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NE 336Micro and Nanosystem Computer-Aided Design

Units
0.50
Faculty
Engineering
Subject
Nanotechnology Engineering

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 3 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Modelling and simulation. Lumped versus distributed approaches. Review of differential-equation systems, constitutive relations, boundary conditions, and solvers for complex, coupled transport problems pertinent to micro and nanosystems. Coupling strategies. Numerical schemes for nonlinear systems. Basic modelling and simulation of micro and nanosystems, and fluidic systems. Relevant nanotechnology applications: optical, thermal, mechanical, and fluidic microstructures, and nanoscale devices.

Prerequisites

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Fall 2026 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 0014720101 / 123M 08:30–09:50
W 08:30–09:50
LAB 101472150 / 61Sep 15 14:30–17:20
Sep 29 14:30–17:20
Oct 20 14:30–17:20
Nov 3 14:30–17:20
Nov 17 14:30–17:20
Dec 1 14:30–17:20
LAB 102472251 / 61Sep 22 14:30–17:20
Oct 6 14:30–17:20
Oct 27 14:30–17:20
Nov 10 14:30–17:20
Nov 24 14:30–17:20
Dec 8 14:30–17:20

Reviewed on UW Flow

29% liked it30% easy30% useful

From 35 ratings and 21 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • This course has absolutely nothing to do with Nanotechnology Engineering, meanwhile the labs, assignments and quizzes are extremely difficult. The teaching is focused on math but the marked submissions are all focused on coding. No teaching of fundemental programming skills whatsoever, expecting NE students all to be fully proficient in Python which is super unrealistic.

    Dec 2022 · didn’t like it · 8 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Unnecessarily hard for a course with little to no useful application to nano. Students would have learned a lot more if the whole course was project based rather than spending time trying to interpret her code and memorizing it to answer assessments. Communication with the Prof is hard, and she is very much not lenient with any collaboration between students.

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  • I have never, IN 3 YEARS AT UW made a review about a course. The only reason I got a uwflow account was to leave a review about the most unorganized and disastrous course you could ever take at UW. This course is just a repetition of first-year courses + 2 COMSOL sessions where prof. Mahmoudi reads out of a pdf to make the simplest COMSOL model I have ever seen. Any other elective in signal processing or your prev. calc courses can easily replace taking this course. If UW had a better refund policy I would 100% ask for my money back for NE 336.

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  • Horribly difficult course for no reason. Quizzes, assignments, and labs were nearly impossible. Despite having a quiz average of <50%, the prof refuses to curve. Not to mention this is not at all relevant to this degree. The only part that had the potential to be useful is COMSOL, but it was only covered for one lab, and it is not even being covered for the final to a capacity where it is worth learning. If they really want to keep this course they should make it an elective, albeit an elective that nobody should take.

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  • The assignments were beyond brutal and expected us to memorize the spaghetti code written by the instructor, if not good luck coming up with 16 different algorithms.

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Fall 2017

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