MSE 4072

Materials Design Concepts II

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course emphasizes entrepreneurial driven materials enabled designs through the understanding of early-stage product development complexities. These complexities include staging invention and innovation via the critical selection of materials for final product function, performance, reliability, cost, and technical and commercial marketability. Student teams from MSE 3070 will expand on their foundational materials design understanding by building interactive prototypes of their proposed products to test and refine design ideas. Teams will present their design refinements through a final project presentation and a startup issue paper. To assist with business plan development, the teams will be mentored by MBA students in the SC Johnson College of Business (SCJCoB).

Prerequisites MSE 3070 and MSE 4071.

Exploratory Studies (CU-SBY)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2022SP

Learning Outcomes

• Design a materials-enabled product under realistic constraints
• Operate effectively on a team.
• Fabricate a prototype and evaluate its functionality.

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