Energy Efficiency Technologies Panel
Energy Efficiency Technologies Panel
Highlights of technologies and approaches to to building energy efficiency featuring: John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems Director, System Dynamics Group Nicholas Gayeski, Building Technology Program Walt Henry, Department of Facilities Harvey ...
Stephen Selkowitz: Zero Energy Buildings - Potentials and ...
Stephen Selkowitz: Zero Energy Buildings - Potentials and Realities
This seminar was given on November 18, 2008 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. Abstract: To address growing concerns about energy supply, carbon emissions, and the workplace, buildings are increasingly asked to meet higher and potentially more complex levels of ...
Stephen Selkowitz - Zero Energy Buildings: Potentials and ...
Stephen Selkowitz - Zero Energy Buildings: Potentials and Realities
This seminar was given on November 18, 2008 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. Abstract: To address growing concerns about energy supply, carbon emissions, and the workplace, buildings are increasingly asked to meet higher and potentially more complex levels of ...
Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Business ...
Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Business and Society
09/19/2008 9:00 AM KresgeDavid Schmittlein, John C Head III, Dean, MIT Sloan School of Managment; Richard M. Locke, PhD '89, Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science; John Sterman, PhD '82, Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering ...
Building 20: Retired in 1998
Building 20: Retired in 1998
MIT's Building 20 was called "The Magical Incubator" for its use to create some historical inventions at MIT, such as RADAR.
Windows as solar concentrators?
Mark Baldo discusses MIT's solar concentrator
Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of. MIT engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun's energy that could allow just that. Full storyVideo/MIT ...
2.97 Egg Drop during IAP 2008
2.97 Egg Drop during IAP 2008
The default Flash version of the video downloads fast, but is low quality. Download the QuickTime (.mov) file for best quality. 2.97 "Design-a-palooza" was offered for the first time during IAP 2008. The class encouraged students to develop their own design processes through several design ...
Rebuilding the City of New Orleans: Working Across Sectors ...
Rebuilding the City of New Orleans: Working Across Sectors to Achieve a ...
01/30/2008 11:30 AM 32"123John Fernandez, '85, Associate Professor, Department of ArchitectureDescription: It took John Fernandez more than a year just to begin to understand the political players and competing interests in New Orleans, and so it is no surprise to him ...
Innovation Through Design Thinking
Innovation Through Design Thinking
03/16/2006 12:00 PM WongTimothy Brown, CEO, IDEODescription: Not so long ago, Tim Brown recounts, designers belonged to a "priesthood." Given an assignment, a designer would disappear into a back room, "bring the result out under a black sheet and present it to the client." Brown and his ...
How Can We Plan for Safe and Sustainable Regions?
New Orleans: How Can We Plan for Safe and Sustainable Regions?
As various plans emerge for the recovery of New Orleans, these panelists offer some pointed lessons in flood prevention and reconstruction, from overseas, from our own history, and from other parts of the U.S. Moderated by Andrew J. Whittle, ScD '87, Professor, ...