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This calendar provides the course's lecture topics, readings, and assignment due dates. While the first half of the course is focused on lectures, a significant portion of the second half is devoted to in-class group work, where students are divided into groups to work on term projects.


SES #TOPICS / READINGS
I. Introduction and Background
1Introduction, Course Overview
II. Engineers in Action
2Reading: Latour, Bruno. Science in Action. Introduction, and chapter 3, pp. 1-17 and 103-144.
3Reading: Latour, Bruno. Science in Action. Chapters 4-6, pp. 145-259.
III. The Construction of Technological Systems
4Reading: Mindell. "Opening Black's Box: Rethinking Feedback's Myth of Origin."
IV. Invention and Engineering Culture
5Reading: MacKenzie, Donald. Inventing Accuracy. Chapters 1-2.
6Reading: MacKenzie, Donald. Inventing Accuracy. Chapters 4, 7, and 8.

Assignment Due: Response Paper #1
V. Innovation and Marketplace
7Reading: Christensen, Clayton M. The Inventor's Dilemma. Chapters 1, 2, 4, 9, and 11.
8Reading: Discussion of Methodology, Research Methods, Library, Techniques, Source Materials, etc.
VI. Using Sources Effectively
9Lab Notebooks and Project Documentation: Meet in MIT Archives, Introduction to Edgerton/Forrester Notebooks

Assignment Due: Response Paper #2
VII. Group Work and Collaborative Writing
10Presentation: "Working Effectively in Groups." In-Class Group Work
11In-Class Group Work, Presentation of Project History Proposals, Discussion and Ranking

Assignment Due: Individual Project History Proposals
VIII. Project History Work
12In-Class Group Work
13In-Class Group Work
IX. Visual Materials and Argumentation
14Reading: Tufte, Edward. Visual and Statistical Thinking.
15In-Class Group Work
X. Understanding Patents
16Presentation: "How to Read a Patent." In-Class Group Work
17In-Class Group Work

Assignment Due: Visual Argumentation Exercise
XI. Project Histories
18In-Class Group Work

Assignment Due: Group Proposal/Plan of Project History
19In-Class Group Work
20In-Class Group Work
21In-Class Group Work
22In-Class Group Work
XII. Final Preparations
23Presentation Rehearsals
24Presentation Rehearsals

Assignment Due: Written Draft for Groups Presenting
XIII. Presentations of Project Histories
25Group Presentation of Project Histories
26Group Presentation of Project Histories

Final Projects due two days after the last session.

 


 



 








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