Global Engineering: Green Machines
Combines rigorous engineering theory and user-centered product design to create and disseminate green technologies for global markets. Instruction focused on analyzing barriers to large-scale adoption of green technologies and utilizing engineering skills to promote greater adoption. Students engage in physics-based machine design theory and experiments to parametrically analyze green technologies, coupled with product design principles to understand policy, cultural, market-driven, and economic factors. Includes guest lectures, case studies, and a term-long project to create a techno-economic analysis on a green technology. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication provided. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
Fall 2004 · Multi-Scale System Design
Topics
- Introduction to MuSS and SPM Case Study
- MuSS Design Fundamentals and Methods
- Macro/Meso-scales Components and Characteristics
- Micro-scale Components and Characteristics
- Nano-scale Components and Characteristics
- Scanning Probe Microscopy Project Introduction
- Piezo MEMS: Materials
- Piezoelectric MEMS: Applications
- Optical MEMS
- Nominal and Statistical Error Budgets
- Presentations on Paper Critiques
- Mechanical Interfaces for Cross-scale Alignment
- Mechanisms for Inter-scale Motion
- Carbon Nanotubes
- Complexity of MuSS
- Metrology
- Telescopes and the Oil Industry
- Data Acquisition, Sensors and Control
- Pre-amplifier Electronics
- Probe and 3 Axis Flexure Stage
- Actuators
- Mapping
- Contest
- Course Wrap up
Readings
- MuSS Example: Overview of SPM Technology Suh, Nam P. “Complexity Theory Based on Axiomatic Design.” Chapter 3 in Complexity: Theory and Applications. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780195178760.
- Questions, Team Selection and Planning Pohl, Dieter W. “Some Design Criteria in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.” IBM Journal of Research and Development 30, no. 4 (July 1986): 417.
- Lewis, R. A., et al. “Student Scanning Tunneling Microscope.” Am. J. Phys. 59, no. 1 (January 1991): 38.
- Binning, G., et al. “Surface Studies by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.” Physical Review Letters 49, no. 1 (5 July 1982): 57.
- Golovchenko, J. A. “The Tunneling Microscope: A New Look at the Atomic World.” Science (New Series) 232, no. 48-53 (4 April 1986): 4746.
- Slocum, A. “Kinematic Couplings for Precision Fixturing - Part 1: Formulation of Design Parameters.” Precision Engineering 10, no. 2 (April 1988): 86.
- Slocum, A. “Kinematic Couplings for Precision Fixturing - Part 2: Experimental Determination of Repeatability and Stiffness.” Precision Engineering 10, no. 3 (July 1988): 115.
- Slocum, A. “Design of Three-groove Kinematic Couplings.” Precision Engineering 14, no. 2 (April 1992): 67.
- _Culpepper, M. L., et al. “Design of Integrated Eccentric Mechanisms and Exact Constraint Fixtures for Micron-level Repeatability and Accuracy.” Paper accepted for publication in Precision Engineering.
- Mangudi, K., and M. L. Culpepper. “Active, Compliant Fixtures for Nanomanufacturing.” 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering, Orlando, FL., October 2004, pp. 113 -116.
- Slocum, et al. “Flexural Mount Kinematic Couplings and Method.” U. S. Patent 5, 678, 944. Granted October 21, 1997.
- Culpepper, M. L., et al. “Quasi-kinematic Couplings for Low-cost Precision Alignment of High-volume Assemblies.” Transactions of the ASME 126 (May 2004): 456-463.
- Culpepper, M. L. “Design of Quasi-kinematic Couplings.” Precision Engineering 28 (2004): 338–357.
Prerequisites & course information
Subject meets with 2.76 Prereq: 2.008 or permission of instructor U (Fall) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-0-9 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2004
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- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.