2.007: Design and Manufacturing I
This is the flagship undergraduate class in the Department of Mechanical Engineering that develops students’ competence and self-confidence as design engineers. It emphasizes the creative design process and the application of physical laws. As is the tradition, the class will end in a final robot competition, in which students compete against each other to see whose robot can win the most total points.
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2.009: Product Design Processes
Designed to provide students with a team-based product development experience. Students will design and build working alpha prototypes of new products, learning about creativity, product design, teamwork, and working within a budget in a unifying engineering experience. The class is intended to emulate what engineers might experience in a design team at a modern product development firm. As part of a corporate innovation strategy, students will create product opportunities inspired by a very broad product theme.
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2.797: Molecular, Cellular & Tissue Biomechanics
Subject Meets with 20.310
Applies principles of molecular and continuum mechanics to biomechanical phenomena over a range of length scales in healthy and diseased tissues. Covered topics include: structures of tissues and the molecular basis for their macroscopic properties; chemical-electrical coupling on mechanical behavior; cell mechanics, motility and adhesion; biological membranes; and molecular motors.
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16.S811: Advanced Manufacturing for Aerospace Engineers
Focuses on design, fabrication, and test of a high-speed rotating machine using advanced manufacturing modalities, subject to constraints on time, cost, and schedule. Emphasizes key principles of manufacturing and machine design, system integration, implementation, and performance verification using methods of experimental inquiry. Students refine subsystem designs and fabricate working prototypes. Includes component integration into the full system with detailed analysis and operation of the complete device in the laboratory, as well as experimental analysis of subsystem performance, comparison with physical models of performance and design goals, and formal review of the overall system design.
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22.015: Radiation and Life – Applications of Radiation Sources in Medicine, Research, and Industry
Introduces students to the basics of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation; radiation safety and protection; and an overview of the variety of health physics applications, especially as it pertains to the medical field and to radioactive materials research in academia. Presents basic physics of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, known effects of the human body, and the techniques to measure those effects. Common radiation-based medical imaging techniques and therapies discussed. Projects, demonstrations, and experiments introduce students to standard techniques and practices in typical medical and MIT research lab environments where radiation is used.
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22.033: Nuclear Systems Design Project
Group design project involving integration of nuclear physics, particle transport, control, heat transfer, safety, instrumentation, materials, environmental impact, and economic optimization. Provides opportunity to synthesize knowledge acquired in nuclear and non-nuclear subjects and apply this knowledge to practical problems of current interest in nuclear applications design. Past projects have included using a fusion reactor for transmutation of nuclear waste, design and implementation of an experiment to predict and measure pebble flow in a pebble bed reactor, and development of a mission plan for a manned Mars mission including the conceptual design of a nuclear powered space propulsion system and power plant for the Mars surface, a lunar/Martian nuclear power station and the use of nuclear plants to extract oil from tar sands.
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22.09: Nuclear Radiation Measurement
Subject Meets with 22.90
Combines lectures, demonstrations, and experiments. Review of radiation protection procedures and regulations; theory and use of alpha, beta, gamma, and neutron detectors; applications in imaging and dosimetry; gamma-ray spectroscopy; design and operation of automated data acquisition experiments using virtual instruments.