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How and Why Machines Work >> Content Detail


Table of Contents



Syllabus



Syllabus

Goals


Provide Practical Hands-On Learning Experience


  • Take apart multiplicity of machines


Provide an Introduction to Mechanical Engineering


  • Types of work/research mechanical engineers perform
  • Importance of topics in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum
  • Research at the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering's affect on the world


Learn to Think like a Mechanical Engineer


  • Recognizing what is important
  • Solving nebulous problems
  • Practical and theoretical engineering


Develop Mechanical Engineering Knowledge


  • How things are made
  • How things work
  • Elements/systems common to Mechanical Engineering


Develop Mechanical Engineering Skills/Tools


  • Communications (Visual and Verbal)
  • Basic Analysis/Modeling (Learn/reinforce what you learned in Physics)
  • Engineering Design


Credit


3-3-3

 
 


 



 








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