 Paul Mitiguy/Holly Liske
Thurs 3:45 pm - 4:15+ pm Terman 527 Alex Perkins
Thurs 3:45 pm - 5:30+ pm Terman 527 Paul Mitiguy

Lab Schedule


Day Time Group Instructor
Thurs 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm A LeAnn Duong/Paul Csonka
Thurs 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm B LeAnn Duong/Holly Liske
Fri 11:00 am - 1:00 pm C Paul Csonka
Fri 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm D Paul Csonka
Fri 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm E Holly Liske
Mon 9:00 am - 11:00 am F Holly Liske
Mon 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm G LeAnn Duong/Alex Perkins

News and Interesting Stuff

Euler's Equation...one of them, that is.

Course Staff

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Apoorva Rajagopal
apoorvar {AT} stanford.edu
About Apoorva:
Apoorva is a distinguished graduate of just about every class Paul teaches. She hails from Cupertino, CA. She enjoys math, dynamics, and the finesse racquet sports, especially tennis. She is going to be a heart surgeon some day, so she's probably a pretty good person to make friends with and keep in touch with.
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Holly Liske
Liske {AT} stanford.edu
About Holly:
Holly is a 1st-year graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department. She harkens from Medford, WI, and graduated from the University of Wisconson with a BS in biomedical engineering. She is focused on biomechanics and design methodology. Her hobbies include mountain biking, cross country skiing, inline skating, and crafting.
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Katy Keenan
kek {AT} stanford.edu
About Katy:
Katy is a 5th-year graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department. She's recently engaged, and travels to Colorado to see the boy. She studies medical images - and is trying to find a way to diagnosis osteoarthritis early. In her spare time she cycles (a lot), enjoys the finer side of epicurean delights, and tries to prove that sleep can be rendered obsolete if one eats often enough.
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LeAnn Duong
LeAnnD {AT} stanford.edu
About LeAnn:
LeAnn is a coterm student in the Mechanical Engineering department. Her focus is on wildness, insanity, and complete and total awesomeness. Do not doubt her awesomeness. The last time someone did, it did not end pretty. And this will remain her bio until she provides a better one. So tell her to get on that.
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Paul Csonka
pcsonka {AT} stanford.edu
About Paul C:
Paul is a 6th-year graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department. He works with Alex in the Robotic Locomotion Lab, researching dynamic falling in bipedal robots. His hobbies include scaling distant peaks (usually the hardest way possible), playing the piano, and trying to overcome the traumatic past of being a physics major in undergrad.
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Alex Perkins
alexp2 {AT} stanford.edu
About Alex:
Alex is a 5th-year graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department. He works with Paul in the Robotic Locomotion Lab, researching innovative control algorithms to induce catostrophic failure in bipedal robotic subsystems. His hobbies include playing golf, cooking, hanging out with his wife, writing other TA's bios because they have not provided him with one, and desparately trying to graduate.
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Paul Mitiguy
Terman 527
650{ }346{ }9595
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About Paul:
Paul is a Consulting Professor at Stanford whose research interests center on kinematics, kinetics, dynamics, and motion simulation. Paul pioneered the creation of Online Dynamics Inc. symbolic manipulator Autolev and was responsible for research and development of MSC.Software's motion and FEA products including MSC.visualNastran 4D, Working Model 3D (versions 1-6), Working Model 2D (v. 2-5), and Interactive Physics (v.2-6).
Paul also enjoys developing interactive teaching methods and curriculum in Stanford's engineering courses and is known for the enthusiasm he brings to the classroom.

Old Exams


Dynamic Systems Hall of Fame

Dr. Jorge Cham - Ph.D. Comics, Former Professor Cal Tech Dr. Allison Okamura - Professor: John Hopkins Dr. Will Provancher - Professor: University of Utah
Dr. Matt Spenko - Professor: Illinois Institute of Technology Dr. Jonathan Clark - Professor FSU/FAMU (Florida) Dr. Dan Laser - CEO Wave 80 Biosciences
Susan Lee – NASA Scientist Brandon Stafford - Principal/Product Engineer at GreenMountain Engineering, Ideo, MindTribe Mike Derse - Engineer at Volkswagon (and Water Polo Coach)
Dr. Jennifer (Bower) Dawson - Professor York College of Engineering Alex Bulitt Abe Chiang
Melody Wu Peling Lee Michael Posa
Tarm Casebolt Alex Starns - Mechanical Engineer at Google Katrina Bell
Ryan Hanson Robert Usiskin Christopher Edmunds
Dr. Jonathan Karpick Dr. Weston Griffin Dr. Christopher Richard
Dr. Sean Bailey Holly Liske Paul Csonka
LeAnn Duong Katy Keenan Alex Perkins


Last Updated: Tuesday, Nov 3rd, 2009 by Alex Perkins