Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design ...
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design of Materials ...
03/30/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Krystyn Van Vliet, Ph.D. '02, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and EngineeringDescription: Our conversations on sustainable transportation typically begin with a review of vehicle efficiencies, and end with the ...
Values"Based Leadership
Values"Based Leadership
03/03/2009 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumRobert McDonald, COO, Procter & GambleDescription: A West Point start, army career, and a disciplined approach to distilling key life experiences has guided Robert McDonald through his 20 years at Procter & Gamble. McDonald recommends a deliberate system of ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach
03/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Joseph Sussman, J R East Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing ...
The State of Drupal
The State of Drupal
Dries Buytaert relates a synopsis of his life with Drupal from its inception while a "typical geek" undergraduate in Antwerp in 1999 to the upcoming release of Drupal 7.
The Future of Government"Citizen Engagement
The Future of Government"Citizen Engagement
03/01/2010 4:45 PM Wong AuditoriumJerry Mechling, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School; Nick Grossman, Director of Civic Works, The Open Planning Project; Laurel Ruma, Editor, O'Reilly Media; John Wonderlich, Policy Director, Sunlight Fndtn; Chris ...
Sustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World ...
Sustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World and for MIT
02/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270John Sterman, PhD '82, Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems, and; Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT Description: Transportation systems, as we know them today, will simply not sustain the worlds' growing population. ...
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 ...
Serious Energy, Serious Innovation
Serious Energy, Serious Innovation - Kevin Surace - MIT Club of Northern ...
How Inc Magazine's 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year built a clean energy company Hear CEO Kevin Surace describe how he injected his entrepreneurial clean tech vision to create the most innovative company ever to hit the building materials industry. How did Serious Energy ...
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 ...
Rebuilding Haiti
Rebuilding Haiti
02/23/2010 4:00 PM Bartos theaterCherie Moit Abbanat, Lecture, Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department of Architecture, MIT; Michel DeGraff, Associate Professor of Linguistics, MIT; Erica James, Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT; Dale Joachim, Visiting Scientist, ...
Rebuilding Haiti
Rebuilding Haiti
10/29/2010 4:00 PM 34"101Paul Farmer, Founder, Partners in HealthDescription: Difficult as it is to look beyond the acute misery of Haiti's current crisis, Paul Farmer proposes that aid agencies and others concerned with rebuilding focus on the nation's "old, chronic problems." There's no ...
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
10/01/2010 11:00 AM e14"633Tony Ciochetti, Chairman, MIT Center for Real Estate; John Ochsendorf, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture; Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, ...
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, ...
MechE Building 35 Lab
MechE Building 35 Lab
A video tour of the Building 35 Lab, which is used for manufacturing in MechE coursework and research.
MARK WEST: Heavy Light - Finding Biomimetic Construction
MARK WEST: Heavy Light - Finding Biomimetic Construction
Feb 9, 2012Concrete has been formed in rigid molds since its invention in Ancient Rome. Very recently however, the possibility of a new architectural and structural language has emerged based on the use of flexible fabric formworks that are shaped by an internal ...
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 ...
Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained
Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained
05/19/2009 6:00 PM MuseumMarc Baldo, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceDescription: Researchers are well along in designing a highly efficient, inexpensive solar cell, ...