16.00A
Exploring Sea, Space, & Earth: Fundamentals of Engineering Design
Spring 2009
Topics
- Hydrostatics, pressure and water proofing
- Design brainstorming, project ideas, Solidworks repository development
- Engineering ethics and using your best judgment
- Student presentations: in-class design review
- Design iterations, recalculations
- Cool robots and bomb disposal
- Bio-robots, gecko feet, and cool stuff!
- Engineering and society
- Guest lecture
- Pool testing at the Z-Center
- Engineering at MIT: choice of majors
- Guest lecturer: Prof. Steve Dubowsky, MIT Mechanical Engineering, mobile robots
- Guest lecturer: Prof. Sangbae Kim, MIT Mechanical Engineering, bioinspired design
- Guest lecturer: Dr. Sheri White, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, underwater exploration
- Guest lecturer: Prof. Jeff Hoffman, MIT Aeronautics & Astronautics, aerospace engineering design
- Final student poster presentations
- Lab clean up, evaluations
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.