Office:
N42-250J

Phone:
617.253.3909

E-Mail:
jrcain <at>mit.edu

James Cain

Consultant, Educational Innovation & Technology
Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education

Expertise

• Engineering Software
• Instrumentation and Data Acquisition
• Digital Repositories
• Human Computer Interfaces
• Virtualization

Recent, current, and upcoming activities

• Instructor for IAP 2007 "ON BLINDNESS: Seeing Apparatus ... ".
• 6.081 - Educational Technology Consultant Fall 2006 and Spring 2007
• 5.92   - Educational Technology Consultant Spring 2007

Education

• MS, Mechanical Engineering UTK 1992
• BS, Engineering Mechanics UTK 1985

Previous employment
1981-2006

• Educational Technology Consultant, Curriculum Integration, IS&T MIT.
• Research Specialist, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT.
• Engineering Consultant, Ames, NASA.
• Research Engineer, CSI.
• Engineer, Langley Research Center, NASA.

Personal interests

• Creating enabling technologies for the visually and physically handicapped.
• Just make it work!