Global Arc

This course introduces students to the principles, analysis methods, and applications of lightweight structures. The course bridges classical structural mechanics with modern advances in composites and architected materials. Topics include trusses, pressure vessels, fiber-reinforced composites, discrete lattices, and metamaterials. Through a combination of lectures, labs, and hands-on demonstrations, students will develop skills in static and dynamic analysis, modeling, and testing of various structures. These skills provide a strong foundation for innovative applications across engineering fields.

The course introduces fundamentals of optics, lasers, and Fourier transforms through lectures and hands-on activities. The topics include ray and wave optics, imaging and image processing, optical Fourier transforms, principles of lasers, and applications in nuclear fusion for renewable energy, environmental sensing, space exploration, ultrafast metrology, chemistry, and physics.

The senior thesis (MAE 498-499) is a year-long project in which students complete a substantial piece of research and scholarship under the supervision and advisement of a Princeton faculty member. While a year-long thesis is due in the student's final semester of study, the work requires sustained investment and attention throughout the academic year.

The senior thesis (MAE 498G-499G) is a year-long project in which students complete a substantial piece of research and scholarship under the supervision and advisement of a Princeton faculty member. While a year-long thesis is due in the student's final semester of study, the work requires sustained investment and attention throughout the academic year.

The senior thesis (498G-499G) is a year-long project in which students complete a substantial piece of research and scholarship under the supervision and advisement of a Princeton faculty member. While a year-long thesis is due in the student's final semester of study, the work requires sustained investment and attention throughout the academic year.

This course presents key ideas at the core of computational engineering, and provides the students with a foundation for further development of the discipline, as well as for the informed and expert use of advanced computational mechanics software. Basic topics in interpolation and approximation (polynomial and trigonometric basis); representation of curves and surfaces, accuracy and stability of numerical methods for ODEs and PDEs, and selected topics in numerical linear algebra and root finding of nonlinear systems.

In this project-based course, you will be offered a selection of small spaceflight hardware projects to design, analyze, build and/or test, either on your own or in small subgroups. In most years when the TigerSats Lab has a nanosatellite mission in active development for upcoming launch, the class will be subdivided into subsystem or specialty groups, and you will all work together as a team towards maturing the current nanosat towards launch-readiness. Other frequent projects include suborbital or orbital microgravity experiments or custom environmental qualification test equipment. You will write a final report describing your project.

After the decades-long dictatorship known as the Porfiria (1877-1911) and the series of political coups and peasant revolts that characterized the 1910s, Mexican artists including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Dr. Atl forged a new, "authentically Mexican" modern art. Cultural pilgrims with leftist inclinations from all over the world, particularly from the United States and the Soviet Union, rushed to Mexico to learn from their example. The course will cover major events in Mexican art from approx. 1910-1970. This course will appeal to those interested in Mexican culture and politicized art practices.

Belief in photography's indexicality has haunted the medium since its inception. Once understood to offer proof of something real, the idea that we might trust a photograph to relay anything genuine now feels absurd. Looking to shifting discourses regarding photography's relationship with objectivity, authenticity, and fact, this course examines the origins and evolution of our understanding of the medium's duplicity. Over the course of the semester, we will trace the historically erratic belief in photography's ability to document and attempt to think critically about the medium's capacity to create, reveal, and critique the real.

This course considers the intersecting roles of gender and power, labor and knowledge, sacrifice and sustenance in the conception of Nahua femininity. Students who complete this course will gain familiarity with the culture of Nahuatl-speaking people of central Mexico and the representation of Nahua women. Special attention will be given to the changing perception of Aztec goddesses under colonialism and their Chicanx reclamation, as well as to historical figures such as Malinche, the "tongue" of Hernán Cortés, and Doña Luz Jiménez, muse to the Mexican Muralists following the Revolution.