Selected topics in advanced manufacturing

The core lectures will reflect the diversity of ongoing advanced manufacturing research at EPFL and will include selected topics in composites, metals, fibers, printing techniques, nano-scale fabrication, lasers-processing and stretchable electronics and interfaces. Lecturers will mainly be from the EPFL's program on advanced manufacturing.

The course will start on Monday 5th February and end on 12th February 2024, not included self-study and preparation time. The course format will be a lecture in the morning given by an expert in the field, followed by an afternoon session, where a team of students will present a topic they have selected for investigation and discussion in the class. Finally, an invited speaker will be invited to give a special lecture to end the course.

Students will then explore the current research trends related to this topic, up to a point where they are able write an review report about it.

This report shall give a comprehensive and critical overview about the subject. It will be presented during a two-hour session, where the participants of the class will discuss it and suggest improvements or amendments.

Once finalized, and so that this report becomes useful to a broader audience (beyond this class), the report will be added to an online Wikipedia-style repository about advanced manufacturing processes that will be gradually built as the course runs.

The presentation of the reports will be peer-reviewed by the students themselves (in addition to the evaluation by the professors) and the reports evaluated by the professors.

The lecturers are different every year.

Here is the list of lecturers contributions to the course in 2024:

• Roland Logé

• Fabien Sorin

• Daryl Yee

• Christophe Moser

• Véronique Michaud

• Jürgen Brugger

• Vivek Subramanian

• Jorge Madridwolff

Organizer/Coordinator: Prof. Yves Bellouard