IAP 2015 Activities by Category - Engineering: Hands-on

Hands-On Aerospace

	Jan/15	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	MIT Museum, Meet 12:45 at 33-116 or 1pm at Museum
	Jan/16	Fri	01:00PM-04:00PM	MIT Museum, Meet 1pm at MIT Museum

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session

 Due to the popularity of the program, the Friday session has been added.  The Thursday session is full.

Come explore the Apollo program behind the scenes at the MIT Museum!

Examine artificacts directly (yes, hands-on!) and guess their function.  See special footage to learn about the Apollo Guidance Computer, the MIT space program in the 1960s, and MIT's contributions to the Apollo program.

Please sign up in advance for this session.

 

[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 12-16.  Participants welcome at individual sessions, priority may be given to registered 16.680 class members and undergraduates.  See Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Naomi Schurr, (310)561-0286, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu

Naomi Schurr

Jan/12

Mon

01:00PM-04:00PM

33-116

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up requested, some walk-in spots may be available
Sign-up by 01/07

Learn from the MIT Design/Build/Fly (DBF) team about basic aerodynamics, weight and balance, and modeling techniques. Then apply them in a competition to design and build the best balsa wood glider. May the best glider win! (MIT DBF competes in the international AIAA/Cessna/Raytheon DBF Competition, using state-of-the-art techniques to design and build high-performance remote-controlled aircraft.)

[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 12-16.  Participants welcome at individual sessions, priority may be given to registered class members and undergraduates.  See Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Naomi Schurr, (310) 561-0286, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu

Grace Leslie, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Media Lab

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This project-based course will provide students with a basic understanding of neurofeedback and brain-computer interface systems using EEG (electroencephalography).  Lectures will cover the design of brain-computer interface (BCI) systems, an introduction to EEG sensing and analysis, and creative and assistive applications of BCI, including a historical overview of systems designed by doctors, scientists, musicians, and artists. Students from complementary disciplines will be assigned to small groups for hands-on development projects working towards the creation of a new BCI concept using a commercially available dry-electrode EEG. Students with experience in cognitive science, computer programming, and/or real-time digital music or video software are encouraged to join.

 

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences, MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Grace Leslie, E14-348D, 617 452-5736, GLESLIE@MIT.EDU

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	Jan/07	Wed	09:00AM-12:00PM	E15-341
	Jan/09	Fri	09:00AM-12:00PM	E15-341
	Jan/12	Mon	09:00AM-12:00PM	E15-341
	Jan/14	Wed	09:00AM-12:00PM	E15-341
	Jan/16	Fri	09:00AM-12:00PM	E15-341
	Jan/21	Wed	09:00AM-12:00PM	E15-341

Grace Leslie - Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Media Lab

Danielle Class, Patrick Kane, Mike Daly, Craig Cheney, Steven Leeb

	Jan/27	Tue	10:00AM-05:00PM	38-501
	Jan/28	Wed	10:00AM-05:00PM	38-501

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Programming, circuits, and soldering experience helpful

Students will compete in a Programmable System on a Chip (PSoC) design competition using Cypress CY8CKIT-042-BLE PSoC 4Pioneer Bluetooth Low Energy  development kit and one PSoC 4 CY8CKIT-049. PSoC 4 BLE is a programmable device with an ARM Cortex M0, programmable digital and analog blocks and a BLE radio all on a single chip!  The goal of the competition is to design a Drivebot that can be remote controlled using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol. If you have an iPhone 4 or newer or an Android device, BLE is already built into it.

The first session will be a combination of lecture and hands on labs that will introduce the students to PSoC 4 and its design environment PSoC Creator and an introduction to the Drivebot.

The second session will be hands on “hacker” day building your Drivebot.  Each student will have 5 minutes to present their version of the solution.

Space will be limited. To apply, please e-mail your full name, MIT class year and major, and your MIT e-mail address to iap-psoc@mit.edu. We’ll let you know after January 10th if you’ve got a spot in the class.

http://web.mit.edu/cdev2

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Danielle Class, iap-psoc@mit.edu

Bradley Perry

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 42 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: See Course Description

Are you interested in building and testing your own phased array radar system? MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a unique course in the design, fabrication, and test of a laptop-based phased array radar sensor capable of imaging moving targets in real-time, like a ‘radar video camera’. This course will appeal to anyone interested in the following: electronics, amateur radio, physics, electromagnetics, or phased array systems. Teams of three will make a phased array radar system and attend four sessions spanning topics from fundamentals of radar to digital beamforming. You will bring your radar into the field and perform imaging of moving targets around campus. Imaging unusual targets is encouraged; a final radar video competition will determine the most creative radar imagery.    

Laptop computer running Windows, Mac OS, or Linux. Other versions of Unix should work but have not been tested. At least one available USB port.  Matlab 2009b or later (The Instrumentation Control Toolbox for Matlab is strongly encouraged)

*This work is sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract #FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.

Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Dr. Bradley Perry, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, radar.course@ll.mit.edu

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Build a Small Phased Array Radar System

	Jan/09	Fri	01:00PM-03:00PM	4-153
	Jan/12	Mon	01:00PM-03:00PM	4-153
	Jan/14	Wed	01:00PM-03:30PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/16	Fri	01:00PM-03:30PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/21	Wed	01:00PM-03:30PM	TBD

IMPORTANT:

Some sessions held at Beaver Works @ 300 Technology Square, 2nd Floor

Laptop computer running Windows, Mac OS, or Linux. Other versions of Unix should work but have not been tested. At least one available USB port.  Matlab 2009b or later (The Instrumentation Control Toolbox for Matlab is strongly encouraged)

 

Bradley Perry, Todd Levy, Patrick Bell, Jeffrey Herd, Shakti Davis, Ken Kolodziej, Nicholas O'Donoughue

Patrick Bell

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 42 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: See Course Description

Are you interested in building and testing your own imaging radar system? MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a course in design, fabrication, and test of a laptop-based radar capable of forming Doppler, range, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. This course will appeal to anyone interested in the following: electronics, amateur radio, physics, or electromagnetics. Teams of three will receive a radar kit and will attend four sessions spanning topics from fundamentals of radar to SAR imaging. Experiments will be performed as the radar kit is implemented. You will bring your radar into the field and perform experiments such as measuring the speed of passing cars or plotting the range of moving targets. A final SAR imaging contest will test your ability to form a detailed and creative SAR image of a target scene of your choice. The best image wins.

Laptop computer running Windows, Mac OS, or Linux. Other versions of Unix should work but have not been tested. At least one available USB port.  Matlab 2009b or later (The Instrumentation Control Toolbox for Matlab is strongly encouraged)

*This work is sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract FA8721-05-C-0002.  Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the author and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.

Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Patrick Bell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, radar.course@ll.mit.edu

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Build a Small Radar System

	Jan/09	Fri	10:00AM-12:00PM	4-153
	Jan/12	Mon	10:00AM-12:00PM	4-153
	Jan/14	Wed	09:30AM-12:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/16	Fri	09:30AM-12:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/21	Wed	09:30AM-12:00PM	TBD

IMPORTANT:

Some sessions will be held at Beaver Works @ 300 Technology Square, 2nd Floor

Laptop computer running Windows, Mac OS, or Linux. Other versions of Unix should work but have not been tested. At least one available USB port.  Matlab 2009b or later (The Instrumentation Control Toolbox for Matlab is strongly encouraged)

Patrick Bell, Shakti Davis, Alan Fenn, Brad Perry, Ken Kolodziej, John Meklenburg, Jeff Herd

Daniel Frey, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

	Jan/07	Wed	08:00AM-11:00AM	IDC Building N-52
	Jan/09	Fri	08:00AM-11:00AM	IDC Building N-52
	Jan/12	Mon	08:00AM-11:00AM	IDC Building N-52
	Jan/14	Wed	08:00AM-11:00AM	IDC Building N-52
	Jan/16	Fri	08:00AM-11:00AM	IDC Building N-52
	Jan/21	Wed	08:00AM-11:00AM	IDC Building N-52

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/30
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This course involves designing, building, and flying radio controlled fixed wing aircraft. Students will learn how to:

• Recognize and recall alternative configurations of fixed wing aircraft; 
• Estimate/predict performance, stability, and controllability of fixed wing aircraft;
• Generate and implement details of a design including structure, propulsion, and control surfaces;
• Evaluate and implement options for fabrication including at least laser cutting of balsa, wire cutting of foam, three dimensional printing, and covering.

Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering, MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Daniel Frey, 3-449D, (617) 324-6133, danfrey@mit.edu

Yaniv Turgeman, MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Mariana Matus, MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics

Jan/15

Thu

06:00PM-09:00PM

NE47-189

Enrollment: Fill in google form to register.
Limited to 18 participants

Do you want to engineer new technologies for personalized microbiome medicine? Today, designers, engineers and biologists are working together to create new approaches to health and medicine!

In a three-hour workshop led by members of the new MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics (MBIT), we will explore ideas for new technologies and approaches to answer questions such as: What can the microbiome tell us about how diet and daily activity impact our health? Can we engineer our microbiome to understand and treat disease? What technologies can we design to help us continuously monitor our well being through the microbiome?

Join us for an evening of discussion on the current challenges in microbial engineering and technology, and a chance to discover new ideas and share your own. Learn about the state of the art in microbiome engineering at the MBIT center, meet and connect with the researchers, and find out about new opportunities to collaborate in technology development. 

5:45 - 6 pm / Pizza and snacks.

6 - 7 pm / Presentation: Human microbiome trends, technologies and current challenges.

7 - 8 pm / Breakout session: Brainstorm solutions to major technological challenges in microbiome analytics, informatics and therapeutics.

8 - 9 pm / Pitch session: Share your ideas and get feedback. Promising ideas will be further explored in collaboration with researchers at the MBIT!

Attendance is limited to 18 participants, please fill in this google form to register. 

 

Sponsor(s): Biological Engineering
Contact: Yaniv Turgeman, NE47-311, 617-955-7117, turgeman@mit.edu

Caitlin Mueller, Assistant Professor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This workshop explores the world of structural ice shells, inspired by Swiss engineer and designer Heinz Isler (1926-2009).  We will start by researching and designing ice/fabric forms and the methods for making them, and will then spend the second day building formwork and rigging systems.  On the final day, we will construct an outdoor landscape of frozen structures and share the work with friends and colleagues in a public exhibition.

Geared mainly toward undergraduates in courses 1 and 4 but open to all.

** Please sign up here to enroll. **

Sponsor(s): Architecture
Contact: Caitlin Mueller, Assistant Professor, 5-421, 617-324-6236, caitlinm@mit.edu

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Session 1 of 5

Jan/12

Mon

12:30PM-06:00PM

9-255

Caitlin Mueller - Assistant Professor

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Session 2 of 5

Jan/13

Tue

12:30PM-06:00PM

9-255

Caitlin Mueller - Assistant Professor

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Session 3 of 5

Jan/14

Wed

12:30PM-06:00PM

9-255

Caitlin Mueller - Assistant Professor

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Session 4 of 5

Jan/15

Thu

12:30PM-06:00PM

9-255

Caitlin Mueller - Assistant Professor

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Session 5 of 5

Jan/16

Fri

12:30PM-06:00PM

9-255 & outdoors TBD

Caitlin Mueller - Assistant Professor

Fatima Hussain

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/06
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Attention Freshmen!

Introducing the IAP Freshman Mini-UROP Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering!

Are you a freshman interested in Course 1, but unsure about what it has to offer? Want to learn about some of the most applicable research to today's sustainable challenges?  From transportation networks to biological materials, and environmental remediation to microbial evolution, Course 1 is one of the most diverse majors at MIT.

This IAP, graduate students in Course 1 have put together a set of mini-UROP projects to give you a taste of the broad range of research, all related to real-world environmental and societal problems. The program will pair interested freshmen with a Course 1 graduate student or post-doc to complete a mini-research project. It will also pair research activities with weekly social events to introduce freshmen to the Course 1 community and the research of their fellow mini-UROP participants.  The program will last for the entire duration of IAP.

Interested?  Fill out the survey below and become a part of the CEE Freshman Mini-UROP Program!

http://goo.gl/forms/vnjFxS7PTR

We will be hosting an event on Friday, December 5th, that will give an overview of each project offered.  You will also get the opportunity to meet the grad students and/or postdocs leading the projects.  The deadline to confirm is December 6th.  Three units of credit are offered for this program.  In order to receive credit you must register for 1.S991.

Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact: Stephanie Bright, 1-290, 617 253-9723, SBRIGHT@MIT.EDU

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IAP Kick-off lunch

Jan/05

Mon

12:00PM-02:00PM

1-131

Kick-off event.  Meet fellow students and reconnect with research mentors.

Fatima Hussain

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Friday Social/Chalk Talk

	Jan/09	Fri	12:00PM-02:00PM	1-131
	Jan/16	Fri	12:00PM-02:00PM	48-316
	Jan/23	Fri	12:00PM-02:00PM	1-131
	Jan/30	Fri	12:00PM-02:00PM	48-316

Weekly lunches will be held on Fridays during the program to both socialize and discuss research, with the final date, January 30th, being an end of IAP party.

Fatima Hussain

Hands-On Aerospace

Jan/16

Fri

11:00AM-11:30AM

MIT Gas Turbine Lab, sign up in advance for mtg instructions, or call

Enrollment: Enrollment may be limited to 15, advance sign-up requested

Come get to know MIT's Gas Turbine Laboratory (GTL) by coming on a tour!  The GTL has had a worldwide reputation for research and teaching at the forefront of gas turbine technology for over 50 years.

The research at the GTL is focused on advanced propulsion systems and turbomachinery with activities in computational, theoretical, and experimental study of: (1) loss mechanisms and unsteady flows in turbomachines, (2) compression system stability and active control, (3) heat transfer in turbine blading, (4) gas turbine engine noise reduction and aero-acoustics, (5) pollutant emissions and community noise, and (6) MEMS-based high-power-density engines.

See http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/labs/gtl/ for more information about the Gas Turbine Lab.

[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 12-16.  Participants welcome at individual sessions, priority may be given to registered 16.680 class members and undergraduates.  See Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Naomi Schurr, 310-561-0286, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu

Tal Achituv, Media Lab / Fluid Interfaces, Nancy Holtzman, RN BSN IBCLC RLC CPN, Naomi Bar-Yam, Executive Director at Mothers' Milk Bank Northeast

Jan/06

Tue

02:00PM-05:00PM

E14-TBD

Enrollment: Please sign up in advance so we can prepare. Walk-ins welcome pending space
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 30 participants

Want to create some hacks that might save the lives of newborn babies?

Like blood-banks, maternal milk banks provide essential services to save lives and improve outcomes for newborn babies. This IAP session will introduce participants to critical design challenges in infant care through partnership with Mothers' Milk Bank Northeast, a non-profit organization that provides essential services to families, babies and hospitals. Participants will work in teams to come up with better ways of bottling milk, pasteurizing milk, controlling and measuring various aspects of the milk storage, connecting donors and receivers with an iOS/Android app, and other creative applications. Throughout the process, we will be supporting teams to research the problem space, hear from end-users and stakeholders, and learn about the latest science in neonatal health care and how that might be creatively translated into engineering and design applications.

During the first session we will form teams, and define projects. Teams will be be assigned mentors who will help the team realize their project. Mentors will meet with their teams on a schedule to be determined individually. 

Field trips to the milk bank (in Newton, MA) can be arranged for interested teams.

Example project ideas will be provided, though creativity is encouraged.

Register here: http://goo.gl/forms/sykWh6wwpZ

Contact: Tal Achituv, E14-548, 917-512-5060, ACHITUV@MIT.EDU

Andy Lippman, Associate Director, MIT Media Lab, Tal Achituv, Media Lab / Fluid Interfaces

	Jan/08	Thu	10:00AM-03:00PM	E14-674, Bring your laptop [optional]
	Jan/20	Tue	10:00AM-03:00PM	E14-674, Bring your laptop [optional]

Enrollment: Advance sign-up required, preference to Media Lab students and W1MX members
Sign-up by 01/20
Limited to 35 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session

NOTICE:

1) Event runs 10am - 3pm with the option to stay later and continue hacking.
2) If you can only attend a portion, please still come.
3) Each day is standalone, attending both (8th and 20th) is also an option - but then please register twice.

Recent developments in Software & Hardware for SDR (Software Defined Radio) combined with decreasing costs of devices enables many interesting possibilities.
 
Think about what our projects would look like without microcontrollers, and imagine the possibilities for future projects with easily programmable RF equipment (for both Rx and Tx).

We will introduce RF basics, and overview some of the hardware devices currently on the market, as well as hack some projects on GnuRadio.

We will build FM receivers/transmitters, and look into programming our own GnuRadio Blocks.

If you've heard of the ISEE-3 Reboot project, the work there was done using GnuRadio and USRPs. (see: http://spacecollege.org/isee3/)

There is no activity fee. Bringing a laptop is recommended.
Register here: http://goo.gl/forms/aJ9qVovPqJ 

If you have questions or project ideas please e-mail tal@media.mit.edu

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Tal Achituv, E14-548, 917-512-5060, ACHITUV@MIT.EDU

Naomi Schurr

	Jan/12	Mon	10:00AM-12:00PM	33-116, Intro to aerodynamics and flight, Wind Tunnel Tour
	Jan/12	Mon	01:00PM-04:00PM	33-116, Hands-On with Design/Build/Fly! Balsa Wood Gliders
	Jan/13	Tue	10:00AM-12:00PM	33-116, Intro to propulsion, hands-on with structures
	Jan/13	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	33-116, Hands-On with Rocket Team!
	Jan/14	Wed	10:00AM-12:00PM	33-116, Intro to controls, UAVs and Space Systems Lab tour
	Jan/14	Wed	01:00PM-04:00PM	33-116, Hands-On with UAV Team!
	Jan/15	Thu	10:00AM-12:00PM	33-116, Man Vehicle Lab tour, Fixing Hubble talk
	Jan/15	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	Meet at MIT Museum, Apollo: Behind the Scenes at the MIT Museum
	Jan/16	Fri	10:00AM-12:00PM	Stata by D-elevators, Robotics and Gas Turbine Lab tours
	Jan/16	Fri	01:00PM-04:00PM	33-116, Student Presentations

Enrollment: Most sessions not limited. Advance sign-up requested but not required.
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none

Ever wanted to build a plane / rocket / satellite? Interested in programming unmanned robots? Excited about learning and presenting new ideas? Come explore the fun side of AeroAstro by jumping right in! “Hands-On Aerospace” is a workshop designed to show how diverse AeroAstro can be through practical, hands-on activities and demos.  In this course, you will interact with awesome professors, tour research labs and facilities, and design/build real systems in hands-on activities with Rocket Team, UAV Team, and Design/Build/Fly. Not only will this workshop show you the practical applications of AeroAstro, you will help pass knowledge on to future generations by creating a presentation that can be used as instructional material for outreach activities at high schools and middle schools.

Participation in the full program is recommended, but attendees are also welcome at individual sessions.  Please contact hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu to sign up.

* See individual listings for the details about each session *

A for-credit (3 unit P/F) version will be offered to undergraduates under subject # 16.680. Check the IAP for-credit listings. Freshmen are particularly encouraged to participate.

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Naomi Schurr, (310)561-0286, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu

Dr. Robert A. Freking

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 24 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: See Course Description

Misjudged as passé art or entertained only as an amusing physical paradox, holography critically encompasses all the essential principles governing propagating wave interactions across every domain of matter and energy.  Yet, surprisingly few in the applied sciences and engineering appreciate how to leverage holographic phenomena in real-world sensing applications.  This course will demystify holography by demonstrating how to gather and interpret 2-D, phase-preserving recordings to recover a hidden, encoded third dimension of information. Course topics progress from basic phenomenology on to specialized applications of holographic techniques in the physical and computational domains.  Participants will practice holography hands-on in the electromagnetic and audio domains through interactive laboratory exercises employing traditional film, computer-generated holography (CGH) and sonic recordings.  Measurement devices, supplies and MATLAB starter code will be provided.

All participants must supply their own laptops with MATLAB installed.

*This work is sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract FA8721-05-C-0002.  Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the author and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.

Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Dr. Robert A. Freking, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, holographycourse@ll.mit.edu

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Hands on Holography

	Jan/05	Mon	01:00PM-05:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/06	Tue	01:00PM-05:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/07	Wed	01:00PM-05:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/08	Thu	01:00PM-05:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/09	Fri	01:00PM-05:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center

IMPORTANT:

All sessions will be held at Beaver Works @ 300 Technology Square, 2nd Floor

Special Meeting Information:  All participants must supply their own laptops with MATLAB installed.

Sanjay Sarma, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ryan Chin, Managing Director, City Science Initiative

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Permission of Instructor

If you are interested in designing and building electric vehicles (EVs), then this IAP class is for you.

 

This hands-on course brings together industry experts, MIT faculty, staff, and students to present the basic building blocks to EVs including: battery systems, electric motors, motor controllers, and the overall vehicle systems integration. Each session will delve into practical engineering issues through interactive presentations by instructors and guest speakers. There will also be working sessions conducted by student mentors. The course will address the following questions:

 

• How to specify batteries, motor controllers, and motors to satisfy vehicle performance and efficiency goals
• How to integrate cooling, electrical, and communications systems that are crucial to the operation of EVs
• How to evaluate technology options
• How to make design decisions related to overall system and subsystem specification and selection

 

Guest speakers include industry experts from Boston-Power, Protean Electric, Sevcon, Ford Motor Company, and Nest. The last session will focus on current market trends, cost challenges, competitive technologies, and future applications including urban mobility, EV infrastructure, energy storage for utilities, and the role of policy and incentives. 

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences, Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Ryan Chin, 617 253-6828, RCHIN@MIT.EDU

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(1) Intro, Batteries, Safety, Tour

Jan/20

Tue

09:00AM-04:00PM

E15-341, Bring your laptop, lunch break at 12-1pm

This session will introduce the goals of the overall course, provide an in-depth understanding of EV battery systems (battery packs, chemistry, battery management systems, etc.), safety guidelines in handling high-voltage battery systems, and provide a hands-on work session. The class will begin in E15-341 and will take a tour of the International Design Center (IDC) after a noon time lunch break.

Michael Lin - PhD Candidate, Sanjay Sarma - Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative, Dylan Erb - PhD Candidate, Roberto Melendez - Student Clubs & Teams Coordinator, Eric Carlson - Senior Fellow, Rick Chamberlain - Chief Technology Officer, Craig Carlson - Consultant, J.R. Linna, Rui Frias

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(2) Controllers, Electric Motors

Jan/22

Thu

09:00AM-12:00PM

E15-341, Bring your laptop

This session will be lead by guest speakers from Sevcon (Controllers) and Protean Motors (Electric Motors). 

Guest Speakers:
Peter Barrass, Sevcon

Chris Hilton, CTO, Protean Electric
Ken Stewart, VP, Business Development, Protean Electric

 

Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative, Craig Carlson - Consultant

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(3) Overall Integration

Jan/27

Tue

09:00AM-12:00PM

E15-341, Bring your laptop

This session will provide an automotive OEM perspective on overall vehicle integration for EVs. Guest speakers will be announced shortly. 

Guest Speakers:

OEM (1) - TBA

Ford Motor Company (2) - TBC

Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative, Craig Carlson - Consultant

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(4) Applications and Markets

Jan/29

Thu

09:00AM-12:00PM

E15-341, Bring your laptop

This session will cover trends and existing/future markets for traditional EVs, new urban vehicles, vehicle-to-grid, second life EV battery re-use, and new markets (e.g., home energy management systems). 

Michael Lin - PhD Candidate, Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative, Craig Carlson - Consultant, Praveen Subramani - Energy Partnerships

Joseph Okor, Instructor

Jan/30

Fri

07:00PM-11:45PM

MITERs

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None

Do you love designing things, or building things or wishing you could build things and could not think of what to build? Do you want to get involved with a startup and you have no ideas to work on or where to start? We have identified a set of problems whose solutions could make a big difference in the World. During the IAP, we hope to find solutions to these problems, and build prototypes. At the end of IAP, we hope to have a big party to show off our prototypes to friends, enemies, potential business partners, etc.

For more information, please visit:

http://abp2015.ananseworks.com/

Contact: Joseph Okor, MITERs (TBD), 561-431-8294, joe.okor@gmail.com

Camilla Brinkman, Edgerton Center Staff, Peter Mui

Jan/24

Sat

12:00PM-03:00PM

N51, 3rd Fl. (D-Lab)

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/23
Prereq: Advance registration: http://goo.gl/qTzh9J

Fix your broken stuff -- Or at least learn more about it disassembling it.

Bring your broken, non-functioning things -- electronics, appliances, computers, toys, etc.-- for assessment, disassembly, and possible repair.

We'll provide workspace, specialty tools, and guidance to help you disassemble and troubleshoot your item. Whether we fix it or not, you'll learn more about how it was manufactured and how it worked. This is a family-friendly event: children are heartily invited!

WHAT: Fixit Clinic XVIII (#97) at MIT

WHEN: Saturday, Jan 24, 2015 12PM-3PM

WHERE: MIT D-Lab, MIT Building N51, 3rd Floor 265 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139  http://d-lab.mit.edu/ 

HOW: Bring: 1) your broken or non-working thing (carry-in only: no oversize items) 2) any tools you already own that might be helpful (e.g. phillips head screwdriver) 3) a digital camera to document the disassembly and what we find inside 4) boxes, bags and/or small containers to organize (and carry away) parts.

Walk-ins always welcome but please register in advance: http://goo.gl/qTzh9J

COST: Free! (but see about Parking below)

WHY: To make friends, learn how things work, spread good cheer and have fun!

PARKING: Weekend parking in MIT’s Albany St. Parking Garage is $5. Limited metered street parking may be available

More into on Fixit Clinic at www.fixitclinic.org

WANNA HELP OTHERS at Fixit Clinic? Email fixitclinic@gmail.com

Sponsor(s): Edgerton Center, D-Lab
Contact: Camilla Brinkman, 10-110 Mezzanine, 4-5807, camillab@mit.edu

Hands-On Aerospace

Jan/16

Fri

10:00AM-11:00AM

Stata by D-elevators, Bldg 32 ground floor, please be prompt.

Enrollment: Enrollment may be limited to 15, advance sign-up requested

The Interactive Robotics Group (IRG) focuses on integrating robots and autonomous systems to work alongside people in time critical and safety critical applications.  We work on the development of algorithms and technologies that allow humans and robots to work together safely and efficiently. From fast scheduling algorithms that enable humans and robots to share workspaces with dynamically changing temporal and spatial constraints, to the study of multi-agent interaction and problem solving, to the analysis of the effects of motion-level robot adaptation on human-robot team fluency, the Interactive Robotics Group's research deals with many aspects of human-robot interaction. The tour of the IRG will feature research videos, posters, a live demonstration of our safety system running on an industrial robot, as well as a demo of human-aware motion planning.

[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 12-16.  Participants welcome at individual sessions, priority may be given to registered 16.680 class members and undergraduates.  See Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Naomi Schurr, (310)561-0286, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu

Brian DeLacey

	Jan/12	Mon	01:00PM-04:00PM	E51-151
	Jan/13	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	E51-151
	Jan/14	Wed	01:00PM-04:00PM	E51-151
	Jan/15	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	E51-151
	Jan/16	Fri	01:00PM-04:00PM	E51-151

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: prior computing or hardware experience

 

The Internet of Things (IoT) will drive $3 Trillion and 30 Billion
Connected "Things" by 2020. As the roots of the internet dig deeper into
hardware and devices all around us, what are the key ingredients to making
this work? In this one week, five session program you'll build your own IoT
device using a 1-GHz BeagleBone Black (BBB) and run the spectrum from IoT
concept to code, finishing with a prototype and device packaging.
Participants completing the course will receive a free IoT Starter Kit,
with a variety of electronic components and sensors, valued at over $100
plus food along the way.

More information at http://www.iotfestival.com/IoTIAP.html

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Brian DeLacey, bdelacey@gmail.com

Hands-On Aerospace

Jan/12

Mon

10:00AM-11:30AM

33-116

Enrollment: Unlimited Enrollment. Advance sign-up requested but not required.

 The Hands-On Aerospace program begins with an introduction to aerodynamics and airplane design with Professor Drela, followed by an introduction to flight testing with Professor Hansman.

[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 12-16.  Participants welcome at individual sessions, priority may be given to registered 16.680 class members and undergraduates.  See Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]

Please note, as the first activity of the series, this activity will start with a brief introduction to the 16.680 Hands-On Aerospace course.

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Naomi Schurr, (310)561-0286, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu

Hands-On Aerospace

Jan/13

Tue

11:00AM-12:00PM

33-116

Enrollment: Enrollment may be limited. Advance sign-up requested but not required.

 Come learn about Materials and Structures, and their application in Aero/Astro, in this introduction by Professor Brian Wardle.  The introduction will be followed by a hands-on activity making composite sandwich panels with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team that demonstrates the strength of related techniques.

[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 12-16.  Participants welcome at individual sessions, priority may be given to registered 16.680 class members and undergraduates.  See Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Naomi Schurr, (310)561-0286, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu

Hands-On Aerospace

Jan/14

Wed

10:00AM-11:30AM

33-116, will walk to Bldg 41 for tour

Enrollment: Enrollment may be limited. Advance sign-up requested but not required.

 

Come learn about control and its applications in aerospace in this introduction by Professor Jonathan How.

The introduction will be followed by a tour of Professor How's Aerospace Controls Laboratory (ACL), which researches topics related to autonomous systems and control design for aircraft, spacecraft, and ground vehicles. Theoretical research is pursued in areas such as: decision making under uncertainty; path planning, activity and task assignment; estimation and navigation; sensor network design; robust control, adaptive control, and model predictive control. A key part of ACL is RAVEN (Real-time indoor AutonomousVehicle test ENvironment), a unique experimental facility that uses a Vicon motion capture sensing to enable rapid prototyping of aerobatic flight controllers for helicopters and aircraft; robust coordination algorithms for multiple helicopters; and vision-based sensing algorithms for indoor flight.

 

[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 12-16.  Participants welcome at individual sessions, priority may be given to registered 16.680 class members and undergraduates.  See Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Naomi Schurr, 310-561-0286, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu

Carolyn Jundzilo-Comer

Jan/14

Wed

01:00PM-03:00PM

1-371

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 25 participants

Drawing Basics that will help you to draw anything.  Did you ever want to sketch something outdoors.  Or walk by an artist and see them drawing and want to try drawing too.  There are basic tools of drawing that will provide you with an approach to drawing that will give you the confidence to draw absolutely anything you see. If drawing seems out of reach to you, this workshop will show you how easy it can be with a few simple instructions on how to approach it.

Basic materials will be provided or bring your own.  Sessions will be January 14 from 1 P.M. to 3 P.M.

Class will be limited to 25. 

Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact: Carolyn Jundzilo-Comer, 1-342, x3-3280, jundzilo@mit.edu

Joseph Okor, Instructor

Jan/12

Mon

03:00PM-06:00PM

Location TBD, This is a week long class offered 3 separate times

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/25
Prereq: None
Fee: $25.00 for purchase printed circuit board (required)

Electronics hardware is getting so cheap that you can now buy a computer the size of half a credit card that can run a full Linux Operating System and thus capable of running most of your desktop Applications, and cost as low as $25. In this class, you learn the skills needed to take advantage of this revolution. The skills include soldering, PCB design and layout, how to fabricate a PCB, imtroduction to distributed systems.

 

This class is week-long and offered 3 separate times during IAP. For time information, please visit:

http://diyelectronics.ananseworks.com/

 

Contact: Joseph Okor, MITERs (TBD), 561-431-8294, joe.okor@gmail.com

Jade Wang, David Caplan, Gavin Lund, John Moores

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None

Free-space laser communication (lasercom) is poised to revolutionize space-based data transmission, by enabling links with higher data rates and longer ranges than are practically achievable with radio-frequency systems. MIT Lincoln Laboratory and NASA recently demonstrated a record-breaking high-data-rate lasercom link, from a spacecraft orbiting the moon to ground stations on Earth, in the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD).

Although we won’t be sending laser beams into space, this class will provide students with hands-on experience designing and building a basic lasercom system. The accompanying lectures will provide an overview of lasercom concepts, lasers and optical components, lasercom-relevant electronics, communication link design, and analog and digital modulation techniques. Students will learn to apply these principles by building their own laser audio communication systems, and will work in teams to compete for a best-project award. 

*This work is sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract #FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.

Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Jade Wang, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, jpwang@ll.mit.edu

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Intro to Lasercom

	Jan/06	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/08	Thu	10:00AM-01:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/13	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/15	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/20	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/22	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center

Jade Wang, David Caplan, Gavin Lund, John Moores

Jeffrey Shapiro, Julius A Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering, Kevin Holman, Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Lab

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Signal analyais (Fourier transforms, etc.) useful

Laser radars, like their microwave counterparts, send out electromagnetic signals and sense properties of their environment by collecting reflections therefrom.  However, because the infrared wavelengths used by laser radars are orders of magnitude shorter than wavelengths employed in microwave radars, the laser systems provide much finer spatial resolution in comparison with microwave systems.  Similarly, the much higher carrier frequency of laser radars, as opposed to microwave radars, provides the former with much larger Doppler shifts upon reflection from a moving object.  Likewise, the much higher bandwidths available to laser radars gives them superior range resolution in comparison with lower bandwidth microwave radars.  All these advantages come with some major differences.  Laser radars employ technologies that are very different from those of microwave radars.  Furthermore, atmospheric propagation effects are far more deleterious at infrared wavelengths than they are at microwave wavelengths.  Thus both microwave and laser radars have different application domains in which one is superior to the other.

Lectures cover the essentials of laser radar technology, the fundamental behaviors of optical propagation and detection relevant to determining laser radar performance, and  examples of state-of-the-art laser radar applications.  Lab sessions provide hands-on experience demonstrating laser radar principles for both direct and coherent detection systems.

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Professor Shapiro, jshaps@mit.edu

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Jan/21

Wed

01:00PM-05:00PM

36-144

Session Description TBD

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Jan/22

Thu

01:00PM-02:00PM

36-144

Session Description TBD

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Jan/28

Wed

01:00PM-05:00PM

36-144

Session Description TBD

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Jan/28

Wed

02:00PM-05:00PM

36-633

Session Description TBD

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Jan/29

Thu

01:00PM-02:00PM

36-144

Session Description TBD

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Jan/29

Thu

02:00PM-05:00PM

36-633

Enrollment will be limited to 10 students, to ensure that everyone has enough time to work with the lab setups.  Prior experience with optics is helpful but not required.   Knowledge of signal analysis ¿ Fourier transforms, etc. ¿ is also useful but not required.   Both undergraduate and graduate students may apply, with   preference given to students majoring in EECS or Physics.

Daniel Frey, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Dane Kouttron, Research Engineer, NRL, Emily Ranken, Officer, IHP - EHS Office

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

All things lithium batteries.

 To register for this class please go to: http://ehs.mit.edu/site/content/iap-course-registration

 

 

Sponsor(s): Edgerton Center, Mechanical Engineering, Environment, Health and Safety Office
Contact: Fabiola Hernandez, N52-496, 617-253-9494, fabiolah@mit.edu

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Day 1

Jan/12

Mon

09:00AM-10:30AM

N52-337

• Understanding and handling lithium batteries
• Designing and maintaining a sound charging station
• Waste management and shipping

Lecture and hands-on session.

Daniel Frey - Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Dane Kouttron - Research Engineer, NRL, Emily Ranken - Officer, IHP - EHS Office

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Day 2

Jan/13

Tue

04:00PM-06:00PM

N51-301

• The Franken-up-grade and assembly (you made a what?!?!)
• How to incorporate lithium batteries into your [you-name-it] and power it.

 

Hands-on session.

Daniel Frey - Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Dane Kouttron - Research Engineer, NRL, Emily Ranken - Officer, IHP - EHS Office

Josh Gordonson, Bilal Ghalib

	Jan/06	Tue	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/08	Thu	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/13	Tue	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/15	Thu	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/20	Tue	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/22	Thu	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/27	Tue	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/29	Thu	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none

30 days - 4 teams - one dream: A planet a little cleaner and a future a little brighter. The world of open source and DIY engineering has the opportunity to make a big difference on sustainability issues. This IAP create something that matters with us by co-designing solutions to real world sustainability challenges with stakeholders within our own communities.

 Fabrication and design support will be offered by educators from Danger!Awesome makerspace who will provide design services to aid your learning. The one month class meets mandatorily once a week with optional design sessions to aid your learning. Students are expected to create open source physical prototypes working together in teams and will come out of the class with a better understanding of sustainability challenges in their backyard and the knowledge that they can do something about it.

 Things you will practice:

- The design thinking methodology

- Rapid manufacturing

- Needs assessment gathering

- Idea propagation

 Things you will gain:

Friends

Portfolio work

Purpose 

There will be a one-hour break from 12-1 pm.

 

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Josh Gordonson, jomg@mit.edu

Tim Mathieu

Jan/27

Tue

10:00AM-12:00PM

(CANCELED)

Enrollment: Advanced Registration Preferred
Prereq: None

In this session, you will learn how to use MATLAB to gain insight into your scientific data. With the MATLAB language, interactive tools, and built-in math functions, you can explore and model your data, build customized analyses, and share your discoveries with others. Through product demonstrations, you will see how to:

• Access data from files and spreadsheets 

• Manage complex and messy data

• Plot data and customize figures

• Perform statistical analysis and fitting

• Generate reports and build apps 

This session is for students, faculty, and researchers who are new to MATLAB. Experienced MATLAB users may also benefit from the session, which features capabilities from recent releases of MATLAB.

About the Presenter
Sean de Wolski joined MathWorks in November 2011 and works as an Applications Engineer supporting MATLAB and Math products. He has a MS and BS in Civil Engineering with a Structural Engineering Focus from the University of Maine. His research focused on developing tools to better characterize microstructural properties of concrete using X-ray Microtomography and image processing.

MathWorks®, Inc. is hosting six sessions, 3 lectures and 3 hands-on workshops, during MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP) 2015.   Attend as many sessions as you like.

Please visit the following URL for more information and to register for these sessions:

http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit_iap15/?refresh=true

Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Tim Mathieu, Tim.Mathieu@mathworks.com

Tim Mathieu

Jan/29

Thu

01:00PM-03:00PM

W31-301

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: Knowledge of MATLAB is nice-to-have, but not necessary.

This workshop will teach you how to use MATLAB to acquire real-world test signals from data acquisition hardware. You will learn how easy it is to use MATLAB as a single environment for data acquisition and analysis. 

We will be using the Data Acquisition Toolbox in this workshop as an example of the complete test and measurement workflow with MATLAB. The workflow is similar for both Data Acquisition and Instrument Control Toolboxes.

Highlights include: 

Use a Digilent Analog Discovery Kit, MATLAB and the Data Acquisition Toolbox to stimulate a device under test and acquire a response

Analyze the acquired data to characterize the device under test

Create a published report of your work 

Build a deployable GUI to share with your colleagues

Note:

We have a limited class size for this workshop. Register now and we will contact you closer to the event to confirm your seat. Necessary software and hardware kits will be made available to attendees for the duration of the workshop.Faculty, staff and graduate students will be given preference as attendees.Knowledge of MATLAB is nice-to-have, but not necessary.

About the Presenters Adam Sifounakis

MathWorks®, Inc. is hosting six sessions, 3 lectures and 3 hands-on workshops, during MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP) 2015.   Attend as many sessions as you like.

Please visit the following URL for more information and to register for these sessions:

http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit_iap15/?refresh=true

 

Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Tim Mathieu, tim.Mathieu@mathworks.com

Tim Mathieu

Jan/27

Tue

01:00PM-05:00PM

(CANCELED)

Enrollment: Advance Registration Preferred
Prereq: None

MATLAB is a high-level language that allows you to quickly perform computation and visualization through easy-to-use programming constructs.

Attendees will learn how to import data from an external file, plot the data over time, then perform some analysis to view the data trends. You’ll learn how to write a MATLAB script and publish it to a format for sharing, such as HTML. You’ll also learn how to write your own MATLAB functions, use flow control, and create loops.

By the end of the session, you’ll have learned to create an application in MATLAB.

Key topics:

Navigating the MATLAB desktop

Working with variables in MATLAB

Calling MATLAB functions

Importing and extracting data

Visualizing data

Conducting computational analysis

Fitting data to a curve

Note:

Attendees must bring a laptop to this hands-on workshop with MATLAB already installed.In advance of the session MathWorks will provide each registrant with a temporary MATLAB license that attendees will be required to install.Please register for the hands-on workshop only if you have 100% certainty of your ability to attend.

Presenter Eoin Moore

MathWorks®, Inc. is hosting six sessions, 3 lectures and 3 hands-on workshops, during MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP) 2015.   Attend as many sessions as you like.

Please visit the following URL for more information and to register for these sessions:

http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit_iap15/?refresh=true

Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Tim Mathieu, tim.Mathieu@mathworks.com

Tim Mathieu

Jan/30

Fri

01:00PM-03:30PM

W31-301

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: Knowledge of MATLAB is nice-to-have, but not necessary.

To address the growing need in curriculum and research for low-cost, easy to use hardware and software environments, Simulink now includes the capability to program low-cost hardware such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, and other platforms. 

The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate how using Simulink to program low-cost hardware can enhance courses in signal processing, computer vision, communications, data acquisition, instrument control, embedded systems, and more, by easily going from theory to practice. 

This workshop uses LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 as the target platform. Participants will develop and test robot control algorithms that access and use standard EV3 sensors and actuators, and automatically generate code to program the robot.

No prior experience with MATLAB or Simulink is necessary.

Note:

We have a limited class size for this workshop. Register now and we will contact you closer to the event to confirm your seat. Necessary software and LEGO EV3 Kits will be made available to attendees for the duration of the workshop.Faculty, staff and graduate students will be given preference as attendees.

 

MathWorks®, Inc. is hosting six sessions, 3 lectures and 3 hands-on workshops, during MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP) 2015.   Attend as many sessions as you like.

Please visit the following URL for more information and to register for these sessions:

http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit_iap15/?refresh=true

Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Tim Mathieu, tim.Mathieu@mathworks.com

Tim Mathieu

Jan/29

Thu

10:00AM-12:00PM

4-163

Enrollment: Advanced Registration Preferred
Prereq: None

MathWorks provides the tools you need in a single environment to acquire, analyze, explore data and automate tasks. Within MATLAB and Simulink you can control and acquire data from plug-in data acquisition boards, test instruments, Web cameras and frame grabbers. 

During this seminar, we will demonstrate some of the latest data acquisition and instrument control capabilities provided by our test and measurement toolboxes. We will show you how to acquire data from external sources, interactively explore it, and perform live visualization and data analysis. We will also show you how to automate your tasks to simplify data collection and analysis. 

Highlights include:

• Communicating with hardware and instruments 

• Acquiring, analyzing and visualizing your test data in one environment 

• Automatically generating reports in MATLAB to share your results

About the Presenters Adam Sifounakis

MathWorks®, Inc. is hosting six sessions, 3 lectures and 3 hands-on workshops, during MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP) 2015.   Attend as many sessions as you like.

Please visit the following URL for more information and to register for these sessions:

http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit_iap15/?refresh=true

 

Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Tim Mathieu, tim.Mathieu@mathworks.com

Tim Mathieu

Jan/30

Fri

10:00AM-12:00PM

4-163

Enrollment: Advanced Registration Preferred
Prereq: None

In this session on simulation, control and automated code generation for the ARDRONE Autonomous Quadcopter, you will be able to see how you can design a Simulink simulation for the ARDRONE and deploy the code onto the ARDRONE hardware. 

Highlights include:

• Building a dynamic multi-domain simulation from Solidworks CAD models

• Design a flight control system using automated PID tuning and system identification

• Generate flight code and deploy to the drone over Wi-Fi with 1-click

About the Presenter
Daren Lee has a Masters in Aerospace Engineering and has been with the Mathworks for past two years working on various hardware-driven demonstrations with MATLAB and Simulink. As a member of the Pilot Engineering group, he looks forward to consulting with customers in topics related to auto-code generation of MATLAB/Simulink algorithms to C/C++ and HDL for model-based design workflows.

 

MathWorks®, Inc. is hosting six sessions, 3 lectures and 3 hands-on workshops, during MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP) 2015.   Attend as many sessions as you like.

Please visit the following URL for more information and to register for these sessions:

http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit_iap15/?refresh=true

Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Tim Mathieu, tim.Mathieu@mathworks.com

Pierce Hayward, Technical Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Opportunity for hands-on personal experience testing materials at your own pace- The lab has four conventional testing machines so that students can get the direct, repetitive experience frequently missing from standard courses. The lab also has an attached machine shop where grips and specimens are made and students will get an introduction to lathe and mill operations.  Students will test provided specimens as an introduction and then make material specimens from stock and extract material from products, something mechanical engineers are called upon to do. Some students may be interested in testing particular materials, such as carabineers, 3D printed parts, ropes, chains, etc; this course can generally accommodate such special testing projects. Routine procedures for handling materials, such as heat treatment, for hardening and strengthening of steels and aluminums are part of the course. Bluing & tempering of strengthened steels is presented, along with hardness as an indicator of presumptive material strength. Comparisons are made among tensile, compression and bending results for determining material properties.

Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Pierce Hayward, 1-307, 617-253-3841, phayward@mit.edu

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	Jan/13	Tue	01:00PM-04:30PM	1-307
	Jan/14	Wed	01:00PM-04:30PM	1-307
	Jan/15	Thu	01:00PM-04:30PM	1-307
	Jan/20	Tue	01:00PM-04:30PM	1-307
	Jan/21	Wed	01:00PM-04:30PM	1-307

Lab will be open with flexible hours if students wish to test materials outside of class times.

Arlene Ducao

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/16
Limited to 16 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

How can urban planners take advantage of the connected technologies that are starting to transform individual data to massively larger scales in time and space? From smartphones to wearables, from social media to quantified self, the aggregation and geo-location of data is becoming a major part of urban studies and planning.

In this workshop, we'll look at how we can design and deploy with some of the most commonly hackable instruments-- microcontrollers, sensors, and phones-- that collect urban data. The workshop should give students the physical computing resources they need to deploy their own small data collection networks. Unique to this class, we'll also consider the political, historical, and social underpinnings of using these sensors in the urban environment.  (The findings from this class will be carried forth to a spring 2015 class at NYU ITP called "The Quantified Self About Town.")

Student Requirements: Interest in electronics and sensors. Experience in building simple circuits is preferred but not required. Please bring an Arduino Starter Pack (or equivalent components) and your laptop to class.

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Arlene Ducao, arlduc@mit.edu

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	Jan/20	Tue	10:00AM-03:00PM	TBA
	Jan/21	Wed	10:00AM-03:00PM	TBA
	Jan/22	Thu	10:00AM-03:00PM	TBA
	Jan/23	Fri	10:00AM-03:00PM	TBA

Arlene Ducao

Hands-On Aerospace

Jan/13

Tue

01:00PM-04:00PM

33-116

Enrollment: Enrollment is limited, advance sign-up requested

 Rockets!

In this 3-hour lab you will get to build your own Estes rocket with the guidance of MIT's Rocket Team! Students will learn about the anatomy of rockets and how they work.  Launch is not included in this workshop, though interested students may have the opportunity to launch the rockets on a separate date (tba).  Enrollment for this workshop is limited.  Please pre-register to ensure that you will be able to participate.

(The MIT Rocket Team is a well established independent student group focused on rocket-related projects ranging from designing and building a custom centrifugal liquid engine, to development of lighter stronger composite airframes. This year, the team will be competing in NASA's University Student Launch Initiative in addition to providing our members with the tools and knowledge to earn amateur rocketry certifications through the National Association of Rocketry.) 

 

[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 12-16.  Participants welcome at individual sessions, but priority may be given to registered 16.680 class members and undergraduates.  See Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Naomi Schurr, (310)561-0286, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu

Scott Pudlewski, Thomas Royster

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: See Course Description

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a course on software defined radio technology with a focus on software based GPS receivers.  Satellite-based navigation and localization has become a part of our everyday lives, and this course will use the familiar GPS system to demonstrate many of the signal processing and wireless receiver techniques required to enable a wireless communication receiver.

Students will work in teams of two to build a GPS receiver using a combination of MATLAB and the USRP2 software defined radio platform.  Concepts such as binary-phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation, code division multiple access (CDMA), and Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) will be introduced in lecture and then demonstrated in software.

* This work is sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the author and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.

Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory, MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Scott Pudlewski, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, scott.pudlewski@ll.mit.edu

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Software Radio

	Jan/13	Tue	10:00AM-04:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/15	Thu	10:00AM-04:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/20	Tue	10:00AM-04:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center
	Jan/22	Thu	10:00AM-04:00PM	NE45-202, Beaverworks Center

Important:  All sessions will be held at Beaverworks (300 Technology Square - 2nd Floor)

Scott Pudlewski, Thomas Royster

Gary Sullivan

Jan/14

Wed

12:00PM-02:00PM

66-110

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 60 participants

The seminar will include pizza. This will be a presentation and hands-on opportunity covering tube handling, cutting and Swagelok tube fitting connections for both liquid and gas handling systems. Participants will walk away with an understanding of the basic principal of regulator operation and selection and the theory of how a regulator works and regulator performance limits. Participants will also develop an understanding of how to construct their own fluid handling and control systems.

Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: Steve Wetzel, 66-466, swetzel@mit.edu

James Cain, Manager - Experimental Learning Environments, ODL

Enrollment: Register at link below
Limited to 85 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

MathWorks at MIT IAP 2015

The MathWorks®, Inc. is hosting six sessions, 3 lectures and 3 hands-on workshops, during MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP) 2015.   All of these sessions are highly interactive, providing you the opportunity to talk directly to the engineers at MathWorks.  Join us to learn how you can use MATLAB and Simulink for technical computing and application development in engineering, math, and science. 

MATLAB is a high-level language that allows you to quickly perform computation and visualization through easy-to-use programming constructs. 

These sessions are on the following dates:

Tuesday, January 27th

Thursday, January 29th

Friday, January 30th

 

Attend as many sessions as you like.

Please visit the following URL for more information and to register for these sessions:

http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit_iap15/?refresh=true

Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Tim Mathieu, tim.Mathieu@mathworks.com

Prof. Paulo Lozano and Iulia Jivanescu 'G

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Time Capsule to Mars is a global endeavour whose purpose is to send a bit of humanity to Mars. The spacecraft will carry photos, videos and other digital media to be preserved for future generations when the next big leap in space travel is achieved.  TC2M intends to be the first student led mission to another planet.  As a joint effort between universities throughout the country, the project brings about a partnership between educational and the professional world.  
 
The scope of the IAP for this project is to assist in developing the systems level requirements for the mission.  Currently the main drivers for success lie in further developing the concepts for communications, power, GNC, and propulsion subsystems engineering. As an example, the communications team would be needed to help determine how often to communicate with DSN and the antenna that would be needed for this, and in the process the team will develop an initial link budget. This work would then feed into the power requirements, GNC development, and propulsion needs.
 
TC2M is not a paper project. It is a CubeSat  project that will be built and sent to Mars in 2017. This is an opportunity for students to make a mark on humanity and be part of a team of elite engineers working on a historic project! The project starts on Friday, January 9, and wraps up at the end of IAP with a presentation to program representatives and other industry members. Meeting times will be decided at the kick-off meeting. 

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Iulia Jivanescu, jiva@mit.edu

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Jan/09

Fri

10:00AM-12:00PM

, Room 37-402, Additional meeting times TBA.

Prof. Paulo Lozano and Iulia Jivanescu 'G, Iulia Jivanescu

Hands-On Aerospace

Jan/14

Wed

01:00PM-04:00PM

33-116

Enrollment: Enrollment may be limited, advance sign-up requested

 

Learn from the MIT Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Team about basic autonomous vehicle design principles and what the UAV industry currently has to offer. Jump right into a team-based design challenge: come up with an autonomous system that can perform a specified set of missions while optimizing cost, robustness and user interface.  May include flight demos, space pending.  (MIT UAV competes in the International Aerial Robotics Competition which challenges its competitors to execute missions that have never been successfully done.)

 

[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 12-16.  Participants welcome at individual sessions, priority may be given to registered 16.680 class members and undergraduates.  See Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Naomi Schurr, (310)561-0286, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu

Jack Whipple, Technical Instructor, D-Lab

	Jan/05	Mon	10:00AM-12:00PM	N52-337, D-Lab Shop
	Jan/05	Mon	02:00PM-04:00PM	N52-337, D-Lab Shop

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/29
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: Introduction to MIT Shop Safety Rules (EHS00485w)

This is a one afternoon class on MIG welding.  This class seeks to train student trainers, so besides learning this stuff, you will be asked to teach it!!!  How about it?!?

Based on proficiency demonstrated at MIG welding,  TIG steel welding classes will be made available.

Based on proficiency demonstrated at TIG steel welding,  TIG aluminium welding classes will be made available.

Proficiency will be evaluated by the instructor, and the evaluation will be based on the projects students develop (not complexity of project but quality of welding).

Let's see how good you get at this!!!!  Can you make it to the next round?!?!?

Sponsor(s): D-Lab, Environment, Health and Safety Office
Contact: Fabiola Hernandez, N52-496, 617-253-9494, fabiolah@mit.edu

Brian DeLacey

Jan/29

Thu

04:00PM-10:00PM

3-270

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 50 participants

This session will start with an overview of the hardware and software
behind WiFi. We'll review the various standards in place and how WiFi
compares to other wireless technologies. We'll discuss WiFi in the context
of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the various wireless technologies used
for connecting to the internet. Security, privacy, and encryption with
wireless technologies will be discussed.

For the hands-on portion, all participants will receive the CC3200
LaunchPad with on-board WiFi. Bring your laptop so you can participate in
an intro to programming this device with the open source Energia platform.
We'll develop several simple programs utilizing WiFi.

All attendees will then participate in a group project to develop a
wireless, multiplayer game that runs over WiFi. The session will end with a
"WiFi Hackathon" to explore the limits and applications of this hardware
and software technology.

Additional details will be provided at
http://www.iotfestival.com/WiFiAndIoT.html

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Sloan School of Management
Contact: Brian DeLacey, bdelacey@gmail.com

Brough Turner, Course 6 Alum, Founder/CTO, netBlazr, Inc.

Jan/13

Tue

11:00AM-12:30PM

32G-449 (Patel Room)

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

MIT was instrumental in launching wireless mesh networking about 15 years ago.  Today the technology is widely used in sensor networks and other distributed and/or low data rate applications, but capacity bottlenecks have limited its use for high-speed wireless Internet access.  All that is about to change.

We’ll discuss how higher frequencies and directional antennas are enabling high capacity wireless networks in urban areas using 5 GHz and 24 GHz unlicensed spectrum and, with this, a new generation of urban, wireless ISPs (including in Boston). But directional antennas require careful aiming – flexibility is gone. The solution: electronic aiming.

We’ll describe an NSF-funded program to design an innovative wireless mesh network node, installable by anyone, that enables low cost, high capacity Internet access.  This consumer device looks like a clear sheet of plastic to hang in a window, but sends and receives highly directional radio beams, steered in software, using a large antenna with electronic beam steering to automatically establish high capacity point-to-point links between buildings. Made with transparent conductive materials, it mounts indoors in a window (avoiding weather, roof access and landlord permissions), requires no aiming, and can automatically re-establish the mesh if a node is removed. 

This dramatically expands the applicability of wireless mesh networks, reducing the cost of community networks and enabling new wireless Internet services.  

 

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Contact: Brough Turner, rbt@alum.mit.edu

Hands-On Aerospace

Jan/12

Mon

11:30AM-12:00PM

WBWT, Bldg 17, Meet promptly at 33-116 at 11:30 am.

Enrollment: Enrollment may be limited, advance sign-up requested

Ever wonder what that big white structure by Building 33 is?  Come explore the Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel on this tour!

Learn about research projects that have been carried out in the wind tunnel, and, if conditions permit, experience the wind when the tunnel is on!

For more than a century, Massachusetts Institute of Technology wind tunnels have proven instrumental tools in the examination of aerospace, architectural, vehicular, sports and other engineering systems.  In addition to the usual force and moment balance system, this 7 X 10-foot elliptical cross-section wind tunnel has the necessary auxiliary equipment for inlet and diffuser testing, gust generation, and production of thick boundary layers to model the earth's boundary layer.

 

[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 12-16.  Participants welcome at individual sessions, priority may be given to registered 16.680 class members and undergraduates.  See Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Naomi Schurr, (310)561-0286, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu