Innovations in Textile Engineering: Fibers, Yarns, Nonwovens, & More
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6 Courses
The University of Colorado System consists of four campuses throughout the state and provides education to more than 70,000 students each year. CU offers a broad spectrum of academic programs, inclusive of highly-rated graduate programs in the disciplines of business, law, and engineering.
Overview
What makes fiber a unique engineered-to-the-extreme state of soft matter? This comprehensive online course, presented by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, delves into the fundamental principles of engineering and manufacturing fibers and textiles. Gain insights into polymer science as well as mechanical, thermal, and moisture transport engineering specific to fibrous media. Expand your knowledge on textile manufacturing techniques from both industrial and laboratory perspectives, including machinery, visual color science and engineering, and the design of composite fibrous materials.
Master the skills needed to hierarchically design innovative materials and products, leveraging fiber as a fundamental building block. Explore what it means to innovate within an industry that interacts with everyone globally, enhancing the reach and impact of innovations compatible with its distributed industrial and supply chains.
This course offers an immersive experience by exploring real-world cases of iconic textile-based technology developments. Enhance your learning through peer-to-peer discussion and conclude with a hands-on exercise in drafting mock patent applications—practice that has led MIT students from the residential course to create actual utility patent applications.
Enrich your textile engineering expertise with this course provided by the University of Colorado System on the edX platform.
