An Introduction to Nonimaging Optics
Thomas Cooper, Posdoctoral Fellow
| Jan/23 | Mon | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 1-246 |
| Jan/27 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 1-246 |
| Jan/30 | Mon | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 1-246 |
| Feb/03 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 1-246 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Please bring a laptop; knowledge of Solidworks is an asset
An Introduction to Nonimaging Optics
Build your own solar concentrator! In this short interactive course, the subject of nonimaging optics will be introduced, with a focus on its application to solar energy collection. The course will consist of four sessions, each comprising a one-hour lecture, followed by a two-hour hands-on tutorial session where participants will 3D print their own solar concentrator prototype! On the last session, the solar concentrators will be tested to reveal who achieved the best concentrator design!
ENROLL HERE: https://goo.gl/forms/rOZrMTEv27UEArO73
Session 1: Fundamentals of nonimaging optics
What is nonimaging optics?
Conservation of étendue
The edge-ray principle
Thermodynamics of solar concentration
PROJECT: Problem statement and preliminary optical design
Session 2: Solar concentrator design
Nonparabolic solar concentrators
Nonimaging secondary concentrators with imaging primaries
Design of secondaries: the CPC, CEC, trumpet, tailored edge-ray concentrator
Aplanatic optics
PROJECT: Preliminary optical design due
Session 3: Non-tracking solar concentrators
Maximum concentration for one- and two-axis trackers
Source/acceptance map matching
Maximum concentration for non-tracking solar concentrators
Design of non-tracking solar concentrators
PROJECT: Ray-tracing simulation; preparation of 3D printed prototype
Session 4: Performance assessment
Solar concentrator modeling and testing
PROJECT: Live testing of solar concentrator prototypes
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Thomas Cooper, 7-006, 617 253-7488, COOPERT@MIT.EDU
Bad Ideas
Hadrian Merced, Banti Gheneti, Jakob Weisblat
| Jan/20 | Fri | 01:00PM-01:00AM | |
| Jan/21 | Sat | 11:00AM-01:00AM | |
| Jan/22 | Sun | 10:00AM-10:00PM |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Prereq: None
A weekend-long celebration of awful events and projects. For more information, including times and locations for specific events, visit http://bad-ideas.mit.edu.
Contact: Bad Ideas Chairs, 62M 118, 254 589-2669, BAD-IDEAS-17@MIT.EDU
Bicycle Mechanics
Lennon Rodgers, Research Scientist
Enrollment: Must be an MIT student.
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Description: Students will learn how to repair a bicycle from the basics of fixing a flat to more advanced topics such as wheel truing and crank removal. The instructors will be professional mechanics from local bike shops.
Dates/Times: January 9th, 10th and 11th from 1-4pm.
Location: All lessons will take place in the International Design Center (3rd floor of N52, 265 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge). Map here. Please follow the posted signs.
Enrollment Criteria: Must be an MIT student. Total enrollment is limited to 25 students.
Enrollment: To request enrollment, please fill out this form.
Lessons: Draft lessons are here.
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD International Design Center, MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Lennon Rodgers, design-ev@mit.edu
| Jan/09 | Mon | 01:00PM-04:00PM | N52-3rd floor (IDC) |
| Jan/10 | Tue | 01:00PM-04:00PM | N52-3rd floor (IDC) |
| Jan/11 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | N52-3rd floor (IDC) |
Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist
Build a Small Radar System
Patrick Bell, Ken Kolodziej
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 24 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: See Course Description
Are you interested in building and testing your own radar system? MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a course focusing on the 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 materials to build a radar and will be given instructions to watch pre-recorded lectures spanning topics from fundamentals of radar to SAR imaging. Instructors will be on-hand to answer questions and debug any assembly issues. 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 running Windows, Mac OS or Linux. Other versions of Unix have not been tested. At least one available USB port. Installation permissions may be necessary for Arduino microcontroller. Matlab 2009b or later, Instrumentation Control Toolbox for Matlab is required.
*This work is supported by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract No. FA8702-15-D-0001. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Air Force.
Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Ken Kolodziej, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, radar.course@ll.mit.edu
| Jan/25 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:30PM | NE-45 2nd Floor, MIT Beaver Works |
| Jan/30 | Mon | 01:00PM-04:30PM | NE-45 2nd Floor, MIT Beaver Works |
| Feb/03 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:30PM | NE-45 2nd Floor, MIT Beaver Works |
In person meetings focus on distribution, fabrication, and debug of radars. These will additionally be used for discussions surrounding data collections and student results. See course description for computer requirements.
IMPORTANT:
Sessions will be held at Beaver Works @ 300 Technology Square, 2nd Floor
Build your own multi-touch pad (learn laser-cutting, basic electronics, and computer vision in 2 afternoons)
Stefanie Mueller, Assistant Professor EECS / MechE
Enrollment: Maximum 24 Participants.
Sign-up by 01/16
Limited to 24 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: hardware: none, software: basic programming knowledge
Learn laser cutting, electronics breadboard prototyping, soldering, and computer vision in only two afternoons. In this hands-on IAP, we will build a multi-touch pad using the principles of FTIR (Frustrated Total Internal Reflection).
In the first session, we are going to build the hardware of your device. In the second session, we will add the software, i.e., the finger tracking and gesture recognition. All you need to bring is your laptop, we take care of the rest.
You can find more information (including an image of what you will build) here:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/hcie/iap-multitouch-pad.html
This IAP is organized by the HCI Engineering Group (HCIE). We are a new group at MIT CSAIL (starting January 2017) and build interactive software and hardware systems with a focus on advancing personal fabrication technologies.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Stefanie Mueller, 32-312, STEFANIE.MUELLER@MIT.EDU
| Jan/19 | Thu | 02:00PM-06:00PM | 32-311, bring your laptop |
In the first session, you will build the hardware for your multi-touch pad. First, you will laser cut an acrylic sheet and use a heat gun to bend it into shape. After that, you will solder the USB connector, the LEDs and add a switch for turning the LEDs on/off. We will provide you with basic knowledge in electronics and give an intro to Arduino. Finally, you will add a camera that we will use for tracking the fingers.
| Jan/20 | Fri | 02:00PM-06:00PM | 32-311, bring your laptop |
In the second session, you will use computer vision to track finger gestures on your multi-touch pad using the attached camera. For this, we will give an intro to computer vision with OpenCV (color-space conversions, thresholding, blob detection). At the end, we will host a contest for the best example application with some unique prizes for the most creative solutions.
Climate Action Hands On: Harnessing Science with Communities to Cut Carbon
Dave Damm-Luhr, Rajesh Kasturirangan, Britta Voss, Patrick Brown
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/18
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Looking to put your skills into action to tackle climate change? Regardless of your field, this course will engage participants in the practical side of collecting data, using technical solutions to climate challenges and working with diverse community groups to accelerate progress.
Through in-class lectures and discussion, as well as a data collection field trip and a “maker”-style activity session in 10-150 at MIT , participants will get background about effective science-based community action and practice putting that knowledge into action themselves. The course will focus on approaches to applying scientific data and new technologies to climate-related research needs, community risks, and policy actions, with a particular emphasis on urban methane emissions.
Problem solvers of all backgrounds and experience levels are welcome! Just bring a passion for changing the world for the better and an eagerness to roll up your sleeves.
Register for the course at: http://bit.ly/climatex-iap17
Sponsor(s): Fossil Free MIT
Contact: Curt Newton, cjnewton@mit.edu
| Jan/18 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:30PM | 4-153 |
Introduction to citizen/community science networks in operation, including PublicLab; future of community science and why climate science could benefit from a community approach.
Dave Damm-Luhr, Rajesh Kasturirangan, Britta Voss
| Jan/23 | Mon | 09:00AM-01:00PM | 10-150 |
Mini-hackathon on database building, app development, data collection equipment design/construction, data visualization, GIS data processing, animation/infographic design, and emissions modeling. Details on the history of natural gas infrastructure nationally and in Boston area, protocols for reporting and fixing leaks, methane monitoring methods, opportunities for community involvement.
Dave Damm-Luhr, Rajesh Kasturirangan, Nathan Phillips, Britta Voss
| Jan/31 | Tue | 10:00AM-02:00PM | Location TBD |
Hands-on activity collecting data on real-word methane leaks from natural gas infrastructure across Cambridge.
Dave Damm-Luhr, Rajesh Kasturirangan, Britta Voss, Nathan Phillips
| Feb/01 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:30PM | 4-153 |
Debrief data collection on methane gas leaks and understand the value, uses and cautions of citizen-collected data. Discuss problems of field data collection and implications and explore the policy questions for which citizen science data can be used, including the history and record of results of environmental law in practice, science as evidence in legal battles, and leveraging media attention.
Dave Damm-Luhr, Rajesh Kasturirangan, Britta Voss, Nathan Phillips, Chris Nidel
Clinical Imaging Informatics: Radiology in 2020
Randy Gollub, HST Affiliated - Associate Professor of Psychiatry, MGH
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/19
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
https://hst.mit.edu/IAP2017_Clinical_Imaging_Informatics
This course offers an in depth examination of the complete clinical imaging workflow from the perspective of the enabling technologies, many of which are being developed at MIT and collaborating academic healthcare centers. In hands-on sessions, participants will have the opportunity to develop cutting edge medical image visualization software tools and to explore data analysis and machine learning using quantitative metrics extracted from medical images and associated free text or structured meta-data.
As part of the course participants will begin to learn how to:
Goal of this educational effort is to catalyze the development of clinical imaging informatics infrastructure to help turn the wealth of raw medical images and linked health records into actionable medical knowledge: (1) by attracting new minds to pursue this career path; (2) by stimulating new collaborations between technology leaders and clinical translational investigators; and (3) by inspiring new applications of existing technologies.
Sponsor(s): Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Health Sciences
Contact: Randy Gollub, rgollub@partners.org
| Jan/10 | Tue | 03:00PM-07:00PM | E25-119, Bring a laptop |
Visit https://hst.mit.edu/IAP2017_Clinical_Imaging_Informatics for session details, etc.
You are welcome to attend individual sessions, but you will get the most out of the course by attending all 4 sessions as they build upon each other.
Randy Gollub - HST Affiliated - Associate Professor of Psychiatry, MGH
| Jan/17 | Tue | 03:00PM-07:00PM | E25-119, Bring a laptop |
Visit https://hst.mit.edu/IAP2017_Clinical_Imaging_Informatics for session details, etc.
You are welcome to attend individual sessions, but you will get the most out of the course by attending all 4 sessions as they build upon each other.
Randy Gollub - HST Affiliated - Associate Professor of Psychiatry, MGH
| Jan/24 | Tue | 03:00PM-07:00PM | E25-119, Bring a laptop |
Visit https://hst.mit.edu/IAP2017_Clinical_Imaging_Informatics for session details, etc.
You are welcome to attend individual sessions, but you will get the most out of the course by attending all 4 sessions as they build upon each other.
Randy Gollub - HST Affiliated - Associate Professor of Psychiatry, MGH
| Jan/31 | Tue | 03:00PM-07:00PM | E25-119, Bring a laptop |
Visit https://hst.mit.edu/IAP2017_Clinical_Imaging_Informatics for session details, etc.
You are welcome to attend individual sessions, but you will get the most out of the course by attending all 4 sessions as they build upon each other.
Randy Gollub - HST Affiliated - Associate Professor of Psychiatry, MGH
Collaborative Design and Creative Expression with Arduino MIcrocontrollers
Kyle Keane, Lecturer, Craig Carter, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Andrew Ringler, non-MIT lecturer, Mark Vrablic, MIT Student, EECS, Abhinav Gandhi, Visiting Student, EECS
| Jan/09 | Mon | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-4101, bring laptop |
| Jan/10 | Tue | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-4101, bring laptop |
| Jan/11 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-4101, bring laptop |
| Jan/12 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-4101, bring laptop |
| Jan/13 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-4101, bring laptop |
| Jan/17 | Tue | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-4101, bring laptop |
| Jan/18 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-4101, bring laptop |
| Jan/19 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-4101, bring laptop |
| Jan/20 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-4101, bring laptop |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none
Register at https://goo.gl/forms/0MAINQbUz6E690EB2 for this 9-day hands-on workshop about collaboration, design, and electronics prototyping. No previous experience with computer programming or electronics is required. Beginning students will be taught everything they need to know and advanced students will be challenged to learn new skills. Participants will work in small teams to design and build electronics projects using open-source microprocessors. Team projects are completely open-ended and designed by participants, past projects have included: an internet-connected weather simulation station, a giant LED billboard, and a CNC drawing machine. Participants will complete three guided projects in order to learn the fundamentals and will then break into small teams to complete a one-day mini-project of their choosing. After the mini-project, participants will break into new teams that will each get $250 and four days to design, plan, and build a custom project of their choice. On the last day of the course, students will present their projects in public exhibition and have the chance to win a prize for crowd favorite. Participants will learn about microcontroller programming using Arduino, collaborative software development using GitHub, solderless electronics prototyping, electronic sensors, rapid prototyping, and small team management.
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Kyle Keane, kkeane@mit.edu
DIY Medical Technology Construction Kits
Jose Gomez-Marquez, Little Devices Lab
| Jan/10 | Tue | 09:30AM-03:30PM | N52-373G |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Short Hand-on Seminar on DIY Medical Technology
Build medical device kits to empower patients and clinicians to make novel health devices.
What happens when everyone can make their own medical device? What are the drivers of how to democratize the basics of human health technology? The basics of DIY Medical Device Design and its implications are discussed in a series of hands-on activities and discussions to cover topics such as
- (Re) fabrication of medical technology
- The pharmacies in our garages
- The EpiPen vs. The Nerf Gun and what we can do about it
- How mom's can design and make their own Zika tests
- The future of patient data if we make it ours
- A look at how a hospital makerspace operates
- The MakerNurse program
The disparities in affordable healthcare technology are a growing part of increasing healthcare costs globally. This course aims to teach affordable prototyping and design strategies for health technology and medicine that can be applied to improve patient care in a variety of settings: both low-income and high-income economies, at patients' homes and in hospitals.
This one day seminar serves an an introduction to HST S.47 MakerLab, a two-week hands on sister course also offered during IAP.
For more information visit http://makerlab.mit.edu/
E-mail us: littledevices@mit.edu
Course Director(s):Lee Gehrke, Jose Gomez-Marquez, Anna Young
Time: January 10th, 9:30am to 3pm
Location: N52-391
Sponsor(s): Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Contact: Jose Gomez-Marquez, N52-373G, 617 674-7516, littledevices@mit.edu
EE Skills Workshop for Freshmen
Alex Sludds, 6-2 Student
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Construct an LED light array! Assuming no prior knowledge we will help you
wrap your head around circuit construction and signal processing. Learn how
to use breadboards, multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal
generators, op-amps, and leds.
Email asludds@mit.edu to reserve a space.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Alex Sludds, asludds@mit.edu
| Jan/23 | Mon | 12:00PM-02:30PM | 38-501 |
| Jan/24 | Tue | 12:00PM-02:30PM | 38-501 |
Alex Sludds - 6-2 Student
Electronics for Makers
Joseph Okor, Engineer
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
If you are into building things, these are the best of times. We now have low cost, and easily accessible technologies such as 3D Printing, 3D Scanning, Laser Cutting, Desktop 3D CNC, etc. The "glue" that binds everything together and makes everything exciting is Electronics. Electronics hardware has gotten 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 little as $5 (Raspberry Pi Zero). These technological advances are not been used by the "average" maker because of how the "average" maker interacts with electronics. In this class, you will learn the skills needed to take advantage of this revolution for fun and/or profit.
WEB;http://iap2017.xfunbotix.com/
Contact: Joseph Okor, jkokor@alum.mit.edu
| Jan/31 | Tue | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 2-136 |
| Feb/01 | Wed | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 2-136 |
| Feb/02 | Thu | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 2-136 |
| Feb/03 | Fri | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 2-136 |
Joseph Okor - Engineer
Free-Space Laser Communication
Jade Wang, David Caplan, Gavin Lund, Dave Geisler, Neal Spellmeyer, Rich Kaminsky
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Exposure to Matlab, physics, electronics, optics helpful
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 free-space lasercom systems, and will work in teams to compete for a best-project award.
To register, email iap-lasercom@mit.edu. Include "2017 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, iap-lasercom@mit.edu
| Jan/10 | Tue | 11:00AM-04:00PM | NE45-202, located at 300 Tech. Square |
| Jan/12 | Thu | 11:00AM-04:00PM | NE45-202, located at 300 Tech. Square |
| Jan/17 | Tue | 11:00AM-04:00PM | NE45-202, located at 300 Tech. Square |
| Jan/19 | Thu | 11:00AM-04:00PM | NE45-202, located at 300 Tech. Square |
time includes break for lunch
Hands-On Holography
Dr. Robert A. Freking, Dr. Joseph Vornehm, Gregory Balonek
| Jan/09 | Mon | 01:00PM-04:00PM | Beaverworks NE45-202, Bring laptop with MATLAB installed |
| Jan/11 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | Beaverworks NE45-202, Bring laptop with MATLAB installed |
| Jan/13 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | Beaverworks NE45-202, Bring laptop with MATLAB installed |
| Jan/18 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | Beaverworks NE45-202, Bring laptop with MATLAB installed |
| Jan/20 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | Beaverworks NE45-202, Bring laptop with MATLAB installed |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
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
High-Energy-Density Physics Laboratory tour
Cody Parker, Postdoctoral Associate, Graeme Sutcliffe, Graduate Student
| Jan/13 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | NW17-218 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
This tour showcases Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) research at MIT. The PSFC High-Energy-Density Physics group has developed and/or calibrated a number of nuclear diagnostics installed on the OMEGA laser at the University of Rochester, NY, and on the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, CA, to study nuclear products generated in fusion reactions.
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, 617 253-8101, RIVENBERG@PSFC.MIT.EDU
How to Design Electric Vehicles - Lab
Lennon Rodgers, Research Scientist
Enrollment: Engineering majors, sophomore or above
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Engineering major, sophomore or above
If you are interested in designing and building electric vehicles (EVs), then this IAP class is for you.
The course is split into two parts: [1] Lecture and [2] Lab and separate enrollment is necessary.
The lab is a smaller class size, hands-on and covers motors, motor controllers, speed controllers, batteries and vehicle systems. The labs will explore general electric vehicle technologies using lithium-ion batteries and small electric vehicles such as electric scooters and skateboards (which the students will take apart, reassemble and ride). Enrollment in the lab is extremely limited and geared towards MIT engineering students that have sophomore standing or above. Note: extra hours in the evenings will be needed to complete labs (outside the scheduled time). You must commit to attend all lab sessions to enroll.
There will be 5 lab sessions:
Lab #1: Estimating Energy & Power of EVs
Lab #2: Vehicle Systems
Lab #3: Batteries
Lab #4: PID speed controllers I
Lab #5: PID speed controllers II
To register please fill out this form (only once for both the lecture and lab)
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD International Design Center
Contact: Lennon Rodgers, design-ev@mit.edu
| Jan/09 | Mon | 09:00AM-12:00PM | IDC, N52-3rd Floor |
| Jan/11 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | IDC, N52-3rd Floor |
| Jan/13 | Fri | 09:00AM-12:00PM | IDC, N52-3rd Floor |
| Jan/18 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | IDC, N52-3rd Floor |
| Jan/20 | Fri | 09:00AM-12:00PM | IDC, N52-3rd Floor |
See course description
Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist
Introduction to the Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG) software
Soumya Gudiyella, Postdoctoral Associate, Chemical Engineering Dept.
| Jan/20 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 56-114, Bring your laptop |
| Jan/27 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 56-114, Bring your laptop |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Prereq: General background in chemistry, laptop required
Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG) is an automatic mechanism generation software developed by the Green Group at MIT (http://rmg.mit.edu/). The software can be used to generate chemical kinetic mechanisms for a wide range of chemical species by using inbuilt reaction networks and libraries. In the Green Group, RMG is extensively used to develop chemical kinetic mechanisms for combustion and chemical process applications.
In this course, you will learn about
- Visualizing the mechanism
- Model comparison
- Molecule search, kinetics search and others …
- How to cite RMG
- Github basics (how to update RMG, troubleshooting etc.)
- How to install RMG on your computer
Prerequisites: General background in chemistry, laptop required
Who should attend: Students/post-docs working on gas phase chemical kinetics. Students/postdocs interested in building chemical kinetic mechanisms for combustion and chemical process applications.
Duration: 2 hr
Good to know: Basic Linux commands
Registration: Register here
Contact: Soumya Gudiyella, E18-566A, 617-902-8184, SOUMYAG@MIT.EDU
Lag-User Method: Using Late Adopters as a Source of Innovative Ideas
Sara Jahanmir, Research Affiliate, Chemical Engineering
| Jan/10 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 2-135 |
| Jan/11 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 2-135 |
| Jan/13 | Fri | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 2-135 |
| Jan/17 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 2-135 |
| Jan/18 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 2-135 |
| Jan/20 | Fri | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 2-135 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
The course will apply the “Lag-User Method” as a tool for students to involve late adopters of technologies in idea generation and new product development.
The Lag-User Method is an innovative new product development method, developed and tested in numerous fields (technologies, services, consumer goods and many more). It was created in cooperation with business schools across various countries and has been published in the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, the Wall Street Journal, and other international media.
Prior to class, students will be asked to select a technology that is mature in its life cycle. In teams of 3 or 4, they will select one technology and will apply the “Lag-User Method” to understand the late adopters of that technology and explore which new ideas/improvements provided by late adopters could result in a faster diffusion.
The class consists of theoretical lectures by the lecturer(s) as well as group work among students. The theoretical part of the class is supported by videos, guest speakers and optional reading material.
Students from different backgrounds are encouraged to work together. Some market research will be conducted outside the class hours.
Register here by Jan. 5: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iap-class-lag-user-method-using-late-adopters-as-a-source-of-innovative-ideas-tickets-30165670332
Pre-course assignment will be emailed to registered students.
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Sara Jahanmir, jahanmir@mit.edu
Learn to Build Your Own Videogame with the Unity Game Engine and Microsoft Kinect
Kyle Keane, Lecturer, Craig Carter, Professor in DMSE, Andrew Ringler, Research Affiliate, Mark Vrablic, MIT Student, EECS, Abhinav Gandhi, Visiting Student, EECS
| Jan/09 | Mon | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-3101, bring laptop |
| Jan/10 | Tue | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-3101, bring laptop |
| Jan/11 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-3101, bring laptop |
| Jan/12 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-3101, bring laptop |
| Jan/13 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-3101, bring laptop |
| Jan/17 | Tue | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-3101, bring laptop |
| Jan/18 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-3101, bring laptop |
| Jan/19 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-3101, bring laptop |
| Jan/20 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 13-3101, bring laptop |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Register at https://goo.gl/forms/3wEKy82KvxSp6ib32 for this 9-day hands-on workshop about designing, building, and publishing simple educational videogames. No previous experience with computer programming or videogame design is required. Beginning students will be taught everything they need to know, and advanced students will be challenged to learn new skills. Participants will work in small teams to design, build, and publish videogames that will be shared in a large public exhibition. Team projects are open-ended and designed by participants. Examples include: a collection of bouncing balls that can be sped up or slowed down using hand gestures, a virtual reality laboratory where kids can perform experiments, and crowdsourcing interface for describing scientific graphics for blind students. Participants will complete guided projects in order to learn the fundamentals and will then break into small teams to complete a one-day mini-project of their choosing. Participants will then break into new teams that will have four days to design, plan, and build a custom project of their choice. On the last day, students will present their projects in a public exhibition and have the chance to win a prize for “crowd favorite”. Participants will learn about videogame creation using the Unity game engine, collaborative software development using GitHub, gesture handling using the Microsoft Kinect, 3D digital object creation, videogame design, and small team management.
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Kyle Keane, kkeane@mit.edu
Letterlocking and Early Italian Archival Bindings
Jana Dambrogio, MIT Libraries Thomas F. Peterson Conservator
| Jan/12 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 14-0513 Wunsch Lab |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Come to the Wunsch Conservation Lab and use handmade paper, ink, wax, and seals to letterlock and bind books in three historically-accurate binding styles. Participants will learn how to paper engineer, build physical security, and add authentication enhancements into their documents in the medieval style.
The class will view original manuscripts based on archival storage systems of Italian legal and accounting documents from the 13th-17th-centuries and learn the difference between a filza, a gathered and tied binding, and a journal made with parchment tackets.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Jana Dambrogio, 14-0513, 617 452-4064, jld@mit.edu
Make an OScope, signal generator, and pulse oximeter measurement circuitry in 2 days!
Patrick Kane, Steven Leeb
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Programming, circuits, soldering experience helpful
Learn about the analog capabilities of Programmable System on Chip (PSoC) products. We will teach you how to make a simple Pulse Oximeter Analog Front End (AFE) with a PSoC 4, and how to use a PSoC 5LP as a function generator and oscilloscope to test the Pulse Oximeter AFE.
One problem with creating analog solutions is that they usually require a complicated analog lab. This makes presenting analog solutions cumbersome because you need to bring an oscilloscope. Instead, we will show you how to build your own PSoC 5LP based Simple Oscilloscope to allow you to see your pulse waveform with only a laptop and a few USB ports. Learn to program the PSOC 5LP as a simple function generator and simple oscilloscope.
Next we will use a PSoC 4 to build a Pulse Oximeter Analog Front End, and use the Simple Oscope to measure the detected heartbeat signal. Each attendee will leave the class with their own PSoC 5 LP OScope/Signal generator, a PSoC 4 - 042 kit, and the pulse oximeter interface board.
Please sign up for the workshop here: http://svy.mk/2fljfSs
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Patrick Kane, iap-psoc@mit.edu
| Jan/24 | Tue | 10:00AM-05:00PM | 38-500 |
Patrick Kane
| Jan/25 | Wed | 10:00AM-05:00PM | 38-500 |
Patrick Kane
Micro Drone Vehicle Racing and Course Design : Build, Fly, and Pop Up Infrastructure Design
Jose Gomez-Marquez, Little Devices Lab
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Attendance: 1st and 2nd class mandatory (safety + drone intro) email instructor
Prereq: None
BUILD A DRONE // BUILD A DRONE RACECOURSE
Class is full.
Students will learn how to design, build and assemble their own FPV racing drone and work in teams to create a life size drone racing course. Advanced topics such as racing flight behavior, pop up architectural and infrastructure design, and sensor systems will be explored. The instructors will be drone racing professionals and MIT researchers.
In 2014, hobbyists in France decided to attach front-facing cameras and LEDs to their fast-flying drones, racing them “Star Wars-style” through the forest earning them more then 3M YouTube views. Drone racing has since expanded globally and is now featured in mainstream sports on ESPN. The nascent sport still offers plenty of opportunity for vehicle & course design innovation.
Students will learn how to build, fly, and race their own mini FPV racing drone, and work in teams to design, build and test a 1:1 scale drone racing course using 3-D printed components, architectural design, and sensor systems for pilot feedback.
Learn about the different obstacle courses that drone pilots before us have built, then improve upon and build your own. We will explore how different geometries, materials, and arrangements of obstacles affects the performance of a track. Each team’s racecourse will then be tested using biometrics as a measure of course capacity.
No prior flying experience is necessary. Basic safety training session is required. For more information, reach jfgm@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD International Design Center
Contact: Jose Gomez-Marquez, N52-373G, 617.674.7516, JFGM@MIT.EDU
| Jan/17 | Tue | 03:00PM-05:00PM | N52-373G |
| Jan/18 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | N52-373G |
| Jan/20 | Fri | 03:00PM-05:00PM | N52-373G |
| Jan/23 | Mon | 03:00PM-05:00PM | N52-373G |
| Jan/25 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | N25-373G |
| Jan/27 | Fri | 03:00PM-05:00PM | N52-373G |
MIT Bio-Maker Workshop
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
Enrollment: Apply for enrollment at; mitbiomakers.com
Sign-up by 01/01
Limited to 60 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Join other self-motivated students with a love for biology and maker-culture for our four week course, designed to nucleate the community of biological-hackers at MIT. You’ll leave our workshop with an experimental action plan outlining proof of concept experimentation to allow you to pursue your chosen topic independently come the spring. Teams with well thought-out proposals may have a chance to perform their experiments by applying for entry to a new lab class this spring from course 20; 20.S948. Teams may also be eligible to apply directly to the MIT Sandbox program immediately following the course in February.
Experimental action plans will include a formal description of the problem statement, proposed solution, and experimental protocol, crafted over four weeks with guidance from MIT faculty and local biotech industry mentors. We invite students of all backgrounds, and hope to establish collaborations between those with strong biology knowledge and others with computational/mechanical skillsets. Learn more at our website, mitbiomakers.com.
Sponsor(s): Biological Engineering, Biology
Contact: Oliver Dodd, OBDODD@MIT.EDU
| Jan/09 | Mon | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Jan/11 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Jan/13 | Fri | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Jan/18 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Jan/19 | Thu | 10:00AM-04:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Jan/20 | Fri | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Jan/23 | Mon | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Jan/25 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Jan/26 | Thu | 10:00AM-04:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Jan/27 | Fri | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Jan/30 | Mon | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Feb/01 | Wed | 08:45AM-12:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Feb/02 | Thu | 10:00AM-04:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
| Feb/03 | Fri | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 1-190 |
Oliver Dodd, Anthony Kulesa
Musical Instrument Design Workshop/Make-a-thon
Ken Zolot, Senior Lecturer
| Feb/03 | Fri | 01:30PM-05:30PM | tbd |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 02/02
Limited to 100 participants
Prereq: none
Join visiting students from Berklee College of Music as we explore the frontiers of musical instrument design and fabrication. This event will feature multi-disciplinary teams building new musical instruments. Students will: construct interfaces for musical expression using sensors and sound design software; work in interdisciplinary teams and use rapid prototyping skills; explore the possibilities of network enabled musical performance; investigate how embedded technologies or biometric sensors can turn household objects or humans into sound outputs, and design new ways to sync music with one’s everyday life. Topics will also include entrepreneurship and new product launch strategies.
Please note that the workshop will be held at a special off-campus location. We'll send you directions once you've enrolled. Please enroll for the Feb 3 workshop by completing this form:
This is session is a pre-semester sneak preview of a full-term new subject, 2.S972, described here:
http://web.mit.edu/founders/www/2.S972.html
Students can enroll in 2.S972 without attending the IAP workshop on Feb 3, or can attend the IAP workshop on Feb 3 without enrolling in 2.S972.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Ken Zolot, 32-G528, ZOLOT@MIT.EDU
Patent Law Fundamentals
Jeffrey A. Meldman, Senior Lecturer
| Jan/18 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E51-151 |
| Jan/20 | Fri | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E51-151 |
| Jan/23 | Mon | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E51-151 |
| Jan/25 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E51-151 |
| Jan/27 | Fri | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E51-151 |
| Jan/30 | Mon | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E51-151 |
| Feb/01 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E51-151 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Prereq: None
Intensive introduction to the basic provisions of U.S. patent law, emphasizing the requirements for patentability and the process of applying for a patent. Designed for students in all MIT departments.
Topics include: Requirements of utility, novelty, and non-obviousness; Eligibility of software, business methods, and genetic material; Applying for a patent, including patent searches and the language of patent claims; New U.S. law of inventor priority; Infringement, defenses, and remedies; Comparing patent protection with the protection of copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks.
Reading materials include key sections of the U.S. patent statute (Title 35, U.S. Code) and related judicial decisions. All readings and lecture slides will be posted on Stellar. No textbooks or course packs.
Meets with 15.S51, which offers 3 units of G credit. Students who wish to receive credit should register for 15.S51 and plan to take a comprehensive quiz in the final class meeting on February 1. (For the benefit of non-credit participants, the MIT community will have access to the 15.S51 website throughout IAP.)
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Jeffrey Meldman, E62-317, 617 253-4932, JMELDMAN@MIT.EDU
Printing with Light: A classroom science project
Nick Fang, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $50.00
for consumables
This activity demonstrates the basic challenges and opportunities of nanoscale engineering and manufacturing as an outreach effort to high school science teachers and students using digital projector as a fabrication platform.
A regular video projector provides enough UV light to initiate a photochemical reaction by cleaving a molecule to form free radicals when white light is emitted. The free radicals will polymerize a monomer through an addition polymerization reaction. It will polymerize the solution, becoming solid, only where the white light is projected. It will remain an unreacted liquid elsewhere.
Successive layers are made by lowering the polymerized shape into a beaker of the solution. A thin layer of fresh solution flows over the top and light is again projected to solidify portions of the fresh layer. This is repeated, creating a 3 dimensional object layer by layer.
In the past, the proposed activity has led to development of a 3D printing educational module that engaged students and teachers from more than 10 high schools, showcased at the Illinois State Capitol Educational Fair and the St Louis Science Center. Several student projects from the 2.710 and 2.719 courses at MIT are emerging from this objective, and we expect the students and teachers participating in this proposed IAP activities will develop more projects to accessible educational kits.
Contact: Xuanlai Fang, 3-435B, 617 253-2247, NICFANG@MIT.EDU
| Jan/23 | Mon | 09:00AM-11:30AM | 3-434 |
| Jan/24 | Tue | 09:00AM-11:30AM | 3-434 |
| Jan/25 | Wed | 09:00AM-11:30AM | 3-434 |
| Jan/26 | Thu | 09:00AM-11:30AM | 3-434 |
This activities contains 4 class periods. The first period is for the PowerPoint presentation, and the rest are for designing and ¿printing¿ the three-dimensional objects.
Nick Fang - Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Quick Intro to Designing Feedback Controllers
Joseph Steinmeyer, Lecturer, EECS, Jacob White, Professor, EECS
| Jan/17 | Tue | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 38-530 Circuits Lab, Bring laptop |
| Jan/18 | Wed | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 38-530 Circuits Lab, Bring laptop |
| Jan/19 | Thu | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 38-530 Circuits Lab, Bring laptop |
| Jan/20 | Fri | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 38-530 Circuits Lab, Bring laptop |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: High school-level algebra, some exposure to programming
This course will be a one-week lab-focused introduction to controls focused on discrete time modeling and control of systems using microcontrollers (Teensy3.2 and/or Teensy 3.5/6 ARM development boards) and a number of system artifacts (quadcopter propellers and combinations of propellers, inverted pendulum, etc…). We’ll be carrying out portions of already-developed and newly-developed lab modules from 6.302 and the 6.302x series we’ve been developing, so in some sense this course is a workshop. There will be some light homework associated with the class (~1 hour per day or less), but we’ll only be working in lab (no lectures) and relying on readings and in-lab discussions for establishing concepts. This on-campus IAP class, the labs will NOT be streamlined or plug-and-play, students should expect a more realistic engineering experience. We are also open to students carrying out mini-projects focused on control within the course if they fit within the goals of the curriculum. Students should be prepared to work in pairs, be inspired by problems where determining the approach is as important as executing on that approach, and they should be comfortable with simple circuits, basic mechanics, and modifying short programs in C and/or Python.
Contact jodalyst@mit.edu by Jan. 6 to sign up.
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Joe Steinmeyer, jodalyst@mit.edu
RACECAR: Rapid Autonomous Complex-Environment Competing Ackermann-Steering Robot
Sertac Karaman, Professor, Aero/Astro, Michael Boulet, Ken Gregson, Owen Guldner
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/02
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): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lincoln Laboratory, MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Owen Guldner, racecar-iap-course-subscribe@mit.edu
| Jan/09 | Mon | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 32-081 |
| Jan/11 | Wed | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 32-081 |
| Jan/13 | Fri | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 32-081 |
| Jan/18 | Wed | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 32-081 |
| Jan/20 | Fri | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 32-081 |
Students should be prepared to put in significant time outside of scheduled class hours (approx. 6-10 hours each week)
Software Radio
Thomas Royster, Devin Kelly, James Streitman, Mike McLarney, Dwight Hutchenson, Fred Block, Joseph Gaeddert
| Jan/10 | Tue | 01:00PM-04:00PM | Beaverworks NE45-202, bring your laptop |
| Jan/12 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | Beaverworks NE45-202, bring your laptop |
| Jan/17 | Tue | 01:00PM-04:00PM | Beaverworks NE45-202, bring your laptop |
| Jan/19 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | Beaverworks NE45-202, bring your laptop |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
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, RTL-SDR, and HackRF software radio platforms 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
Transformative Appetite
Wen Wang, Research Scientist, Lining Yao, Research Assistant, Teng Zhang, Assistant Professor, Syracuse, Chin-Yi Cheng, Research Assistant, Daniel Levine, Research Assistant
| Jan/09 | Mon | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E15-341 |
| Jan/10 | Tue | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E15-341 |
| Jan/11 | Wed | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E15-341 |
| Jan/12 | Thu | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E15-341 |
| Jan/13 | Fri | 01:00PM-05:00PM | E15-341 |
| Jan/17 | Tue | 01:00PM-05:00PM | E14-240 |
| Jan/18 | Wed | 01:00PM-05:00PM | E14-240 |
| Jan/19 | Thu | 01:00PM-05:00PM | E14-240 |
| Jan/19 | Thu | 05:30PM-06:30PM | Media Lab |
| Jan/19 | Thu | 06:30PM-09:00PM | Media Lab |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Passion for digital design and food. No specific major.
This course teaches the theory, design, and fabrication of shape-transforming food by hydration or dehydration processes during making, cooking and eating. It is based on recent research by the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, which explores edible, composite-structured food. The course will include lectures and hands-on design workshops as well as a final exhibition highlighting group projects.
Course Activities:
During lectures, students will learn about design concepts related to transformative materials as well as the underlying principles of materials science and mechanical engineering. Students will also learn to use Rhino and Grasshopper software for 3-D design and some basics of the hardware (3D food printer system).
In the design workshop, the classroom will become a food lab. Students will work with both physical edible material toolkits as well as a digital software simulation toolkit. Concepts of future food will be explored, and students will transform their edible ideas into reality under the instruction of a team of experts that includes a chef, food texture expert, material scientist, designer, software architect, and mechanical engineer!
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Media Arts and Sciences, Chemical Engineering
Contact: Wen Wang, wwen@mit.edu
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