Exploring Sea, Space, & Earth: Fundamentals of Engineering Design

Study Materials

SES #	TOPICS	LECTURES	MATERIALS
1	Class overview Introduction to engineering and the design process, engineering drawing, sketching, back of the envelope calculations	Overview (PDF 1 ‑ 4.8MB) Engineering design (PDF 2 ‑ 3.6MB)	Introductory questionnaire (PDF) Concept quiz (PDF) Slocum, Alexander H. “Design Is A Passionate Process.” Chapter 1 in Fundamentals of Design. (PDF)
2	Basic design analysis Free body diagrams, Newton’s laws	Engineering analysis (PDF)
3	Electronics and water: two great tastes that don’t taste so great together… Exploration with instrumentation	Circuits (PDF)
4	Hydrostatics, pressure and water proofing	Fluid effects and forces (PDF ‑ 3.1MB)	Hydrostatic pressure effects and Archimedes’ principle (PDF)
5	Holiday - no lecture
6	Design brainstorming, project ideas, Solidworks repository development
7	Motors and electronics Guest lecturer: Prof. Steven Leeb	Gears & linkages (PDF ‑ 1.7MB)	Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems, RLE, MIT Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
8	Design analysis, error estimation, data presentation Propulsion: power vs. thrust and efficiency
9	Engineering ethics and using your best judgment
10	Communicating engineering design Promoting your ideas/inventions
11	Exploration on the Moon: mission planning for EVA and geology, part 1 Guest lecturer: Prof. Dava Newman	Prelab (PDF ‑ 4.5MB) (Courtesy of Dava Newman. Used with permission.) Lab (PDF ‑ 2.0MB) (Courtesy of Dava Newman. Used with permission.) Photos	Man Vehicle Lab, MIT Aeronautics & Astronautics
12	Exploration adventure part 2 Guest lecturer: Prof. Dava Newman
13	Student presentations: in-class design review
14	Design iterations, recalculations
15	Cool robots and bomb disposal
16	Bio-robots, gecko feet, and cool stuff!
17	Engineering and society
18	Guest lecture
19	Pool testing at the Z-Center
20	Engineering at MIT: choice of majors		MIT Freshmen: Choosing Your Major MIT Mechanical Engineering MIT Ocean Engineering MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics
21	No class, optional Boston Harbor Day trip + lunch
22	Guest lecturer: Prof. Steve Dubowsky, mobile robots		Field and Space Robotics Laboratory, MIT Mechanical Engineering
23	Guest lecturer: Prof. Sangbae Kim, bio-inspired design		Biomimetic Robotics Lab, MIT Mechanical Engineering
24	Engineering after MIT: grad school, consulting, FE exam, professional engineers certification, internships		NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering Exams ASME Ethics Code (PDF)
25	Guest lecturer: Dr. Sheri White, underwater exploration		Dr. White’s research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
26	Guest lecturer: Prof. Jeff Hoffman, aerospace engineering design		Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium, MIT Aeronautics & Astronautics
27	Final student poster presentations
28	Lab clean up, evaluations

Moon Mission Photos

Getting suited up. Student astronauts, ready to gather samples from the surface. Moving in a space suit requires practice. The progress of the surface team is tracked back in headquarters. Astronauts stay in close communication with Mission Control. The crawling robot rover investigates the landscape.