A Jazz Approach to Being an Entrepreneur
Ken Zolot, Senior Lecturer
| Jan/26 | Tue | 03:00PM-05:00PM | E14-633 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
A Jazz Approach to Being an Entrepreneur
Talk and improv with Victor Wooten and Steve Bailey
How is starting a company like jazz improvisation? In more ways than you might think. Come hear Grammy-winning musical icon Victor Wooten, and 6 string fretless bass pioneer and Berklee Bass department chair Steve Bailey, talk about their journey using music as a language for startups.
Contact: Kenneth Zolot, 32-386, 617 253-6481, ZOLOT@MIT.EDU
Adventures in Scanning Electron Microscopy
Donald Galler, Research Engineer
Enrollment: 8 people per session. First come, first serve basis.
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
This class is an introduction to the basic operation of a scanning electron microscope. The basic operating principles will be covered. Attendees will be trained on the use of the microscope.
The microscope is a new JEOL 6610 LV scanning electron microscope (SEM) with several advanced features:
This is a training class but anyone interested in these modern research tools is welcome to attend.
Attendees are encouraged to bring samples for exploration and will operate the microscope as part of the class.
Enrollment limited: Advance sign up required (contact leader by email). 8 people per session. First come, first serve basis.
Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Donald Galler, 4-131BA, 617-253-4554, dgaller@mit.edu
| Jan/20 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 4-141, 1 hour lunch break |
Session Description TBD
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 4-141, 1 hour lunch break |
NA
| Jan/22 | Fri | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 4-141, 1 hour lunch break |
Session Description TBD
Aviation Accident Investigation or Agatha Christie for Engineers
Brian Nield (Boeing Commercial Airplane)
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Spreadsheet Skills (Excel); Some Familiarity with Aviation
Commercial aviation is extremely safe, in part due to knowledge gained from studying accidents. The investigation process and some of the most significant accidents are discussed. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to work with their peers in a small, self-directed, investigative team to solve a realistic (but fictional) aircraft accident mystery. New information on the crash will be given out at each session as you piece together the facts to determine what caused the accident and build recommendations for improving flying safety.
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Liz Zotos, 37-219, x3-7805, zotos@mit.edu
| Jan/12 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 33-319 |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 33-319 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 33-319 |
Biotech Business Information for Engineers
Courtney Crummett, Biosciences Librarian
| Jan/20 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 (DIRC) |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
It's not brain surgery...it's market research. This session will introduce scientists and engineers to business information resources that cover biotechnology industries and markets. We will use realistic examples and hands-on exercises with key resources to demonstrate how to match your ideas and discoveries with the opportunities and realities of the marketplace. Please register for this event.
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU
Build Flying Widgets
Sam Hunter Magee, Manager, Student Arts Programs
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 5 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none
Looking for students to help develop an innovative and unique idea.
As of now, several working prototyopes exist. They need to be refined and more working parts developed.
In short, this is a device that can be attached to objects that will change the objects behavior if used outside its normal parameters. This has large scale implications in many industries.
If you have expertise with accelerometers, gyroscopes, arduinos, simple physics, design, and programming, this is the IAP course for you.
CONTACT: flyingwidgets@gmail.com to sign up.
Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU
| Jan/06 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | W20-42 /START STUDIO, bring your laptop |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | W20-42 /START STUDIO, bring your laptop |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | W20-42 /START STUDIO, bring your laptop |
| Jan/27 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | W20-42 /START STUDIO, bring your laptop |
I can easily rearrange the date and times based on attendees' schedules.
Sam Hunter Magee - Manager, Student Arts Programs
COMSOL Multiphysics 5.2 Bootcamp
Mian Qin
| Jan/07 | Thu | 09:00AM-10:30AM | 66-110, Introduction to COMSOL Multiphysics & Guided Hands |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 10:45AM-12:00PM | 66-110, Build & Run Your COMSOL Apps |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 66-110, Lunch provided by COMSOL |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 66-110, Fluid Flow & Heat Transfer Simulations |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 66-110, Optimization |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 66-110, Low Frequency Electromagnetics Simulations (ACDC) |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 66-110, RF, Microwaves, and Photonics |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 05:00PM-05:30PM | 66-110, Q&A |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Learn multiphysics simulation with COMSOL experts. These lectures are suitable for anyone with an engineering, physics, or science background, who is interested in developing or using COMSOL models and apps. No previous COMSOL experience necessary.
* To receive the trial version before this lecture, please confirm your attendance at:
http://www.comsol.com/events/id/63791/
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: Adrienne Bruno, 66-350, 617 253-4562, BRUNOA@MIT.EDU
Day-Long Design Workshop for Budding Entrepreneurs
Carlos Cardenas, Suzanne Schechtman, Maria Yang, Felice Ling
| Jan/11 | Mon | 09:00AM-04:00PM | 36-153, CANCELLED |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 09:00AM-04:00PM | 36-153, Participants must commit to whole session |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: None
So you’ve got an idea for a startup. What’s next? This workshop will show you how to develop and refine your digital product idea for the real world.
Bring your product or digital product challenge to the workshop. Whether all you’ve got is a vague idea for a product, or you’ve already put together a working prototype – bring it, and we’ll work together on it. Maybe you’re passionate about a specific problem, and you want to see what solutions technology can offer. Or maybe you’re just interested in startups and want to help others with their challenge.
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to use THE MEME Design’s “Idea Engine,” a brainstorming tool designd to help you rethink the relationship between products and users. We’ll break off into teams to work on some of the challenges that workshop attendees (that’s you!) have brought. In tackling these problems, we hope to spur your creative juices and illustrate that creative thinking isn’t just the result of spontaneous inspiration; innovation is often the outcome of otherwise straightforward processes.
Once we’ve settled on some truly innovative ideas, we’ll show you how to take them forward. How do you evaluate ideas, so you know where to spend your time and resources? What should you test for? How do you test it?
Apply at http://goo.gl/forms/vmnnk53pDz. Each session limited to 12 participants. Please show up if you are accepted. Be courteous to your peers on the waitlist, and inform us ASAP if you can’t make it.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Felice Ling, workshop@thememedesign.com
Design of Fixed-Wing Aircraft for Radio Control
Dan Frey, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
| Jan/05 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52 3rd Floor |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52 3rd Floor |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52 3rd Floor |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52 3rd Floor |
| Jan/19 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52 3rd Floor |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52 3rd Floor |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/22
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: No experience necessary. Geared toward beginners.
This course involves designing, building, and flying radio controlled fixed wing aircraft. Students will learn how to:
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Dan Frey, 3-449D, (617) 324-6133, danfrey@mit.edu
Designing Systems for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
Mischa Shattuck, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Staff, Brice MacLaren, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Staff
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/03
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
There are many opportunities to improve the quality of life of those involved in humanitarian crises and disasters through technical advancements. However, it is common for these technical systems to fail due to lack of consideration for the complicated context of the humanitarian space. In this course, an introduction will be provided to the organizations and cultural issues involved in the humanitarian space and the socio-political considerations involved in developing systems in this arena. Attendees will participate in a conceptual design exercise that will bring to light some of the complexities of HADR design. Design concepts will be presented and discussed with evaluators who have had humanitarian field experience.
Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Hayley Reynolds, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 781 981-3309, HAYLEY@LL.MIT.EDU
| Jan/04 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | Beaverworks class |
| Jan/11 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 33-319 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | Beaverworks class |
| Jan/25 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | Beaverworks class, Bring laptop for presentations |
Mischa Shattuck - MIT Lincoln Laboratory Staff, Brice MacLaren - MIT Lincoln Laboratory Staff
Developing internally consistent plans for reducing energy subsidies
Carlos de la Torre, Research Fellow, DUSP
| Jan/29 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:30PM | E62-250 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Prereq: None
A recent study of the IMF published in May 2015 estimated fossil fuel subsidies (including below market prices and untaxed negative indirect impacts) at over 5% of World GDP. Taking as reference the case of fossil fuel subsidies in Malaysia, this activity will (1) review the architecture of one or more energy subsidies (fuel prices, tax incentives in fossil fuels, or both time allowing); (2) develop alternative future architectures based on an envisioned state; (3) select a future architecture more closely aligned with the envisioned state based on a common agreed criteria; and (4) develop an implementation plan for the selected architecture. During this 1.5 hour session, the activity will use lectures and exercises developed in groups to go through the steps outlined above.
This activity has had the support of the Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program (MSCP) at DUSP and the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative in preparing and disseminationg this effort.
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning, Sloan School of Management
Contact: Carlos De La Torre Salcedo, 9-338, 617 253-4510, CDLT@MIT.EDU
Developing Systems for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR)
Dr. Hayley Davison Reynolds, Lincoln Lab Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief Sys
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/28
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
There are many opportunities to improve the quality of life of those involved in humanitarian crises and disasters through technical advancements. However, it is common for these technical systems to fail due to lack of consideration for the complicated context of the humanitarian space. In this course, an introduction will be provided to the organizations and cultural issues involved in the humanitarian space and the socio-political considerations involved in developing systems in this arena. Attendees will participate in a conceptual design exercise that will bring to light some of the complexities of HADR design. Design concepts will be presented and discussed with evaluators who have had humanitarian field experience.
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics, Lincoln Laboratory
Contact: Dr. Hayley Davison Reynolds, hayley@ll.mit.edu
| Jan/04 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | Beaverworks |
| Jan/11 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 33-319 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | Beaverworks |
| Jan/25 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | Beaverworks |
Mischa Shattuck, MPH, and Dr. Brice MacLaren - Lincoln Lab Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief Sys, Dr. Hayley Davison Reynolds - Lincoln Lab Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief Sys
Doctoral Research Seminar on Water Treatment and Purification Technologies
Renee Robins, Executive Director, J-WAFS
| Jan/29 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:30PM | E51-145, Brown bag lunch, snacks provided |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Join us for three doctoral student research presentations and discussion:
Xiao Su, Hatton Lab in ChemE: A principal challenge for water remediation is to target dilute contaminants that are highly toxic, such as pesticides. Many of these pollutants are present in remote agricultural locations, where large-scale purification systems cannot be implemented. Xiao will talk about developing electrochemical separation methods employing redox-mediated separation chemistry. These techniques are particularly attractive due to their modularity, fast kinetics, and integration with renewable energy sources.
Emily Tow, Lienhard Research Group, MechE: Emily conducts research on heat and mass transfer processes in desalination with the goal of reducing energy consumption and improving sustainability. She will discuss the thermodynamics of energy consumption in desalination processes and her research on membrane fouling, a significant operational and energy consumption challenge in desalination plants.
Shreya Dave and Brendan Smith, Grossman Group, DMSE: This combined talk will cover nanoporous membranes as a paradigm shift in filtration technology. Thin film materials are broadly used as desalination membranes for water purification. Brendan will talk about his work on nanoscale membrane innovation. Shreya will address system-level implications using manufacturing and plant-scale models that she is developing to understand the design space for novel materials in reverse osmosis membranes.
Sponsor(s): Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Sec Lab
Contact: Renee Robins, E70-1279, 617 324-6726, RROBINS@MIT.EDU
EC.S02: Applied Innovations through Bicycle Dynamics (AIBD)
Jacob Izraelevitz, Jack Whipple
| Jan/05 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-350 |
| Jan/06 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-350 |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-350 |
| Jan/08 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-350 |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | N51-337 |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-337 |
| Jan/19 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | N51-337 |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-337 |
| Jan/26 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | N51-337 |
| Jan/29 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-337 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
A hands-on introduction to alternative uses of bicycles with an emphasis on dynamics, handling and creativity. The focus of the class is the construction of a creatively engineering pedal powered contraption, past examples include: tank tread bicycle for the snow, swing bike, shopping cart bike etc. MIG welding, basic metal fabrication and bicycle mechanics will be covered. Participants will need to provide a working bike as material for their project, shop supplies and consumables will be provided. Assistance in obtaining a working bike for materials may be available. Lectures will cover bicycle history, power, dynamics and use of bicycle power in the developing world. Participants should budget an additional 20 hours of independent workshop time in addition to the meetings listed. No experience required but we do require copious amounts of enthusiasm and motivation. Fill out this survey https://goo.gl/yP9Qzw if interested.
The Edgerton Center posting is located here: https://edgerton.mit.edu/courses/aibd
Note: This activity is offered for-credit as p/d/f, 3 units.
Sponsor(s): Edgerton Center
Contact: Jacob Izraelevitz, 5-423, jsi@mit.edu
Essentials of Mechanical Assembly
Daniel Whitney, Sr Research Scientist, Emeritus
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual 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. Lunch will be served. Students should sign up by sending an e-mail to assemblies@mit.edu.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Daniel Whitney, dwhitney@mit.edu
| Jan/19 | Tue | 08:30AM-02:30PM | Room 3-270 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 08:30AM-02:30PM | Room 3-270 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 08:30AM-02:30PM | Room 3-270 |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 08:30AM-02:30PM | Room 3-270 |
Daniel Whitney - Sr Research Scientist, Emeritus
From Innovation To Commercially Viable Products
Afarin Bellisario, Technology Licensing Officer
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:30AM-03:30PM | Room 5-217 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 40 participants
This course will focus on the journey from an innovative concept (or proof of concept) to a commercially viable product, and determining commercial viability. The subjects covered include:
We will use real examples from real world products. 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.
Lunch will be provided.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Afarin Bellisario, 617-258-8329, aobell@mit.edu
From Turbines to Tariffs: Technical and Regulatory Issues for Scaling Up Wind Energy
Chiao-ting Li & Michael Davidson, Postdoc & Ph. D
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Date: Jan. 25&26 (10:00am-12:00 noon)
Location: E51-085
In this two-part IAP session, we will discuss the fundamentals of wind energy and how it integrates with electricity systems and regulatory structures. These topics will provide an overview of major issues in scaling up wind energy significantly in existing electricity systems, and then we will present two case studies from our research focusing on challenges and opportunities in China.
Date / Time (Jan.25, 10:00am-12:00noon, 2 hours)
Session #1: Science and engineering of wind energy
Date / Time (Jan.26, 10:00am-12:00noon, 2 hours)
Session #2: Wind energy in political and regulatory context, with China applications
○ 1. Study of technical and institutional causes of wind energy spillage in Northeast China
○ 2. Optimizing wind/coal hybrid bases across northern China
Sponsor(s): Joint Program/Science and Policy of Global Change
Contact: Chiao-ting Li, E19-411, 617-715-5254, ct_li@mit.edu
Hands-on Aerospace
Prof. Leia Stirling, Morrisa Brenner
Enrollment: Most sessions not limited. Advance sign-up requested but not required.
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Ever wanted to build a plane, rocket, or 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 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.
Hands-on Aerospace runs January 11-15. 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: Morrisa Brenner, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu
Hands-on Aerospace: Balsa Wood Glider Competition with MIT Design/Build/Fly
Morrisa Brenner
| Jan/11 | Mon | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 33-419 |
Enrollment: Advance sign-up requested; some walk-in spots may be available.
Sign-up by 01/06
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 11-15. Participants welcome at individual sessions; priority may be given to registered class members and undergraduates. See the Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Morrisa Brenner, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu
Hands-on Aerospace: Interactive Robotics Group Lab Tour
Morrisa Brenner
| Jan/14 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Bldg 37 ground floor, please be prompt. |
Enrollment: Unlimited enrollment. Advance sign-up requested but not required.
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 a live demonstration of our safety system running on an industrial robot, a demo of human-aware motion planning, and an interactive demo of consensus-based control with two mobile robots.
[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 11-15. 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: Morrisa Brenner, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu
Hands-on Aerospace: Intro to Aerodynamics and Airplane Design
Morrisa Brenner
| Jan/12 | Tue | 10:00AM-11:00AM | 33-419 |
Enrollment: Unlimited Enrollment. Advance sign-up requested but not required.
Come learn about Aerodynamics in this introduction by Professor Mark Drela. Professor Drela may also share about some of his research in the Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory.
[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 11-15. 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: Morrisa Brenner, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu
Hands-on Aerospace: Intro to Flight Testing
Morrisa Brenner
| Jan/13 | Wed | 11:30AM-12:00PM | 33-419 |
Enrollment: Unlimited enrollment. Advance sign-up requested but not required.
Intro to Flight Testing
Jan/13 Wed 11:30AM-12:00PM; 33-419
Enrollment: Unlimited Enrollment. Advance sign-up requested but not required.
Come learn about flight testing in this introduction by Professor John Hansman.
[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 11-15. 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.]
Contact: Morrisa Brenner, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Morrisa Brenner, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu
Hands-on Aerospace: Intro to Humans in Aerospace & Man Vehicle Laboratory Tour
Morrisa Brenner
| Jan/14 | Thu | 10:00AM-11:00AM | 33-419, will walk indoors to MVL. |
Enrollment: Unlimited Enrollment. Advance sign-up requested but not required.
Learn about humans in aerospace -- human factors in engineering, air traffic control, human-robot interaction, and more. Then join us for a tour of the MIT Man Vehicle Lab (MVL). Founded in 1962, MVL's goal is to better define the physiological and cognitive limitations of pilots and passengers of aircraft and spacecraft, and to optimize overall human-vehicle system effectiveness and safety.
[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 11-15. Participants welcome at individual sessions; priority may be given to registered class members and undergraduates. See the Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Morrisa Brenner, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu
Hands-On Aerospace: Intro to Materials and Structures
Hands-On Aerospace
| Jan/11 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 33-419 |
Enrollment: Enrollment may be limited. Advance sign-up requested.
Sign-up by 01/06
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.
Note: as the first activity of the series, this activity will start with a brief introduction to the 16.680 Hands-On Aerospace course. The lecture will begin at approximately 10:30AM.
[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 11-15. Participants welcome at individual sessions, priority may be given to registered 16.680 class members and undergraduates. See the 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: Intro to Thermodynamics and Propulsion
Morrisa Brenner
| Jan/12 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 33-419 |
Enrollment: Unlimited Enrollment. Advance sign-up requested but not required.
Come learn about Thermodynamics and Propulsion in this introduction by Professor Paulo Lozano. Professor Lozano may also share about some of his research in the Space Propulsion Lab.
[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 11-15. Participants welcome at individual sessions, priority may be given to registered 16.680 class members and undergraduates. See the Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Morrisa Brenner, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu
Hands-on Aerospace: Introduction to Air Traffic Control
Morrisa Brenner
| Jan/15 | Fri | 10:00AM-10:30AM | 33-419 |
Enrollment: Unlimited enrollment. Advance sign-up requested but not required.
Come learn about Air Traffic Control in this introduction by Professor Hamsa Balakrishnan. Professor Balakrishnan may also discuss some of her research related to air transportation.
[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 11-15. 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: Morrisa Brenner, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu
Hands-on Aerospace: NASA Chandra Observatory Operations and Control Center and Lab Tour
Morrisa Brenner, Dr. Herman Marshall
| Jan/14 | Thu | 02:30PM-04:00PM | Meet at 2 in 33-419, or 2:25 at 1 Hampshire St, North Lobby, Cambridge |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Prereq: None
Come explore the NASA Chandra Observatory. See the Operations and Control Center, an affiliated laboratory, and learn about the science behind the telescope. Chandra is an X-ray telescope used by astrophysicists around the world to observe diverse objects such as black holes, pulsars, star forming regions, and planets using the best imaging optics currently available. The active research laboratory was originally used to test and verify performance of parts for Chandra but was recently adapted for research in X-ray polarimetry.
Advance sign-up required by Jan 10 by emailing hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu with name and nationality. This information must be submitted to the observatory in advance and is a requirement for admission to the tour.
[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 11-15. 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, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
Contact: Morrisa Brenner, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu
Hands-on Aerospace: Rockets! Hands-On with MIT Rocket Team
Morrisa Brenner
| Jan/12 | Tue | 01:00PM-04:00PM | Meet in 33-419 |
Enrollment: Limited. Advance sign-up requested. Some walk-in spots may be available.
Sign-up by 01/06
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. In the past, the team has competed 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 11-15. 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: Morrisa Brenner, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu
Hands-on Aerospace: Space Systems Lab Tour & SPHERES Demo
Morrisa Brenner
| Jan/14 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | Bldg 37, 3rd Floor, meet by the elevator. |
Enrollment: Enrollment may be limited, advance sign-up requested
Sign-up by 01/10
Come learn about projects in the MIT Space Systems Lab, including satellite projects and a demonstration of the MIT SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellite) system.
[This activity is part of the Hands-On Aerospace series sponsored by Aero/Astro running Jan 11-15. Participants welcome at individual sessions, priority may be given to registered 16.680 class members and undergraduates. See the Hands-On Aerospace listing for full schedule.]
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Morrisa Brenner, hands-on-aerospace@mit.edu
High-resolution x-ray optics at the Space Nanotechnology Laboratory: From nanometers to gigaparsecs
Dr. Ralf Heilmann, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute
| Jan/05 | Tue | 02:30PM-03:15PM | 37-252 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: none
The Space Nanotechnology Laboratory (SNL) develops advanced lithography and nano-fabrication technology for high performance space instrumentation, as well as nanometer-accuracy metrology and assembly technology. Two current efforts are the development of nanofabricated soft x-ray gratings, the so-called critical-angle transmission (CAT) gratings, and the development of high-precision focusing X-ray mirrors. CAT gratings require the fabrication of sub-micron structures with extreme geometries and sub-nanometer precision, while x-ray mirrors are formed at 600 deg C while floating on porous air bearings and shaped further using ion implantation. These efforts are aimed at instruments that can help find the missing baryons in the Cosmic Web and reveal the secrets of dark matter.
PLEASE NOTE: There will be a tour of the Space Nanotechnology Laboratory (SNL) from 3:15-4:15pm. The pre-requisite for going on the SNL tour is attending this talk. The tour is limited to SIX people; advance sign-up required starting at 2:25 pm in 37-252. You must attend this talk to take the tour.
A complete listing of IAP activities being offered by MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research will be posted on the MKI website by January 4.
Sponsor(s): Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
Contact: Debbie Meinbresse, 37-241, 617 253-1456, MEINBRES@MIT.EDU
How to Build a Laser Pointer
Grant Falkenburg
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: some experience with hardware and electronics helpful.
Lasers are cool and so are you. So why haven't you built any yet?
Wait, you don't know how? Let's fix that.
For the intro class the goal is to make it as easy
as possible to order some parts and build your own custom laser pointer!
The advanced class is geared towards those who have experience building things and want to try
building a more challenging laser pointer. Lase on!
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Eta Kappa Nu
Contact: Grant Falkenburg, grantf@mit.edu
| Jan/23 | Sat | 12:00PM-02:00PM | 66-154 |
| Jan/24 | Sun | 12:00PM-02:00PM | 66-154 |
In this class we'll discuss the design process behind building
lasers, bridging the gap between theory and practice. Emphasis is placed on
learning about actual components and knowing when to use them. Topics
include laser diode, driver, and hardware options and acquisition,
along with practical building techniques.
Grant Falkenburg
| Jan/23 | Sat | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 66-154 |
| Jan/24 | Sun | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 66-154 |
This class aims to stretch the realm of possibilities with laser
pointers. Ultra small, efficient, and powerful laser pointers will be reviewed,
discussing practical implementations and limitations. Emphasizes
optimizing optics and electronics, offering insight to various
concepts involved in laser pointers. Topics include driver design
with component and topology selection, and lens, battery, hardware
selection.
Grant Falkenburg
How to Design Electric Vehicles (EVs)
Sanjay Sarma, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ryan Chin, Managing Director, City Science Initiative, Lennon Rodgers, Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center
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:
In addition to lectures, this year we will be offering three “hands-on” lab sessions in order for participants to apply lessons from the talks to practical in-class exercises that emphasize learning by doing and peer-to-peer collaboration.
The remaining sessions 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): Mechanical Engineering, MIT-SUTD International Design Center
Contact: Ryan Chin, 617 253-6828, RCHIN@MIT.EDU
| Jan/19 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E15-341 |
This session will introduce the goals of the overall course; provide an overview of EV battery systems with a focus on Li-ion technology (history, cell chemistries and attributes, cell designs and components, performance metrics, cell dynamics and models, safety, battery management); and next generation battery chemistries.
Sanjay Sarma - Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative, Eric Carlson - Senior Fellow, Rick Chamberlain - Chief Technology Officer
| Jan/20 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | e15-341 |
Led by guest speakers from Protean Electric, this session will focus on the design of controllers and electric motors. This session will also present a case study of building an electric motorcycle for the Isle of Man TT Zero race.
Guest Speakers: Chris Hilton, CTO, Protean Electric
Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E15-341 |
This session will focus on pack design with consideration of design requirements, the specification process and vehicle integration, packaging options from cell to module to pack, thermal management, current collection, safety, pack testing, and design for impact energy absorption and crashworthiness.
Guest Speakers:
Dale Robertson, Boston-Power, Inc.
Elham Sahraei, MIT Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory
Eric Carlson - Senior Fellow
| Jan/22 | Fri | 09:00AM-04:00PM | N52-3rd floor |
Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center
| Jan/25 | Mon | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52-3rd floor |
The full day battery laboratory will be a more in-depth hands-on session of selected lecture topics. Key questions addressed will include:
Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center
| Jan/26 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E15-341 |
This session will provide an automotive OEM perspective on overall vehicle integration for EVs.
Guest Speakers:
OEM (1) Greg Hubbard, Senior Engineer for Chevy Bolt, General Motors (GM)
OEM (2) Ford (TBC)
OEM (3) Tesla (TBC)
Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative
| Jan/27 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E15-341 |
This session will cover trends and existing and future markets for traditional EVs, new urban vehicles, on-demand systems, and self-driving vehicles.
Guest Speaker: Zipcar or Car2go (TBC)
Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative, Craig Carlson - Consultant
| Jan/28 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E15-341 |
This session will cover EV infrastructure including electric charging, vehicle-to-grid, second life EV battery re-use, and new markets (e.g., home energy management systems). This session will also introduce the EV ecosystem of MIT student research projects and clubs including Formula SAE, Electric Vehicle Team, Solar Car, etc.
Praveen Subramani, NEST
Michael Lin, MIT Media Lab
Ivan Huang, MIT Campus EVs Deployment
Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative, Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center
| Jan/29 | Fri | 09:00AM-04:00PM | N52-3rd floor |
Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center
Infrastructure Design for Climate Change
Herbert Einstein, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ari Epstein, Lecturer, Terrascope
| Jan/11 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 1-371 |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 1-371 |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 1-371 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 1-371 |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 1-371 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 1-371 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/15
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Undergraduate studies (ongoing or past) in any engineering d
In this team-oriented, project-based class, students will work to find technical solutions that could be implemented to mitigate the effects of climate change, bearing in mind that any proposed measures must be appropriate in a given region’s socio-political-economic context. The specific problem will be the effect of sea level rise. As a case study, students will work on measures related to the cities of Cambridge, Boston, and as much as possible Singapore, with input from officials of appropriate city agencies and/or local NGO’s. The issues and solutions will have direct relevance to large, coastal cities elsewhere.
Students will also learn the basics of the observational/adaptable approach to design, essentially having a feedback loop of “design-construction-operation-design adaptation”. This approach to design is already practiced to some extent, but is likely to become much more common in the near future, both because of advances in embedded-sensor technology and because of its relevance to high-uncertainty contexts such as that presented by climate change.
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact: Ari Epstein, 16-177, 617-253-3666, awe@mit.edu
Intro to Modeling, Instrumentation and Control Using Skateboards and Scooters
Lennon Rodgers, Research Scientist
| Jan/06 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52 3rd floor |
| Jan/08 | Fri | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52 3rd floor |
| Jan/11 | Mon | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52 3rd floor |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52 3rd floor |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52 3rd floor |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52 3rd floor |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Calculus I, Physics I, Microsoft Excel
This class will use electric skateboards and scooters to introduce concepts such as modeling, instrumentation and control. Along the way we will explore mathematical concepts such as differential equations and linear algebra. We will create a basic model for the forces, power and energy consumption of the vehicles. Then the basic theory of PID speed controllers will be discussed and implemented on the scooters. Data will be collected while the vehicles are driven to validate the models and gain a deeper understanding of the theory and concepts. This class will help students gain an intuition for engineering concepts through a fun and immersive experience.
For more information and to register: www.making-learning.org
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, MIT-SUTD International Design Center
Contact: Lennon Rodgers, N52 3rd floor, rodgers@mit.edu
Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy
Patrick Boisvert, Technical Associate
| Jan/21 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 13-2137 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
The lecture will provide an introduction to the basic principles of Scanning Electron Microscopy with an approach to EDX, EBSD, and BSE.
Sponsor(s): Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Patrick Boisvert, 13-1018, x3-3317, pboisver@mit.edu
Introduction to TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy)
Yong Zhang
| Jan/25 | Mon | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 13-2137 von Hippel |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
The lecture provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of transmission electron microscopy. Topics covered include the illumination system, electron lenses and their aberrations, image formation and resolution. A variety of imaging and analysis techniques and their roles specific to inorganic materials, such as crystallography, diffraction patterns and high resolution imaging are to be present with practical demonstration. This presentation will also introduce TEM sample preparation techniques for a wide range of materials, including metals, semiconductors, powders and thin films.
Contact: Yong Zhang, 13-1034, 617 253-5092, YZHANG05@MIT.EDU
LabVIEW Boot Camp
Haley Nesmith, Academic Field Engineer
| Jan/11 | Mon | 09:00AM-05:00PM | Room 36-155, Bring your laptop. |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | Room 36-155, Bring your laptop. |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | Room 36-155, Bring your laptop. |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | Room 36-155, Bring your laptop. |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/04
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None, but basic programming skills helpful. LAPTOP REQUIRED
LabVIEW Boot Camp is a free on-campus training course designed for educators, researchers, and graduate students. This four day hands-on course introduces attendees to graphical programming with LabVIEW. At the end of the course, all attendees will have an opportunity to take the Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) exam, a globally recognized entry-level certification exam, for free.
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 2015 installed on a laptop before you come to the activity:
Registration: Please register at this link.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Haley Nesmith, haley.nesmith@ni.com
LabVIEW for Controls and Mechatronics
Jeannie Sullivan Falcon, Ph.D., National Instruments Chief Engineer
| Jan/15 | Fri | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 1-004 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14
Limited to 18 participants
Prereq: LabVIEW experience or IAP LabVIEW Boot Camp
This is an introductory seminar on LabVIEW for Controls that will cover the following topics:
Atendees will receive:
This course is limited to 18 students. Please register by emailing jordan.brackett@ni.com.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Jeannie Sullivan Falcon, Jeannie.falcon@ni.com
Lithium Battery Use
Dan Frey, Professor, Dept of MechE, Dane Kouttron, Research Engineer, NRL, Phyllis Carter, EMP Officer, EHS
| Jan/26 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E18-676C |
| Jan/27 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E18-676C |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E18-676C |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Topics for discussion:
And ultimately -what do we need to look out for… at every step of the way so we ace it!
Sponsor(s): Environment, Health and Safety Office, Nuclear Reactor Lab
Contact: Fabiola Hernandez, N52-496, 617-253-9494, fabiolah@mit.edu
Lithium Battery Use
Dane Kouttron, Research Engineer, NRL, Phyllis Carter, EMP Officer, EHS Office
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Our goal is to explore and discuss planning for battery use from sourcing to disposal. We will focus on the practical aspects that surround the engineering component in building batteries.
Most of our experience centers on Li power storage design and use for EVs in racing. However, the class is open to exploring other uses like hobby, technology development, technology modification, and field work.
The center piece of the class is the review of our own cases studies, specifically what our Edgerton teams have learned experientially.
Points of discussion
*This class will not look in-depth at the EE of building or powering devices. This class is about the practical aspects of how we make it happen.
Sponsor(s): Environment, Health and Safety Office
Contact: Fabiola Hernandez, N52-496, 617-452-3477, fabiolah@mit.edu
| Jan/26 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E18-676C |
| Jan/27 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E18-676C |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E18-676C |
Dane Kouttron - Research Engineer, NRL, Phyllis Carter - EMP Officer, EHS Office
Machine Learning in Critical Care
Mohammad Ghassemi, PhD Candidate, Alistair Johnson, Postdoctoral Associate, Roger Mark, Distinguished Professor
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/24
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Based on 2012 estimates, 15% of us will die in an intensive care unit (ICU). When admitted to an ICU, patients are connected to countless devices all dedicated to monitoring their physiology. Doctors are faced with the immense task of incorporating all this information in an extremely short amount of time to choose a treatment. At the moment, most of this is done in a doctor's brain, but with recent advances in machine learning, there is an unprecedented opportunity to help doctors make decisions about how to best care for their patients.
Over the course of four sessions, you will engage in hands on activities and learn how to:
(Session 1) Formulate a research question
(Session 2) Preprocess clinical data
(Session 3) Apply machine learning algorithms*
(Session 4) Compete with other attendees to build the best predictive model, with prizes for the winners
* Topics covered include discriminative and generative modelling, natural language processing, deep learning, among others.
Sponsor(s): Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Contact: Alistair Johnson, E25-505, (617) 324-2092, AEWJ@MIT.EDU
| Jan/05 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E25-101, Bring your laptop with pgadmin3 installed |
Hour 1: Introduction to clinical data
Hour 2 - hands on activity: Extraction of data related to severity of illness
Tom Pollard - Postdoctoral Associate, Mohammad Ghassemi - PhD Candidate, Alistair Johnson - Postdoctoral Associate, Roger Mark - Distinguished Professor
| Jan/12 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E25-101, Bring your laptop with MATLAB installed |
Hour 1: Erroneous, missing, and imprecise data
Hour 2 - hands on activity: Preprocessing of data extracted in session 1
Mohammad Ghassemi - PhD Candidate, Alistair Johnson - Postdoctoral Associate
| Jan/19 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E25-101, Bring your laptop with MATLAB installed |
Hour 1: Machine learning techniques
Hour 2, hands on activity: Build a mortality prediction model using preprocessed data from session 2
Mohammad Ghassemi - PhD Candidate, Li-wei Lehman - Research staff, Alistair Johnson - Postdoctoral Associate
| Jan/26 | Tue | 01:00PM-05:00PM | E25-101, Bring your laptop with MATLAB installed |
Bring together all that you have learned in the past sessions to build a high performance mortality prediction model. Your algorithm will be judged using a hidden set of data, and prizes will be given out to top scorers.
Mohammad Ghassemi - PhD Candidate, Alistair Johnson - Postdoctoral Associate
Mars Settlement Design Workshop
Bruce Mackenzie, Mars Foundation
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Description:
Want to open up a new world to live in?
This workshop's goal is to develop a technical plan to start flexible
manufacturing
and growing food on Mars, using materials made on Mars (in-situ),
with minimum equipment brought from Earth.
Details will be worked out by you, the participants,
but may include 3D printing, recycling and production of polymers on-site,
production of other building materials, and on-site assembly of
habitats and greenhouses.
Portions can be adapted from past designs by the Mars Foundation and other
plans.
If there is interest, we can include Mars rover design, social,
economic, political aspects, and suggestions for a business plan.
Please contact us early, if possible, to help our scheduling.
Attendance at most morning sessions is expected.
Additional design sessions may be scheduled in the afternoons at your
convenience.
Sponsor(s): Students for Exploration and Development of Space
Contact: Bruce Mackenzie, text: 781-944-7027, voice: 781-249-5437, BMackenzie@alum.mit.edu
| Jan/19 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/25 | Mon | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/26 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/27 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/29 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
Mars Settlement Design Workshop
Bruce Mackenzie, Mars Foundation
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Want to open up a new world to live in?
This workshop's goal is to develop a technical plan to start flexible
manufacturing
and growing food on Mars, using materials made on Mars (in-situ),
with minimum equipment brought from Earth.
Details will be worked out by you, the participants,
but may include 3D printing, recycling and production of polymers on-site,
production of other building materials, and on-site assembly of
habitats and greenhouses.
Portions can be adapted from past designs by the Mars Foundation and other
plans.
If there is interest, we can include Mars rover design, social,
economic, political aspects, and suggestions for a business plan.
Please contact us early, if possible, to help our scheduling.
Attendance at most morning sessions is expected.
Additional design sessions may be scheduled in the afternoons at your
convenience.
Sponsor(s): Students for Exploration and Development of Space
Contact: Bruce Mackenzie, text: 781-944-7027, voice: 781-249-5437, BMackenzie@alum.mit.edu
| Jan/11 | Mon | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
Mars Settlement Noon Series
Bruce Mackenzie, Mars Foundation
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
A series of presentations on how to economically build an early human
settlement on Mars, emphasizing use of local materials.
Sponsor(s): Students for Exploration and Development of Space
Contact: Bruce Mackenzie, text: 781-944-7027, voice: 781-249-5437, BMackenzie@alum.mit.edu
| Jan/15 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-265 |
Proposal for a very small, relatively inexpensive manufacturing base
for Mars. It starts with just 2 people, and can grow into a permanent
human settlement; a draft design in progress by the Mars Foundation.
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
| Jan/20 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 4-265 |
This Hillside Settlement proposal by the Mars Foundation would build
a permanent settlement on Mars, constructed by 12 people from local
materials such as fiberglass and masonry. Preliminary mass and cost
estimates show that we may be able to establish a permanent, growing
settlement for the same launch cost as a program of round-trip
exploratory missions. Members of National Space Society are invited.
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
| Jan/22 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-265 |
Producing polymers on site at Mars, for fabrication of furnishings and
bonding composite habitats.
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
| Jan/25 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-265 |
Proposal for a very small, relatively inexpensive manufacturing base
for Mars. It starts with just 2 people, and can grow into a permanent
human settlement; a draft design in progress by the Mars Foundation.
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
| Jan/26 | Tue | 08:00PM-10:00PM | 4-265 |
Discussion of Living on Mars, and the portrayal of a Mars mission in
"The Martian" book and movie by Andy Weir. Technology permitting, we
will join a web cast with Andy Weir, hopefully with more than just
hexadecimal communication.
EDIT: Please note the updated date and time.
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
| Jan/29 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-265 |
Open discussion of the ethics of raising children at an early
settlement on Mars or other frontier location.
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
Mechanical Testing of Engineering Materials
Pierce Hayward
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:00AM-11:00AM | 1-307 |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 09:00AM-11:00AM | 1-307 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
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 materials 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 and tempering of strengthened steels is presented, along wth hardness as an indicator of presumptive material strength. Comparisons are made among tensile, compression and bending results for determining material properties. After class time each morning, students may work on their own. They are free to do so during the remainder of IAP and into the spring term.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering, MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Pierce Hayward, 1-307, 617-253-3841, phayward@mit.edu
Multiscale Porous Materials - Marseille Winterschool
Franz-Josef Ulm, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Roland Pellenq, Senior Research Scientist, John R. Williams, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Porous Materials are ubiquitous in many engineering applications, and specifically in energy and environment related engineering applications. The Marseille Winterschool organized through the MIT-CNRS joined lab with the support of MITEI, brings together scientists and engineers to provide a one-week educational training for graduate students and postdocs in all facets of multiscale porous materials, ranging from advanced microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to nanomechanical testing of stiffness, strength and fracture properties of porous materials. The Marseille Winterschool will take place in Marseille, France; in the week January 25-29, 2016. It brings together instructors from MIT, Marseille and Paris University, Georgetown University, and many more. The 2016 edition will develop around the topical issue of porous materials in Nuclear Engineering applications, and will include a one-day visit to ITER. The topic thus far, and the teaching content should be of interest for graduate students in several engineering disciplines (materials science, mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering) and the school of sciences, particularly physics. The Winterschool is open to the entire MIT community. There are no costs associated with the school; except for Flight and Accomodation in Marseille.
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative, MIT France Program
Contact: Franz-Josef Ulm, 1-263, 617 253-3544, ULM@MIT.EDU
| Jan/25 | Mon | 08:30AM-06:30PM | Marseille/France |
8h30-9h30: Registration. Opening remarks
09h30-11h00: Multi-scale porous materials for energy and Environment
11h30-13h00: Statistical physics and computer simulation techniques (Part I)
14h30-16h30: Soft Matter physics; glass physics, jamming transition and arrested dynamics, relevance for multi-scale materials insights from numerical simulations (Part I)
17h00-18h30: Electron microscopy for multi-scale porous materials
| Jan/26 | Tue | 08:30AM-06:00PM | Marseille/France |
08h30-10h30: Mechanics of multi-scale porous materials, from elasticity to fracture: modeling & experiment (Part I)
11h00-12h30: Soft Matter Physics; glass Physics, jamming transition, arrested dynamics, numerical simulations (Part II)
14h00-16h00: Multi-scale porous and colloidal materials, texture and transport properties (Part I)
16h30-18h00: Electron microscopy for multi-scale porous materials: clay, cement, shale-gas
| Jan/27 | Wed | 08:30AM-06:30PM | Marseille/France |
08h30-10h00: Bus from Marseille Old Harbor, to the ITER reactor site, Cadarache
10h00-15h00: Visit of ITER / Lecture on material science for nuclear energy (fusion / fission)
15h00-16h30: Bus to the Jardins du Pharo, Aix-Marseille University head quarter
17h00-18h30: Invited conferences on the challenges of Nuclear fusion, the ITER project and The energy landscape in France, Present and Future
| Jan/28 | Thu | 08:30AM-06:30PM | Marseille/France |
08h30-10h30: Mechanics of multi-scale porous materials, from elasticity to fracture: modeling & experiment (Part II)
11h00-13h00: Statistical physics, computer simulation techniques over time and length scales (Part II)
14h30-16h30: Mesoscale modeling of particles, from bulk to flow in confined geometry (Part I)
17h00-18h30: Tomography with Synchrotron light and the texture of multiscale porous materials
| Jan/29 | Fri | 08:30AM-02:00PM | Marseille/France |
08h30-10h30: Multi-scale Porous and colloidal materials, texture and transport properties (Part II)
11h00-12h30: Transport properties of confined fluids from NMR relaxometry
12h30-12h45: Closing Remarks
The Science and Engineering of Intelligence: A bridge across Vassar Street
Andrea Tacchetti
| Jan/15 | Fri | 10:00AM-05:00PM | 46-3002 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None
Neuroscience has made huge advances in the last few years. We now know more about how the brain works than we have ever known before. Likewise, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence have made enormous steps forward and have become part of our every-day lives. The interaction between Neuroscience and Computer Science has inspired most recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and this interaction has become a critical stepping stone for the understanding of intelligence. We assembled a stellar list of speakers at the intersection of Neuroscience and AI from both sides of Vassar Street who will give an account of how this multi-disciplinary interaction affects their work. The tentative list of speakers includes:
Professor Ed Boyden
Professor Tomaso Poggio
Professor Nancy Kanwisher
Professor Feng Zhang
Professor Bill Freeman
Professor Joshua Tenenbaum
Schedule and other information about the event can be found here: http://cbmm.mit.edu/science-engineering-vassar
Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Andrea, Tacchetti, N/A, atacchet@MIT.EDU
The Time Capsule to Mars Project
Prof. Paulo Lozano, Iulia Jivanescu, Cassidy Chan, (Modeling & Simulation Engineer, Draper Lab)
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Time Capsule to Mars is a student led CubeSat project with professional industry support that will send a spacecraft from Earth to Mars in order to land a time capsule in 2017. This mission is being led out of multiple universities with faculty support and MIT is working on the Guidance, Navigation, and Control subsystems and the Propulsion subsystem. This IAP is to do a trade study on the benefits of Laser communications in interplanetary and cislunar space and how it affects the propulsion budget. The study is to develop a link budget for the TC2M mission that will be applicable in cislunar and interplanetary travel. The study will then evaluate laser communications and RF communications into how it could be used for the mission.
This work is supported by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Cassidy Chan, cchan@draper.com
Tour of the Space Nanotechnology Lab
Ralf Heilmann, Associate Director, Space Nanotechnology Laboratory
| Jan/05 | Tue | 03:15PM-04:15PM | Marlar Lounge 37-252 |
Enrollment: tour limited to 6 people who attend talk preceding tour & sign up in person
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 6 participants
Prereq: Attendance of talk (2:30-3:15pm) preceding tour
During the tour of the SNL's three clean rooms visitors will see sophisticated optical (interference lithography stations for the fabrication of submicron period gratings, high power UV laser, metrology station for optics shape measurements, sub-nanometer resolution interferometers, etc.) and mechanical systems (XY-air-bearing stage, sub-micron accuracy alignment system, environmental enclosure, active vibration isolation, etc.) that support the development of thin-foil x-ray optics and gratings.
Max 6 people, advance sign-up required starting at 2:25 pm in 37-252.
***PLEASE NOTE***
The prequisite for taking the tour is attending the 2:30-3:15pm talk preceding the tour.
For additional information, please see the MKI website.
Sponsor(s): Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
Contact: Debbie Meinbresse, 37-241, 617 253-1456, MEINBRES@MIT.EDU
Vibration isolation and control of sensitive systems
Fabrice Matichard, Visiting Research Scientist
| Jan/07 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | Marlar Lounge 37-252 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 16 participants
The presentation will give a general introduction to the problem of vibration isolation. We'll discuss the following concepts:
- Passive isolation principles
- Static deflection
- Damping
- Transmissibility and compliance
- Multi-staging
- Active isolation principles
- Block diagrams
- Loop shaping
- Absolute versus relative control
- Inertial sensors
- Sensor Noise
- Sensor Fusion
- Noise Budgeting
- Feedforward control
We'll finish the presentation by a review of vibration isolation systems used either in the industry or in physics experiments.
Presentation 9:00-11:00 in Marlar Lounge 37-252. A tour of the LIGO labs will follow the presentation. Pre-requisite for taking the LIGO labs tour is attending the presentation.
Requirements: basic knowledge of Laplace/Frequency domain formalism.
Presentation and tour limited to 16 people. Advanced sign up required by 4pm on January 6.
Sponsor(s): Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
Contact: Debbie Meinbresse, 37-241, 617 253-1456, MEINBRES@MIT.EDU
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