
How to turn designs into products?

Manufacturing turns designs into products, playing an essential role in modern economic growth and innovation.
Via case studies ranging from industrial-level mass production to cutting-edge technologies such as biofabrication, students will appreciate the integrated nature of design, material, processing, and management in the manufacture of products.
A teaser of what you will learn …
- Why is it challenging to produce the flight deck of an aircraft carrier?
- How to select materials for electronic textiles?
- How to produce ultra-soft human-machine interface?
- How is the SpaceX starship weld together?
- Why carbon-fibre bikes are so expensive?
- How to build the turbine engine blades?
- How was the main frames of National Stadium (Birdnest) constructed?
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” … this course will answer the question – how objects are built – from large-scale aircraft engines to microelectronic chips; from high-strength carbon-fibre reinforced bikes to ultra-soft articifial organs. We will take a case-study based approach to illustrate you the interplay among material-design-manufacturing …”
message from the course instructor
– Course credits: 4
– Pre-requisites:
UFUG 1501 General Physics I
OR
UFUG 1503 Honors General Physics I
Course code: SMMG 4020