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
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AIChE IAP Student Seminar Series
Brad Olsen
Thu Jan 17, Mon Jan 28, 12-02:00pm, 66-201
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Are you interested in learning about Chemical Engineering or just getting some free lunch over IAP? MIT AIChE, the Course 10 student organization, will be hosting two lunch seminars this January to give students an opportunity to get to know professors and each other. On January 17, we'll have an ice cream party with batch processed liquid nitrogen ice cream as only chemical engineers know how. On January 28, we'll brave the weather and host a winter BBQ (food will be served inside, of course). Freshman undecided about a major should definitely attend.
Contact: Brad Olsen, 66-419, x3-6480, bolsen@mit.edu
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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
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The Consulting Business
C. Michael Mohr
Thu Jan 10, 02-04:00pm, 66-110
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: None
Selling consulting services is a significant business. The consulting business will be described, both joys and problems. Bring your questions.
Contact: C. M. Mohr, 66-305, 253-2015, cmmohr@mit.edu
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