The book is over 200 pages long, although some of the later sections are incomplete or draft, and is available as a PDF, postscript or LaTeX file.

Physical metallurgy encompasses the relationships between the composition, structure, processing history and properties of metallic materials. The seminar from which these images are taken seminar introduces metallurgy in a particularly “physical” way. The students do blacksmithing, metal casting, machining, and welding, using both traditional and modern methods. The seminar meets once per week for an evening laboratory session, and once per week for discussion of issues in materials science and engineering that tie in to the laboratory work. Students begin by completing some specified projects and progress to designing and fabricating one forged and one cast piece.

[Description and screenshot taken from MIT OCW page for this course. (c) MIT used under the terms of their CC-NC-SA license.]

Product Design and Development is a project-based course that covers modern tools and methods for product design and development. The cornerstone is a project in which teams of management, engineering, and industrial design students conceive, design and prototype a physical product. Class sessions are conducted in workshop mode and employ cases and hands-on exercises to reinforce the key ideas. Topics include identifying customer needs, concept generation, product architecture, industrial design, and design-for-manufacturing.

[Description and screenshot taken from MIT OCW page for this course. (c) MIT used under the terms of their CC-NC-SA license.]

The course aims to introduce students to the creative design process, based on the scientific method and peer review, by application of fundamental principles and learning to complete projects according to schedule and within budget. The subject relies on active learning through a major team-based design-and-build project focused on the need for a new consumer product identified by each team. Topics to be learned while teams create, design, build, and test their product ideas include formulating strategies, concepts and modules, and estimation, concept selection, machine elements, design for manufacturing, visual thinking, communication, teamwork, and professional responsibilities.

[Description and screenshot taken from MIT OCW page for this course. (c) MIT used under the terms of their CC-NC-SA license.]

This is an advanced course on modelling, design, integration and best practices for use of machine elements such as bearings, springs, gears, cams and mechanisms. Modelling and analysis of these elements is based upon extensive application of physics, mathematics and core mechanical engineering principles (solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, manufacturing, estimation, computer simulation, etc.). These principles are reinforced via (1) hands-on laboratory experiences wherein students conduct experiments and disassemble machines and (2) a substantial design project wherein students model, design, fabricate and characterize a mechanical system that is relevant to a real world application. Students master the materials via problems sets that are directly related to, and coordinated with, the deliverables of their project. Student assessment is based upon mastery of the course materials and the student’s ability to synthesize, model and fabricate a mechanical device subject to engineering constraints (e.g. cost and time/schedule).

[Description and screenshot taken from MIT OCW page for this course. (c) MIT used under the terms of their CC-NC-SA license.]

Lecture Archive
Microprocessors & Labs
Power Screw & Fastner
Bolt & Preload 1
Bolt & Preload 2
Fatigue Loading 1
Fatigue Loading 2
Rolling-Contact Bearings 1
Rolling-Contact Bearings 2
Gears 1
Gears 2
Gears 3
Gears 4
Gear Train 1
Gear Train 2
Gear Force
Review for Exam
Motors
Feedback Control
Electronics Components

The course provides students with an opportunity to design, optimize, manufacture, and validate a physical system component. The projects from the course are included here. This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

This course provides students with an opportunity to conceive, design and implement a product, using rapid prototyping methods and computer-aid tools. The first of two phases challenges each student team to meet a set of design requirements and constraints for a structural component. A course of iteration, fabrication, and validation completes this manual design cycle. During the second phase, each team conducts design optimization using structural analysis software, with their phase one prototype as a baseline.

[Description and screenshot taken from MIT OCW page for this course. (c) MIT used under the terms of their CC-NC-SA license.]

The course develops students’ competence and self-confidence as design engineers. Emphasis is on the creative design process. The course covers the design stages of Design, Analysis, Rapid prototyping, Visualization and presentation, Planning and Manufacturing.

Lessons include:
Basics and Principles: “CAD – History, Present and Future” “Principles of CAD and Terminology” “CAD Objects” “CAD Software – simplified 2D CAD” “CAD Software – advanced”.
Practical Lessons “Drawing in 2D” “Engineering drawings”