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

Past Term Data

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2023
Materials And Design (2c)
  • Leandro Piazzi
  • Marcus Carter
  • Michael Todd Stradley
Seats Taken: 0/105
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