ME138/238
Spring 2018

Micro/Nano Mechanical Systems Laboratory

Instructors:

Prof. Liwei Lin, 5135 Etcheverry Hall, (510)643-5495, lwlin@me.berkeley.edu
Teaching Assistants, tbd

Class Meetings:

Lecture, Tuesday and Thursday, 241 Cory, 5:00-6:30 (tbd)
Office Hours, Monday 4-5pm, Tuesday 10-11am
TA Office Hours, tbd

Course Descriptions:

This hands-on laboratory course focuses on the mechanical engineering principles that underlie the design, fabrication, and operation of micro/nanoscale mechanical systems, including devices made by nanowire/nanotube syntheses; photolithography/soft lithography; and molding processes. Each lab will have different focuses for basic understanding of MEMS/NEMS systems from prototype constructions to experimental testings using mechancial, electrical or optical techniques. Students will work in teams to design, analyze, simulate, fabricate and test their own micro/nanodevices in the final project. Graduate students are required to utilize analytical models and/or numerical simulations (in solid, fluid or other fields) in each lab for in-depth analyses of the MEMS/NEMS systems.

This is a room-share course that will be taught concurrently with ME 138/ME 238. ME 138 and ME 238 will share a common lecture and common laboratory, but project/laboratory assignments for graduate students in ME 238 will be different than those for undergraduate students in ME 138. Compared to the project/laboratory assigned to undergraduates, graduate students taking ME 238 will be given project/laboratory assignments that require modeling of more physically complex systems, and use of more sophisticated computational tools.

Prerequisite: ME119/ME118 are highly recommended but not mandatory

Text Books:

Projects:

One final hands-on prototype device/system project.

Grading:

50% Lab reports
20% Quiz
30% Final Project (presentation 10%, fabrication/testing 10% and written report 10%)

Last updated: January 9, 2018 by Liwei Lin