Engineering, Technology, and Invention

Engineering is at the core of MIT; and this theme offers more than three dozen hands-on activities, demonstrations, and exhibits. You'll stop time in the Edgerton Center's Strobe Alley, learn the materials science of ice cream, hang out with robots, look inside a computer, and see how a steel bridge is constructed.

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(All day)	The future of humanities education
10:00am - 11:00am	High tech show and tell presentations
11:00am - 2:00pm	Speaker and language identification
11:00am - 1:00pm	Rhode Island Army National Guard ROTC UH-60 Blackhawk fly-in
11:00am - 1:00pm	Digital mapping tools introduced by MIT GIS services
11:00am - 1:00pm	Turning metals into medals
11:00am - 1:30pm	Startup showcase
11:00am - 12:30pm	Invisibility cloaks and more: research in mechanical engineering
11:00am - 1:00pm	Glass Lab tours and demonstrations
11:00am - 2:00pm	Healthcare reborn: a systems engineering game
11:00am - 3:00pm	Leaders for Global Operations: MIT's dual MBA and engineering Master's program
11:00am - 3:00pm	Real-time voice transformation
11:00am - 2:00pm	Computers that fly robots!
11:00am - 2:00pm	Aircraft carrier deck operations — action planner demo
11:00am - 1:00pm	How computers work – "science on Saturday-style" technology demonstration 11am and 1pm.
11:00am - 2:00pm	Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity open house
11:00am - 3:00pm	Medicine, sustainability, and energy: all about materials science and engineering
11:00am - 12:00pm	Fusion research: Alcator C-Mod tour
11:00am - 12:00pm	Flying parrot, unmanned aerial vehicles
11:00am - 3:30pm	Fly a SPHERES satellite
11:00am - 12:30pm	Mens et Manus: learning biomedical product design. "Designing medical devices in a university setting" by Conor Walsh, PhD
11:00am - 1:00pm	The incredible water bear!
11:00am - 1:00pm	Army National Guard and MIT ROTC UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter fly-in
11:00am - 3:00pm	Usability products.. or not? Mobile phone comparison
11:00am - 2:00pm	Infrared cameras
11:10am - 11:30am	Mens et Manus: learning biomedical product design. "Single Entry Tunneler (SET) for hemodialysis graft procedures" by Elizabeth Y. Tsai
11:30am - 12:30pm	Plasma and pickles
11:30am - 12:00pm	The gravity-defying lapping of a house cat: demonstration and Q & A session
11:30am - 2:30pm	Got gunk on your DNA?
11:30am - 12:00pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Sandy Pentland, author of "Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World"
11:30am - 11:50am	Mens et Manus: learning biomedical product design. "Renal cooling device for use in minimally invasive surgery" by Thomas Cervantes
11:50am - 12:10pm	Mens et Manus: learning biomedical product design. "Somnus shirt: home sleep monitoring" by Thomas Lipoma, Pablo Bello and Carson Darling
12:00pm - 4:00pm	Student clubs & teams open house
12:00pm - 12:30pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Sanjoy Mahajan, author of "Street-Fighting Mathematics"
12:00pm - 12:45pm	IS&T Data Center tour
12:10pm - 12:30pm	Mens et Manus: learning biomedical product design. "Flexural laparoscopic grasper" by Matt Rosario
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Living sunlight: how plants bring earth to life
1:00pm - 3:00pm	MIT Public Service Center
1:00pm - 2:00pm	How Computers Work—"Science on Saturday-style" technology demonstration.
1:00pm - 3:00pm	How students with disabilities successfully navigate a university education
1:00pm - 4:00pm	Stopping time at the Edgerton Center
1:00pm - 3:00pm	System design and management open house
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Tackling real-world challenges: ESD PhD poster session
1:00pm - 2:30pm	Do-It Tours by the Hobby Shop, Edgerton Center Student Shop, and D-Lab
1:00pm - 4:00pm	Tech Model Railroad Club Open House
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Media Laboratory project demonstrations
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Pasta towers
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Sea Perch demonstration
1:00pm - 2:30pm	2.007 Robot Competition
1:00pm - 1:30pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with David Mindell, author of "Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight"
1:00pm - 1:45pm	Three "flavors" of magnetism
1:00pm - 4:00pm	Fly robotic helicopters at the Aerospace Controls Lab!
1:30pm - 2:30pm	Fusion research: Alcator C-Mod tour
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Erik Brynjolfsson, author of "Wired for Innovation: How IT is Reshaping the Economy"
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Earth science in the 21st century
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Greek Week Keynote
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Apps 4 academics
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Urban planning public lectures
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Blacksmithing at MIT
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Lecture on robotics in mechanical engineering: "Design Inspiration from Nature" by Professor Sangbae Kim
2:00pm - 2:30pm	The gravity-defying lapping of a house cat: demonstration and Q & A session
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Research and entrepreneurship panel
2:25pm - 3:00pm	Lecture on robotics in mechanical engineering: "MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Team" by Professor John Leonard
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Personal and professional presence on the InterWeb — a seminar
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Do-It Tours by the Hobby Shop, Edgerton Center Student Shop, and D-Lab
2:45pm - 4:00pm	Gender, race, and the complexities of science and technology
2:50pm - 3:15pm	Lecture on robotics in mechanical engineering: "The Robo Turtle" by Professor Michael Triantafyllou
3:00pm - 4:00pm	High tech show and tell presentations
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Plasma and pickles
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Fusion research: Alcator C-Mod tour
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Pasta towers
3:15pm - 3:40pm	Lecture on robotics in mechanical engineering: "Rehabilitation Robotics: From Bench to Clinical Practice" by Dr. Hermano Igo Krebs
3:40pm - 4:15pm	Lecture on robotics in mechanical engineering: "Nuclear Reactor Inspection Robots" by Professor Harry Asada

11:00am - 4:00pm	2011 Residential Life time capsule
11:00am - 4:00pm	A showcase of invention as public service at MIT
11:00am - 4:00pm	Ascending the wall
11:00am - 4:00pm	Autonomous robotics competition
11:00am - 4:00pm	Aviation and the environment
11:00am - 4:00pm	Battlecode! Artificial intelligence programming competition
11:00am - 4:00pm	Bits, electrons, and robots
11:00am - 4:00pm	Braille Maker 6-dot machine created by product engineering students
11:00am - 4:00pm	Build a city with urban planners
11:00am - 4:00pm	Campus construction: past and future
11:00am - 4:00pm	Carbon nanotube display
11:00am - 4:00pm	Cars that won't crash
11:00am - 4:00pm	Celebrating discovery at MIT: an undergraduate research poster session
11:00am - 4:00pm	Center for Bits and Atoms Digital Fabrication Facility and Fab Lab network
11:00am - 4:00pm	Change the world through media
11:00am - 4:00pm	Compare, don't score
11:00am - 4:00pm	Compton Gallery — MIT150 exhibition
11:00am - 4:00pm	Confronting the climate change challenge
11:00am - 4:00pm	Constructing a steel bridge
11:00am - 4:00pm	Cracking up! How rock cracks under stress
11:00am - 4:00pm	Discover mechanical engineering: kids edition
11:00am - 4:00pm	Electric Vehicle Team
11:00am - 4:00pm	Energy secrets of biofuels and the body
11:00am - 4:00pm	Exhibits from the MIT Glass Lab, Student Art Association, and the MIT Hobby Shop
11:00am - 4:00pm	Experimental vehicles created by mechanical engineering students
11:00am - 4:00pm	Exploring with the lunar reconnaissance orbiter
11:00am - 4:00pm	Eye in the sky
11:00am - 4:00pm	GAMBIT game lab open house
11:00am - 4:00pm	Get MIT mobile app for iPhone, Android
11:00am - 4:00pm	Getting into college: preparations and process
11:00am - 4:00pm	Hands-on activities with cancer researchers
11:00am - 4:00pm	Hart Nautical Gallery exhibit
11:00am - 4:00pm	Hobby Shop open house
11:00am - 4:00pm	How the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program is developing tomorrow's engineering leaders
11:00am - 4:00pm	Interactive virtual urban traffic system
11:00am - 4:00pm	Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems: LIDS research presentations
11:00am - 4:00pm	LEGO robots save the universe!
11:00am - 4:00pm	Magnetic levitating ball and inverted pendulum demonstrations
11:00am - 4:00pm	Materials science fair
11:00am - 4:00pm	Microsystems in action
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT AgeLab – life tomorrow
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Electronics Research Society (MITERS) Open House
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Electronics Research Society (MITERS) showcase
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Haystack Observatory: seeing the universe through radio eyes
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)—poster session
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT motorsports (FSAE)
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Museum inside out
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT OpenCourseWare: unlocking knowledge and empowering minds
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Portugal program video
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Sloan presents: action learning poster show
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT150 welcome lounge
11:00am - 4:00pm	Mobile advanced command and control system display
11:00am - 4:00pm	Molecular secrets of building materials! (Shhh!)
11:00am - 4:00pm	Nuclear science and engineering open house
11:00am - 4:00pm	OpenKinect symphony conductor — conduct the music of your dreams!
11:00am - 4:00pm	Participate in video game research
11:00am - 4:00pm	Personal tracking made easy
11:00am - 4:00pm	Plasma Science and Fusion Center
11:00am - 4:00pm	Protect that pill
11:00am - 4:00pm	Renewable energy, cheap charcoal, rainwater harvesting and water purification in Uganda
11:00am - 4:00pm	Residential Life information booth
11:00am - 4:00pm	Robotics demonstration
11:00am - 4:00pm	Robotics, optical fibers, and high-definition illuminated pickles
11:00am - 4:00pm	Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning
11:00am - 4:00pm	See the seas
11:00am - 4:00pm	Self-driving cars and autonomous forklifts
11:00am - 4:00pm	Self-starters: autonomous vehicles and robots
11:00am - 4:00pm	Solar Car Team
11:00am - 4:00pm	Student research presentations and demos
11:00am - 4:00pm	Student research presentations and demos
11:00am - 4:00pm	Supply map & source map
11:00am - 4:00pm	TALARIS and Exoplanet Sat: how do Draper and MIT engineers get a spacecraft to hop or look at stars in space to discover planets?
11:00am - 4:00pm	Technology drop-in and open house
11:00am - 4:00pm	Technology through time: 150 years of MIT history at the MIT Libraries' Maihaugen Gallery
11:00am - 4:00pm	Technology-enabled education at MIT: learn how technology advances learning and teaching
11:00am - 4:00pm	Terrascope 2013: reducing atmospheric CO2
11:00am - 4:00pm	The complex world of hydrophobia
11:00am - 4:00pm	The Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory: where we've been & where we're going
11:00am - 4:00pm	The dawn of MIT: its founding documents and buildings
11:00am - 4:00pm	The gravity-defying lapping of a house cat
11:00am - 4:00pm	The materials science of ice cream
11:00am - 4:00pm	Timeline of MIT engineering
11:00am - 4:00pm	Transition: the flying car (or drivable airplane)
11:00am - 4:00pm	Use brain wave sensors in SCRATCH
11:00am - 4:00pm	Walking on water
11:00am - 4:00pm	What could a quantum computer do, and how would it work?
11:00am - 4:00pm	What is chemical engineering?
11:00am - 4:00pm	What is the Engineering Systems Division (ESD)?
11:00am - 4:00pm	Wheelchair baskets created by product engineering students
11:00am - 4:00pm	Zero robotics competition