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ENGR 100.130: Sustainable Engineering and Materials
Faculty:
Tim Chambers (MSE)
Kelsey McLendon (TechComm)
David Greenspan (TechComm)
Winter Term
“Material Science and Engineering lives at sort of the nexus of all of the other engineering disciplines. Aerospace needs materials, mechanical engineering needs materials, biomedical needs materials. The course was very intentionally designed to be useful for every engineering major.”
Tim Chambers, Faculty
Course Description:
If you want to make engineering more beneficial to society and the environment, this is the E100 section for you. This is a course about sustainable engineering through materials innovation. We teach sustainable engineering practices useful for almost all engineers, including:
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Materials selection and life cycle analysis
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Manufacturing that combines additive and AI tools with traditional technologies
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Case study analysis of real engineering situations that require difficult decisions
We emphasize social, political, and economic impacts of engineering work in addition to technical fundamentals like chemistry and physics. We also spend time teaching academic skills such as time management, techniques for effective learning, and more.
Term Project:
Design, build, and iterate on a cast metal tool of your own creation! You’ll use software to design and model your tool, additive manufacturing and metalcasting to manufacture it, and compare reality to theory to improve your final product. You get to keep your tool at the end of the semester.
Labs:
Additive manufacturing, computer simulation, metalcasting, and failure analysis in a team-based environment using high-end, research-grade tools
