Engineering

Channel | updated June 03, 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.

Electric Charges

In this video, I will demonstrate some realistic experiments that many children may have done as a game, but they have never asked the reason. First, I will show three simple experiments that they can easily do at home: 1- Rub two balloons on my hair. When I close them, they repel each other ...

Electric Go-Kart: First Test-Drive

The maiden voyage of our electric go-kart. Our field controller (the only piece of off-the-shelf electronics on the kart) broke, so it is limited to low gear with no capacitor brake/boost. Next time...http://web.mit.edu/first/kart

Electric Go-Kart: Test Drive #2

With a new set of custom motor controllers, we were able to test some of the more interesting features of the Cap Kart. More info:http://web.mit.edu/first/kart In addition to its batteries, the kart has a 110F ultracapacitor, which ultimately will be charged by a simple regenerative braking ...

Emerging Technologies – "The Nanogate"

Emerging Technologies -"The Nanogate"

Engineering Systems – "The Lean Aerospace Initiative"

Engineering Systems -"The Lean Aerospace Initiative"

Eratosthenes

Using geometry to measure the circumference of the Earth.

EVER '11: Pneu Scooter and RazEr rEVolution

Pneu Scooter and RazEr rEVolution cruising outside of the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco for the EVER '11 Conference and Exhibition on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies. These are electric kick scooters with custom-built rear wheel hub motors. More info: ...

Exploring Circuits

Try this experiment to understand parallel and series circuits.

Fast Processes

The Earth is over 4 billion years old, but the surface is much younger. How is this possible? Volcanoes, landslides and earthquakes. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://k12videos.mit.edu/terms-conditions

Fast Processes

uploaded 9/17/12

Fire + Sand = Glass!

Learn what a glass is on an atomic level and how engineers process and treat glass to give it unique properties.

FIRST Robot - Practice Match

Here's some footage from a FIRST practice session hosted by Team 69: Hyper from Quincy, MA. It is a great chance to test robots on a full-size playing field a few days before the shipping deadline (Tuesday).MIT-hosted Team 97: The Cow shows off its Mecanum drive train, plus the semi-finished ...

FIRST Robot - Ready to Ship

It's sadly the end of the build season and the robot will be shipped off to competition tomorrow. Team 97 made some final adjustments and said good-bye to it on Monday. Be sure to check out the robot (and others) at the Boston Regional, March 27-29 at the Agganis Arena at BU.More info about ...

FIRST Robot - Week 2 Progress

No wheels yet, but the frame and motor mounting looks solid. Going for a fancy mecanum drive system this year. (Something like: http://www.airtrax.com.)

FIRST Robot - Week 3

The mecanum wheels are on now. Rollers at 45-degree angles to the wheels themselves allow the platform to move in any direction, including sideways and diagonally. We hope to have some driving video by the weekend.For more information about the FIRST Robotics Competition, including this ...

FIRST Robot - Week 6

Week six is not really a week - more of a culture - in FIRST Robotics. It is when things start coming together, falling apart, and then coming together again. It's always a lot of work and late nights in the shop, but also always a lot of fun.Here is Team 97's robot, almost finished, as of ...

FIRST Robot - Week 6 (2)

Some on-board video of Team 97's FIRST robot driving around and lifting a track ball. There was a minor camera issue toward the end...More info about the competition: http://www.usfirst.orgMore info about the team: http://web.mit.edu/first/www

FIRST Robotics Team #97 Championship Highlights

Little-known fact: The coolest robot at MIT was built entirely by high school students. As part of the FIRST Robotics Competition (www.usfirst.org), local high school students teamed up with MIT student mentors to build a 110-lb competition robot in just six weeks. It ...

FIRST Team 97 - Week 4 (Driving!)

Just passing through the halfway point of the build season now, FIRST Robotics Team 97 has a driving base. The base uses mecanum wheels with rollers at 45-degree angles to drive both translation and rotational motion independently. A gyroscopic sensor stabilizes the control.For more info ...

FIRST Team 97 - Week 4 (Forklift)

Here's a quick video of FRC Team 97's forklift concept, being manually operated for now. The end effector has yet to be mounted.More about the competition and this year's game:http://www.usfirst.orgMore about Team 97:http://web.mit.edu/first/www

Engineering

Channel | updated June 03, 2013

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