MTE 545Introduction to MEMS Fabrication

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• Maybe in January 2015 it was an easy course with no final but that was not the case this year. The prof is super nice and by the end of the course you will have become semi-proficient at introductory MEMS (or you will have failed). This term there were 4 labs, 3 homework assignments (almost 4), 2 "tutorials" that give experience using the MEMS equivalent of CAD software, and a handful of in-class exercises which made up the bulk of the grades. Each of those is not worth a lot but takes a fair amount of time to complete. Those, (plus some i-clicker questions, etc.), made up about 45% of the grades while the midterm and final were 25% and 30% respectively. It is worth it get as much of the…

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• Not an easy course by any means. Lots of work load, including 4 labs and several homework assignments which include CAD projects. Material itself is also quite challenging and requires previous knowledge of solid mechanics.

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• To be candid, I took this course because I thought it would be easy. It is not, there are few difficult concepts in the course, but you need to be INTIMATELY familiar with the materials and processes covered, you may have an option to do labs/assignments before or after the midterm, DO THEM BEFORE, they will show up on the midterm. This is not a bird course, and it is a constant stream of work.

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• This course was great. Incredibly interesting (how do you design and manufacture small mechatronics devices?) while also having a light workload and NO final! Labs were so cool.

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• Took this one online during COVID. Kind of like a survey course for engineering. You will learn a lot about MEMS, and if you didn't know anything about MEMS or microfabrication you will find it pretty interesting, but for the most part wasn't too engaging technically. You had to be familiar with the content but didn't need a deep level of understanding to do very well on the midterms. Despite the relatively easy assessments and forgiving marking scheme, (several low-weight tests and labs, along with participation marks) this course still required a decent time commitment with deliverables nearly every week.

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