MECH&AE C183C
Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing
Description: Lecture, four hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, six hours. Enforced requisite: course 183A. Rapid prototyping (RP), solid freeform fabrication, or additive manufacturing has emerged as popular manufacturing technology to accelerate product creation in last two decades. Machine for layered manufacturing builds parts directly from CAD models. This novel manufacturing technology enables building of parts that have traditionally been impossible to fabricate because of their complex shapes or of variety in materials. In analogy to speed and flexibility of desktop publishing, rapid prototyping is also called desktop manufacturing, with actual three-dimensional solid objects instead of mere two-dimensional images. Methodology of rapid prototyping has also been extended into meso-/micro-/nano-scale to produce three-dimensional functional miniature components. Concurrently scheduled with course C297A. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2021 - I was super excited about this class, but it ended up being pretty pointless. The lectures were pretty much just a rerun of 183a, but they were super unclear. The redeeming quality of this class was the group product development project. It was run entirely by the TAs and was kinda fun, but also a little disorganized with covid. This class isn't bad as an elective, but it could be done so much better.
Winter 2021 - I was super excited about this class, but it ended up being pretty pointless. The lectures were pretty much just a rerun of 183a, but they were super unclear. The redeeming quality of this class was the group product development project. It was run entirely by the TAs and was kinda fun, but also a little disorganized with covid. This class isn't bad as an elective, but it could be done so much better.
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