"Horses and Thunder" – Meeting the Energy Needs and Oil Exploration and Production in the Deepwaters
Professor Ahmed F. Ghoniem
Thu Jan 26, 09am-04:00pm, 3-370
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
How will we meet our growing energy needs in the future, especially for transportation, which is heavily dependent on oil? More and more oil is discovered and produced offshore, in deeper and deeper water. How do we know where to drill and how do you actually drill for oil? What are some of the enormous engineering challenges in working at 5000’ of water and below? How do we produce it efficiently, bring it to shore safely, and then go beyond? What are some of the recent developments in science and engineering that will take us further?
This short course will focus on gaining a better understanding of exploring, drilling, and producing oil and gas in the deepwaters, including:
Energy needs & role of offshore oil
Exploration - the idea phase
Drilling - the discovery & development phase
Production - the extraction phase
Transportation - getting it to market
Recent science & engineering developments
We will look at Thunder Horse field in the Gulf of Mexico. Starting with 1999, this field has contributed > 5% of the oil produced within the US. Since then, oil has been discovered further out and effort is underway to produce from these fields.
Contact: Professor Ahmed F. Ghoniem, ghoniem@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering
Cosponsor: Chemical Engineering
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Climate Policy and Outcomes from Durban
Paul Natsuo Kishimoto, Arthur Gueneau
Tue Jan 24, 01-03:00pm, E51-151
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Concerned about climate change, but unsure how our policy options stack up? Come learn enough to hold your own at a cocktail party on current climate policy topics! From the basic economics to the pros and cons and political feasibility of different policy options, this course will be a tour de force of current issues in climate change economics and policy.
In particular, we'll help you decipher the outcomes from Durban in November 2011, and compare the stances of the major players as the world works towards a 2015 agreement to replace the Kyoto protocol.
Web: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/event-item.php?id=471
Contact: Megan Lickley, E19-411, mlickley@mit.edu
Sponsor: Joint Program/Science and Policy of Global Change
Cosponsor: Center for Global Change Science
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Energy Information: Industries and Statistics
Katherine McNeill
Thu Jan 19, 03-04:00pm, 14N-132
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 17-Jan-2012
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event
Interested in researching or working in the field of energy? Want to find out how your energy project fits into the landscape of various industries? This session will give you the skills to research the business and statistical information on energy to find industry overviews, market research, news and data.
Sign up at: http://info-libraries.mit.edu/events/.
Contact: Katherine McNeill, E53-168c, x3-0787, mcneillh@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
Cosponsor: MIT Energy Initiative
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Energy Information: Maps and Data to Use with GIS
Anne Graham, Lisa Sweeney
Thu Jan 19, 04-05:00pm, 14N-132
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Where are the power plants and the pipelines? How close are they to population centers? In this session, MIT GIS Services will introduce you to energy maps and spatial data available, and demonstrate GIS in action on the energy front.
Register for this workshop at: http://bit.ly/GIS-IAP-2012. Check the GIS Services website for the most up to date information about this IAP GIS workshop series.
Web: http://libraries.mit.edu/gis/teach/current-workshops.html
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, x3-7744, grahama@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
Cosponsor: MIT Energy Initiative
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Energy Information: Where to Go, What to Do
Angie Locknar, Chris Sherratt
Wed Jan 18, 11am-12:00pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
Information on energy is everywhere! How do you find the scientific and technical information you need and keep on the cutting edge of what is published? Attend this hands-on session to find out.
Contact: Angie Locknar, 14S-134, locknar@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
Cosponsor: MIT Energy Initiative
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Energy Projects Showcase
Lucy Fan
Wed Jan 18, 04-05:30pm, Lobby 10
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Come see what students are doing in energy! Learn all about the Solar Car. Interested in clean tech? Learn how to get involved in the Clean Energy Prize competition!
Contact: Lucy Fan, yinglfan@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Energy Initiative
Cosponsor: Energy Club
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Energy Start-up Workshop
Lucy Fan
Thu Jan 19, 05:30-07:00pm, 4-163
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Ever wonder what it takes to run a start-up? MIT spin-off companies will take you through the challenges and victories of being the underdogs in a corporate world.
Companies include:
Liquid Metal Batter Corporation: a spin-off from Professor Sadoway's lab at MIT.
Coolchip: licensing patent-pending technologies to overcome the limitations of conventional air-based cooler designs.
OnChip Power: a fast-paced, VC-backed MIT start-up poised to disrupt the power supply industry.
OsComp Systems (OCS) team of MIT engineers have invented a breakthrough, patent-pending technology that reduces operating and capital costs of [natural gas] compression by over 30%.
Contact: Lucy Fan, yinglfan@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Energy Initiative
Cosponsor: Energy Club
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Green Ambassadors Workshop: Share Ideas with Other Green Ambassadors—Or Join the Team!
Rachael Budowle
Thu Jan 19, 12-01:30pm, E19-319
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 12-Jan-2012
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
Green Ambassadors is a network of students, faculty, and staff across campus working to make sustainable changes in their office, lab, or dorm. This workshop will allow Green Ambassadors to meet over a provided light lunch and share ideas about how to “green” their campus space. Those who are not yet a Green Ambassador are welcome to attend, learn more, and join, as well. We’ll focus specifically on new opportunities for individuals to impact sustainability at the building level in a more measurable way through green teams and occupant engagement.
Limited to 30 people. Advance sign up required by January 12th (see contact below).
Attendees are welcome to bring their own, reusable tableware to the event; compostable tableware and composting will also be provided.
Sponsor: Sustainability Program, EHS Headquarters Office
Cosponsor: MIT Energy Initiative, Campus Energy Task Force
Web: http://ehs.mit.edu/site/sustainability
Contact: Rachael Budowle, rbudowle@mit.edu
Sponsor: Environment, Health and Safety Office
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Impacts of a Changing Climate
Martin Singh, Megan Lickley, Arthur Gueneau
Tue Jan 17, 01-02:00pm, E51-335
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
We have just lived through a year of "weird weather", with a record dozen disasters causing over a billion-plus dollars in damages -- and this is just in the U.S.. The Globe and other media has written that weather is just "unpredictable", a period of "bad luck", an exaggerated El Nino: are they right? Is the weather unpredictable, or is it a pattern that we need to better understand?
Clearly, it is time to become more aware of the consequences of the changes that we are making in our atmosphere and oceans, and to start with a better understanding of how our weather is created.
Web: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/event-item.php?id=470
Contact: Megan Lickley, E19-411, mlickley@mit.edu
Sponsor: Joint Program/Science and Policy of Global Change
Cosponsor: Center for Global Change Science
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Inspecting a Non Lab or Non Traditional DLC
Abigail Licnikas, EHS Office, Ed Akerley, DoF EHS Manager
Tue Jan 17, 01-02:00pm, W20: PDR 1 & 2
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 02-Jan-2012
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event
Intended audience: EHS Coordinators, EHS office personnel, Facilities Supervisors, and managers or supervisors who receive inspection findings
There are a surprising number of spaces EHS Coordinators and Officers are responsible for that don’t fall under the “lab” umbrella! In this class we will explore the differences and similarities in the Level II inspection of a non lab or non-traditional space, including mechanical rooms, workshops, and storage rooms. We will also provide pointers on common findings, and perform a mock inspection of a non lab space.
Contact: Abigail Licnikas, EHS Office, N52-496, x4-0374, adhine8@mit.edu
Sponsor: Environment, Health and Safety Office
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Introduction to Wind Energy
Alex Kalmikov
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Co-sponsor: MIT Wind Energy Projects in Action (WEPA)
Web: http://web.mit.edu/wepa/wepa.html
Contact: Alex Kalmikov, kalex@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Energy Initiative
Cosponsor: Mechanical Engineering
Wind Energy 101 - An introduction to wind power technology
Alex Kalmikov
In recent years, wind energy has evolved from an emerging energy alternative into a global, rapidly maturing industry competitive with conventional energy sources. Come to learn about the technology that enabled this transition, allowing clean, emissions-free harvesting of the renewable wind resource.
Thu Jan 19, 11am-12:00pm, 3-133
Wind Energy 102 - An introduction to wind physics and resource assessment
Alex Kalmikov
Although usually invisible to the naked eye, wind carries enormous amounts of energy. Come to learn about the sources and forces of this energy and basic quantitative approaches to its assessment. Alex Kalmikov is a PhD candidate in Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. He is the co-chair of the MIT Wind Energy Club and leads the WEPA student team.
Fri Jan 20, 11am-12:00pm, 3-133
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MIT Clean Energy Prize Founder’s Panel Discussion – From PhD to Clean Energy Venture
Athens Fitzcheung, Betar Gallant, Carlos Greaves, Robert Luo
Thu Jan 12, 06-07:00pm, 32-141
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 02-Jan-2012
Limited to 60 participants.
Single session event
Are you a grad student with a clean energy technology that you think could be turned into a product? Are you passionate about clean energy and are wondering how you can maximize your impact? Want to know what it’s like to start a new cleantech venture? If any of these describe you, then come check out the Founder’s Panel Discussion sponsored by the MIT Clean Energy Prize. Several previous-MIT PhDs, now-clean energy entrepreneurs, will share with you their motivations behind their career choice, their challenges and successes in their journey from academia to entrepreneurship. Students from all levels (UG and PG) of study are welcomed. We have invited:
1. Robert Doe (Course III Post-doc) from PellionTech
2. Raymond Raab (Course X '06) from Agrivida
3. Anthony Sagneri (Course VI) from Onchip
4. Bilal Zuberi (Course V '03) from General Catalyst Partners
Advanced sign up required. Please RSVP via this googledoc link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFpsZUFaWWMxZEZLQ2R0T1haTkVPT0E6MQ
Contact: Clean Energy Prize, CleanEnergyPrize@mit.edu
Sponsor: Athens Fitzcheung, ASHDOWN NW35-2107, athens@mit.edu
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Momentum (Formerly Second Summer)
Wesley Harris, Rhonda Jordan
Schedule: TBD
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: First Year and Second Year Students
This year students will work on designing Portable Windmills for Electricity Generation in Remote Areas.
This short course offers students an interdisciplinary perspective on solving some of the world’s biggest challenges to date. These issues span topics covered in a wide variety of fields, such as business, engineering and the social sciences. How will MIT develop the best technologies? Scientists must delve into the area of interest and understand the need of the people; they must assess environmental and social impacts; and they must ensure feasibility – scientifically and economically – so that the technology can be produced.
Web: http://mit.edu/ome/programs-services/momentum/applying.html
Contact: Elsie Otero, 4-113, eotero@mit.edu
Sponsor: Office of Minority Education
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Optimizing Urban Energy Systems through the Use of District Energy
Stephen Hammer
Tue Jan 24, 09:30-11:30am, Cambridge
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Spend part of your IAP learning about cogeneration-based district energy, a highly-efficient way to satisfy the electrical and thermal power needs of cities.
We'll tour the GenOn Kendall Cogenertation Station, and learn about its role in supporting the Veolia Energy-Dalkia district energy network around Cambridge and Boston. Guest speakers include Rowan Sanders (Veolia Energy North America) and Tob Thornton (International District Energy Association).
Contact: Stephen Hammer, 9-312, (347) 443-9169, hammer1@mit.edu
Sponsor: Urban Studies and Planning
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Residential Energy Efficiency to the Max: Building a Net-Zero Energy LEED Platinum house
David Miller
Thu Jan 19, 02-03:00pm, E51-376
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Come hear about what went into building the first net-zero energy, platinum LEED single family residence that’s walking distance from Boston’s ‘T’. The design goals for this house were nearly impossible: to be net-zero energy and platinum LEED, to be extremely durable and low maintenance, to fit in and be an attractive addition to an upscale suburban neighborhood, and to have similar features as other new houses while being built at a comparable cost to houses that have conventional energy usage. Hear about the technologies, products and services that made this happen. Also, have the opportunity to sign-up for a tour. RSVPs requested.
Contact: David Miller, E53, (877) 531-9017, dsmiller@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management
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Residential Energy Efficiency to the Max: Touring a Net-Zero Energy LEED Platinum House
Rabbi Michelle Fisher, David Miller
Tue Jan 24, 09am-01:00pm, Meet at W11, Meet at W11 - Bring T-fare
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 20-Jan-2012
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event
Come tour the home of MIT Hillel alum David Miller '90, SM'91, PhD '07, who built the first net-zero energy, platinum LEED single family residence that’s walking distance from Boston’s ‘T’. The design goals for this house were nearly impossible: to be net-zero energy and platinum LEED, to be extremely durable and low maintenance, to fit in and be an attractive addition to an upscale suburban neighborhood, and to have similar features as other new houses while being built at a comparable cost to houses that have conventional energy usage. Hear about the technologies, products and services that made this happen at the related Sloan sponsored IAP event ../searchiap/iap-b010.html.
This is the opportunity for the house tour.
Contact: Rabbi Michelle Fisher, W11, hillelrsvp@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hillel
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Strategies for Good Housekeeping in Your Lab or Work Space
Gerry Fallon, Inspection Service Team
Thu Feb 2, 01-02:00pm, N52-496
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Jan-2012
Limited to 20 participants.
Good Housekeeping in labs and other work areas is an important aspect of developing and maintaining a safe work environment. In this course, we will use a panel discussion to help identify housekeeping practices that require correction, develop strategies to address issues and suggest methods to communicate solutions.
Refreshments will be provided.
Contact: Gerry Fallon, fallon@rocko.mit.edu
Sponsor: Environment, Health and Safety Office
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Technology Transfer of Industrial Wind Turbines
John Carlton-Foss '67, SM '69
Tue Jan 31, 10:30am-12:30pm, 3-133
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
One of the early wind installations in MA is "Wind-1," a Vestas V82 industrial scale wind turbine at the Falmouth Wastewater Treatment Facility. The town building inspector ruled that the Town had the right to install a wind turbine as an accessory facility to the waste water treatment facility. The neighbors, however, strenuously contested the installation of a nearby turbine. At the present time Wind-1 has been temporarily shut down in response, some neighbors have filed a law suit to attempt to undo the permitting, and the neighbors have claimed that they are suffering from Wind Turbine Syndrome.
The beginning of the seminar will be a slide show and discussion about the technics and processes for the construction of the wind turbine. The politics, psychology and medicine of this situation will also be explored.
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=64141&groupID=194
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-200, (617) 252-1143, ebyrne@mit.edu
Sponsor: Alumni Association
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The Mercury Game
Leah Stokes, Rebecca Saari
Thu Jan 26, 01:30-04:30pm, E51-151
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 23-Jan-2012
Limited to 10 participants.
Single session event
\*\*Please only sign up if you will be fully committed to attending and participating as a player of the game. Please email Leah at lstokes@mit.edu to sign up.\*\*
This Mercury Game is a role-play simulation aimed at scientists and students. Playing the game will help participants explore the consequences of representing scientific uncertainty in various ways in a policy context. The game focuses on the credibility of various sources of technical information, strategies for representing risk and uncertainty, and the balance between scientific and political considerations.
The game will also require the players to grapple with political considerations. It explores the dynamic between the global “North” (the developed world) and the global “South” (the developing world) at the heart of most treaty-making difficulties. Ultimately, the role play should help to make clear how scientific information can be favorably employed in an environmental treaty making process.
The results of the game will be used in a doctoral research project on the relationship between science and policy in international environmental negotiations.
Web: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/event-item.php?id=472
Contact: Leah Stokes, E19-411, lstokes@mit.edu
Sponsor: Joint Program/Science and Policy of Global Change
Cosponsor: Center for Global Change Science
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The Science of Climate Change
Dan Chavas, Daniel Rothenberg
Thu Jan 12, 01-02:00pm, E51-335
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Climate change has become an important policy issue facing society and will continue to be long into the future. This talk will explore the basic science at the foundation of this complex issue, with the goal that audience members will leave equipped with the most basic physical logic for why anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are expected to significantly alter our climate.
Contact: Dan Chavas, drchavas@mit.edu
Sponsor: Joint Program/Science and Policy of Global Change
Cosponsor: Center for Global Change Science
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Tour of the MIT Research Reactor
Edward Lau
Wed Jan 11, Fri Jan 13, Fri Jan 27, 10am-12:00pm, NW12 1st floor desk, Ring front doorbell for entry.
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 24-Jan-2012
Limited to 25 participants.
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Learn how the MIT Research Reactor is operated and utilized. A descriptive lecture and a walking tour of the lab will be given with emphasis on interdisciplinary research and applications. Advance sign up and photo ID required. To register, send email including full name (each full name, if signing up more than one person), relation to MIT, and which tour date you prefer. If no date is specified, then one will be assigned.
Contact: Kristen Ayala, NW12-116, x3-4211, kayala@mit.edu
Sponsor: Nuclear Reactor Lab
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UN Climate Roundtable - The UN process at a crossroads: Kyoto, a Green Fund, and hopes for a new legally binding agreement
Matt Orosz
Wed Jan 18, 02-03:00pm, 56-167
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
In 1992 the international community unanimously resolved to "prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system" at the Earth Summit in Rio.
Nearly 2 decades later, the Kyoto Protocol--the single binding international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (an agreement which the US never ratified)--is losing constituency and relevance as a means of addressing the issue. Forging a consensus on action and an eventual replacement for Kyoto requires navigating tensions due to global disparities in wealth, technological capacity, and vulnerability to climate related disaster. Many have found the international process slow, confusing, and uninspiring, but a viable alternative framework for addressing the global issue of climate change is difficult to imagine.
Join in a discussion on the UN climate negotiations process, where we will try to clarify how the UN is addressing climate change, identify some of the key sources of conflict and obstruction, and note where the UN is making progress. This will be lead by the MIT student delegate to the recent conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) meeting in South Africa.
Contact: Matt Orosz, mso@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Energy Initiative
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Viewing the Subsurface: The Basics of Seismic Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation
Jonathan Kane Shell Oil Company, Detlef Hohl, Jim Pickens, Tom Holly
Mon Jan 9, Tue Jan 10, Wed Jan 11, 09am-02:00pm, 46-1015, lunch provided
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Seismic imaging is the principal method used to explore for hydrocarbons in the earth. It involves using sensors to record the response of the earth to an input source of energy, converting the raw data into an image of subsurface structures, and then interpreting the image to find oil-bearing deposits. We will cover the basics of seismic imaging over the course of 3 days, with 3 hours of instruction per day, along with in-class exercises. Lunch will be provided.
Following class on the third day we will present the "Shell IAP Challenge": an algorithm development contest for enrolled participants with a cash reward ($3000 to the winner, and $1000 to the runner up). The contest will run over the course of IAP, with the winner announced during the final week.
Contact: Jonathan Kane, E19-3419, (617) 715-5198, jakane@mit.edu
Sponsor: Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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