View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/bootcampInstructor: Dr. John Dolhun, 5.301 studentsSign-up to follow the series: http://bit.ly/MYMkSrIt's time for the public speaking part of the course, and this has half the class tied up in knots.License: Creative ...
The students have to learn the hardest technique yet, but it's the TAs who go loopy. Result: awkward moments like only MIT can provide. Sign-up to follow the series: http://bit.ly/MYMkSr WARNING NOTICE:The experiments described in these materials are potentially ...
One of the students spills half a bottle of urea on the laboratory floor and doesn't confess. But Ike knows who did it . . . Sign-up to follow the series: http://bit.ly/MYMkSr WARNING NOTICE:The experiments described in these materials are potentially hazardous and ...
Dr. John Dolhun declares a winner in the crystal growing competition. But another student disagrees and issues a challenge! Sign-up to follow the series: http://bit.ly/MYMkSr WARNING NOTICE:The experiments described in these materials are potentially hazardous and ...
MIT professors, grad students, and undergrads share their laboratory horror stories, and Lina learns from their mistakes. Sign-up to follow the series: http://bit.ly/MYMkSr
The staff announces the crystal growing competition, the students set up their experiments, and alliances start to form. Also, Phil has a really weird dream involving the Kardashians. Sign-up to follow the series: http://bit.ly/MYMkSr
Today is 5.301's first real test. The students have to purify a contaminated sample using techniques they’ve never seen before . . . and that has Anthony worried. Sign-up to follow the series: http://bit.ly/MYMkSr
The students learn how to recrystallize, a technique they need to master for next week’s crystal growing competition. Sign-up to follow the series: http://bit.ly/MYMkSr
"Systems Issues in Nuclear Reactor Safety" is the Keynote Presentation given by George Apostolakis, Commissioner, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the MIT System Design and Management's 2010 Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges Conference on October 21, ...
The film "Hypothetical Risk. The Cambridge City Council's hearings on DNA Experimentation in Cambridge" was recorded in June 1976 at City Hall, Cambridge MA. Mayor Alfred Vellucci and city councillors Saundra Graham and David Clem are among those to question a panel ...
03/16/2011 5:30 PM Bartos theaterRichard Samuels, Ph D, '80, Ford International Professor of Political Science, Director, Center for International Studies; Kenneth Oye, Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems and Director of the MIT"CIS Program on Political Economy ...
Meet physics professor Ernest Moniz from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Moniz is not just a world-renowned scientist, but also an expert in policy who served in President Clinton's administration and now is on President Obama's council of advisers on ...
11/02/2010 4:00 PM 4"237Joseph F. Coughlin, Director, MIT AgeLab; Engineering Systems DivisionDescription: If the prospect of aging and infirmity seems remote, you could use some time with AGNES (Age Gain Now Empathy System), a wearable apparatus that approximates ...
10/05/2010 4:00 PM 4"237Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, MIT Media LabDescription: While automakers market increasingly intelligent cars, they may be missing the point. No matter how sophisticated the ...
10/01/2010 9:00 AM e14"633Bengt Holmstrom, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics; Andrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor, Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering; Robert C. Merton, Ph.D. '70, MIT Sloan School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance; Jiang Wang, ...
09/28/2010 4:15 PM E14"674Andrew J. Whittle, ScD '87, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Nancy Leveson, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Roland Pellenq, Visiting Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Kim Vandiver, Dean for ...
05/03/2010 12:00 PM E14"674Ray LaHood, US Secretary of TransportationDescription: From the MIT News Office: Research has shown that talking on a phone while driving, even with a hands"free cellphone, causes as much of an impairment to driving ability as being drunk. ...
04/13/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Dr. Ian A. Waitz, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department Head, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT Description: Knowing more about the environmental impacts of aviation is increasingly essential, but according to Ian Waitz, it is also an area where ...
Michael Siegel, Principle Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management. 10/12/2009
AeroAstro Department Senior Technical Instructor discusses lab and shop safety rules and procedures. Recorded in May 2009.