Calendar

This section contains the calendars for the Fall 2005 and Spring 2006 semesters. The calendars are presented both in PDF format, as well as HTML format. Due to the complexity of the calendars, detailed explanations of the course format and a calendar key are provided prior to the presentation of the calendars.

Two-Semester Overview

Students who complete Unified Engineering are credited with four classes: two for the Fall semester and two for the Spring semester. However, each pair of courses is seamlessly integrated. In the Fall, 16.01 and 16.02 are presented as one large course. In the Spring, 16.03 and 16.04 are also presented as a large course, but nonetheless singular.

Parallel Teaching

Over the course of each semester, students engage in seven disciplines of study, listed below. Each discipline is taught for a fraction of the semester, through a series of lectures. When one discipline concludes, students are quizzed and begin a new discipline.

Unified Concepts, Systems and Labs Lectures

A small number of Unified Concepts lectures occur throughout the Fall semester. They do not have an associated quiz. These lectures pertain to coursewide topics, and may be technical (e.g. a review of vectors) or non-technical (e.g. a mid-term feedback session). Weekly Systems and Labs lectures offer instructions for upcoming Laboratory activities and projects, and also do not have quizzes.

Lectures

There are two lectures held on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Only one lecture is held on Tuesday. The second lecture on Thursday is usually for Systems and Labs.

Recitations

Students attend two recitation sessions per week; one on Tuesday and one on Thursday. Recitations are held twice on each of those days, to offer scheduling flexibility and reduce class size. Unlike lectures, recitations are generally not used to introduce new topics. Rather, these are an opportunity for discussion and application of recently-introduced lecture topics.

Changes between Fall and Spring

In the Spring, Thermodynamics is replaced by Propulsion, and the other disciplines continue with advanced topics.

Quizzes

Most quizzes are scheduled during lecture sessions. However, the final two disciplines each semester are examined during MIT's final exam week. This occurs after the regular class schedule has concluded.

Calendar Key

Calendar key.
DISCIPLINES	ABBREVIATIONS
Computers and Programming	C
Fluid Mechanics	F
Materials and Structures	M
Signals and Systems	S
Systems and Labs (2004 / 2006)	S/L
Thermodynamics Propulsion	T P
Unified Concepts	U
ACTIVITIES	ABBREVIATIONS
Homework	HW
Systems Problems (2004 / 2006)	SP
Quizzes	Q

Course Calendar (PDF Format)

16.01-16.02, Fall 2005 (PDF)

16.03-16.04, Spring 2006 (PDF)

Course Calendar (HTML Format)

Fall 2005 Calendar

Fall 2005 schedule.
SES #	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Week 1
Lecture 1			U1	T1	F1
Lecture 2			U2	S/L1	T2
Recitation				U
Key Dates			HW 1 out S/L1 out
Week 2
Lecture 1	F2	F3	F4	T3	T4
Lecture 2	U3		U4	S/L2	F5
Recitation		F		T
Key Dates	HW 2 out	HW 1 due	S/L2 out	S/L1 due
Week 3
Lecture 1		T5	F6	T7	T8
Lecture 2			T6	S/L3	F7
Recitation		F		T
Key Dates	HW 3 out	HW 2 due	S/L3 out	S/L2 due
Week 4
Lecture 1	T9	T10	T11	F10	F11
Lecture 2	F8		F9	S/L4	T12
Recitation		T		F
Key Dates	HW 4 out	HW 3 due	S/L4 out	S/L3 due
Week 5
Lecture 1	C1	C2	T13	C3	Q1F
Lecture 2	M1		M2	S/L5	M3
Recitation		T		F
Key Dates	HW 5 out	HW 4 due	S/L5 out	S/L4 due
Week 6
Lecture 1			C4	TR	Q2T
Lecture 2			M4	S/L6	M5
Recitation				C
Key Dates		HW 6 out	S/L6 out	S/L5 due
Week 7
Lecture 1	M6	C6	C7	M8	M9
Lecture 2	C5		M7	S/L7	C8
Recitation		M		C
Key Dates	HW 7 out	HW 6 due	S/L7 out	S/L6 due
Week 8
Lecture 1	M10	M11	C10	M13	C11
Lecture 2	C9		M12	U5	M14
Recitation		C		M
Key Dates	HW 8 out	HW 7 due	S/L8 out	S/L7 due
Week 9
Lecture 1	M15	M16	C13	M18	Q3M
Lecture 2	C12		M17	S/L9	C14
Recitation		C		M
Key Dates	HW 9 out	HW 8 due	S/L9 out	S/L8 due
Week 10
Lecture 1	M19	S1	M20	S2
Lecture 2	C15		C16	S/L10
Recitation		C		M
Key Dates	HW 10 out	HW 9 due	S/L10 out	S/L9 due
Week 11
Lecture 1	M21	M22	S4	S5	Q4C
Lecture 2	S3		M23	S/L11	M24
Recitation		S		C
Key Dates	HW 11 out	HW 10 due	S/L11 out	S/L10 due
Week 12
Lecture 1	M25	F12	F13
Lecture 2	S6		S7
Recitation		M
Key Dates	HW 12 out	HW 11 due
Week 13
Lecture 1	S8	F15	F16	F17	Q5M
Lecture 2	F14		S9		S10
Recitation		F		M
Key Dates	HW 13 out	HW 12 due	S/L11 due
Week 14
Lecture 1	F18	F19	S12	S13	F21
Lecture 2	S11		F20		S14
Recitation		S		F
Key Dates	HW 14 out	HW 13 due
Week 15
Lecture 1	F22	F23	F
Lecture 2	S15		U6
Recitation		S
Key Dates	HW 15 out	HW 14 due	HW 15 due
Finals Week
Lecture 1				Q6S
Lecture 2				Q7F
Recitation
Key Dates

Spring 2006 Calendar

Spring 2006 schedule.
SES #	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Week 1
Lecture 1		F1	F2	M2	M3
Lecture 2			M1	S/L1	F3
Recitation		M		F
Key Dates		HW1 out S/L1 out
Week 2
Lecture 1	M4	F5	F6	M6	M7
Lecture 2	F4		M5	S/L2	F7
Recitation		M		F
Key Dates	HW 2 out	HW1 due	S/L2 out	S/L1 due
Week 3
Lecture 1		C1	F9	F10	C3
Lecture 2		F8	C2	S/L3	F11
Recitation				C
Key Dates		HW 2 due HW 3 out	S/L3 out	S/L2 due
Week 4
Lecture 1	M8	F12	C5	M10	Q1F
Lecture 2	C4		M9	S/L4	C6
Recitation		M		F
Key Dates	HW 4 out	HW 3 due	S/L4 out	S/L3 due
Week 5
Lecture 1	F13	F14	C8	C9	Q2M
Lecture 2	C7		F15	S/L5	F16
Recitation		C		M
Key Dates	HW 5 out	HW 4 due	S/L5 out	S/L4 due
Week 6
Lecture 1	F17	C11	F18	F19	P1
Lecture 2	C10		C12	S/L6	S1
Recitation		F		C
Key Dates	HW 6 out	HW 5 due	S/L6 out	S/L5 due
Week 7
Lecture 1	P2	S2	P3	S3	Q3C
Lecture 2	F20		F21	S/L7	U
Recitation		P		C
Key Dates	HW 7 out	HW 6 due	S/L7 out	S/L6 due
Week 8
Lecture 1	P4	M11	S5	P5	Q4F
Lecture 2	S4		M12	S/L8	P6
Recitation		S		F
Key Dates	HW 8 out	HW 7 due	S/L8 out	S/L7 due
Week 9
Lecture 1	M13	S6	M14	P9	M15
Lecture 2	P7		P8	S/L9	S7
Recitation		P		S
Key Dates	HW 9 out	HW 8 due	S/L9 out	S/L8 due
Week 10
Lecture 1			S8	S9	Q5P
Lecture 2			M16	S/L10	S10
Recitation				P
Key Dates	HW 10 out	HW 9 due	S/L 10 out	S/L9 due
Week 11
Lecture 1	M17	S12	S13	M19	M20
Lecture 2	S11		M18	S/L11	S14
Recitation		M		S
Key Dates		HW 10 due	S/L11 out HW 11 out	S/L10 due
Week 12
Lecture 1	S15	S16	C14	C15	Q6S
Lecture 2	C13		S17	S/L12	C16
Recitation		C		S
Key Dates	HW 12 out	HW 11 due	S/L12 out	S/L11 due
Week 13
Lecture 1	S16	C18	C19	C20	Q7M
Lecture 2	C17		S19	S/L13	S20
Recitation		S		M
Key Dates	HW 13 out	HW 12 due
Week 14
Lecture 1	S21	S22	C22	C23
Lecture 2	C21		S23	U
Recitation		C		S
Key Dates	HW 14 out	HW 13 due		HW 14 due
Finals Week
Lecture 1			Q6S
Lecture 2			Q9C
Recitation
Key Dates