ASME Energy Relay Design Contest
Debashish "Jay" Sircar
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 09-Dec-2011
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers holds a yearly design competition for students to apply their knowledge of engineering principles to solve design challenges. This year's competition is the "Energy Rally." Each team is required to design and manufacture 4 devices that use different forms of energy, and work sequentially in order to complete a race. MIT ASME will assist in designing and offer assistance in manufacturing. Throughout IAP teams (of 4) will meet independently, with occasional group meetings and consultations with experienced faculty/staff/ and students. Successful teams will have the chance to attend the Student Professional Development Conference (SDPC) at Yale University in April, in order to compete in the competition. Regional Winners attend the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition free of charge in April, in Texas. Students of all disciplines are invited to participate.
Please contact ASMEDsgnCmp@MIT.EDU for more information.
Contact: ASME Design Competition Organizers, ASMEDsgnCmp@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering
Session 1
Debashish "Jay" Sircar
Thu Jan 12, 05-07:00pm, 1-150
Session 2
Debashish "Jay" Sircar
Thu Jan 19, 05-07:00pm, 1-150
Session 3
Debashish "Jay" Sircar
Thu Jan 26, 05-07:00pm, 1-150
Session 4
Debashish "Jay" Sircar
Thu Feb 2, 05-07:00pm, 4-145
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An Introduction to Jet Propulsion -- Gas Turbine Engine Fundamentals and Hands-On Lab for Freshmen
Prof. Zoltan Spakovszky, F. Ehrich
Mon Jan 23 thru Fri Jan 27, 01-05:00pm, Gas Turbine Lab, Bldg 31-161
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 19-Jan-2012
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None.
Have you ever wondered how a jet engine works? This course will give you an introduction to the fundamentals of gas turbine engines and jet propulsion with a “hands-on” experience in engine assembly, measurement setup and operation of a small-scale gas turbine jet engine. The introductory lectures will cover the history of the jet engine, thermodynamic and aerodynamic fundamentals of gas turbine engines, current engine design trends, and background information on the small-scale jet engine design, assembly, test setup and operation. The hands-on lab will be carried out in teams in the engine test cell at MIT’s Gas Turbine Laboratory.
Participants are requested to attend lectures on January 23. Each of the student teams is requested to attend the lab on one day during the remainder of the week.
Contact: Robin Courchesne-Sato, rsato@mit.edu
Sponsor: Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Awesome Build Party
Joseph Okor, Louis Atsaves
Mon-Fri, Jan 17-20, 23-27, 30-31, 2-3, 03pm-05:00am, 2-136
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: none
Do you love designing things, or building things or wishing you could build things and could not think of what to build? We have identified a set of problems whose solutions could make a big difference in the World. During the IAP, we hope to find solutions to these problems, and build prototypes. At the end of IAP, we hope to have a big party to show off our prototypes to friends, enemies, potential business partners, etc.
Web: http://abp.elementfx.com//buildparty/
Contact: Joseph Okor, (561) 431-8294, jkokor@alum.mit.edu
Sponsor: Louis C Atsaves, BAKER-HOUSE # 135, 617 225-7135, latsaves@mit.edu
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Build Your Own Loudspeakers
Michael Price, Ken Stone
Tue Jan 10, 05-07:00pm, TBA
Thu Jan 12, 09-11:00am, W31-031 Hobby Shop
Tue Jan 17, 09-11:00am, W31-031 Hobby Shop, Also 5-7 pm TBA
Thu Jan 19, 09-11:00am, W31-031 Hobby Shop
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 21-Dec-2011
Limited to 10 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: MIT student and Hobby Shop member
Fee: 220.00 for Materials
This is a hands-on introduction to the engineering and art of speaker design. How speakers work, the acoustics of enclosure design, baffle layout and crossover electronics will all be covered. We also examine the frequency response and distortion behavior of individual drivers and see how these are influenced by the design. Students will make enclosure parts as a team then assemble and finish their own pair of speakers. No experience is required, but budget 20 hours of shop time in addition to the scheduled meetings. Materials fee covers the cost of components and unfinished enclosure. Plastic laminate or other finish is an additional cost.
Contact: Ken Stone, W31-031, x3-4343, kenstone@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hobby Shop
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Build a Holographic Recording and Reconstruction System\\\\\\\\\\\*
Dr. Robert A. Freking, Dr. Christy F. Cull, Dr. Evan C. Cull, Dr. Matthew R. Fetterman
Mon Jan 30 thru Thu Feb 2, 01-03:00pm, 56-154
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 20-Jan-2012
Limited to 24 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Bring laptop with MATLAB installed. Have MATLAB experience
Most spatial information perceived by living creatures and machines is conveyed by wave propagation, which intrinsically carries a phase component. Even so, machine sensing typically relies exclusively on intensity while entirely ignoring phase relationships. Holography constitutes a method of preserving phase relationships by recording a snapshot of the intensity profile of controlled interference patterns. By so doing, an additional third dimension—depth—is recovered from two-dimensional sampling. This course will demystify holographic interference patterns by showing how to gather and interpret them and recover depth information. Course topics will step through principles enabling you to conceptually appreciate holographic phenomena and understand constraints faced by recording system designers. Then, using sound waves instead of laser light, participants will have an opportunity to compete in teams to develop a real-world measurement system and computationally recover a scene. Measurement devices and MATLAB starter code will be provided. \\\*Work sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Contract #FA8721-05-C-0002. Content may not be endorsed by the U.S. Government.
Contact: Dr. Robert A. Freking, LIN-A-281, (781) 981-5894, rfreking@ll.mit.edu
Sponsor: Lincoln Laboratory
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Build a Small Phased Array Radar System Capable of Imaging Moving Targets
Dr. Bradley Perry, Dr. Jonathan Paul Kitchens, Dr. Patrick Bell, Dr. Jeffrey Herd
Tue Jan 17, Fri Jan 20, Mon Jan 23, Tue Jan 24, 01-03:00pm, 4-153
Fri Jan 27, 01-03:00pm, 4-149
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2012
Limited to 24 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Participants supply their own laptops with MATLAB installed
Are you interested in building and testing your own phased array radar system? MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a unique course in the design, fabrication, and test of a laptop-based phased array radar sensor capable of imaging moving targets in real-time, like a ‘radar video camera’. This course will appeal to anyone interested in the following: electronics, amateur radio, physics, electromagnetics, or phased array systems. Teams of three will make a phased array radar system and attend five sessions spanning topics from fundamentals of radar to digital beamforming. You will bring your radar into the field and perform imaging of moving targets around campus. Imaging unusual targets is encouraged; a final radar video competition will determine the most creative radar imagery.
\\*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.
Contact: Dr. Bradley Perry, (781) 981-0861, radar.course@ll.mit.edu
Sponsor: Lincoln Laboratory
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Build a Small Radar System Capable of Sensing Range, Doppler, and Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
Dr. Bradley Perry, Dr. Melissa Meyer, Dr. Stephen M. Kogon, Dr. Alan Fenn
Tue Jan 17, Fri Jan 20, Mon Jan 23, Tue Jan 24, 10am-12:00pm, 4-153
Fri Jan 27, 10am-12:00pm, 4-149
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2012
Limited to 24 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Participants supply their own laptop with MATLAB installed
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 five 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.
\\*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.
Contact: Dr. Bradley Perry, (781) 981-0861, radar.course@ll.mit.edu
Sponsor: Lincoln Laboratory
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Carve a Half-Model of an Historic Herreshoff Design
Harold Burnham Designer and Boat Builder, Kurt Hasselbalch
Tue Jan 24 thru Fri Jan 27, 09am-03:30pm, N51-160
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 20-Jan-2012
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This class will use historic design data by N. G. Herrshoff (MIT class of 1870) from the Hart Nautical Collections – MIT Museum. NGH is widely considered the worlds greatest yacht designer. You will be guided in the fine art of wood carving by master shipwright and designer Harold Burnham (http://boatbuildingwithburnham.blogspot.com/)
Burnham designs by carving half-hull models in a similar way as NGH created all his famous yacht designs. A concurrent class on traditional drafting will be making lines plans of the same design. An incredible opportunity to fully experience traditional boat design. Also included is a curator led tour of the famous Hart Nautical design collections.
Web: http://boatbuildingwithburnham.blogspot.com/
Contact: Kurt Hasselbalch, N51-233A, x3-5942, kurt@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Museum
Cosponsor: Architecture
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Clock Design Workshop
Elina Hu
Tue-Fri, Jan 11-13, 17-20, 01-04:00pm, 3-442 & Hobby Shop
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 23-Dec-2011
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Preference to Freshmen and Sophomores
Fee: 30.00 for material fee
You + Waterjet + Stone = Cool Clock Face!
Waterjet a clock face from stone! A hands-on workshop during IAP.
Course is centered around the creation of an artistic marble and granite clock face with the aid of a water jet. Students will design and build the entire clock face themselves. They will learn how to use the water jet in this process. Class focuses on generating art using powerful engineering tools. Students will develop competence as designers, taking into account material properties, machine tolerances, budget and time constraints during the design and build of their clock faces.
Dates: Tuesday 1/17 - Friday 1/20, and Monday 1/23
Time: 1-4pm
Location: 1-150 and MIT Hobby Shop
$30 material fee associated with class. Enrollment is limited to 8 students with preference to freshmen and sophomores. Please email ehu@mit.edu if interested!
Contact: Elina Hu, ehu@mit.edu
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering
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FULL! Acoustics: One-Day Hands-On Speaker Design Workshop
Engineers from Bose! Bose Engineer
Fri Jan 27, 10am-07:00pm, TBD
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 01-Dec-2011
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: An engineering lab class
This activity is closed.
Do you love music, but your laptop speakers are not cutting it for you? Then come build your own high-performing speaker system in a free hands-on speaker design workshop with Bose engineers. Think 6.270, but for a speaker and in a single day. You?ll first learn the fundamentals of acoustics theory and transducer electromagnetics. Then using a bucket of supplied parts, you'll apply that learning to build a crossover network and working two-way speaker system, which you get to keep. All you need to bring is your own portable music player with several of your favorite tracks of music, which you'll use to test and demonstrate your speaker.
Sign up soon! First come first served!
This is a COMMITMENT. If you sign up, you are taking
a space away from someone else. Be there!
Web: http://web.mit.edu/cdev2
Contact: iap-acoustics
Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Health and Wellness Innovation 2012 - Come hack to save healthcare
John Moore MD
Tue Jan 17, 09am-06:00pm, MIT Media Lab 6th fl
Wed Jan 18 thru Thu Jan 26, 09am-06:00pm, MIT Media Lab
Fri Jan 27, 09am-06:00pm, MIT Media Lab 6th fl
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 16-Dec-2011
Limited to 60 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: software development, user experience design, hardware proto
The MIT Media Lab is proud to announce that the Health and Wellness Innovation event is back for its third year! Researchers, hackers, physicians, and industry experts, in one location, creating disruptive healthcare technologies today.
The Challenge: Healthcare is in crisis; every year we spend more and get less. At the core of the crisis is a lack of patient engagement.
Why: To learn what is working and what is not. To meet a team of hackers, researchers, physicians, and industry pros. To solve the healthcare crisis and save lives. Oh yeah and if you aren't convinced, there are $10,000 in prizes generously donated by Spark Capital.
When: Join us for two weeks from January 17th - January 27th, 2012. Together we are going to build the next generation of technologies to engage and empower patients and save healthcare.
How: Apply now: http://newmed.media.mit.edu/health-and-wellness-innovation-2012-registration
Healthcare needs you, come be part of the solution.
Web: http://newmed.media.mit.edu/health-and-wellness-innovation-2012
Contact: John Moore MD, E14-274G, (617) 452-5533, jom@mit.edu
Sponsor: Media Arts & Sciences
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The Lemelson-MIT Program presents: Inventors - Make the Most of MIT!
Moderated by Joost Bonsen - Lecturer, MIT Media Lab
Wed Jan 25, 03:30-05:00pm, 4-149
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Get an insider's view on making the most of MIT as an inventor!
Learn about the people, opportunities and resources available to inventive students at MIT...
Moderator Joost Bonsen will be joined by panelists:
- Dave Wallace, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Kate Mytty, Coordinator, IDEAS and Global Challenge
- Aviva Presser, 2009 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Finalist
- Anurag Bajpayee, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
Web: http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-student.html
Contact: Shannon O'Brien, 10-110, 617258.5798, shannon1@mit.edu
Sponsor: LEMELSON-MIT PROGRAM
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