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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 2.993 (January (IAP) 2007) 
  • Course Title:
  • Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering: The Art and Science of Boat Design 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Mechanical Engineering 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Antonio Dias
    (Antonio Dias Design)
    Reuben Smith
    (Tumblehome Boatshop)

    Course Coordinator:
    Kurt Hasselbalch
    (Curator, MIT Museum)

    Faculty Liaisons:
    Prof. Christopher Dewart
    Prof. Nicholas Patrikalaki 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 2.993 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering: The Art and Science of Boat Design



    January (IAP) 2007




    Course Highlights


    This course features video lectures, as well as an image gallery. 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.


    Course Description


    This class is jointly sponsored by the MIT Museum, Massachusetts Bay Maritime Artisans, the Department of Mechanical Engineering's Center for Ocean Engineering, and the Department of Architecture. The course teaches the fundamental steps in traditional boat design and demonstrates connections between craft and modern methods. Instructors provide vessel design orientation and then students carve their own shape ideas in the form of a wooden half-hull model. Experts teach the traditional skills of visualizing and carving your model in this phase of the class. After the models are completed, a practicing naval architect guides students in translating shape from models into a lines plan. The final phase of the class is a comparative analysis of the designs generated by the group.


    Special Features




    Technical Requirements


    Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .rm.

     

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