Course Meeting Times
Lectures: 2 session(s) / week, 1.5 hour(s) / session
Labs: 2 session(s) / week, 2 hour(s) / session
Goals
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
