Provide Practical Hands-On Learning Experience

• Take apart multiplicity of machines

Provide an Introduction to Mechanical Engineering

• Types of work/research mechanical engineers perform
• Importance of topics in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum
• Research at the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering's affect on the world

Learn to Think like a Mechanical Engineer

• Recognizing what is important
• Solving nebulous problems
• Practical and theoretical engineering

Develop Mechanical Engineering Knowledge

• How things are made
• How things work
• Elements/systems common to Mechanical Engineering

Develop Mechanical Engineering Skills/Tools

• Communications (Visual and Verbal)
• Basic Analysis/Modeling (Learn/reinforce what you learned in Physics)
• Engineering Design

Credit

3-3-3