# Materials and Design

## ARCH-2510

This course establishes an understanding of the most common materials, their properties and resulting uses, and the implications of their uses in the larger context of material life cycles. The structural makeup of metals, ceramics, polymers, and composite materials is discovered and their resulting properties, costs, and life cycle consequences are clarified. An understanding of basic mechanical properties is established hands on by conducting tension, compression, and 3-point bending tests (mse-lab). Physical performance of material constructs as synergy between form and material properties is further illustrated. Experiments are conducted that introduce such major concepts as structural loading, properties of sections, and resulting system performance. Sustainability: The concept of life cycles is introduced; material and energy flows are tracked throughout the entire material life cycle. This will be accomplished alongside introducing major material groupings (metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites). Students come to realize that environmental concerns are directly related to structural composition and material availability. Consequences of resource extraction, distribution, manipulation, use, and disposal, reuse or recycle are addressed at both local and global scales. Selected field trips to materials extraction, processing, manufacturing, disposal, and recycling facilities are aimed to give physical meaning to the concept of life cycle.

2 credits Introductory Level Course
Prereqs:
none

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| Spring | Summer | Fall
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2023 |  |  | Materials And Design (2c) Leandro Piazzi Marcus Carter Michael Todd Stradley Seats Taken: 87/180
2022 |  |  | Materials And Design (2c) Leandro Piazzi Marcus Carter Michael Todd Stradley Seats Taken: 95/105
2021 |  |  | Materials And Design (2c) Joshua William Hugo Draper Michael Todd Stradley Seats Taken: 69/135
2020 |  |  | Materials And Design (2c) Joshua William Hugo Draper Daniel Rosenberg Seats Taken: 67/127
2019 |  | Materials And Design (2c) Christopher Parkinson Seats Taken: 5/12 | Materials And Design (2c) Daniel Rosenberg Seats Taken: 83/90
2018 |  | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 9/12 | Materials And Design (2c) Daniel Rosenberg Seats Taken: 69/90
2017 |  |  | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 74/90
2016 |  | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 3/20 | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 70/68
2015 |  |  | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 54/60
2014 | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 58/78 | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 6/20 | Materials And Design (2c) Ajmal Latif Aqtash Seats Taken: 71/100
2013 | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 63/70 | Materials And Design (2c) Jeremie E Carvalho Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 5/12 |
2012 | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 58/65 | Materials And Design (2c) Jefferson A Ellinger Seats Taken: 6/12 |
2011 | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 52/72 | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 5/12 |
2010 | Materials And Design (2c) Reese J. Campbell Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 68/72 | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 3/12 |
2009 | Materials And Design (2c) Reese J. Campbell Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 55/59 | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 5/8 |
2008 | Materials And Design (2c) Reese J. Campbell Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 55/59 |  |
2007 | Materials And Design (2c) Demetrios Andreas Comodromos Seats Taken: 70/90 | Materials And Design (2c) Andrew Saunders Seats Taken: 3/25 |
2006 | Materials And Design (2c) Steven Van Dessel Seats Taken: 67/90 | Materials And Design (2c) Jefferson A Ellinger David J. Riebe Seats Taken: 4/25 |
2005 | Materials And Design (2c) Steven Van Dessel Seats Taken: 56/90 |  | Materials And Design (2c) Frances Bronet Seats Taken: 2/25 |
2004 | Materials And Design (2c) David J. Riebe Jefferson A Ellinger Mark Steven Mistur Seats Taken: 66/90 |  | Materials And Design (2c) Kenneth Warriner Seats Taken: 13/25 |
2003 | Materials And Design (2c) Steven Van Dessel Seats Taken: 57/75 |  |
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