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
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
Hands on PCB Fabrication of Cloud Connected Devices
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
| 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
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
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
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
Musical Mechanical Engineers
Barbara Hughey
| Jan/22 | Fri | 03:30PM-05:30PM | Killian Hall 14W-111 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Participate in the seventh annual IAP Course 2 Concert! Anyone affiliated with the ME Dept is invited to perform in a concert to be held in Killian Hall on Friday, Jan 22 at 3:30 pm. The hall will be available at 1:30 pm on the 22nd for run-throughs, and the concert will be later in the afternoon. You may form your own group, or simply sign up and ask to be placed in a group. All the information you need is here:
https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/2IAPCONCERT/Home
Please email Barbara Hughey (bhughey@mit.edu) with any questions.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Barbara Hughey, 3-038, x2-1812, bhughey@mit.edu
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