MIT OpenCourseWare
Elements of Mechanical Design
- Instructor
- Prof. Martin Culpepper
- Term
- Spring 2009
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 22 other files · 5 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design, Spring 2009, Prof. Martin Culpepper — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
2 items from the source could not be safely included:
- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely. (2 items)
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
18 files
- Lecture 01: Principles Download
- Lecture 02: Review Download
- Lecture 03: Shafts Download
- Lecture 04: Fatigue Download
- Lecture 05: Structures Download
- Lecture 06: Constraints Download
- Lecture 07: Rolling contact bearings Download
- Lecture 08: Flexures Download
- Lecture 09: Alignment Download
- Lecture 10: Bolted joints Download
- Lecture 11: Screw drives Download
- Lecture 12: Belt, friction, gear drives Download
- Lecture 13: Gear failure prevention Download
- Lecture 14: Actuators Download
- Lecture 16: Dynamics and damping Download
- Lecture 18: Friction-based elements Download
- Shaft blank exercise Download
- Vibration exercise Download
Assignments
Projects
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Martin Culpepper, 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design, Spring 2009.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2009 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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