Origami Engineering

Subject associations
CEE 545 / MAE 556 / MSE 535
Term
Fall 2025
Instructors
Glaucio H. Paulino
Registrar description

This class acquaints the student with the state-of-art concepts and algorithms to design and analyze origami systems (assemblies, structures, tessellations, etc). Students learn how to understand, create and transform geometries by folding and unfolding concepts, and thus apply origami concepts to solve engineering and societal problems. In addition, using origami as a tool, we outreach to some fundamental concepts in differential geometry.