EC.S02
Special Subject at the Edgerton Center
Seminar combining lectures and lab run by students and academic staff at the Edgerton Center. Students explore specialized electronics, robotics, or mechanical design and fabrication topics not offered in the regular curriculum; classes range from beginner level to more advanced. Some offerings may be taught in an intensive fashion (meeting for up to several times a week for four weeks). Up to three sequential seminars may be offered per semester, covering a different topic each time. Students can take one or all of the seminars.
Spring 2005 · Water Jet Technologies
Topics
- Course, Design, and Disabilities Overview
- Water Jet Demo, Intro to OMAX® software
- Concept Development Overview
- Field Trip to The Protestant Guild Learning Center: Information Gathering
- Reflection, Brainstorming
- Brainstorming, Water Jet Lab
- Concept Development
- Prototyping, Testing, and Redesign
- Prototyping, Testing, and Redesign (cont.)
- Production (and Product Delivery)
- Testing and Refinement
- Discussion and Documentation
- Discussion and Documentation (cont.)
- Production
- Testing and Refinement (cont.)
- Field Trip to the Protestant Guild Learning Center: Product Delivery and Evaluation
- Practice Presentation
- Assessment and Wrap Up
- Extra Water Jet Time
Readings
- Smith, Patricia, and Charles Bates. “Waterjet goes Mainstream.” American Machinist (March 2001): 78, 80-82, 84, 86, 88 and 90.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: None U (IAP) Not offered regularly; consult department Units arranged [P/D/F] Can be repeated for credit.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2005
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.