MAE 6130

Foundations and Frontiers of Engineered Living Materials

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course will provide foundational knowledge to work in the interdisciplinary field of engineered living materials. Topics will include structure-funtion relationships in different organisms; culturing techniques; genetic engineering and sequencing techniques; mechanical, electrochemical, and optical characterization methods; and biological system modeling.

Enrollment Priority REF-FA25 Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

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Outcomes REF-FA25

• Students will be able to analyze literature in the engineered living materials field.
• Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to orally communicate technical concepts in their field of expertise to scientists and engineers from different fields.
• Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of tools and techniques for attacking specific challenges in the engineered living materials field.
• Students will be able to identify research gaps and opportunities.

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