Engineering

Channel | updated May 02, 2013

Founded in 1861, MIT and its School of Engineering have a proud history of influencing the world through technological leadership and research innovation. MIT is one of the world’s preeminent research universities: renowned for rigorous academic programs in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship; cutting-edge research; a diverse campus community; and a longstanding commitment to working with the public and private sectors to bring new knowledge to bear on the world’s complex challenges.

The School of Engineering educates about 60 percent of MIT’s undergraduates and 45 percent of our graduate students. Just over a third of MIT’s faculty are in the school.

Benard Gordon Lecture

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Benard Gordon Lecture

Lecture by Bernard Gordon, founder of the Benard M. Gordon - MIT Engineering Leadership Program. On April 5, 2013, he shared his ideas about engineering and its role in the country's future.

Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program: ...

Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program: Engineering ...

On October 23, Gordon Engineering Leader candidates participated in a "Leadership Reaction Course". Planned and executed by Senior GELs, the LRC featured a series of exercises in which Junior GELs discovered the value of effective team communications and grew to ...

Bioengineering – "Human Body on a Chip: Step One ...

Bioengineering – "Human Body on a Chip: Step One – The Liver ...

Bioengineering - "Human Body on a Chip: Step One - The Liver Chip"

Bioplastics

It takes 1000 years or more to break down plastic when we throw it away. What if we could engineer new plastics that can break down more easily? Try making your own vegetable-based plastic.

Blender, the Next Stove? (The Joule Experiment)

This video examines the phenomenon of Joule heating through the perspective of a blender. I bet you didn't know you could do this much science with your blender.

Bouncing Droplets: Superhydrophobic and Superhydrophilic ...

Bouncing Droplets: Superhydrophobic and Superhydrophilic Surfaces

This video introduces the concept of surface tension, and shows how roughness can make a surface superhydrophobic or superhydrophilic. The Wenzel and Cassie-Baxter models are explained. Special thanks to the MIT BioInstrumentation Lab.

Boyle's Law: Pressure vs. Volume

Have you ever wondered why your ears pop during airplane take offs and landings? Or why a ballon pops when you squeeze it too much? Find out the phenomenon behind these questions and more!

Bread Mold Kills Bacteria

How the penicillin in bread mold kills bacteria.

Brushless Motor Control

This video shows a significant difference between square-wave commutated and sine-wave commutated brushless motor drive. The motor (from the B.W.D. Scooter project, can resonate with the scooter frame at certain speeds when driven with ordinary six-step control. Sine-wave control greatly ...

Buoyancy

If objects fall towards the earth because gravity acts on them, then why doesn't a ship sink? Buoyancy explains why somethings float while others don't.

Cap Kart 2.0: 8/21/2010 Test Drive

This is our second test drive of the new Cap Kart. The first run ended similarly to the first test drive: with a dead MOSFET in the controller. This time we came prepared with a field soldering kit and a less volatile replacement FET. After that, things went smoothly and we got a good chance ...

Cap Kart 2.0: 8/7/2010 Test Drive, Conquering the Turn

Okay, so it's not the fastest or most impressive test drive we've ever had. (The kart suffered a[nother] MOSFET failure after a few runs.) But it highlights one of the new features: a custom-built rear axle differential. With this addition, and savings of about 100lbs ...

Cap Kart Speed Controller Testing

Ramp input testing of the custom speed controller we are developing for the cap kart. (http://web.mit.edu/first/kart)Speed control is done by rapidly switching voltage on to and off of the motor coils. In this video, you can hear the speed controller switching frequency as it ramps up and ...

Cap Kart Summer '10 Rebuild - Rear Axle Spin-Up

The improved Cap Kart now has lightweight lithium-ion batteries and a custom rear differential. This is mostly a test of the rebuilt rear axle, but also always good to make sure the controller still works, since it's cursed. Next order of business: test driving.

Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect

What is the Greenhouse Effect and what role does carbon dioxide play?

Close Encounters of the Self-Balancing Kind

While stocking up for another project at Swapfest, a monthly MIT swap meet, we ran into a commercial Segway. Since it was just across the way, we decided to bring ours out too.More info: http://web.mit.edu/first/segwayA group of about 12 students (MIT undergrad and ...

Close Encounters of the Self-Balancing Kind II

The DIY self-balancing scooter created by a group of high school students and MIT undergraduates during the summer of 2007 makes an appearance at the 2008 Boston FIRST regional. Location: BU Agganis Arena More information about the ...

Colorful Chemistry of Acids and Bases

Test the acidity of household products using something you can find in the supermarket: purple cabbage.

Custom Brushless Motor Controller Testing

I've taken my recent experiments in 3-phase motor control hardware and put it into a nicer package. The controller is 100x80x30mm, not including the fan, built with IRFB3207 MOSFETs, which can handle quite a lot of current as demonstrated by the electric go-kart ...

Custom ESC: Field Weakening Test

This is a test of the brushless ESC I built for my 1/10-scale RC car. It uses sinusoidal AC commutation and field-oriented control, which dynamically adjusts the timing of the motor to optimize torque. As an extension of this control method, it can also run at other operating points that ...

Engineering

Channel | updated May 02, 2013

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