Calendar
Spring 2026 Course Schedule
| Session | Date | Day | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 13, 2026 | Tuesday | Introduction to LLMs and Engineering Applications |
| 2 | January 15, 2026 | Thursday | Transformer Architecture Deep Dive |
| 3 | January 20, 2026 | Tuesday | Pretraining and Finetuning Paradigms |
| 4 | January 22, 2026 | Thursday | Tokenization, Embeddings, and Representations |
| 5 | January 27, 2026 | Tuesday | Prompting 101: Zero-shot, Few-shot, and Chain-of-Thought |
| 6 | January 29, 2026 | Thursday | Agent Architectures (1): ReAct, LangChain, and Autogen, MCP, CrewAI |
| 7 | February 3, 2026 | Tuesday | Agent Architectures (2): ReAct, LangChain, and Autogen, MCP, CrewAI |
| 8 | February 5, 2026 | Thursday | Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Human Feedback |
| 9 | February 10, 2026 | Tuesday | Tool Use and Function Calling with LLMs |
| 10 | February 12, 2026 | Thursday | Memory and State in LLM Agents |
| 11 | February 17, 2026 | Tuesday | Open Source LLM Models and Finetuning |
| 12 | February 19, 2026 | Thursday | AMGPT for Additive Manufacturing |
| 13 | February 24, 2026 | Tuesday | Design Automation and CAD Integration |
| 14 | February 26, 2026 | Thursday | Manufacturing Process Control Agent |
| - | March 3, 2026 | Tuesday | Spring Break |
| - | March 5, 2026 | Thursday | Spring Break |
| 15 | March 10, 2026 | Tuesday | Vector Databases and LLMs |
| 16 | March 12, 2026 | Thursday | Coding and Simulation Assistants |
| 17 | March 17, 2026 | Tuesday | Agentic Alloy Evaluation |
| 18 | March 19, 2026 | Thursday | Scientific Reasoning with LLMs |
| 19 | March 24, 2026 | Tuesday | Agent Safety, Bias and Guardrails |
| 20 | March 26, 2026 | Thursday | VLM and Multimodal Agents |
| 21 | March 31, 2026 | Tuesday | AI Agents for Robotics |
| 22 | April 2, 2026 | Thursday | AI Agents for Material/Molecule Discovery |
| 23 | April 7, 2026 | Tuesday | AI Agents for Computational Fluid Dynamics and Finite Element Analysis |
| - | April 9, 2026 | Thursday | Carnival |
| 24 | April 14, 2026 | Tuesday | AI Agents for Massive Document Processing |
| 25 | April 16, 2026 | Thursday | AI Agent Workshop (Langchain, CrewAI, MCP, etc.) |
| 26 | April 21, 2026 | Tuesday | Project Presentations #1 |
| 27 | April 23, 2026 | Thursday | Project Presentations #2 |
Note: Office hours and TA logistics information can be found on the Home page. Check Piazza for any updates to the schedule.