MAE is offering new courses as major-approved electives or senior design for Spring 2021!
The new courses are expected to appear in the roster in time for preregistration next week.
MAE 4220/4221: Introduction to Internet of Things — Technology and Engagement
K.M. Zhang, 12:25-1:15 MWF, online lecture + in-person lab.
Prerequisite: MAE 3780 or ECE 3400.
This interdisciplinary design course aims to provide a holistic introduction to Internet of Things (IoT) and train students on the core technological and communication skills through community engagement and working on real-world applications. IoT has become an enabler for new economic activities and provides potentially cost-effective solutions to a wide range of societal challenges. Students team up with community partners throughout a semester to tackle a real-world problem using IoT technology. The project topics include, but are not limited to, energy, environmental, civic infrastructure monitoring. The project teams will apply engineering design principles and critically examine sensor selection, sensor deployment, wireless communication, data quality, security, and privacy as well as value proposition for IoT-based solutions. The key learning outcome of this course is that students will grasp how to develop IoT-based technological solutions and become competent in communicating how to use the IoT technology responsibly to create positive societal impact.
MAE 4630/4631/5630: Advanced Product Design
R. Shepherd, 2:40-3:30 PM MWF, in-person lecture + online lab
Prerequisite: Limited to M. Eng, M.S., Ph.D., or senior standing in MAE
In this class, we will use a combination of first-principles and bioinspired-design approaches to achieve unique, useful, and non-obvious technology. We will approach product design from both a “push” and “pull” customer demand focus. Individual and small team mentoring, in-class presentations, crowd-assisted development, and hardware prototyping and testing where possible will aid in refining the key innovations. This course presumes the enrolled students either: (i) have an existing application space in which they are developing a technological solution, or (ii) have enough training (i.e., B.S. degree) in a core engineering discipline to formulate a technical solution to an as-yet-unidentified engineering contradiction (per the TRIZ paradigm).
MAE 4670/4671: Polymer Mechanics
M. Silberstein, 11:25 AM-12:40 PM TR, in-person lecture
Prerequisite: ENGRD 2020, MAE 3270 or MSE 2610 or permission of instructor.
This course will provide foundations of polymer mechanics building from the basics of mechanics of materials. The focus will be split between experimental methods/data interpretation and modeling approaches. Topics will include hyper-elasticity, viscoelasticity, glass transition temperature, and plasticity with applications to both synthetic and biological materials. There will also be a scientific literature reading component through which students will be able to pick their own focus areas in the latter part of the semester.
