Tuesday Friday
February February 1: NO CLASS February 4: Introduction
  February 8: Conductive textiles
Assignment due: registration survey
February 11: Guest lecture: Hannah Perner-Wilson
  February 15: Fiber and yarn
Assignment due: textile circuit
February 18: Guest lecture: Adam Whiton
  February 21 (MONDAY):
2-5pm optional spinning tutorial
 
  February 22: NO CLASS
(president’s day week)
Assignment due: laser cutter tutorial
February 25: Guest lecture: Jenny Leary
     
March March 1: Fabric PCBs
Assignment due: yarn
March 4: Guest lecture: Tricia Wilson
  March 8: Weaving and knitting
Assignment due: fabric PCB
March 11: NO CLASS
  March 15: Textile sensors
Assignment due: knits
March 18: Guest lecture: Sarah Scaturro
  March 22: SPRING BREAK March 25: SPRING BREAK
     
April March 29: Computational design
Assignment due: textile sensor
April 1: Guest lecture: Elisabeth de Senneville
  April 5: Final project proposals
Assignment due: final project proposals
April 8: Guest lecture: Rehmi Post and Kit Waal
  April 12: NO CLASS
sponsor week
April 15: NO CLASS
  April 19: NO CLASS
MIT holiday
April 22: Guest lecture: Daniella Rosner
  April 26: Nonwovens
Assignment due: computational design
April 29: NO CLASS
     
May May 3: Final project lab
Assignment due: nonwoven
May 6: Final project lab
  May 10: Final project presentations
Assignment due: final projects
 

 

Textbook
Kadolph, S. (2007), Textiles (11th or 10th Edition), Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ

Grading
Weekly assignments: 60%
Final project: 30%
Class participation: 10%

2010
2010 OpenCourseWare site
2010 Syllabus