[bioundgrd] FW: Special Subject – 3.S06 Casting a Tradition (HASS-A)

[Joshua Stone]

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From: John Ohrenberger <johren at mit.edu<mailto:johren at mit.edu>>
Subject: Special Subject – 3.S06 Casting a Tradition (HASS-A)
Date: August 28, 2019 at 11:18:02 AM EDT


Please see below a subject announcement to share with your students. This special subject will be offered in Fall 2019, with future semesters of planned offerings, and all students in the subject will help to produce a life-size, cast bronze beaver sculpture.


Fall 2019 Special Subject – 3.S06 (HASS-A)
Casting a Tradition
Instructor: Tara Fadenrecht
Fall 2019; M 1-2 pm (Lecture), MW 2-5 pm (Lab), Lead Instructor: Tara Fadenrecht
Units: 1-6-2, Cannot be repeated for credit; Limited enrollment (12)

Tradition runs deep at MIT. From hacking to Pi Day, students welcome the opportunity to add their individual contribution to the line of collective tradition. In this special subject course, students will work to create an interactive metal sculpture that embraces another tradition at MIT, the “brass rat” class ring. This life-size, cast bronze beaver sculpture, complete with moveable tail and magnetic hair, will be entirely realized by MIT undergraduates within MIT laboratories. The course will provide a cross-disciplinary approach to sculpture that will include art history, metallurgy, and mechanical engineering. From schematic rendering to metal casting, fabrication, polishing and patination, (and the many steps in between), students in this class will learn through hands-on experience how a cast sculpture comes to fruition as well as how much applied materials science knowledge is involved in art-making.

Questions? Email: contact-metals-lab at mit.edu<mailto:contact-metals-lab at mit.edu>

(Flyer attached)




John Ohrenberger
Undergraduate Administrative Assistant
MIT Materials Science and Engineering<http://dmse.mit.edu/>
Academic Office, 6-107
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge MA 02139
Phone: (617) 258-5816
Email: johren at mit.edu<mailto:johren at mit.edu>
Pronouns: He, Him, His
Student Resources at MIT: https://resources.mit.edu/





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