IAP 2016 Activities by Category - Engineering: Hands-on

Danielle Class, MIT alum

Enrollment: E-mail iap-3dprinting@mit.edu to apply.
Sign-up by 01/04
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Bring laptop (PC or Mac) and computer mouse to each class.

Over the course of three evenings, you will be exposed to integral parts of the

engineering design process: 3D modeling and 3D printing. Through a series of

hands-on activities, you will be trained how to use Onshape, the first cloud-based

CAD web app. You will get experience preparing your files to 3D print on a

Makerbot and you will leave the class with a voucher to order a print of your

custom 3D model. Additionally, we will provide you with information on where and

how you can 3D print on campus after this workshop – so you can continue

designing and prototyping your ideas!  No prior CAD experience is required.  To apply, please e-mail your full name, MIT class year, and major to iap-3dprinting@mit.edu.

Sponsor(s): Edgerton Center
Contact: Craig Cheney, iap-3dprinting@MIT.EDU

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Jan/11

Mon

05:00PM-07:30PM

38-501, Bring your laptop

Learn about vaious 3D printing technologies and CAD principles.  Begin a multipart model in Onshape.

Danielle Class - MIT alum, Craig Cheney - Mech E Graduate Student

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Jan/12

Tue

05:00PM-07:30PM

38-501, Bring your laptop

Continue onshape training through multipart model, practice 3D printing with a Makerbot printer, and learn the full process involved in 3D printing.

Danielle Class - MIT alum, Craig Cheney - Mech E Graduate Student

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Jan/13

Wed

05:00PM-07:30PM

38-501, Bring your laptop

Design and model a customized part in Onshape.  Learn about 3D printing resources available at MIT and through commercial services.

Danielle Class - MIT alum, Craig Cheney - Mech E Graduate Student

Victor Leung, Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/25
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none

Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machines are everywhere. Since the invention of the first CNC milling machine at MIT in 1952, engineers are able to automate different “Tools” with speed and precision — CNC laser and plasma cutting, milling and turning, welding by robotic arms, sheet metal bending, spinning, punching, fiber placement, assembly line pick and place, etc.

Theory lectures combined with lab sessions introduce the mechanical and electrical systems in a typical CNC machine (i.e: a laser cutter). Students (in groups of two) will build a 2 axis CNC pen plotter and program the machines to make drawings that will be exhibited. Students are encouraged to come up with ideas to modify the machine for other novel applications, such as CNC milling, rotary axis, paint brush etc.

Notes:

End-of-course exhibition depends on gallery availability
Enrollment limit 12 students; if enrollment exceeds quota, selection based on application
There will be two TAs assisting instructor
No out-of-class work required
Geared towards design students with no prior knowledge of robotics

** To enroll, please fill in this form: http://goo.gl/forms/HHVIqxy2Hn**

Sponsor(s): Architecture, MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Makeblock (http://makeblock.cc/)

Contact: Victor Leung, yck01152@mit.edu

Sponsor(s): Architecture
Contact: Victor Leung, yck01152@mit.edu

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Build a CNC Drawing Machine

Jan/11	Mon	10:00AM-05:00PM	9-255, One hour lunch
Jan/12	Tue	10:00AM-05:00PM	9-255, One hour lunch
Jan/13	Wed	10:00AM-05:00PM	9-255, One hour lunch
Jan/14	Thu	10:00AM-05:00PM	9-255, One hour lunch
Jan/15	Fri	10:00AM-05:00PM	9-255, One hour lunch

Victor Leung - Instructor

Patrick Bell

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/08
Limited to 24 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: See Course Description

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

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

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

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

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Build a Small Radar System

Jan/11	Mon	01:00PM-05:00PM	NE-45 2nd floor
Jan/13	Wed	01:00PM-05:00PM	NE-45 2nd floor
Jan/15	Fri	01:00PM-05:00PM	NE-45 2nd floor
Jan/20	Wed	01:00PM-05:00PM	NE-45 2nd floor

IMPORTANT:

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

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

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

Jan/26	Tue	10:00AM-05:00PM	EDS, 38-501
Jan/27	Wed	10:00AM-05:00PM	EDS, 38-501
Jan/28	Thu	10:00AM-05:00PM	EDS, 38-501

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

The goal of the competition is to build an RC Bot that can be controlled using the Bluetooth Low
Energy (BLE) protocol. If you have an iPhone 4 or newer or an Android device, BLE is already
built into it.
You will compete in a Programmable System on a Chip (PSoC) design competition using a
Cypress CY8CKIT-042-BLE PSoC 4 Pioneer Bluetooth Low Energy development kit. PSoC 4
BLE is a programmable device with an ARM Cortex M0, programmable digital and analog
blocks, and a BLE radio all on a single chip!
Workshop Breakdown
• Session 1: Combination of lecture and hands-on labs to introduce you to PSoC 4 BLE
and its design environment (PSoC Creator), as well as the RC Bot structure.
• Session 2: Hands-on RC Bot build day.
• Session 3: Finish RC Bot project and present your version of the solution.
Space is limited. To apply, please e-mail your full name, MIT class year and major, and MIT email
address to iap-psoc@mit.edu. We’ll let you know after January 10th if you have received a
spot in the class. We will maintain a waiting list in the event that spots open up.

Circuit boards sponsored by Sunstone Circuits -  quoting.sunstone.com

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

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

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Flying Widget

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

Kyle Keane, Lecturer, Craig Carter, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Jan/11	Mon	01:00PM-04:00PM	TBD, Students should bring a laptop to each class. Befo
Jan/12	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	TBD, Students should bring a laptop to each class. Befo
Jan/13	Wed	01:00PM-04:00PM	TBD, Students should bring a laptop to each class. Befo
Jan/14	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	TBD, Students should bring a laptop to each class. Befo
Jan/15	Fri	01:00PM-04:00PM	TBD, Students should bring a laptop to each class. Befo
Jan/19	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	TBD, Students should bring a laptop to each class. Befo
Jan/20	Wed	01:00PM-04:00PM	TBD, Students should bring a laptop to each class. Befo
Jan/21	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	TBD, Students should bring a laptop to each class. Befo

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none; however, see note about

This is an 8-day experiential immersion into electronics and prototyping where participants will learn all of the foundational skills required to collaborate, design, and build complete electronics projects using open-source microprocessors. No previous experience with computer programming or electronics is required, since participants will be taught everything they need to know. Advanced students are welcome and will be accommodated with a faster pace and more free time to work on projects. Each day during the first week, there will be a short (20 minute) lecture about some aspect of building collaborative Arduino projects. Following the lectures, participants will break into small teams (2-4 members per team) to complete an activity that requires the application of the concepts covered in the lecture. Participants will be encouraged to form a new team every day during the first week. The five concepts that will be covered sequentially are: collaborating on software development using GitHub, the basics of electricity and circuits, programming Arduino microcontrollers, physical computing and tangible interfaces, and the complete design process. During the second week, participants will divide into slightly larger teams (3-6 members per team). These teams will have three days to design, plan, and build a final project that they will present to the rest of the course participants on the last day of the course. 

If new to Arduino, consider taking 1-day crash course first. 

 

Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Kyle Keane, 13-4061, kkeane@mit.edu

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:

• 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): MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Dan Frey, 3-449D, (617) 324-6133, danfrey@mit.edu

Bill Buchholz, Professional Boat Builder, Repairer and Restorer, John Brisson, Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Jan/04	Mon	01:00PM-03:00PM	N51 SEVT Space
Jan/05	Tue	08:00AM-09:30AM	N51 SEVT Space
Jan/07	Thu	08:00AM-09:30AM	N51 SEVT Space
Jan/12	Tue	08:00AM-09:30AM	N51 SEVT Space
Jan/14	Thu	08:00AM-09:30AM	N51 SEVT Space

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/20
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

There aren't many things one can build with simple materials and basic skills, and then take it out and go sixty miles per hour. We'll be building four DN class iceboats in this course with which one can do exactly that. And, weather permitting, we will take a day to go iceboat sailing on a nearby lake using existing boats. We'll be working with uni-directional cellulose fiber, also known as spruce, the same kind of wood that's used to build airplanes.

All materials will be provided. Using hand and powers tool, students will lay out, cut and install all the small wooden parts that make up this mile-a-minute machine.

Students will come away from the course with new skills in woodworking, fiberglassing and fine craftsmanship. Dynamics of sailing will also be discussed. 

Note: It is unlikely the boats will be completed over the two weeks. They'll be finished either later in the year or next IAP. 

 

Set class times include four instructional sessions on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. However, the workspace will be open approx. 8 hours a day mornings and afternoons, and participants should be able to work several hours daily over the course of the first two weeks of IAP (Jan. 4 through 15). Possible dates for iceboating trips include Jan. 9, 10, 16 and 17. The right conditions are needed, and we will go out when the ice is good.

 

Participants will be selected by the week of Dec. 21. Please include brief info about yourself, interest in and commitment to the course, etc.

Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Jesse Delaughter, 35-216, JESSED@MIT.EDU

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

Kyle Keane, Lecturer, Craig Carter, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Jan/06	Wed	09:00AM-12:00PM	TBD, Participants should bring a laptop to each session
Jan/06	Wed	01:00PM-05:00PM	TBD, Participants should bring a laptop to each session
Jan/08	Fri	09:00AM-12:00PM	TBD, Participants should bring a laptop to each session
Jan/08	Fri	01:00PM-05:00PM	TBD, Participants should bring a laptop to each session

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: None

This series includes four independent sessions: 2 half-day guided introductions to Arduino programming and 2 half-day open Arduino mini-makerspaces. We provide all the necessary equipment for all four sessions (except laptops, you should bring your own laptop). Participants should register for each session that wish to attend separately, it is recommended to register for 1 guided introduction and 1 mini-makerspace.

For those who wish to delve deeper, consider following this course with the 8-day "Comprehensive Overview of Arduino" course offered weeks 2-3 of IAP by the same instructors.

 

Session Description (A guided intro to Arduino programming):

Morning Sessions (Choose from Jan. 6 or Jan. 8)

This is a 3-hour survey of Arduino programming and circuit construction, designed for those with no previous experience in computer programming or electronics. The course will start with a 30-minute lecture about Arduinos, how to program them, and how to use basic electronic components (breadboards, resistors, LEDs, buttons). Participants will then receive instructions and materials to complete a simple Arduino project (controlling an LED and motor using a button and potentiometer).

 

Session Description (Open Arduino mini-makerspace):

Afternoon Sessions (Choose from Jan. 6 or Jan. 8)

We will host a fully-stocked Arduino mini-makerspace. Participants will have access to breadboards, Arduinos, motors, LEDs, resistors, buttons, and a whole bunch of sensors.

Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Kyle Keane, 13-4061, kkeane@mit.edu

Pamela Greenley, Associate Director, EHS, Randa Pierre Ghattas, Project Manager, Office of Sustainability, Niamh Kelly, EMP Officer, EHS, Jennifer Lynn, Senior EHS Coordinator, Koch Institute, Brian Smith, EHS Coordinator, Chemical Engineering

Jan/14	Thu	12:00PM-01:00PM	66-319
Jan/21	Thu	12:00PM-01:00PM	76-659
Jan/28	Thu	12:00PM-01:00PM	76-659

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session

MIT would like to start a green labs certification process but we need your help to get started.  We will be holding a contest to see who can green their lab the most and in innovative ways.  Come to the IAP to learn about green lab certification and the contest. 

Don't have a lab but want to participate anyway?  Come anyway, we might be able to find you a partner.

Sponsor(s): Environment, Health and Safety Office, Office of Sustainability
Contact: Pamela Greenley, N52-496, 617-253-9390, GREENLEY@MIT.EDU

Isaac Ehrenberg, Joshua Siegel

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Have you ever wanted to design and build your own electronics, but lack the time, money and equipment to figure it all out? In this course, you will learn the principles behind Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design, fabrication, and wireless connectivity, as well as gain experience designing and assembling boards. Students will learn the basics of designing PCBs in EAGLE, get to set up a pick-and place machine, and learn about reflow and hand soldering of surface mount components. Members of the course will leave having built and programmed simple Internet of Things (IoT) enabled devices over four two-hour sessions. Enrollment limited to 10 students. 

 

Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Isaac Ehrenberg, 617 324-1984, iappcb2016@MIT.EDU

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All Sessions

Jan/11	Mon	09:00AM-11:00AM	Room 35-308, Bring Your Laptop
Jan/12	Tue	09:00AM-11:00AM	Room 35-308, Bring Your Laptop
Jan/13	Wed	09:00AM-11:00AM	Room 35-308, Bring Your Laptop
Jan/14	Thu	09:00AM-11:00AM	Room 35-308, Bring Your Laptop

Isaac Ehrenberg, Joshua Siegel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Robert A. Freking, Dr. Joseph Vornehm, Gregory Balonek

Jan/06	Wed	09:00AM-12:00PM	NE 45 2nd floor
Jan/08	Fri	09:00AM-12:00PM	NE 45 2nd floor
Jan/11	Mon	09:00AM-12:00PM	NE 45 2nd floor
Jan/13	Wed	09:00AM-12:00PM	NE 45 2nd floor
Jan/15	Fri	09:00AM-12:00PM	NE 45 2nd floor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/04
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Laptop with MATLAB, MATLAB experience

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

All participants must supply their own laptops with MATLAB installed.

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

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

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

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Basics of Building Laser Pointers

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

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Building Advanced Laser Pointers

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

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:

• 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

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

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(1) Course Introduction and Batteries

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

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(2) Controllers and Electric Motors

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

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(3) Battery Pack Design

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

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Vehicle Systems Lab

Jan/22

Fri

09:00AM-04:00PM

N52-3rd floor

• Main components of electric vehicles (e.g. motors, controller, high voltage, low voltage, contactors).
• Model and electric vehicle to estimate power and energy with application to range estimation.
• Sensors and microcontrollers to measure vehicle energy.
• Extra topics: PID speed controllers.

Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center

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Battery Lab

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:

• How to charge a lithium-ion cell?  What are critical control parameters and metrics?
• How to verify manufacturer cell specifications?
• How to characterize continuous and pulse discharge performance and to use this data to develop a dynamic cell model?

Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center

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(4) Powertrain Integration

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

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(5) Applications and Markets

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

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(6) EV Infrastructure and MIT Student Cl

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

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Motor Lab

Jan/29

Fri

09:00AM-04:00PM

N52-3rd floor

• Power electronics
• Tuning of electronics to motor characteristics
• Use of dynamometer  

Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center

Wen Wang, Postdoctoral Associate, Chemical Engineering, Lining Yao, Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab, Jifei Ou, Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab, Chin-Yi Cheng, MIT Architecture

Jan/05	Tue	01:00PM-05:00PM	E15-344
Jan/06	Wed	01:00PM-05:00PM	E15-344
Jan/07	Thu	01:00PM-05:00PM	E15-344
Jan/08	Fri	01:00PM-05:00PM	E15-344
Jan/11	Mon	01:00PM-05:00PM	E15-344
Jan/12	Tue	01:00PM-05:00PM	E15-344
Jan/13	Wed	01:00PM-05:00PM	E15-344
Jan/14	Thu	01:00PM-05:00PM	E15-344
Jan/14	Thu	06:00PM-09:00PM	kitchen areas, final event

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Limited to 24 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Undergrads and grads passionate about design and food

This course teaches the theory, design and fabrication of pneumatic shape-changing interfaces. For hands-on practice, students will design inflatable and edible objects. Two approaches will be used for the design of pneumatic shape-changing food: engineering approach and biological approach.

Engineering approach: Students will be introduced to an electronic pneumatic control toolkit used to create soft transformable objects. We will learn how to work with the toolkit (including an arduino-based programming board, a set of pneumatic circuits, and a series of pneumatic actuators), how to program the board to create interactions and shapes, and how to control the inflation of objects. 

 Biological approach:

Students will learn about the culturing and fermentation process of yeast.  A bio-safety level 1 lab from chemical engineering department will be dedicated for this session. We will emphasize food science and engineering, and apply the knowledge in a hands-on session to control bread growth.

Design workshop:

For the design workshop, the topic is “inflated appetite”.  We will use food material, especially flour, to create inflatable shapes. Students will be encouraged to think about inflatable shapes from different aspects: composite material structure, material anisotropy, elasticity and viscoelasticity, surface tensile strength and elongation, etc. and will develop unique creations drawing on what they've learned. 

Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Chemical Engineering
Contact: Wen Wang, 16-473, wwen@mit.edu

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

Carolyn Jundzilo-Comer

Jan/14

Thu

01:00PM-04:00PM

1-371

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 25 participants

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

Basic materials will be provided or bring your own.  Sessions will be January 14 from 1 P.M. to 4 P.M.

Class will be limited to 25. 

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

Joseph Okor

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None

Electronics hardware is getting so cheap that you can now buy a computer the size of half a credit card that can run a full Linux Operating System and thus capable of running most of your Desktop Applications, and cost as low as $5 (Raspberry Pi Zero). In this class, you learn the skills needed to take advantage of this revolution. The skills include soldering, PCB design and layout, how to fabricate a PCB, introduction to distributed systems, embedded system programming

http://ananseworks.com/iap2016

 

Contact: Joseph Okor, N52-115, (561) 431-8294, jkokor@alum.mit.edu

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Jan/18	Mon	03:00PM-05:00PM	5-233
Jan/19	Tue	03:00PM-05:00PM	5-233
Jan/20	Wed	03:00PM-05:00PM	5-233
Jan/21	Thu	03:00PM-05:00PM	5-233
Jan/22	Fri	03:00PM-05:00PM	5-233
Jan/25	Mon	03:00PM-05:00PM	5-233
Jan/26	Tue	03:00PM-05:00PM	5-233
Jan/27	Wed	03:00PM-05:00PM	5-233
Jan/28	Thu	03:00PM-05:00PM	5-233
Jan/29	Fri	03:00PM-05:00PM	5-233

Introduction To Electronics: In this class, you learn the skills needed to take advantage of this revolution. The skills include soldering, PCB design and layout, how to fabricate a PCB, introduction to distributed systems, embedded system programming

Jade Wang, David Caplan, Gavin Lund, Dave Geisler, Neal Spellmeyer, Rich Kaminsky

Jan/05	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	NE45 2nd floor
Jan/07	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	NE45 2nd floor
Jan/12	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	NE45 2nd floor
Jan/14	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	NE45 2nd floor
Jan/19	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	NE45 2nd floor
Jan/21	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	NE45 2nd floor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None

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

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

 

To register,  email Jade Wang (jpwang@ll.mit.edu).  Include "2016 IAP Lasercom Course Registration Request" in subject line and provide a brief description of your MIT affiliation and interest in the course.

 

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

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

Dario Marrocchelli, researcher

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none

Enrollment is closed. Class is at capacity with extensive waitlist.

Cooking is one of the most fascinating (and rewarding!) application of science and engineering. Indeed, few people realize that even the easiest recipe (scrambled eggs) requires a working knowledge of important scientific principles spanning the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science and many more. The goal of this course is to show this connection between cooking and science.

This course is designed to be a fun, hands-on experience in which students learn basic scientific principles by performing simple experiments with food. The first four lectures will cover ice cream making, chocolate tasting, naked eggs, rock candies and other fun activities. At the end of each lecture, I will provide a connection between the lecture subject and some of the cutting-edge research happening at MIT. A private tour of nearby Taza Chocolate factory will conclude the course.

This course requires absolutely no prior knowledge. The only requisite for this course is a passion for food, cooking and science.

Registration for course will be first-come, first serve. Based on last year experience, this class tends to fill up rapidly. Please register as soon as possible by emailing the instructor.

Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Dario Marrocchelli, (ENROLLMENT IS CLOSED- no more requests please), dmarrocc@mit.edu

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Jan/11	Mon	06:00PM-07:30PM	W20-308 coffeehouse
Jan/12	Tue	06:00PM-07:30PM	W20-308 coffeehouse
Jan/14	Thu	06:00PM-07:00PM	Taza Factory, arrive by 5:45PM
Jan/19	Tue	05:30PM-06:30PM	W20-308
Jan/20	Wed	06:00PM-07:30PM	W20-308

The session on the 14th will be located at the Taza Chooclate factory. Closed toed shoes are required. Jewelry & perfume are not permitted. There is no outside food or drink allowed. Come prepared to try a wide variety of stone ground chocolate!

Location for tour is 561 Windsor St. between Inman Square and Union Square in Somerville. 

Tim Mathieu

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Register at the link below:

Please join MathWorks during IAP 2016 for a hands-on workshop and/or technical seminar designed to improve MATLAB skills.   Please register at the following link:

https://go2.mathworks.com/matlab-seminars-at-mit-iap-sem-na-1244758

 

 

Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Tim Mathieu, MathWorks, (Register at the link above), Tim.Mathieu@mathworks.com

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Parallel Computing with MATLAB

Jan/26

Tue

10:00AM-12:00PM

W31-301

Session 1: Parallel Computing with MATLAB
In this session you will learn how to solve computationally and data-intensive problems using multicore processors, GPUs, and computer clusters. We will introduce you to high-level programming constructs that allow you to parallelize MATLAB applications and run them on multiple processors.

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MATLAB: Problem Solving and Programming

Jan/26

Tue

01:00PM-05:00PM

W31-301

Session 2: Introduction to MATLAB: Problem Solving and Programming
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn the essentials of using MATLAB for your classes or research, including how to import data from an external file, plot the data over time, and perform some analysis to view the data trends.

Tim Mathieu

Jan/14

Thu

01:00PM-05:00PM

W31-301

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: Register at link below

The Simulink Workshop is a 3-4 hour hands-on tutorial of Simulink, the block diagram environment integrated with MATLAB for multidomain simulation and design. 

Structure

During the workshop, each attendee follows along with the presenter in creating a Simulink model from scratch and then building upon and improving that model throughout the session.

Many Simulink features are introduced during the workshop, including:

• Modeling a dynamic system
• Logic operations
• Model hierarchy
• Masks
• Creating custom libraries
• Model Referencing

Vectorization

No Simulink experience is assumed or necessary.

Benefits

Learn the fundamentals of Simulink through hands-on instruction from a product expert.

Learn how Simulink is used for the following applications:

• Modeling continuous systems
• Control system development

Algorithm design & simulation

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Please join us for a complimentary Simulink Workshop. Faculty, staff, researchers and students are all welcome to attend.  Registration is at the following link:

https://go2.mathworks.com/simulink-workshop-at-iap-sem-na-1264939

Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Tim Mathieu, MathWorks, (register at link above), Tim.Mathieu@mathworks.com

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

Paul Kalebu, Kevin Chan

Jan/10	Sun	02:00PM-04:00PM	38-501
Jan/15	Fri	02:00PM-04:00PM	38-501

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none

Soldering is a critical skill for all EE's and really enables you to take
your project to the next level by getting off the breadboard. At this
seminar, students will practice through hole soldering with a traditional
soldering iron by assembling a PCB business card (which they also get to
keep)! More advanced methods like surface mount soldering will also be
demonstrated. Other topics to be discussed include considerations for
designing easily solderable PCBs and techniques for soldering things in
mass production.

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Eta Kappa Nu
Contact: Paul Kalebu, pkalebu@mit.edu

Arlene Ducao

Jan/11

Mon

10:00AM-04:00PM

9-451

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/16
Limited to 16 participants

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

In this workshop, we'll look at how we can design and deploy with some of the most common components for prototyping-- microcontrollers, sensors, and phones-- that collect urban data. The workshop should give students the physical computing resources they need to deploy their own small data collection networks.

Recommended experience: Interest in electronics and sensors. Experience in building simple circuits is preferred but not required.

Recommended equipment: Your favorite microcontroller, your laptop, and a cable to connect the two. If you're not sure what to bring, an Arduino Uno is a good starting point.

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

Joseph Okor, Alumn

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

We now have the technical solutions to a lots of problems facing Africa in particular, and Third World countries in general. The main reason these technical solutions  are not being applied is that nobody has actually prototyed them to show their effectiveness in the African context. We hope to change this, and thus set a new direction for the future of Africa.

Beginning IAP 2016, we will be building prototypes of these technical solutions for deployment in Africa during the summer of 2016. Come build something and create a better world

http://ananseworks.com/iap2016

Contact: Joseph Okor, N52-115, (516) 431-8294, jkokor@alumn.mit.edu

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Jan/18	Mon	05:00PM-06:00PM	N52-115
Jan/19	Tue	05:00PM-06:00PM	N52-115
Jan/20	Wed	05:00PM-06:00PM	N52-115
Jan/21	Thu	05:00PM-06:00PM	N52-115
Jan/22	Fri	05:00PM-06:00PM	N52-115
Jan/23	Sat	05:00PM-06:00PM	N52-115
Jan/25	Mon	05:00PM-06:00PM	N52-115
Jan/26	Tue	05:00PM-06:00PM	N52-115
Jan/27	Wed	05:00PM-06:00PM	N52-115
Jan/28	Thu	05:00PM-06:00PM	N52-115
Jan/29	Fri	05:00PM-06:00PM	N52-115

We now have the technical solutions to a lots of problems facing Africa in particular, and Third World countries in general. Beginning IAP 2016, we will be building prototypes of these technical solutions for deployment in Africa during the summer of 2016. Come build something and create a better world

Joseph Okor - Alumn, Joseph Okor - Alumn

Prof. Sertac Karaman, Dr. Michael Boulet, Owen Guldner, Ken Gregson, Dr. Luca Carlone, Postdoctoral Associate, Aero/Astro

Jan/04	Mon	01:00PM-05:00PM	32-081
Jan/06	Wed	01:00PM-05:00PM	32-081
Jan/08	Fri	01:00PM-05:00PM	32-081
Jan/11	Mon	01:00PM-05:00PM	32-081
Jan/13	Wed	01:00PM-05:00PM	32-081
Jan/15	Fri	01:00PM-05:00PM	32-081
Jan/20	Wed	01:00PM-05:00PM	32-081

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

Modern robots tend to operate at slow speeds in complex environments, limiting their utility in high-tempo applications. In this course you will push the boundaries of unmanned vehicle speed. Teams of 4-5 will develop dynamic autonomy software to race an RC car equipped with LIDAR, cameras, inertial sensors, and embedded processing around a large-scale, “real-world” course. Working from a baseline autonomy stack, teams will modify the software to increase platform velocity to the limits of stability. The course culminates with a timed competition to navigate the MIT tunnels. Classes will provide lectures on algorithms and lab time with instructor-assisted development. Must attend every class and plan on 6-10 hr/week of self-directed development.

Prereqs: Advanced undergraduates and graduates with some background in controls or robotics. Majors include AeroAstro, Mechanical, Ocean, and EECS. Students with a background in computer science with interest in robotics and controls may also effectively participate. Must have experience with software development. Past exposure to robotics algorithms and/or embedded programming will be useful. Email racecar-iap-course-subscribe@mit.edu with a brief description of your programming/robotics experience.

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

Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics, Lincoln Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Owen Guldner, racecar-iap-course-subscribe@mit.edu

Thomas Royster, Devin Kelly, James Streitman, Mike McLarney, Dwight Hutchenson, Fred Block, John Chang

Jan/12	Tue	10:00AM-04:00PM	NE45 2nd floor, 1 hr. break for lunch
Jan/14	Thu	10:00AM-04:00PM	NE45 2nd floor, 1 hr. break for lunch
Jan/19	Tue	10:00AM-04:00PM	NE45 2nd floor, 1 hr. break for lunch
Jan/21	Thu	10:00AM-04:00PM	NE45 2nd floor, 1 hr. break for lunch

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/18
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Engineering Background or Interest

Software radio technology is having a tremendous impact not only in consumer devices but also in the areas of rapid prototyping and research and development.  MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a course to introduce students to software radio fundamentals and applications.  Students will gain hands-on experience with the USRP software radio platform while learning theory and practice of digital signal processing and digital communications.  The course will consist of several projects, such as FM radio receivers, digital video transmission and reception, and spectrum sensing, highlighting the flexibility of software radios. 

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

Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory, MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Thomas Royster, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, troyster@ll.mit.edu

Gary Sullivan

Jan/20

Wed

12:00PM-02:00PM

66-110

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

The seminar will include pizza. This will be a presentation and hands-on learning opportunity. Participants will develop an understanding of how to construct their own handling and control systems for gasses and liquids. The basic function of valves for directional control, metering, on/off control and one way check valves will be discussed as well as a discussion of packed versus packless valve stem construction and their suitability for particular applications. Fundamentals of pipe versus tubing connections will be presented and will included discussions of compression seals, welded connections, face and vacuum seals fittings. There will be plenty of time for specific questions and opportunities for hands-on fitting use.

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

Tuka AlHanai, Research Assistant at CSAIL, Mandy Korpusik, Research Assistant at CSAIL

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Some programming experience.

Do you want to build your very own Siri? Ever cared to automatically detect sentiment? Curious about what can be done with the 6,000+ languages out there? This course covers some of the hottest topics and technologies in the domain of Speech and Language Processing, the playground of Amazon, Google, and Apple. You'll be learning theory on acoustic-phonetics, machine learning, natural language processing, and techniques for data collection. You'll leave with working knowledge on some of the tools available and the potential of their usage for your next project, hackathon, and start-up.

Sign-up Here

Contact: Tuka Al Hanai, 32-G424, TUKA@MIT.EDU

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Acoustic Phonetics

Jan/08

Fri

02:00PM-04:00PM

66-148, Bring your laptop

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Language Modeling

Jan/11

Mon

02:00PM-04:00PM

66-148, Bring your laptop

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Acoustic Modeling

Jan/13

Wed

02:00PM-04:00PM

66-148, Bring your laptop

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Building a Recognizer

Jan/15

Fri

02:00PM-04:00PM

66-148, Bring your laptop

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Bringing Speech Tech to the World

Jan/19

Tue

02:00PM-04:00PM

66-148, Bring your laptop

Lennon Rodgers, Research Scientist

Jan/19	Tue	01:00PM-05:00PM	N52 3rd floor
Jan/20	Wed	01:00PM-05:00PM	N52 3rd floor
Jan/21	Thu	01:00PM-05:00PM	N52 3rd floor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Ability to ride a bicycle

Students will completely disassemble and reassemble a bicycle to learn about bicycle components, tools and mechanics. Related engineering concepts such as torque, speed, power, sprockets and mechanical advantage will be discussed and experienced.

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

Alex Sloboda, Alyssa Cartwright, Julia Belk

Jan/04	Mon	02:30PM-04:00PM	38-501
Jan/05	Tue	02:30PM-04:00PM	38-501
Jan/06	Wed	02:30PM-04:00PM	38-501
Jan/07	Thu	02:30PM-04:00PM	38-501
Jan/08	Fri	02:30PM-04:00PM	38-501

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 16 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: 8.02, familiarity with 18.03

One week crash course on circuits. Starting from 8.02 and 18.03, we
will study linear and nonlinear circuits from an application-based
perspective. Throughout the course there will be hands-on lab
exercises designed to give students real-world experience and
reinforce concepts introduced in lecture. We will cover resistors,
inductors, capacitors, diodes and transistors, focusing on their
applications in filters and amplifiers. No prior lab experience
necessary.

Sign up by emailing asloboda@mit.edu

 

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Alex Sloboda, asloboda@mit.edu

Ali H. Dogru, Visiting Scientist

Jan/04	Mon	10:00AM-12:00PM	4-159
Jan/06	Wed	10:00AM-12:00PM	4-159
Jan/08	Fri	10:00AM-12:00PM	4-159
Jan/11	Mon	10:00AM-12:00PM	4-159
Jan/13	Wed	10:00AM-12:00PM	4-159
Jan/15	Fri	10:00AM-12:00PM	4-159
Jan/20	Wed	10:00AM-12:00PM	4-159
Jan/22	Fri	10:00AM-12:00PM	4-159
Jan/25	Mon	10:00AM-12:00PM	4-159
Jan/27	Wed	10:00AM-12:00PM	4-159

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Reservoir simulators are essential tools in the oil and gas industry.  They are used to estimate hydrocarbon reserves, predict future production (income), and estimate the size of the separation plants (cost).  They are composed of a set of nonlinear coupled partial differential equations describing multi-phase, multi-component fluid flow in porous media and associated pipeline networks. 

This course will describe the relevant PDEs in a reservoir simulator, the thermodynamic constraints, and the rock-fluid interaction relationships.  It will also explain descretizing the equations to yield a large linear system, and the use of sparse linear solvers to solve the system.  The course will be hands-on, and students are expected to write computer programs and discuss the findings in class.  Students will learn how to write a three dimensional multi-phase, multi-component reservoir simulator with production and injection wells.

Ali H. Dogru is a Fellow and the Chief Technologist of the Computational Modeling Technology Group for Saudi Aramco.  He has 38 years of international experience in both industry and academia.  He is a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT.  He has 12 US patents and has received SPE’s John Franklin Carll Award, SPE’s Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award, and World Oil’s Innovative Thinker Awards.

 

Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Michael Szulczewski, michael.szulczewski@aramcoservices.com

Nicholas Arango, Former 6.01 LA, Joe Steinmeyer, Lecturer in EECS, Jacob White, Professor in EECS

Jan/11	Mon	02:00PM-05:00PM	38-501
Jan/12	Tue	02:00PM-05:00PM	38-501
Jan/14	Thu	02:00PM-05:00PM	38-501

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/04
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: a little circuits, a little programming

Beta-test and improve MIT's first hands-on MOOC.
Build an Arduino-controlled propeller-levitated arm, use it to learn the
theory/practice of controller design, stability, tracking,
and disturbance rejection, using both mathematical models and experiments.

Ever build a line-following robot, or used a PID controller,
and wondered about the theory? Curious about the design
principles behind temperature controllers, quad-copters, self-balancing
scooters, or standing robots? 

Each day of this three-day class will start with an
essential theoretical concept; by the end of class
students will have designed, implemented, and
measured, a propeller-arm feedback system design. Since this
is a *Beta* class, you'll be part of an experiment incorporating
physical labs into an on-line class. Your experiences, and
contributions, will shape the final version, and impact a worldwide
community.

You'll modify a few lines of C in the Arduino programming
environment, so a little programming background will help, but is not
essential.

You'll learn:
1) To set up a control system and understand and optimize its
performance (the Arduino-controlled propeller-levitated arm).
2) Modeling Feedback Control systems Using Difference Equations.
3) What unstable systems are like, practically and mathematically.
4) To measure control system performance.
5) How proportional, delta (aka derivative) and summation (aka integral)
feedback reduce tracking errors and increase disturbance rejection.

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Joe Steinmeyer, jodalyst@mit.edu