FEATURED TEACHING RESOURCES
Industrial case study: truck trailer lightweighting
Exercises: open-ended material selection project ideas
Industrial case study: truck trailer lightweighting
Claes Fredriksson and Joel Galos
Industrial case study: railway lightweighting
Exercises: open-ended material selection project ideas
Industrial case study: truck trailer lightweighting
Claes Fredriksson, Susannah Cooke and Joel Galos
Exercises: open-ended material selection project ideas
Exercises: open-ended material selection project ideas
Exercises: open-ended material selection project ideas
Eliane Brechbuhl, Joel Galos and Claes Fredriksson
MATERIALS ENGINEERING (MATE) @ CAL POLY SLO
To learn more about Cal Poly's Materials Engineering (MATE) major, visit our website: https://mate.calpoly.edu/
OVERVIEW
As an educator, my passion is the creation of meaningful engineering programs that engage and challenge students. My objective as an educator is to ensure that students are prepared to apply engineering concepts to develop novel solutions to challenging problems facing society.
Learning can be greatly enhanced using experiential learning, practical demonstrations, and case studies. With colleagues at Granta Design (now Ansys Materials) I have created teaching resources that are widely used in a variety of engineering courses at universities around the world. The popularity of these resources underlines the need for real-world examples in the classroom. In contributing to these resources, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Prof. Mike Ashby who is widely regarded as a world leader in materials engineering pedagogy.
TEACHING
California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo
Instructor of record (F=Fall, W=Winter, SP=Spring, SU=Summer):
Introduction to Materials Engineering Design II (MATE120): W'23
Materials Laboratory I (MATE215): W'22, SU'23, F'24
Materials Engineering Analysis (MATE245): SP'22, SP'23, SP'24
Materials Selection for the Life Cycle (MATE300): SP'23
Structural Materials Systems (MATE350): W'24
Composite Materials Systems (MATE480): F'22, F'23, F'24
Independent Study (MATE400): W'23, SP'23
RMIT University
Aerospace Design Project (AERO2362) - Head tutor - 2020-2021
Composite Materials (AERO2289) - Repeat guest lecturer - 2018-2020
Computational Engineering (AERO2463) - Head tutor - 2018-2019
Engineering Capstone Projects (OENG1167 & OENG1168) - Student supervisor - 2019-2021
University of Cambridge
Part IA Experimental Engineering - Non-Destructive Testing of Engineering Components - Lab demonstrator - 2014-2017
Part IB Experimental Engineering - Materials Characterisation - Lab demonstrator - 2014-2017
Part IB Experimental Engineering - Torsion Testing: Plasticity and Fracture- Lab demonstrator - 2015-2017
STUDENTS
Doctoral Students
Koranat Pattarakunnan, PhD in Aerospace Engineering. Composite Structural Batteries. RMIT University, 2018-2022.
Masters Students
Bo Zhou, MEng in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering. NDE of Laser Beam Welded Joints. RMIT University, 2018-2022.
Pooneh Attar, MEng in Aerospace Engineering. Multifunctional Automotive Structural Composites for Energy Storage. RMIT University, 2018-2020.
Summer Undergraduate Research Projects (SURP)
Aaron Friedman and Ethan Jamosmos. Enabling an Interactive Materials Engineering Classroom with Cloud-Based Machine Learning Software. Cal Poly in collaboration with Citrine Informatics, 2023.
Undergraduate Capstone Projects
Aiden Acton, Harrison van der Walt and Matthew Donnan. Senior student project in Materials Engineering. MATE polymer and composite 3D printing lab setup. Cal Poly, 2023-2024.
Aaron Friedman and Ethan Jamosmos. Senior student project in Materials Engineering. Development of a plastic 3D printing dataset for use with machine learning software. Cal Poly in collaboration with Citrine Informatics, 2023-2024.
Jackson Fradd, Joshua Yepiz and Caleb Hall. Senior student project in Materials Engineering. Compatibility of fused deposition modelling (3D printing) of polymer composites and balsa wood in sandwich structure processing. Cal Poly in collaboration with CoreLite Composites, 2023-2024.
Jesse Horowitz, Ryan Curtis and Will Weigand. Senior student project in Materials Engineering. Compatibility of fused deposition modelling (3D printing) of polymer composites and PET foam in sandwich structure processing. Cal Poly in collaboration with CoreLite Composites, 2023-2024.
Chris Murray and Justin Paget. Senior student project in Materials Engineering. 3D-Printing Continuous Carbon Fiber Balsa Wood Sandwich Structures. Cal Poly in collaboration with CoreLite Composites, 2022-2023.
Kiran Lochun and Kristi Kodama. Senior student project in Materials Engineering. Topology Optimization of a 3D Printed Composite Bicycle Crankshaft. Cal Poly, 2022-2023.
Matthew Morin. Senior student Project in General Engineering. Sustainable Skis. Cal Poly, 2022-2023.
Akhil Sreekumar, Yanquan Li and Junming Chen. Senior student project in Aerospace Engineering. Virtual Reality for Aircraft Accident Investigation. RMIT University in collaboration with Memko, 2021.
Derrick Ng and Benjamin Jenkins. Senior student project in Aerospace Engineering. Terrain Mapping for Aircraft Accident Investigation. RMIT University in collaboration with Memko, 2021.
Ryan Barton and Yanisa Paksaharm. Senior student project in Aerospace Engineering. Automated Solutions for Non-Destructive Testing of Highly Stressed Aircraft Components. RMIT University in collaboration with Aviation Component Services Pty Ltd, 2019.
Zinia Jubil, Gabriel Gomez and Nandhini Kannan. Senior student project in Aerospace Engineering. Virtual Reality in Aircraft Crash Investigations. RMIT University in collaboration with Memko, 2019.