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Syllabus



Syllabus



Description


Humanitarian Demining is the process of detecting, removing and disposing of landmines. Millions of landmines are buried in more than 80 countries resulting in 20,000 civilian victims every year. MIT Design for Demining is a design course that spans the entire product design and development process from identification of needs and idea generation to prototyping and blast testing to manufacture and deployment. Technical, business and customer aspects are addressed. Students learn about demining while they design, develop and deliver devices to aid the demining community. Past students have invented or improved hand tools, protective gear, safety equipment, educational graphics and teaching materials. Some tools designed in previous years are in use worldwide in the thousands. Course work is informed by a class field trip to a U.S. Army base for demining training and guest expert speakers.



Grading



ACTIVITIESPERCENTAGES
Individual assignments20%
Project proposal10%
Design review 115%
Design review 220%
Project report25%
Attendance and participation10%

Instructors use the marks obtained by a student and their discretion to determine a final course grade.

Discretionary considerations include attention to personal development, ethical practice, respect for others, active involvement with your work and recognition of design ability not reflected in the assessment marks given out.

Assignments are available in the assignments section.



Intellectual Property Considerations


MIT Policies and Procedures indicate that students own the intellectual property they create while taking MIT courses, provided the work is not developed in the course of or pursuant to a sponsored research or other agreement, not created as a "work-for-hire" by operation of copyright law, and not developed with the significant use of funds or facilities administered by MIT.

In all likelihood, you will own the intellectual property you create in this class. Students only occasionally combine their class work with their research or their employment work. From a legal perspective, you will not be using significant MIT funds or facilities.

Given the service nature of this course, an effective mechanism for providing service is to place final student class work in the public domain. In some cases, it is the only way to provide a community a service.

As the need arises, we will discuss intellectual property plans in further detail for individual projects. In any event, do not hesitate to talk with us if you have any questions regarding this information.


SES #TOPICSKEY DATES
1Course overview and logisticsHomework 1 out
2Mines and mined areas

Homework 1 due

Homework 2 out

3Demining technologies

Homework 2 due

Homework 3 out

4Demining processes

Homework 3 due

Homework 4 and 5 out

Homework 5 out

5Accidents

Homework 4 and 5 due

Homework 6 out

6CommunityHomework 6 due
7Needs and ideasHomework 8 out, due next day
8Trip to Humanitarian Demining Training Center at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO (2 days)
9Concept developmentHomework 9 out
10Projects and proposals

Homework 9 due

Homework 10 out

11Customer contacts

Homework 10 due

Homework 11 out

12ManufacturingHomework 11 due
13FinancingHomework 12 out
14-15Project work
16Design review 1Homework 12 due
17-21Project work (cont.)Homework 13 out in Ses #20
22Design review 2Homework 13 due
23-26Project work (cont.)Homework 14 out in Ses #25
27Project report dueHomework 14 due

 








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