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Exploring Sea, Space, & Earth: Fundamentals of Engineering Design
Art: Frederick Collins, Collins steam engine drawing, 1918 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Alexandra Techet
- Term
- Spring 2009
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 6 videos · 38 other files · 8 web pages
- Materials open
- Videos here · files on MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 2.00AJ Exploring Sea, Space, & Earth: Fundamentals of Engineering Design, Spring 2009, Prof. Alexandra Techet — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Syllabus
Study Materials
11 files
- Overview (PDF 1) Download
- Engineering design (PDF 2) Download
- Introductory questionnaire Download
- Concept quiz Download
- Engineering analysis Download
- Circuits Download
- Fluid effects and forces Download
- Hydrostatic pressure effects and Archimedes’ principle Download
- Gears & linkages Download
- Prelab (Courtesy of Dava Newman. Used with permission.) Download
- Lab (Courtesy of Dava Newman. Used with permission.) Download
Labs
7 files
- Solid Works tutorial Machine shop skills and safety Download
- Light banks (Courtesy of Kate Thompson. Used with permission.) Download
- Instrumentation panels introduction and construction Download
- Introduction to the OETL Download
- Electronics Assembly (Courtesy of Kate Thompson. Used with permission.) Download
- Information on sensors Download
- Further data analysis Design review poster preparation Download
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- Pool Testing Video 3 (No Audio) Open ↗
- Pool Testing Video 4 (No Audio) Open ↗
- Pool Testing Video 5 (No Audio) Open ↗
Assignments
- Design notebook guidelines Download
- This resource contains information about grading and required readings (MIT2_00AJs09_assn02_ethics.pdf) Download
- Perelman, Les. “Writing a Technical Report.” (Courtesy of Les Perelman and Mya Poe. Used with permission.) Download
- Rethinking the design of presentation slides (Courtesy of Michael Alley. Used with permission.) Download
- Presentation template Download
- This resource contains information about details, layouts and technical (MIT2_00AJs09_assn06_motors.pdf) Download
Projects
- “The Winged Avenger.” Download
- “Designing an Underwater ROV.” Download
- “Designing Nemo.” Download
- “The Sea-Saw.” Download
- “To Sink And Swim.” Download
Related Resources
- Exploration-themed reading recommendations Download
- Belden, Jesse. “3 Methods for Dimensional Analysis.” (Courtesy of Jesse Belden. Used with permission.) Download
Other materials from this course
- pool clip1 transcript Download
- pool clip2 transcript Download
- pool clip3 transcript Download
- pool clip4 transcript Download
- pool clip5 transcript Download
23 images
- Getting suited up. Open ↗
- Student "astronauts", ready to gather samples from the surface. Open ↗
- Moving in a space suit requires practice. Open ↗
- The progress of the surface team is tracked back in headquarters. Open ↗
- Astronauts stay in close communication with Mission Control. Open ↗
- The crawling robot rover investigates the landscape. Open ↗
- Two students posing with a cube-framed robot at the edge of the pool Open ↗
- Two students with their robot and coiled-up tether Open ↗
- Two students whose robot has a sloping top Open ↗
- One student uses a control pad to drive the robot around the pool Open ↗
- The video from the robot's camera is displayed on a CRT Open ↗
- Students use pliers and wire to fix their robot Open ↗
- A sphere-bodied robot with a propeller hovers near the river surface Open ↗
- With one propeller at the end of each arm, the robot drives point-first through the water Open ↗
- The typical cubic frame is augmented with wings for added stability Open ↗
- Students on the dock maneuver their robots around, make adjustments before launch, and watch each… Open ↗
- Four PVC pipe buoys are attached to this robot's frame Open ↗
- Weights, foam blocks, and buoys are attached to different parts of the robot to balance out the… Open ↗
- The multi-stranded tether coils up on the dock as a student hauls in the robot Open ↗
- A student repairs electronics stored inside a PVC buoy Open ↗
- A student attaches the PVC buoy to the robot with a metal hose clamp Open ↗
- The robot zigzags and turns around at the river surface Open ↗
- A student watches intently while steering their robot down to the river bottom Open ↗
Course outline
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Alexandra Techet, 2.00AJ Exploring Sea, Space, & Earth: Fundamentals of Engineering Design, Spring 2009.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2009 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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