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Build a Small Radar System Capable of Sensing Range, Doppler, and Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory offers this 3-week course in the design, fabrication, and test of a laptop-based radar sensor capable of measuring Doppler, range, and forming synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. You do not have to be a radar engineer but it helps if you are interested in any of the following; electronics, amateur radio, physics, or electromagnetics.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Alan Fenn
Gregory Charvat
Jeffrey Herd
Jonathan Williams
Steve Kogon
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Classical Mechanics
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This first course in the physics curriculum introduces classical mechanics. Historically, a set of core concepts—space, time, mass, force, momentum, torque, and angular momentum—were introduced in classical mechanics in order to solve the most famous physics problem, the motion of the planets.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Anna Frebel
Deepto Chakrabarty
Michelle Tomasik
Peter Dourmashkin
Vladan Vuletic
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Design and Manufacturing I
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Welcome to 2.007! This course is a first subject in engineering design. With your help, this course will be a great learning experience exposing you to interesting material, challenging you to think deeply, and providing skills useful in professional practice. A major element of the course is design of a robot to participate in a challenge that changes from year to year. This year, the theme is cleaning up the planet as inspired by the movie Wall-E.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Daniel Frey
David Gossard
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Drugs and the Brain
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This class is a multidisciplinary introduction to pharmacology, neurotransmitters, drug mechanisms, and brain diseases from addiction to schizophrenia.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Zak Fallows
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Fundamentals of Biology
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Fundamentals of Biology focuses on the basic principles of biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and recombinant DNA. These principles are necessary to understanding the basic mechanisms of life and anchor the biological knowledge that is required to understand many of the challenges in everyday life, from human health and disease to loss of biodiversity and environmental quality.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Eric Lander
Graham Walker
Hazel Sive
Michelle Mischke
Robert Weinberg
Sallie Chisholm
Tyler Jacks
Date Added:
09/04/2013
Girls Who Build Cameras
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The Girls Who Build Cameras workshop for high school girls is a one-day, hands-on introduction to camera physics and technology (i.e. how Instagram works!) at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaverworks Center. The workshop includes tearing down old dSLR cameras, building a Raspberry Pi camera, and designing Instagram filters and Photoshop tools. Participants also get to listen to keynote speakers from the camera technology industry, including Kris Clark who engineers space cameras for NASA and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Uyanga Tsedev who creates imaging probes to help surgeons find tumors at MIT

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Alex Lorman
Bob Schulein
Carol Carveth
Kristen Railey
Leslie Watkins
Olivia Glennon
Sara James
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Girls Who Build: Make your Own Wearables Workshop
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The Girls Who Build: Make Your Own Wearables workshop for high school girls is an introduction to computer science, electrical and mechanical engineering through wearable technology. The workshop, developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, consists of two major hands-on projects in manufacturing and wearable electronics. These include 3D printing jewelry and laser cutting a purse, as well as programming LEDs to light up when walking. Participants learn the design process, 3D computer modeling, and machine shop tools, in addition to writing code and building a circuit.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
David Scott
Elizabeth Astle
Gavin Lund
Katy Olesnavage
Kristin Railey
Leslie Watkins
Mike Gibson
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Highlights in Calculus
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Highlights of Calculus is a series of short videos that introduces the basics of calculus—how it works and why it is important. The intended audience is high school students, college students, or anyone who might need help understanding the subject.

Subject:
Calculus
Mathematics
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Gilbert Strang
Date Added:
09/04/2019
How and Why Machines Work
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Subject studies how and why machines work, how they are conceived, how they are developed (drawn), and how they are utilized. Students learn from the hands-on experiences of taking things apart mentally and physically, drawing (sketching, 3D CAD) what they envision and observe, taking occasional field trips, and completing an individual term project (concept, creation, and presentation). Emphasis on understanding the physics and history of machines.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Martin Culpepper
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Introduction to Bioengineering
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This course samples the wide variety of bioengineering options for students who plan to major in one of the undergraduate Engineering degree programs. The beginning lectures describe the science basis for bioengineering with particular emphasis on molecular cell biology and systems biology.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Biological Engineering Faculty
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Introduction to C + +
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This is a fast-paced introductory course to the C++ programming language. It is intended for those with little programming background, though prior programming experience will make it easier, and those with previous experience will still learn C++-specific constructs and concepts.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Geza Kovacs
Jesse Dunietz
John Marrero
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Introduction to Fiction
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This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles--traditional and innovative, western and nonwestern--and raises questions about the pleasures and meanings of verbal texts in different cultures, times, and forms. Toward the end of the term, we will be particularly concerned with the relationship between art and war in a diverse selection of works.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Wyn Kelley
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Introduction to Programming in Java
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This course is an introduction to software engineering, using the Java™ programming language. It covers concepts useful to 6.005. Students will learn the fundamentals of Java. The focus is on developing high quality, working software that solves real problems.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Adam Marcus
Eugene Wu
Evan Jones
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Introduction to Solid State Chemistry
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Introduction to Solid State Chemistry is a first-year single-semester college course on the principles of chemistry. This unique and popular course satisfies MIT's general chemistry degree requirement, with an emphasis on solid-state materials and their application to engineering systems.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Donald Sadoway
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Lego Robotics
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LEGO® robotics uses LEGO®s as a fun tool to explore robotics, mechanical systems, electronics, and programming. This seminar is primarily a lab experience which provides students with resources to design, build, and program functional robots constructed from LEGO®s and a few other parts such as motors and sensors.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
James Rising
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Mechanical Engineering Tools
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This course introduces the fundamentals of machine tool and computer tool use. Students work with a variety of machine tools including the bandsaw, milling machine, and lathe. Instruction given on MATLAB®, MAPLE®, XESS™, and CAD. Emphasis is on problem solving, not programming or algorithmic development.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
David Wallace
Douglas Hart
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Multivariable Calculus
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This course covers differential, integral and vector calculus for functions of more than one variable. These mathematical tools and methods are used extensively in the physical sciences, engineering, economics and computer graphics.

Subject:
Calculus
Mathematics
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
Denis Auroux
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Physics of Rock Climbing
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SP.255 is a lecture, discussion, and project based seminar about the physics of rock climbing. Participants are first exposed to the unsolved problems in the climbing community that could be answered by research and then asked to solve a small part of one of these problems. The seminar provides an introduction to engineering problems, an opportunity to practice communication skills, and a brief stab at doing some research. This seminar explicitly does not include climbing instruction nor is climbing/mountaineering experience a prerequisite.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
David Custer
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Producing Educational Videos
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Production of Educational Videos is an introduction to technical communication that is situated in the production of educational videos; the assignments are all focused on the production of videos that teach some aspect of MIT's first-year core curriculum. The objective of these assignments is improvement in both communication ability and communication habits; these improvements are effected by providing participants with instruction, practice, feedback, and the opportunity for reflection. In addition to improvements in communication skills, improvement is expected in students' attitude towards writing, oral presentations, and collaboration; as the semester progresses, students should feel confident of their ability to write, present, and collaborate.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
High School Highlights
Author:
David Custer
Graham Gordon Ramsay
Date Added:
09/04/2019