IAP 2015 Activities by Sponsor : Mechanical Engineering

"Horses and Thunder" - Meeting our Energy Needs Through Oil Exploration and Production in the Deepwaters

Ahmed F. Ghoniem, Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor

	Jan/21	Wed	09:00AM-04:00PM	Room 3-333

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

How will we meet our future energy needs, which is heavily dependent on oil?

More and more, oil is discovered and produced offshore and in deeper and deeper water.

How do we know where to drill and how do you actually drill for oil?

What are the enormous engineering challenges in working at 5,000 feet of water or deeper? How do we produce energy safely and efficiently, bring it to shore and ultimately get it to our customers? What are the recent developments in science and engineering that will take us further?

This short course will discuss these and other important energy questions, focusing on gaining better understanding of exploring, drilling, and producing oil and gas in deepwater basins.

Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Lorraine Rabb, 3-343, 617 253-2210, LRABB@MIT.EDU

Design of Fixed Wing Aircraft for Radio Control

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

Essentials of Mechanical Assembly

Daniel Whitney, Sr Research Scientist, Emeritus

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none

This is a non-credit version of a previously offered graduate course 2.875 Mechanical Assemblies: Their Design, Manufacture, and Role in Product Development. This version covers the basic technical content including Key Characteristics, Constraint, Modeling of Assemblies, Variation, and the Datum Flow Chain. Extra lectures on Product Architecture and Assembly Economics are also included. The classes comprise four days with three lectures of 1.5 hours each with the following schedule: 8:30 - 10 am; 10:30 - 12:00; 1:00 - 2:30 pm. Students should sign up by sending an e-mail to dwhitney@mit.edu.

Sponsor(s): Leaders for Global Operations, Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Daniel Whitney c/o Jose Pacheco, (617) 258-5620, dwhitney@mit.edu

Daily class sessions

Jan/20	Tue	08:30AM-02:30PM	3-333
Jan/21	Wed	08:30AM-02:30PM	3-270
Jan/22	Thu	08:30AM-02:30PM	3-333
Jan/23	Fri	08:30AM-02:30PM	3-333

From Innovation To Commercially Viable Products

Afarin Bellisario, Technology Licensing Officer

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

The course consists of 4 independent 2 hour sessions, and will focus on the journey from an innovative concept (or proof of concept) to a commercially viable product. Each session covers an independent part of the process:

Session one is focused on identifying and selecting a target application/market. This session covers concept of commercial viability, and the process of identifying opportunities, the value proposition, pricing, and timing
Session 2: covers concept of markets, size, growth and eco systems,. In this session, we will cover customers, channels, supply chain, as well as market sizing, competition and the role of partnerships and start up revenue and business models. The financial aspects of product and business are also discussed
Session 3, covers role of IP, and its protection in commercialization. The subjects covered include: various types of IP, generation, and protection, A patent attorney will join us for this session
Session 4: Is focused on a variety of commercialization strategies and synthesizing a commercialization strategy for a new technology based and testing various assumptions and scenarios,

All sessions will use real examples from real world products. We may have other mystery guests. Throughout the course we will discuss building of a financial model to determine the viability and test a variety of scenarios. Students are encouraged to bring their own projects to work on.

Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Afarin Bellisario, 617-258-8329, aobell@mit.edu

Sessions 1-4

Jan/08	Thu	10:00AM-12:00PM	1-150
Jan/15	Thu	10:00AM-12:00PM	1-150
Jan/22	Thu	10:00AM-12:00PM	1-150
Jan/29	Thu	10:00AM-12:00PM	1-150

Afarin Bellisario - Technology Licensing Officer

Hands-on Introduction to Atomistic Simulations

Alexander Urban, Postdoctoral Associate (DMSE)

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Participants are required to bring their own laptop computer

With ever increasing computational power at hand, today previously hard-to-study atomic-scale phenomena can be directly simulated based on the laws of physics. Examples range from fundamental physics (e.g., electronic structure of graphene) over computational chemistry (e.g., reaction mechanisms) to predictive materials design (e.g., performance of battery materials). This course will introduce students without any previous experience to the exciting field of atomistic simulations. The course will encompass (i) a general introduction to the subject and to Linux-based computations, (ii) classes covering basic electronic structure theory, common approximate methods such as density-functional theory, and simulation techniques, and (iii) hands-on sessions during which students themselves will perform simulations. All hands-on tutorials will be based on state-of-the-art open-source software, so that examples are reproducible and relevant. No previous expertise will be required to follow the material and hands-on sessions. We especially encourage participation of interested students with background in experimental research areas.

Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Alexander Urban, 13-5026, 617-715-2180, alexurba@mit.edu

Physical Sciences: Hands-on

Jan/05	Mon	03:00PM-05:00PM	13-5101
Jan/06	Tue	03:00PM-05:00PM	13-5101
Jan/07	Wed	03:00PM-05:00PM	13-5101
Jan/08	Thu	03:00PM-05:00PM	13-5101
Jan/09	Fri	03:00PM-05:00PM	13-5101

Nongnuch Artrith - Postdoctoral Associate (MechE), Alexander Urban - Postdoctoral Associate (DMSE)

How to Design Electric Vehicles (EVs)

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

(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

(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

(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

(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

Introduction to Numerical Optimization in Design

Bo Yang Yu, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering

Enrollment: Sign-up highly preferred
Sign-up by 01/04
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

If you are interested in what is optimization and how it can be used in engineering design, or if you need to use optimization tools for your research but find most optimization courses too math intensive, this is the course for you. The goal of this course is to make you comfortable with different types of numerical optimization methods through the use of hands-on MATLAB demos and “just enough” mathematical detail.

This short course consists of four lectures. The first two lectures will cover the role of numerical optimization in engineering design, and introduce commonly used optimization algorithms. The last two will be tutorials on the use of MATLAB for design optimization.

Both graduate and undergraduate students from all disciplines are welcome. Prior knowledge in numerical methods is useful but not necessary. Basic understanding of MATLAB syntax will be necessary to follow the demos

Sign-up form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Zb_EeUXkFAm0X7R-WqGGjRF0kOrUua1UUXTns3ZJeOs/viewform

Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Bo Yang Yu, BYYU@MIT.EDU

Jan/06	Tue	10:00AM-11:30AM	3-370
Jan/07	Wed	10:00AM-11:30AM	3-370
Jan/08	Thu	10:00AM-11:30AM	3-370
Jan/09	Fri	10:00AM-11:30AM	3-370

Bo Yang Yu - Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering

LabVIEW Boot Camp

Andrew Watchorn, Academic Curriculum Specialist

Jan/26	Mon	09:00AM-05:00PM	1-190, Bring your laptop
Jan/27	Tue	09:00AM-05:00PM	1-190, Bring your laptop
Jan/28	Wed	09:00AM-05:00PM	1-190, Bring your laptop
Jan/29	Thu	09:00AM-05:00PM	1-190, Bring your laptop
Jan/30	Fri	09:00AM-05:00PM	1-190, Bring your laptop

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None, but basic programming skills helpful. LAPTOP REQUIRED

If you’re new to programming with LabVIEW or looking to improve your existing skills, the LabVIEW Boot Camp is a free hands-on course that introduces you to graphical programming with LabVIEW system design software. You’ll learn fundamental skills to develop data acquisition, instrument control, data logging and measurement analysis applications as well as have an opportunity to take the Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) exam, a globally recognized entry-level certification exam, for free.

To reserve your seat and view more details, visit this site.

Who Should Attend
Graduate students, researchers, and educators seeking an introduction to LabVIEW system design software should enroll in this class. Undergraduate students who are interested in attending should email to check for space availability.

Requirements: You must have LabVIEW 2014 installed on a laptop and able to be run before you come to the activity:

1. Download and install LabVIEW from this link.
(click the “See Download options” and choose “Professor or Student?”
2. Download and install NI-DAQmx 9.6 from this link.
(IMPORTANT: Install LabVIEW first)
3. Go the link below and review “Developer Zone Tutorial: LabVIEW Core 1 - The Software Development Method” and “Developer Zone Tutorial: Introduction to Data Acquisition”. You can do this while LabVIEW and NI-DAQmx are downloading and installing. This should take you 30-60 minutes.

Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Andrew Watchorn, andrew.watchorn@ni.com

Lithium Batteries

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

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

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

(CANCELED) Love and Romance in Ancient India

Shekhar Shastri

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Romantic poetry was considered the supreme form of aesthetics in ancient Indian literature. Strikingly uninhibited in their content and intensity, the works of poets such as Bhartrhari, Kalidasa, and Jayadeva are unparalleled in their sublime expression of love which provide deep insight into ancient Indian society, culture, and relationships in general. In addition, a brief background in Indian aesthetics would be provided to help in understanding the literary works and the sensibilities of the era under study; paintings inspired from the above-mentioned love poetry would be shown and discussed.

Students would be encouraged to create original works on their own deriving inspiration from the works studied in the class. The final session will take place in the Indian Art gallery at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Comments from IAP 2011-14 students:

“ … very engaging and dynamic ... what a wonderful way to learn Indian culture. … drew us in immediately …very stimulating ... beautiful ... moving”

Instructor

Shekhar Shastri is an entrepreneur, poet, and filmmaker and is a Director of Meru Education Foundation, which produces educational programs on the arts and culture of India. He writes poetry and plays in Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, and English. He has produced four films, one of which was nominated for a National award in India.

To register, please email: shastri.shekhar@gmail.com

Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Shekhar Shastri, shastri.shekhar@gmail.com

Jan/15	Thu	07:00PM-09:00PM	TBD
Jan/20	Tue	07:00PM-09:00PM	TBD
Jan/22	Thu	07:00PM-09:00PM	TBD
Jan/27	Tue	07:00PM-09:00PM	TBD

First four classes at MIT. Fifth and final class at MFA, Boston - date TBD.

Mechanical Testing of Engineering Materials

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

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.

IAP 2015 Activities by Sponsor - Mechanical Engineering