Section 130: Sustainable Materials and User-Centered Design

Section 130: Sustainable Materials and User-Centered Design

by | Nov 10, 2023

How can we make engineering more sustainable and more beneficial to people and the environment? If that’s a question you care about, this is the E100 section for you. This is a course about sustainable materials and user-centered engineering design. Our goal is to teach sustainable engineering practices that will be useful to nearly all engineers.

Section 120: The Greatest Materials of All Time

Section 120: The Greatest Materials of All Time

by | May 21, 2023

“Stone Age,” “Iron Age,” “Silicon Valley” – these terms reflect major aspects of human civilization. From textiles to sugar, to transistors and smartphones – various products have proven critical developments in human history. What materials made them possible? What new industries did they spawn? What new problems did they create? What might come next?