IAP 2015 Activities by Sponsor - Office of Educational Innovation and Technology

Jonathan Hunt, Sr. Education & Sustainability IT Project Manager

Jan/27

Tue

04:00PM-05:15PM

32-155 -> 36-122, Postpone to Feb 3rd at 4pm in 36-122

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

POSTPONED DUE TO BLIZZARD - likely to be held Feb 3rd at 4pm in 36-122

Do you want learn more about 3D printing, rapid fabrication and 'maker spaces'? This joint IS&T and ODLxTalks event will give you an overview of what is happening at MIT as well as a look into how some alums are taking 3D Fabrication out into the world.

We will begin with a crash course on the basics and key concepts by Jonathan Hunt, followed by a series of short examples of its use at MIT from a panel of pioneers active in this area. Nancy Ouyang, Martin Culpepper, Nadya Peek, John Hart and representatives from the Edgerton Center will be sharing presentations and demos. 

After the presentations we will host a panel discussion with Q&A.

 

contact jmhunt@mit.edu to be notified with updated time and location

Sponsor(s): Information Systems & Technology, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Jonathan Hunt, E17-110A, 617 253-0172, JMHUNT@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

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