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2.670
Mechanical Engineering Tools Martin Culpepper Schedule: TBD Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. No listeners Prereq: Level: U 3 units Graded P/D/F Introduces the fundamentals of machine tools use and fabrication techniques. Students work with a variety of machine tools including the bandsaw, milling machine, and lathe. Mechanical Engineering students are advised to take this subject in the first IAP after declaring their major. Registration limited to Course 2, 2-A, and 2-OE majors. Session sign-up is first-come first-served. MechE students will be emailed when the sessions are open for enrollment. Once open, sign up for a specific section on Stellar. See Stellar for schedule information. Contact: Brandy Baker, brandyb@mit.edu |
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2.980
Head of the Zesiger Cardboard Boat Regatta Head of the Zesiger Cardboard Boat Regatta Cancelled Franz Hover, Jody Mello Tue Jan 7, 14, 21, Thu Jan 23, Sun Jan 26, 03-05:00pm, W35-199, 1/26 at Z-Center Pool Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. No listeners Prereq: Level: U 3 units Graded P/D/F Fee: 5.00 for supplies Students work in teams to design and construct a boat from cardboard and paper tape that is able travel 50-100 yards. Topics covered include historical boat design concepts, hydrodynamic and hydrostatic principles, propulsion systems, and maneuverability. Also covers variables that affect boat design, including volume, weight distribution, stability, static trim and heeling angle, and hull shape. Concludes with a final competition in the Zesiger Center Pool. Entry fee. Limited to 40. Work in teams to design and construct a boat from cardboard and race in the Z-Center Pool. Regatta fee is $5/person. Contact: Jody Mello, jmello@mit.edu |
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2.S790
Graduate Special Subject in Bioengineering Stem Cell Engineering Roger Kamm Tue, Thu, Jan 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30, 02-03:30pm, NE47-342, Course start-end: 1/6-4/25/14 Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. Limited to 15 participants. Prereq: Permission of instructor 7.06, 7.61, other grad molecular/cell biology or permission Level: H 1 units Standard A - F Grading Can be repeated for credit Advanced lecture, seminar or laboratory course consisting of material in the broadly-defined field of bioengineering not offered in regularly scheduled subjects. Can be repeated for credit only for completely different subject matter. Provides a foundation in the application of analytical engineering approaches for the quantitative study of stem cell biology and effective translation of stem cells into therapies and diagnostics. Will provide the conceptual framework for understanding how to identify an appropriate type of stem cell based on desired application(s). This course is part of a curriculum on emergent behaviors of integrated cellular systems. Lectures are provided by live videoconference twice per week (1hr 20 min/lecture). Course is simultaneously taken by students at several universities. Two take-home exams, research project, and in-class presentations will be completed by all students. Students should register for 1 unit of 2.S790 for IAP and 11 units of 2.S790 for Spring Term. The course runs from Jan 6-Apr 25, 2014. Contact: Leslie McClain, lesliemm@mit.edu |
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2.S97
Undergraduate Special Subject in Mechanical Engineering Designing For People Maria Yang, Robin Dahan Schedule: TBD Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. Limited to 18 participants. No listeners Prereq: Level: U 6 units Standard A - F Grading Can be repeated for credit Lecture, seminar or laboratory course consisting of material not offered in regularly scheduled subjects. Can be repeated for credit only for completely different subject matter. 2.S972-2.S974 are graded P/D/F. 2.S97 is a class aimed to immerse students into the field of product design with no prior experience necessary. A series of projects target each aspect of the design process: ideation, user-needs finding, rapid prototyping, graphic design, branding, and presenting. The final project combines all the skills the students learned throughout the course, culminating in a final presentation that is open to the public. We will provide materials for students to create posters and physical models. There will be a combination of individual and group work. Students will walk away with a creative approach to problem solving and a toolbox of skills to help them in their engineering and design classes. The fun yet rigorous approach to the class is meant to inspire a passion for design. There will be 12 days of class, from Monday, January 13 to Wednesday, January 29, 2014. The class will meet for three hours a day plus project work outside of class. Web: http://web.mit.edu/ideation/2.S97/ Contact: 2.s97-2014-staff@mit.ed |
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2.S980
Graduate Special Subject in Mechanical Engineering Splash into Numerical Hydrodynamics Stefano Brizzolara, Giuliano Vernengo, Luca Bonfiglio Tue, Thu, Jan 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 10am-12:30pm, 14-0637 Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. Limited to 10 participants. No listeners Prereq: Permission of instructor and knowledge of Linux O.S. & basic programming will help. Level: H 3 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit Advanced lecture, seminar, or laboratory consisting of material not offered in regularly scheduled subjects. Can be repeated for credit only for completely different subject matter. 2.S980 and 2.S996 are graded P/D/F. Many engineering problems deal with free surface flows. We consider here in particular air/surface flows with a sharp free surface typically found Naval Architecture, Ocean and Hydraulic Engineering. After the theoretical definition of some physical phenomena, we will guide you through the principles of numerical modeling and simulation with two state of the art computational techniques: an unstructured mesh based and a meshless method. Considered cases will attain generation and propagation of waves in deep and shallow water (wave-making, shoaling and breaking) and impact problems of rigid objects in water (slamming). Models will be built on two open source codes: a finite volume solver of RANSE with mixture of fluid method for air/water flows, and a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) method able to exploit GPU capabilities to speed-up the calculation on hundreds of cores. Please sign-up by 12/9/13. Send an email to stebriz@mit.edu to do so. Contact: Stefano Brizzolara, stebriz@mit.edu |
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2.S992
Undergraduate Special Subject in Mechanical Engineering Traditional Naval Architecture Design Jerod Ketcham, Captain Will Sofrin, Harold Burnham Mon Jan 27 thru Fri Jan 31, 08:30am-04:00pm, N51-3rd Fl (D-Lab) Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. Limited to 10 participants. No listeners Prereq: Level: U 3 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit Lecture, seminar or laboratory course consisting of material not offered in regularly scheduled subjects. Can be repeated for credit only for completely different subject matter. 2.S972-2.S974 and 2.S992 are graded P/D/F. This class provides an intense introduction to traditional design methods. You will hand draw the hull lines of N.G. Herreshoff's personal steam yacht Roamer using his original hull shape offsets in the MIT Museum's collections and then carve a wooden half-hull model. Instructors are master draftsman Captain Will Sofrin and master shipwright and designer Harold Burnham (a 2012 NEA National Heritage Fellow): http://boatbuildingwithburnham.blogspot.com. A behind the scenes tour of the Hart Nautical design collections at MIT Museum is part of the class. Please register online through WebSIS: http://student.mit.edu/cgi-docs/student.html. Class limit 10 - to confirm a space you must email kurt@mit.edu. Deadline for registration is 1/20/14. Contact: Kurt Hasselbalch, kurt@mit.edu |