A CDIO Case Study: Competition Radio Controlled Thermal Sailplanes
Prof. Mark Drela, Col. Pete Young
Fri Jan 11, 10am-12:00pm, 33-116
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: N/A
Competition radio controlled sailplanes will be discussed and analyzed from the perspective of functional requirements, evolution of design, aerodynamics, control avionics, state-of-art composite construction, and flight tactics. A variety of thermal sailplanes will be displayed to illustrate technical points and differing design approaches. Videos will be shown and discussed.
Contact: Col. P. Young, 33-240, x3-5340, pwyoung@mit.edu
Sponsor: Aeronautics and Astronautics
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A Hands-On Introduction to Chemical Engineering
Patrick Doyle, Kenneth Beers
Mon Jan 7, Wed Jan 9, Fri Jan 11, 10-12:00am, 31-068
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 03-Jan-2002
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none
The goal of this class is to give students a fun way to discover some of the concepts that chemical engineers learn and how this translates into the problems we solve. Most of this class will be in the lab where we will design, build, and test microfluidic devices, flexible diffraction gratings and devices for 'printing' molecules. In each case, we will discuss the basic phenomena and how this relates to the field of chemical engineering. Freshmen are especially welcome!
Contact: Patrick Doyle, 66-456, x3-4534, pdoyle@mit.edu
Sponsor: Chemical Engineering
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AutoCAD Basics Through Engineering and Architectural Graphics (CANCELLED)
Wayne Daniels
Tue Jan 8, Thu Jan 10, Tue Jan 15, Thu Jan 17, Tue Jan 22, 02-04:00pm, 1-341, MEETING CANCELLED
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 07-Jan-2002
Limited to 24 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Applications of basic commands and techniques on how to construct basic mechanical drawings using AUTOCAD software. The same application of basic commands will be applied to basic architectural residential floor plans.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/edgerton
Contact: Wayne Daniels, x3-4475, wdaniels@mit.edu
Sponsor: Edgerton Center
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Automatic Differentiation and Automatic Code Generation Techniques for Scientific Computing
Paul I. Barton, John E. Tolsma
Mon-Fri, Jan 7-11, 14-18, 10-11:00am, 66-360, 66-064 from 1-3pm each day-lab
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: See description
An Automatic (or Algorithmic) Differentiation (AD) tool takes a user's model coded in an imperative programming language, and from this automatically generates a new subroutine that will evaluate analytic partial derivative values for this model. The course is intended to be of interest to anyone at the Institute interested in computational science and engineering, and what AD tools can do for them. The theory and implementation of derivative value computation using AD will be covered, and extensions to other applications such as sparsity patterns, discontinuity handling, interval extensions, and convex relaxations. Lectures will be accompanied by electronic classroom sessions where students will get a chance to use the AD tool DAEPACK.
Web: http://yoric.mit.edu/AD
Contact: Paul I. Barton, 66-464, 253-6526, pib@mit.edu
Sponsor: Chemical Engineering
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Boeing 767 Cockpit Systems and Automation
Dr. Chuck Oman (MIT Man Vehicle Lab), Brian Nield (Boeing Commercial Airplane)
Mon Jan 28, Tue Jan 29, Wed Jan 30, 09am-03:00pm, 33-116 (1/28-29), Session of 1/30 is in 33-419.
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 24 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Basic Flight Simulator Instrument Flying Skills (see below).
Are you an aero engineering student, pilot, or serious Microsoft flight simulator user? Want to learn how transport aircraft systems and automation work ? Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group, the MIT Aero/Astro Department and the Microsoft Project I-Campus Flight Simulation Lab are teaming to offer a three-day introduction to Boeing 767 systems and automation, taught from the flight deck perspective. Corresponds to familiarization courses taken by Boeing engineers and pilot trainees. Advance registration and manual reading required. Three days of classroom systems lectures and discussion, followed by afternoon (3-5 PM) and evening (6-8 PM) lab practice sessions using a B767 desktop flight simulator, working in pairs. Topics include guidance and navigation, autopilot, flight management, caution & warning systems, propulsion, APU, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and pressurization systems, normal and abnormal procedures. You don’t have to be a real world pilot, but everyone must demonstrate basic Flight Simulator 2000 instrument flying skills in order to register. Contact simulation lab teaching assistant, Franck Billarant, come to the sim lab, fly FS2000 ATP Lesson 4: Full ILS Approach, 737-400 in order register.
Enrollment is limited to 24 participants.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/flightsimlab/Introduction.htm
Contact: Franck Billarant, 33-017A02, x3-7216, franck@mit.edu
Sponsor: Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Build a Rocket, Solar Car, Race Car, Submarine or Robot!
Kim Vandiver
Thu Jan 10, 04-05:30pm, 4-402
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Come find out more about the clubs and teams sponsored by the Edgerton Center. WE BUILD COOL STUFF. Check out this lineup: Solar Electric Vehicle Team, MIT Battlebots Team, MIT Rocket Team, ORCA (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team), Formula SAE team and MIT FIRST Team. All these teams will be recruiting new members to work during IAP and beyond.
Web: http://web.mit.edgerton/iap02.html
Contact: Amy Fitzgerald, 4-406, x3-7931, amyfitz@mit.edu
Sponsor: Edgerton Center
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Characterization of Materials in a High-Resolution Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
Mike Frongillo
Tue Jan 15 thru Fri Jan 18, 09am-01:00pm, 13-1025
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 07-Jan-2002
Limited to 6 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
A high-resolution SEM will be used to characterize a variety of materials. A brief lecture will be given on the basics of scanning electron microscopy, with primary emphasis on the hands-on operation of the instrument. You may bring your own samples, or samples will be provided for you.
Contact: Mike Frongillo, 13-1034, x3-5092, frong@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Computer Refurbishing
Dan Relihan
Tue Jan 15, 03-06:00pm, TBA
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 10 participants.
Single session event
Have you ever wondered what's inside your computer? Do you want to learn how to rebuild an old computer? This three-hour class will let you take apart old computers, look inside, and learn about how the parts fit together. You should be able to refurbish your own computer by the end of this class. Also, you will receive information about the MIT Used Computer Factory, and how your volunteering could help bridge the digital divide.
This class is aimed toward beginners.
Contact: Janet Lai, (617) 225-8647, janetlai@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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Cyclomerisation: Modular Human-Powered Transport System
Saul Griffith, Eric Wilhelm
Thu Jan 31, Fri Feb 1, 10am-05:00pm, E15-023
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 16-Dec-2001
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: An innate desire to build cool & whacky human-powered transp
Fee: 120.00 for pending underwriting of materials; amount may decrease
Following last year's demand for the printed bike workshop, we are running another, though the format and time required will be a little different. This year we will be building bicycles and other human-powered transport from an industrial modular components catalogue with sundry connectors fabricated on a waterjet. We will build a set of parts that defines an erector set for human-powered transport. Now it's a bicycle, now it's a tricycle, now it's a tandem, now it's a recumbent,.... now its a skootcycleboard....well, you get the picture (see web site). You will learn CAD (Autodesk Inventor), a little about bicycles and possible bicycle geometries, how to use a waterjet, a sandblaster, circular saws, tapping and other hand tools, and perhaps how to anodize. More info on the raw materials at www.8020.net You will need to write a short paragraph about what type of crazy bicycle or human powered device you would build if you had a LEGO-esque modular transport kit. Registration limited to 12-15 people on the merits of your application.
Web: http://www.media.mit.edu/~saul/8020
Contact: Saul Griffith, e15-320M, 253-5554, saul@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Saul T Griffith, E15-429, 617 253-5554, saul@mit.edu
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Designing a User Interface "Age Suit"
Stephen Intille
Thu Jan 10, 17, 24, 04-05:30pm, 1CC, 4th floor, See website for directions
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Interest in designing devices for everyone, young and old
It is challenging to develop human-computer digital and physical interfaces that work for people of all ages. Designs that work well for the elderly, however, are usually easier for everyone to use. We will spend three sessions brainstorming about how to design a "user interface age suit," basing our observations on research we dig up about changes to the human body as it ages. This suit would help a designer in his or twenties experience a user interface from the perspective of someone who is 70 or 80 years old -- when flexibility and visual and auditory sensitivity are diminished. We will start by studying Ford's "Third Age Suit", and then we will consider what we would need to add or change to make a suit for designers of digital and physical interfaces. If we have sufficient interest from participants, we will make a plan to construct our suit for use at MIT.
Web: http://architecture.mit.edu/~intille/iap02/
Contact: Stephen Intille, N51-340, 452-2346, intille@mit.edu
Sponsor: Stephen S Intille, NE18-4FL, 617 253-1721, intille@mit.edu
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Edgerton Center Design Competition
Amy Smith
Thu Jan 17, 04-05:30pm, 4-402
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Win cool prizes! Build cool stuff! Create toys to help autistic students at the Protestant Guild Learning Center. The kick-off for the design competition will be @ 4:00 on January 17th in Room 4-402. Students will have 2 weeks to produce a working prototype in teams of up to 4 people. The Edgerton Center shop and electronic projects lab will be available and materials will be provided. Members of the winning team will receive a Palm Pilot. For more information, contact Amy Smith (mmadinot@mit.edu)
Contact: Amy Smith, 4-406, x8-6844, mmadinot@mit.edu
Sponsor: Edgerton Center
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Feeling Half-Hull? Carve a Tech Dinghy Model
Kurt Hasselbalch, Reuben Smith
Mon Jan 14 thru Fri Jan 18, 09am-01:00pm, woodshop N51-160
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2002
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Fee: 25.00 for Materials Fee
Back by popular demand for this new course, Reuben Smith brings his substantial boat building/restoration experience and down to earth approach in teaching how to use hand tools in translating a lines plan into a beautiful half-hull model. You will make a model which you will keep, and will learn how to use various hand tools and how to keep them sharp. You'll also learn a great deal about the design process. Before the adaptation of scientific design in the late 19th-century, ship and boat builders commonly sculpted the hull shape in the form of a half-hull model. We'll use copies of original plans by MIT Professor George Owen used by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. to build the first group of 43 wooden lapstrake Tech Dinghies built for MIT. [see also lofting class under Engineering: Hands on].
Web: http://web.mit.edu/museum
Contact: Kurt Hasselbalch, N52-233A, x3-5942, kurt@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Museum
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First Annual "I Wanna Be a Cyborg" Hackfest
Rich DeVaul, Josh Weaver, Michael Parduhn, Ed Keyes
Mon-Tue, Jan 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, 28, 03-05:00pm, see web site, Mondays are mandatory
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 04-Jan-2002
Limited to 10 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: C Programming & basic digital electronics. See description.
Come join the cyborg crew at the MIT Media Lab and spend a few weeks designing cool wearable applications. We will provide everything you need to build interactive context-aware tools and toys. Hardware and software provided, bring your futuristic ideas and basic digital design knowledge. Participants need to know C programming and basic digital electronics. Also, familiarity with microcontroller programming and analog sensors are a plus.
Enrollment limited to 10 because of space constraints. Apply via e-mail to MIThril-IAP@media.mit.edu. Write a brief description of your relevant qualifications and one paragraph about why you want to take this class. In the event of over-subscription, we will select the 10 best applications, with preference given to those who apply early. Acceptees notified by e-mail. Check our web page for schedule and details.
Web: http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/IAP
Contact: Rich DeVaul, E15-385, x3-0608, rich@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Media Arts & Sciences
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Glass Blowing
Peter Houk, Brendon Edwards, Helen Lee, Jodi Salerno
Schedule: TBD
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 01-Jan-2002
Limited to 16 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Freshmen and Course 3 majors favored.
Fee: 80.00 for costs of materials such as glass & color.
Experience the interface between materials science, technology, design and art! This studio will familiarize students with hot glass working techniques to make hand-blown vessels, providing a unique interactive experience with glass and refractory materials. Students will obtain hands-on experience with glass working equipment including melting furnace, reheating furnace, and glass working tools. There will be a lottery for this class. For info and to sign up for the lottery, contact phouk@aol.com SEE SCHEDULE AND SIGN-UP LIST ON DOOR OF GLASS LAB 4-003.
Contact: Peter Houk, 4-003, x3-5309, pbhouk@aol.com
Sponsor: Materials Science and Eng
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High-speed Video & Motion Analysis Capabilities at the Edgerton Center
Jim Bales
Wed Jan 16, 09:30am-04:30pm, Mezzanine Lounge
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 03-Jan-2002
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
The Edgerton Center has a range of high-speed imaging equipment available for the MIT Communitiy. Use the newest high-speed video camera in our lab, capable of up to 8,000 images per second. These images can be burned onto a CD as .avi files for later review. The Center also has the latest Midas motion-analysis software package from Xcitex, Inc. This analysis package is designed to take the high-speed files and track objects automatically, calculating location, velocity, and acceleration on a frame-by-frame basis.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/edgerton
Contact: Jim Bales, 4-406, x3-6178, bales@mit.edu
Sponsor: Edgerton Center
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Introduction to Machine Tools
Fred Cote
Mon Jan 7 thru Thu Jan 10, 09-12:00am, 44-023
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 17-Dec-2001
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none
This short 12 hour course introduces the milling machine, metal lathe, and related processes by constructing two simple projects.
Contact: Fred Cote, 44-023, x8-7728, fpcote@mit.edu
Sponsor: Edgerton Center
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Introduction to Surface Analysis
Elisabeth Shaw
Thu Jan 17, 24, 02-05:00pm, 13-2137
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2002
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
A general introduction to several useful techniques for looking at the structure and chemical composition of solid surfaces with a sampling depth of a few atomic layers. We will summarize how each technique works, its strengths and limitations, and some of the research questions these methods help to answer. Methods discussed: Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM).
Contact: Elisabeth Shaw, 13-4149, x3-5045, elshaw@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Introduction to Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
Mike Frongillo
Mon Jan 7 thru Fri Jan 11, 09am-01:00pm, 13-1024
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 30-Dec-2001
Limited to 4 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
The first session consists of a lecture on the basics of transmission electron microscopy and how to align and operate the instrument. The class will be assigned time slots so that each individual will be able to learn how to operate the microscope. You may bring your own samples, or samples will be provided for you. This class is intended for new users of the TEM.
Contact: Mike Frongillo, 13-1034, x3-5092, frong@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Inventors, It's Your Idea - Can You Make It Work?
Doug Carmichael
Wed Jan 23, 02-04:00pm, 5-232
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 07-Jan-2002
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: None
Are you interested in pursuing an idea of your own? This activity will help get you started. You will learn what support is available at the Edgerton Center, including the Spring seminar SP.704 "Turning Ideas into Inventions." You will learn how to apply for UROP funding intended to help students who wish to work on their own inventions and innovations. You will also learn about Lemelson Program support for inventors.
Contact: Doug Carmichael, 5-207, x3-4316, adcarmich@mit.edu
Sponsor: Edgerton Center
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Kinetic Sculptures and Impractical Machines: Playful Invention with New Digital Technologies
Stephanie Hunt, Members of the MIT Media Lab Learning and Epistemology Group
Wed Jan 9, 16, 23, 30, 01-04:00pm, MIT Museum
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Join MIT Museum, a member of the Playful Invention and Exploration Network (llk.media.mit.edu/projects/pie), in using new digital media to explore a different theme each week. Make anything from "dueling banjo" bots to squirting elephants to a venus fly trap. Use the range of inventive objects at the MIT Museum as inspiration for the creation of structures that respond to their environment. Use a newly-released graphics-based version of the Logo programming language, in development at the Media Lab, to program your creations. Weekly themes will be posted on the website listed below.
Web: http://cricket.media.mit.edu/iap2002
Contact: MIT Museum Visitor Services, N-52, 253-5927, museum-programs@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Museum
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Learn the Art of Fair Curves by Lofting the Tech Dinghy
Kurt Hasselbalch, David Corcoran
Tue Jan 15 thru Fri Jan 18, 09am-05:00pm, wood shop N51-160
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2002
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Fee: 15.00 for Material Fee
This new course is a spin-off from the Museum's IAP boat building classes offered the previous two years. Lofting is the ancient art of creating the full-size curves of a hull shape in preparation to creating molds or frames to build a boat or ship. Fifty years ago and more lofting was a necessary skill for all boat builders. With the expanding use of lofting programs (many developed by persons who have never lofted) the skills of using hand and eyes to determine a fair line is a dying art. This is a great course if you wish to have a total understanding of problems and process that are now largely solved in applications. Dave Corcoran is a very experienced traditional wooden boat builder who has lofted and built a wide variety of hull forms including three different N.G. Herreshoff designs. We will use copies of the original plans by MIT Professor George Owen employed by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. to build the first group of 43 wooden lapstrake Tech Dinghies ordered by MIT. [see also our new half-hull model making class under Crafts, Hobbies and do-it-yourself].
Web: http://web.mit.edu/museum
Contact: Kurt Hasselbalch, N 51-233A, x3-5942, kurt@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Museum
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Magnetic Materials for Data Storage
Prof. Caroline A. Ross
Wed Jan 30, 02-04:00pm, 8-119
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: Freshmen especially invited!
Information in hard disks, tapes and magneto-optical disks is stored as magnetization patterns in a thin magnetic layer. We will discuss how information is written and read back from these storage devices, and what magnetic properties are needed to give the optimum performance. We will also compare magnetic storage with other formats such as CD-ROMs and DVDs.
Contact: Prof. Caroline A. Ross, 13-4005, x8-0223, caross@mit.edu
Sponsor: Materials Science and Eng
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Magnetism and Magnetic Property Measurement: Operation of SQUID Magnetometer
Dr.Fangcheng Chou
Fri Jan 25, 10am-12:00pm, 13-2137
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 23-Jan-2002
Single session event
Basics of magnetism of materials and principles of SQUID magnetometer operation will be discussed. The main theme will be how to use the SQUID magnetometer to investigate the magnetism of a wide variety of materials. Will include a demonstration.
Contact: Dr.Fangcheng Chou, 13-3134, x3-0054, fcchou@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Raman and FTIR Spectroscopy and Microspectroscopy at CMSE
Tim McClure
Wed Jan 30, 10am-03:00pm, 13-2137
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 04-Jan-2002
Single session event
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering's Analysis Shared Experimental Facility has Raman and FTIR spectrometers and microscopes available for the use of MIT researchers. There will be presentations on the applications of Raman and FTIR analysis and the various measurement techniques available. As time permits, attendees will be allowed to analyze their own samples with the assistance of an instructor. Advance signup via e-mail.
Contact: Tim McClure, 13-4149, x8-6470, mtim@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Scanning Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis: Theory
Anthony J. Garratt-Reed
Wed Jan 23, Fri Jan 25, Wed Jan 30, Fri Feb 1, 03-04:30pm, 13-2137
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
In parallel with M. Frongillo's hands-on class, "Operation of the Scanning Electron Microscope," this offering will present the essential background knowledge users require to make choices about operating conditions of the SEM, to interpret the results they obtain from the experiments, and to identify any possible artifacts or other spurious details. It will cover operating modes of the SEM; environmental SEM; X-ray analysis in the SEM; characteristics of SEM images; taking advantage of digital imaging techniques; beam damage in the SEM; image resolution; etc. Class is intended for SEM users or potential users, and assumes a basic understanding of an SEM and how it is operated.
Contact: Anthony J. Garratt-Reed, 13-1027, x3-4622, tonygr@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Silly Putty 101
Andy Stein
Tue Jan 15, Thu Jan 17, Tue Jan 22, Thu Jan 24, 01-03:00pm, 1-246
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2002
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: 18.03, 8.01, 8.02
Did you know if you hit silly putty with a hammer, it shatters like a piece of glass, or that it picks up static electricity? This class helps us understand why silly putty has these interesting properties; we'll also have fun seeing what else silly putty can do. We'll use basic math, physics, and chemistry to model silly putty’s behavior and while I may show a few nasty equations, I'll focus on intuition, not grunge math. Understanding silly putty’s behavior has applications to modeling the deformation and flow of other nonlinear fluids such as blood and plastics.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/astein/sillyputty.html
Contact: Andy Stein, 3-466, x8-0649, astein@mit.edu
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering
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The Art and Science of Car Racing
Martin Culpepper, Carlos Hidrovo
Mon-Wed, Fri, Jan 22-23, 25, 28, 30, 1, 04:30-06:30pm, E51-335, See URL for more details.
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Dec-2001
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Basic calculus and physics
This class surveys the fundamental aspects and engineering principles behind car racing. It will look into the role and operation of tires, the general dynamics of car behavior (under-steer, over-steer and neutral-steer) and the different components of the chassis (frame, suspension) and powertrain (engine, transmission) of the car. It will also address other elements and topics like steering and braking systems, data acquisition/telemetry and some aerodynamic fundamentals. Time will also be devoted to racing from the driver’s perspective, as opposed to the designer’s perspective. The last lecture will be a trip to a local go-kart facility.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/hidrovo/www/IAP
Contact: Carlos Hidrovo, 3-461, x2-3076, hidrovo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering
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The Great IAP Paper Airplane Contest
Mark Monroe, Larry Baskett
Thu Jan 31, 01-04:00pm, Johnson 2nd Floor, Johnson Track Infield
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: N/A
Let your imagination take to the air on wings of paper!
Come just for fun or for some serious competition. Hack a plane together on-site or bring some masterpieces with you. See gravity-defying flights, graceful landings, and spectacular crashes! Over $100 worth of prizes will be awarded. Rules are simple: airplanes may be made beforehand or on-site, and anyone may throw the plane (you, a designated thrower, or a judge). Airplanes must be made entirely of paper. Glue and cellophane tape are allowed for adhesive purposes only, not heaped on for for ballast. Paper lamination is acceptable. Aesthetics event special rules are that entries are scored on two equally weighted attributes: 1) appearance, and 2) grace/aerobatics in flight.
Contact: Mark Monroe, mmonroe@mit.edu
Sponsor: Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Thermal Analysis Capability at CMSE
Tim McClure
Wed Jan 23, 01-03:00pm, 13-2137
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 04-Jan-2002
Single session event
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering's Analysis Shared Experimental Facility has an assortment of thermal analysis equipment available for use by MIT researchers. There will be presentations on the applications and various techniques associated with thermal analysis. Advance signup via e-mail.
Contact: Tim McClure, 13-4149, x8-6470, mtim@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Thin Film Deposition
Caroline A. Ross
Thu Jan 31, 02-04:00pm, 8-119
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
Thin films have a wide range of uses, including microelectronic circuits, hard disks, solar cells and many other applications. In this session we will discuss how thin films are made by sputtering, evaporation, electroplating, laser ablation, and other methods, and how the film properties can be controlled by the choice of deposition method. Then we will see some of this equipment in action in the Thin Films Lab in 8-140.
Contact: Caroline A. Ross, 13-4005, x8-0223, caross@mit.edu
Sponsor: Materials Science and Eng
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Transmission Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis: Theory
Anthony J. Garratt-Reed
Wed Jan 9, Fri Jan 11, Wed Jan 16, Fri Jan 18, 03-04:30pm, 13-2137
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
In parallel with M. Frongillo's hands-on class, "Operation of the Transmission Electron Microscope," this offering will present the essential background knowledge TEM users require to make choices about operating conditions, to interpret experimental results, and to identify any possible artifacts or other spurious details. It will cover operating modes of the TEM; differences between a TEM, STEM and SEM; imaging and contrast mechanisms; X-ray analysis in the TEM; taking advantage of digital imaging techniques; beam damage in the TEM; high-resolution imaging, etc. Class is intended for TEM and STEM users or potential users, and assumes a basic understanding of the TEM and how it is operated.
Contact: Anthony J. Garratt-Reed, 13-1027, x3-4622, tonygr@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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