Alumni Leadership Conference 2012 - MIT Finances and ...
Alumni Leadership Conference 2012 - MIT Finances and Fundraising Updates
Seth Alexander and Israel Ruiz SM'01
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Chair: Andy Liu Co-Chair: Kevin Duda and Alan Natapoff Panelists: Allen Atamer Kristen Bethke (Wendell) Jessica Edmonds (Duda) Anton Aboukhalil Jessica Marques Thomas Jarchow
Managing for Profit: Five Building Blocks of Success
Managing for Profit: Five Building Blocks of Success
About the Presentation In this webinar, MIT Senior Lecturer Jonathan Byrnes explains the five building blocks of success in profitability management: (1) organizing for success; (2) leading paradigmatic change; (3) developing a great middle management team; (4) ...
Jeff Carbone, MIT Sloan Admissions, Application Tips on the ...
Jeff Carbone, MIT Sloan Admissions, Application Tips on the New Optional ...
Jeff Carbone, Associate Director of MIT Sloan Admissions, will share more information about how to use the new supplemental optional essay and the mediums and formats that you may submit. For more information about the new supplemental optional essay: ...
The Future of U.S. Solar Photovoltaic Technology - Tonio ...
The Future of U.S. Solar Photovoltaic Technology - Tonio Buonassisi - MIT ...
The solar photovoltaic (PV) industry continues to grow, despite intense international competition and recent margin compression. Can innovation in technology and manufacturing allow American companies to compete and ultimately thrive in this huge but challenging ...
Mapping a building, automatically
Automatic building mapping could help emergency responders
MIT researchers describe a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.
Lecture 4: Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and House of ...
Lecture 4: Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and House of Quality
This lecture demonstrates Quality Function Deployment (QFD) methods, and more specifically the House of Quality diagram, to identify and manage design tradeoffs, using the example of a hypothetical new car design. There are no notes for this lecture, which is ...
Lecture 7: Qualitative Optimization of CaC2/Acetylene Block ...
Lecture 7: Qualitative Optimization of CaC2/Acetylene Block Diagram
This lecture is a sample of how to optimize a system block diagram. After summarizing the goal and initial results from the previous session, this lecture works through refinements in materials, thermal design, flow rates, environmental rules, etc.
Core Sub-task Presentation II
Core Sub-task Presentation II
The student team designing the reactor core and secondary system gives its 2nd progress report, describing successive iterations of the lead cooled fast reactor and remaining steps for the final month of class.
Lecture 1: Core - Nonconventional (Non-PWR/BWR) Reactors
Lecture 1: Core - Nonconventional (Non-PWR/BWR) Reactors
This lecture surveys the nuclear reactor core types that might be used for the project design, after a brief survey of key system design parameters.
Lecture 2: Process Heat - Major Challenges
Lecture 2: Process Heat - Major Challenges
This lecture on Process Heat covers the three heat challenges: heat exchanger design, heat transport, and heat storage. The video starts with a few minutes reviewing the project team structure, roles, and goals.
Biofuels Sub-task Presentation II
Biofuels Sub-task Presentation II
The student team designing the biofuels subsystem gives its 2nd progress report, describing their block diagram, key parameters, and remaining steps for the final month of class.
Lecture 17: Theories of Consciousness that Neuroscientists ...
Lecture 17: Theories of Consciousness that Neuroscientists Take Seriously
Topics: Theories of Consciousness that Neuroscientists Take Seriously - Theories of Consciousness - Explanatory gap - First order and higher order difference - Transitivity principle - Ambitious vs. Modest higer order - Ambitious higher order theory - Neuroscience - ...
Final Project Presentation
Final Project Presentation
At the end of the term, the class presents its project to other faculty and students.
Lecture 12: The Imagery Debate: The Role of the Brain
Lecture 12: The Imagery Debate: The Role of the Brain
Topics: The Imagery Debate: The Role of the Brain - Imagery - Visual mental images - Sensory input - Memory - Depictive representation - Propositional representation - Processing systems - Spatial medium - Visual cortex - Neural systems Instructor: Prof. Stephen ...