This combined lecture+laboratory course on the mechanics of materials aims to give students a theoretical and practical understanding of topics including strength, plasticity, beam bending, buckling, fracture, and fatigue. Special attention is paid to the mechanisms that govern material properties. <\/p>\n\n\n

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ME 450 (Composite Materials and Design)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Taught:<\/strong> Winter 2020 – Present<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This intro-level course investigates the origins of the strength, stiffness and toughness of composite materials including long fiber, short fiber and particulate composites of different compositions and at different length scales. Special attention is paid to laminated composites and their anisotropic stiffness and failure behaviors. <\/p>\n\n\n
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ME 498\/599 (Architected Materials)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Taught:<\/strong> Spring 2024 – Present<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many engineering materials use architecture to tailor their properties, from cardboard to jet engine turbine blades. This graduate level course examines the principles behind how architecture is used in engineering. Topics include laminates, lattices, origami, woven structures, shells, anisotropic elasticity, auxetic behavior, energy absorption, wave propagation, fracture toughness, reconfigurability, multistability, negative CTE, bioinspiration and topology optimization.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Nano-Engineered Materials and Structures (NEMS)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Taught<\/strong>: Summer 2022 – Present<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You may have heard about nanotechnology in sci-fi or in the news, whether it\u2019s nanobot swarms, nanoparticles for drug delivery or carbon nanotubes in our phone batteries, but what is all this nano-stuff anyway? This seminar course, taught as part of the Path to UW program, explores how, where, and why nanomaterials are used in technology today. It exposes students to the unique properties of nanomaterials, nanofabrication techniques, and methods to image and characterize nanostructures.<\/p>\n\n\n
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