Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) - Aeronautics & Astronautics Undergraduate Courses

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Cambridge, MA 02139-4307,

This course provides students with an opportunity to conceive, design and implement a product, using rapid prototyping methods and computer-aid tools. The first of two phases challenges each student team to meet a set of design requirements and constraints for a structural component. A course of iteration, fabrication, and validation completes this manual design cycle. During the second phase, each team conducts design optimization using structural analysis software, with their phase one prototype as a baseline.