Materials Project Laboratory

An injection mold process.

Diagram of a typical injection molding process. (Image taken from the OSHA Technical Manual.)

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MIT Course Number

3.042

As Taught In

Spring 2008

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

As its name implies, the 3.042 Materials Project Laboratory involves working with such operations as investment casting of metals, injection molding of polymers, and sintering of ceramics. After all the abstraction and theory in the lecture part of the DMSE curriculum, many students have found this hands-on experience with materials to be very fun stuff - several have said that 3.042/3.082 was their favorite DMSE subject. The lab is more than operating processing equipment, however. It is intended also to emulate professional practice in materials engineering project management, with aspects of design, analysis, teamwork, literature and patent searching, Web creation and oral presentation, and more.

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David Roylance, and Yet-Ming Chiang. 3.042 Materials Project Laboratory. Spring 2008. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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