ISEE-741 3D Printing, Spring 2024

Description: This course aims to help graduate students in understanding the advancements and key challenges in 3D Printing. The course offers students with related techniques and practical experience in developing novel 3D Printing processes and applications. The target audience of the course is the students in the ISE undergraduate/graduate program. The course will prepare the students for advanced careers related to 3D Printing. Students make a project in the lab portion of the course.

ISEE-742 Metal and Composite Additive Manufacturing, Fall 2023 

Description: This course provides students with depth in the topics of metal additive manufacturing and composite additive manufacturing. For metal AM, established processes such as powder bed fusion, binder jetting, and bound particle extrusion will be covered as well as emerging processes such as molten metal droplet jetting, cold spray, friction stir, and joule heating. The composite AM portion of the course will focus on polymer matrix composite materials. The fundamentals of how fiber reinforcement and the polymer matrix interact will be covered, as will strategies for optimizing material properties though local control of fiber orientation. Students will use design tools for light weighting of structures via engineered lattice structures, generative design, and topology optimization.