Teaching at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, computational design, and mechanics of materials
The Mueller Lab offers a range of courses at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, computational design, and mechanics of materials. The courses are taught at different levels, typically at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and offered once a year. We aim to add a hands-on component to each course and value the "active learning" approach, which involves the students for increased learning efficiency to make full use of the class. This is particularly important for engineering classes and includes integrating and working with examples from current research. Please see below for general information and check SIS for up-to-date details. We will continue to add new courses to our portfolio over the next years, so please keep checking back if you are interested!
"If you want to master something, teach it." - Richard Feynman
- EN.560.362: Engineering Mechanics and Materials
- This course will address linear mechanics of solid and fluid media. Concepts will be reinforced through hands-on fabrication, machining and testing of materials, and by the use of finite element models.
- EN.560.661: Additive Manufacturing and Design
- Additive Manufacturing (AM) removes many geometric constraints imposed by traditional manufacturing processes. Resultingly, systems can be designed to support and improve multiple design objectives, which has the potential to alter the way products are designed. While this allows for the fabrication of more complex and often unprecedented geometries, it also increases the complexity designers face. In addition, engineers must not only understand AM technologies and materials, they must also be able to synthesize its economic and environmental impacts on a manufacturing value chain. Additive Manufacturing and Design will provide an in-depth overview of the most common – and promising – AM technologies, materials, and design methods by including examples from state-of-the-art research. A particular emphasis is placed on Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM), where the different topics will converge to fully utilize the newly created design space.
- EN.560.461: Future Food Manufacturing
- Description not available.
- EN.560.501: Undergraduate Research
- Research in Civil and Systems Engineering.
- EN.560.511: Group Undergraduate Research
- This section has a weekly research group meeting that students are expected to attend.
- EN.560.826: Graduate Independent Study
- Description not available.
- EN.560.836: Graduate Research
- Description not available.