DIGITAL DESIGN
This year in Digital Design, sixteen MITES students explored techniques and concepts involved in creating professional grade websites. They spent the past five weeks learning HTML, PHP, CSS Style Sheets, Flash and other technologies essential for modern web experiences. The students also focused on the visual and practical aspects of design. Working in teams, the students used their knowledge and skills to create a MITES-related website.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS
The Electronics course was newly added to the MITES curriculum this summer. The students learned college-level material covering both digital and analog electronics through hands-on labs. Some topics included combinational and sequential logic, transistors, semiconductors, filtering, operational amplifiers and amplitude modulation. In addition to the conceptual work and labs, the students had an extremely demanding final project where they applied their circuit understanding to modify a given circuit for a digital count-down timer.
ENGINEERING DESIGN
Engineering Design teaches students a creative design process, based on the scientific method, with lectures and the creation, engineering, and manufacture of a remote controlled machine to compete in today's contest. Students learn to identify problems and create, develop, and select the best strategies using fundamental principles, appropriate analysis, and experimentation. Students then divide their best concept into modules and develop the critical modules first. Our class is based off of MIT's 2.007 competition which is normally taken by sophomores in mechanical engineering over a semester. We’ve challenged these MITES students to achieve the same goal in five weeks’ time.
GENOMICS
This summer in Genomics, sixteen MITES students were transformed into research scientists. In groups of four, students researched monogenic disorders such as Early Onset Breast Cancer and sequenced the DNA of several individuals to discover novel human genetic variation. Under the guidance of Broad researchers, the students sequenced the genes of diseased and healthy individuals, found mutations in the diseased genomes and studied their effects. In addition to the genomics lab research project, students also participated in a lecture series. Lecture topics included DNA technologies, an overview of genomics research, drug design, and the ethical and social implications of genomics research. Combining the knowledge gained from a lab setting with the information garnered at various presentations, the students created scientific posters of their research experience.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of Engineering Outreach Programs
Building 1-123, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge 02139
617-253-8052 oeop@mit.edu
FINAL PROJECTS
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