And What would a Course be without a Few Lectures?

For the first few afternoons, you'll get introduced to the course with a few instructive lectures to help prepare you for what you are about to do. Before starting in the lab, you'll learn about organizing a project, about writing long documents (such as group reports and memoranda), about giving talks, about statistics and data analysis, and on safety in the laboratory. Then you'll proceed to your respective laboratory and the fun begins! Course 10.27 includes a few statistics and data analysis lectures to complement the Course 5.310 material.

The topics covered at an introductory level, with the primary goal to make students aware of the techniques that technologists are expected to be able to use. Projects vary considerably in the degree of statistical sophistication required, but students are expected to learn and use techniques appropriate to their specific problem.