Summary

This course introduces students to the new and exciting field of computational design and fabrication, which is currently laying the foundations on which the next generation of manufacturing workflows and systems will be built. We will cover the essential computational tools of every stage in the computational fabrication pipeline: from hardware and its abstraction to the high level specification methods of design and their interactions with designers and engineers. Topics include concepts of hardware abstraction languages, geometry processing fundamentals, physics-based simulation, optimization techniques, data-driven design methods, and algorithms for high-performance interactive applications.

Logistics

We will use Edstem as a discussion board.

Lectures

Time: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:20am
Location: CSE2 271 (note: this is different from the location listed on the time schedule!)

Labs

Time: Select Fridays, three time slots from 9:30am to 12:20pm
Location: CSE2 G15 (lab 1) and CSE1 022 (labs 2-5)

Syllabus: syllabus.pdf

Staff

Instructor: Adriana Schulz
TAs: Yuxuan Mei, office hours Thursday 2-3pm in Allen 2nd floor breakout & Milin Kodnongbua, office hours Wednesday 4-5pm in CSE2 152