URL study guide
https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=6EMA62&collegejaar=2025&taal=enOmschrijving
This course is divided in sections:
Introduction (24 hrs)
- Topics that will be discussed in the course, the aim of the course.
- Course structures: in-class lectures, practical sessions and assignments.
- Introduction to the projects and examination
- Dr. Danqing Liu will give this lecture.
- Both pneumatic driven soft robotics and liquid crystal polymer-based soft robotics will be introduced.
- Prof. Dirk Broer, Dr. Bas Overvelde, and Dr. Danqing Liu will give the lecture
Processing materials to devices (2 hrs)
- Using the fabrication of microfluidics as an example to understand the basic material processing technologies.
- This lecture will be given by Prof. Jaap den Toonder.
- This lecture will address how designers will use responsive materials to design novel products and how end-users might experience responsive materials when embedded into these future products.
- Dr. Miguel Bruns will give this lecture.
After the project introductions, students will have the opportunity to discuss with eachother and the project mentors to decide their project preference. Groups will be made based on student preference and background variety.
Group projects will start after the lectures.
Each group (3-5 students) will be guided by a mentor to work on the design of a device using responsive materials.
Each group discusses the assignment with their mentor weekly.
Student groups work out the basic material/device principle proposed in the assignments and are encouraged to suggest their own research direction.
Lab hours will be arranged together with mentors.
Final presentation (4 hrs)
- Student groups present on the final projects.
- 3 x 4 hrs lectures, in which the concepts will be discussed.
- 56 hrs experimental session, in which students will design and make a soft robotic actuator in the lab.
- 4 hrs students presentation on the final projects.
- Study theory: 16 hrs
- Writing report: 24 hrs
- Prepare PowerPoint presentation: 16 hrs
- Data analysis and additional lab work: 16 hrs
Additional assessment information:
The presentation aims to evaluate how the students can present their work to an interdisciplinary audience. The written report forms the basis for the oral exam. The oral exam aims to check the basic project knowledge of each student, as well as in-depth knowledge related to their discipline and contribution. Lab performance aims to check the practical skills and work ethos of each student.
The presentation and the written report will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Scientific knowledge
- Originality of the research
- Clarity.
The final oral exam will be carried out with mentors within their student groups.
Extra General info:
A student may only be absent for at most 5% of the scheduled hours of the practical component of this course
, with an, according to the opinion of the board examiners, legitimate reason. Only if the absence of student hinders the continuation of the project, a student needs to catch up for the missed hours A student informs the lecturer about his or her absence right away If a student is absent for more than 5% of the scheduled time, in any case, possibilities to catch up for the missed hours need to be discussed with the lecturer of the course. The lecturer can oblige a student to re-sit part or the whole course later.
Doelstellingen
The main goal of this course is to gain insight on how to translate the properties of a material into device functionalities. At the end of the course students will have acquired the overview of the design route from molecules to materials, device design and fabrication.To be more specific, at the end of the course the students should have gained knowledge in: basic material processing, the current device technologies around us, and forthcoming technologies. They should understand what the device properties are and how to characterize them, how to compare different device principles which deliver similar macroscopic phenomena. Students will learn the key features between devices at both laboratory and real-world scales, and the engineering challenges in upscaling devices. Students will learn to communicate and collaborate with students from different backgrounds to best utilize the different skillsets required to move from molecule to material to device.