Adventures in scanning electron microscopy
Donald Galler
Wed Jan 14, Fri Jan 16, 09am-05:00pm, 4-141
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Attendees must be present for the entire day. 10 per session
The seminar is an introduction to the basic operation of a scanning electron microscope. The operating principles will be covered and the attendees will be trained on the use of the microscope. This is a modern scanning electron microscope with several advanced features: low pressure chamber and computer controlled positioning stage. The SEM is equipped with an energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) system for elemental analysis. Attendees will also be familiarized with the operation and capabilities of the EDS system. Attendees are encouraged to bring samples for exploration.
Contact: Donald Galler, 4-133, x3-4554, dgaller@mit.edu
Sponsor: Materials Science and Engineering
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Build Your Own Loudspeakers
Michael Price, Hayami Arakawa
Tue Jan 6, 06-08:00pm, TBA, Lecture Location TBA
Thu Jan 8, 09-11:00am, W31-031 Hobby Shop, Lecture Location TBA
Tue Jan 13, 09-11:00am, W31-031 Hobby Shop
Tue Jan 13, 06-08:00pm, TBA, Lecture Location TBA
Thu Jan 15, 09-11:00am, W31-031 Hobby Shop, Lecture Location TBA
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 19-Dec-2008
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: MIT student
Fee: 230.00 for Speaker materials and Hobby Shop membership
This class is about how you can apply your own creative skills to engineer impressive audio systems, focusing on the speakers. We will review the important aspects of electronics and acoustics; demonstrate the computerized tools that help design and measure speakers; and explore modern high-fidelity engineering. You will build your own pair of bookshelf speakers (comparable to commercial designs at $500-800) from scratch. The course includes 2 interactive classes (6-8pm)(TBA), and 3 workshops (9-11am) in the Hobby Shop. An additional 10-15 hours of shop time will be needed to complete speakers.
Contact: Hayami Arakawa, W31-031, x3-4343, hayami@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hobby Shop
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Call for Action! Mobile Technologies for Activism
Christopher P. Csikszentmihályi, Nadav Aharony
Tue Jan 20 thru Fri Jan 23, 10am-06:00pm, E15-020
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Dec-2008
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None
Call for Action (CfA) is a 4 day intensive seminar on mobile phones and activism. How can mobile networked devices be used for social change, politics, and expression? Can phones help to organize people, gather information, and enable collective action to stop global warming? organize labor? end a war?
Each day we'll review existing tools for social change, cover techniques for mobile hacking, and piece together new experiments. International speakers ranging from community activists to UNICEF will discuss the problems with existing ICTs, and suggest parameters for new systems. We'll review protocols like VOIP, SMS, and Asterisk to look at how they may be reused or reconfigured.
Web: http://www.media.mit.edu/~csik/cfa
Contact: Csikszentmihályi, e15-020a, csik@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Media Arts & Sciences
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Drafting Lines Plans from N. G. Herreshoff’s Designs
Kurt Hasselbalch, Captain Will Sofrin
Tue Jan 20 thru Fri Jan 23, 10am-03:30pm, N51-160
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 19-Jan-2009
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None
This course in drafting practice teaches a traditional method of creating lines plans. We will use historic design data by N. G. Herrshoff from the Hart Nautical Collections – MIT Museum. NGH graduated from MIT in 1870 and is still considered the worlds greatest yacht designer. You will learn how to translate Herreshoff’s original hull offsets (numerical XYZ hull shape) into a lines plan you keep. Since Herreshoff built boats directly from his offsets, taken from half-hull models (without producing lines plans), you will be creating lines of famous designs that have never been drawn. An in depth tour of the amazing Hart Nautical design collections is part of this course. The instructor is a professional draftsman and graduate of the International Yacht Restoration School in Newport, RI.
Contact: Kurt Hasselbalch, N52-2nd Flr., x3-5942, kurt@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Museum
Cosponsor: Architecture
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Intro to CNC Machining
Seth Hall
Tue, Thu, Jan 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27, 29, 06-09:00pm, W31-031 Hobby Shop
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 08-Jan-2009
Limited to 6 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: MIT student
Fee: 70.00 for Materials and Hobby Shop membership
This course will introduce you to the programming and operation of our new CNC milling machine, and CNC lathe. Basic part design and use of the CAD software for each machine tool will be covered. To learn the CAD packages and operation of the machines, several small projects will be designed and manufactured, after which students will be encouraged design a small project of their own.
All students need to bring a laptop computer to install and run the CAD software. Separate sessions will be scheduled for downloading and testing project programs on the CNC machines.
Contact: Ken Stone, W31-031, x3-4343, kenstone@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hobby Shop
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Introduction to Machine Tools
Mark Belanger
Mon Jan 5 thru Thu Jan 8, 09am-12:00pm, 44-023
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Dec-2008
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, band saw, drill press, and related processes; participants will learn by constructing two simple projects.
Selection is by lottery. To enter lottery, you must contact Mark Belanger before the signup deadline of Dec. 15.
Contact: Mark Belanger, 44-023, x8-7728, mdbelang@mit.edu
Sponsor: Edgerton Center
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Jet Engine Competition: Analysis, Assembly and Operation
Prof. Zoltan Spakovszky, F. Ehrich, G. de Zarraga
Mon-Fri, Jan 5-9, 12-16, 20-23, 26-30, 09am-12:00pm, Room TBA
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Dec-2008
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Unified Engineering (16.003-16.004)
The course gives students a hands-on experience in design modeling and analysis, engine assembly, test bed layout and operation of a small-scale gas turbine jet engine (the JetJoe JJ1200 Mk2 model jet engine kit designed for hobbyists who build jet powered model aircraft). Students are divided into 2 or more teams and supplied with a kit of parts and necessary tools and reference text materials. Teams first establish an aero thermodynamic performance model of the jet engine and estimate the design performance based on geometric information and component performance assumptions. The performance analysis is a competition and each team is asked to provide a performance bid before assembling the jet engine. The jet engine is then tested and the performance measured at the Gas Turbine Laboratory. Winning team will be awarded a prize.
Contact: Prof. Zoltan Spakovszky, 31-265, x3-2196, zolti@mit.edu
Sponsor: Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Learn to Draw Anything
Carolyn Jundzilo-Comer
Thu Jan 15, 22, 01-02:30pm, TBA
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This is basically the drawing course that was taught in the retired subject 1.012, Introduction to Design for Engineers. Learn the rudiments of drawing before CAD was here. With these basic tools, you can draw any subject.
Class will be held in Room 1-371.
Contact: Carolyn Jundzilo-Comer, 1-342, x3-3280, jundzilo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Materials Testing and Data Acquisition
Pierce Hayward
Mon Jan 12, Tue Jan 13, 09am-04:30pm, 1-307
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none
Mon & Tue presentations are 9am-11:30 & 1:30-4:30pm and then use Wed-Fri to test your own materials and or test setups on your own schedules. Grips will be made in shop as appropriate.
Open to anyone, but particularly appropriate for students from 2.001/2.002 where testing has been introduced. The AMP Lab has 4 testing machines; two students will use a machine at a time. Monday will test SAE and metric bolts to understand the functional strengths of common fasteners as presented in the SAE Handbook. Chain testing will fill the remainder of Monday. Tuesday will present desktop testing with laptop computers using LabView with force, displacement & temperature transducers. Thermocouples will be made. Students can leave with a functioning data acquisition system on their computer.
Contact: Pierce Hayward, 1-307, x3-3841, phayward@mit.edu
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering
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Portable Energy and The Virtual Community Center Project
Joseph Okor, Christopher D Wreh II
Mon Jan 12 thru Fri Jan 16, 04-05:00pm, 2-136
Mon Jan 26 thru Fri Jan 30, 03-05:00pm, 2-136
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: None
It is amazing the impact a 1000 Watt-Hour a day energy source can have in the world. We have developed such energy sources based on Wind and Solar technologies. We will be prototyping these devices during the IAP. In addition, we will also be prototyping the following:- 1) Flush Toilet 2) Block Maker 3) Self Powered Internet Access Point.
These technologies can be combined to create a Virtual Community Center that can be located almost any where in the world At this Center, you can take courses, visit a doctor, watch a movie, connect to the Internet, etc.
Web: http://iap2009vcc.ayotsu.com/
Contact: Joseph Okor, 2-136, jkokor@alum.mit.edu
Sponsor: Christopher D Wreh, wreh@mit.edu
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SumoBot Competition
Debora Lui
Wed Jan 28, 10am-05:00pm, MIT Museum
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 60 participants.
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Want to play with robots this IAP but not ready or too busy to commit to 6.270? Then come to the MIT Museum to create a SumoBot! Using the Lego Mindstorm NXT and NXT-G programming environment, teams will work together for one day to create their ultimate fighting machine. Whether you’re a literature major or an electrical engineer, we guarantee that you’ll have a lot to do and tons of fun doing it. Join us on either January 28 to build a robot and compete for special prizes!
Please pre-register for this competition using the contact below. You may either register with a team (of 2-5) or as an individual to be matched to a team at the competition. Enrollment is limited to 12 teams.
Contact: Debora Lui, N52-218B, x3-0528, dlui@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Museum
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Tips and tricks for keeping up with information: Materials Science & Engineering
Angie Locknar
Tue Jan 13, 02-03:00pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
Are you a Materials Science and Engineering grad student getting started on your research? An undergrad doing a UROP in Course 3, or majoring in Course 3? Then this session is for you! Learn about finding, organizing, and keeping up with the literature in materials science and related fields. This is a hands-on session in a computer classroom, but feel free to bring your own laptop.
Contact: Angie Locknar, x3-9320, locknar@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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Tips and tricks for keeping up with information: Mechanical Engineering
Angie Locknar
Wed Jan 21, 02-03:00pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
Are you a Mechanical Engineering grad student getting started on your research? An undergrad doing a UROP in Course 2, or majoring in Course 2? Then this session is for you! Learn about finding, organizing, and keeping up with the literature in mechanical engineering and related fields. This is a hands-on session in a computer classroom, but feel free to bring your own laptop.
Contact: Angie Locknar, x3-9320, locknar@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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