MSDMT PRACTICUM
GRADUATE STUDIO
MSDMT 700 - FALL 2025COORDINATOR
Mark Meier
PROFESSORS
Angie Crum, Mark Meier
SENSING - SYSTEMS - ASSEMBLIES
DMT Practicum serves as an intensive launch into the Digital and Material Technologies program with three major goals:
1. An intensive tooling-up: students acquire the skill sets needed to operate a suite of machines and software, and to recognize tool capacities and strategies.
2. The development of production logics: students critically discuss and develop tools, fixtures, and methods of making to advance fabrication technique and material insight.
3. Conscious decision assessment: students carefully investigate, reveal, and respond to the results of design decisions ranging in topics from project longevity, multiple-use, material waste, energy use, and environmental and health impacts.
The course investigates three themes:
1. Sensing: integration of custom coded devices that respond to environmental inputs and inform data driven material outputs.
2. Systems: materials and how they inform different methods of manufacturing.
3. Assemblies: how the components come together to form composite constructions.