MECH&AE M183B
Introduction to Microscale and Nanoscale Manufacturing
Description: (Same as Bioengineering M153, Chemical Engineering M153, and Electrical Engineering M153.) Lecture, three hours; laboratory, four hours; outside study, five hours. Enforced requisites: Chemistry 20A, Physics 1A, 1B, 1C, 4AL, 4BL. Introduction to general manufacturing methods, mechanisms, constrains, and microfabrication and nanofabrication. Focus on concepts, physics, and instruments of various microfabrication and nanofabrication techniques that have been broadly applied in industry and academia, including various photolithography technologies, physical and chemical deposition methods, and physical and chemical etching methods. Hands-on experience for fabricating microstructures and nanostructures in modern cleanroom environment. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2024 - This class was great! Professor Chen is fantastic, his lectures are clear and engaging. He is really nice and clearly cares about the material and seeing students succeed. The class itself was chill: 4 homework assignments, 4 in-person labs, 1 lab report, 1 group project, and a final. The homeworks and final were very reasonable, as were the assignments.
Winter 2024 - This class was great! Professor Chen is fantastic, his lectures are clear and engaging. He is really nice and clearly cares about the material and seeing students succeed. The class itself was chill: 4 homework assignments, 4 in-person labs, 1 lab report, 1 group project, and a final. The homeworks and final were very reasonable, as were the assignments.
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Fall 2023 - Unlike what others said, I didn't find this class to be super easy but I did find it to be okay, just your typical upper div. It was composed of 3 quizzes (36%) with the lowest being dropped, a lab report(4%), lab attendance (10%), and a final (50%). The quizzes were almost identical to the sample problems he posted, with one or two questions being different. They were for the most part pretty straightforward and fair. Lab was also straightforward and fun; there were only 6 labs so you finish by week 6 and only the last two labs took up the full 4 hours, as well as the lab report. It was around 8-10 pages max and really easy since you had 3 other people work on it. As for the final, pay attention to what the professor says will be on it, for us, he said it would be composed of Quizzes 1-3 and questions from the last couple of lectures and thats exactly what it was on. I ended up doing pretty good on it. Now, to save you some time and to save others some time, I made this list of what you should focus on studying: 1. Focus on the practice problems first and foremost. If you understand all of these then you'll get at least a B on the quizzes / final 2. Understand the concepts on the lecture notes, there is NO NEED to memorize EVERYTHING. I spent the whole quarter memorizing most of the lectures and tbh it never really paid off. But DO memorize important things from the lectures. For example, in the wet etching lecture memorize what chemical etches what (Ex: HF Acid etches SiO2 and glass and is isotropic, KOH etches Single Crystal Silicon and is Anisotropic). 3. Completely okay to miss some lectures, he posts recordings. But if you can try not to miss them, he sometimes does work on the whiteboard that is not showcased on the recording and saves a lot of time when going through problems. And lectures are only roughly 1 hour and 20 minutes anyway I would recommend taking this class as an elective or a class instead of 183A ! Good luck :)
Fall 2023 - Unlike what others said, I didn't find this class to be super easy but I did find it to be okay, just your typical upper div. It was composed of 3 quizzes (36%) with the lowest being dropped, a lab report(4%), lab attendance (10%), and a final (50%). The quizzes were almost identical to the sample problems he posted, with one or two questions being different. They were for the most part pretty straightforward and fair. Lab was also straightforward and fun; there were only 6 labs so you finish by week 6 and only the last two labs took up the full 4 hours, as well as the lab report. It was around 8-10 pages max and really easy since you had 3 other people work on it. As for the final, pay attention to what the professor says will be on it, for us, he said it would be composed of Quizzes 1-3 and questions from the last couple of lectures and thats exactly what it was on. I ended up doing pretty good on it. Now, to save you some time and to save others some time, I made this list of what you should focus on studying: 1. Focus on the practice problems first and foremost. If you understand all of these then you'll get at least a B on the quizzes / final 2. Understand the concepts on the lecture notes, there is NO NEED to memorize EVERYTHING. I spent the whole quarter memorizing most of the lectures and tbh it never really paid off. But DO memorize important things from the lectures. For example, in the wet etching lecture memorize what chemical etches what (Ex: HF Acid etches SiO2 and glass and is isotropic, KOH etches Single Crystal Silicon and is Anisotropic). 3. Completely okay to miss some lectures, he posts recordings. But if you can try not to miss them, he sometimes does work on the whiteboard that is not showcased on the recording and saves a lot of time when going through problems. And lectures are only roughly 1 hour and 20 minutes anyway I would recommend taking this class as an elective or a class instead of 183A ! Good luck :)
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