Properties of ceramics metals and glass

- explorations of building blocks, manufacturing techniques, and degradation mechanisms with a focus on sustainability

Class structure:
Lecture- topic of the day

In class group work:
Worksheets for the group work submitted daily
Lab notebooks submitted at the end of each lab project

Field trip to the metropolitan museum of art:
Bronze production and conservation

Guest lectures:
Prof. Huang (eng): Life cycle assesments
Prof. Fabiola Barrios-Landeros (Chem) Cystallography and metal Degradation
Possibly lithographs for printing.

Weekly in class assignments:
In class projects/labs
worksheets on microsoft teams
readings related to in-class work

Independent Assignment:
weekly submittals on microsoft teams

Metal degradation project:
Month long observations of metal tab accelerated aging
submit on teams and on paper

Ceramic degredation projects
Month long oberservation of ceramic tile acclerated aging
submit on teams and on paper

September 9th
Independent study
Two objects, one ancient (before indust. rev.), one contemporary

Continuous hierarchy of interactions: the object stands at the very point where the structures
and properties of matter resulting from forces between atoms are an invisible interaction with [people's] ideas and purposes

Outer form, texture and color, atomic, molecular, and crystalline forces.

Change in recognizable ways as matter is subjected to thermal and mechanical treatment