Room W31-301

Introduction:

This teaching space provides a publicly available, teachable and reservable computer cluster with 24 student dual-boot workstations (Windows 7 and OSX) running in the win.mit.edu domain.

This space can be used for collaborative learning pedagogies with workstations in 8 groups of 3 computers clustered around team whiteboards.

An MIT Athena account is required to log into these workstations.

Schedule:

This cluster is scheduled through OEIT.

(Below is the non-definitive version of the current calendar.)

For a list of software that is currently installed in this teaching space please consult the W31-301 technology page.

Technology:

Hardware:

24 Student Workstations + 1 Instructors Workstation

27" iMacs - Dual Boot (OSX10.8.5 and Windows 7)

3.4 GHz quad-core i7's with 12 GB Ram

There is 1920x1080 Projector mounted in the classroom and a document camera located at the lectern.

Software:

Applications in this cluster are focused on the Architectural and Engineering domains, including:

For OSX

Adobe Suite CS5
Audacity
Endnote
Google Earth
Google SketchUp
Apple iWork'09
Apple iApps (GarageBand etc...)
R64
Stata
MS Office Suite
XCode 4.02 w/iOS SDK 4.3

For Windows 7

Adobe Suite CS5 (limited number of licenses)
Audacity
Internet Explorer
Firefox
ArcGIS 9.0x
AutoCad
EndNote
Google Earth
Google SketchUp
MS Office Suite
Rhino 4.0
SecureCRT 6.7
SecureFX 6.7
SolidWorks

Software installation will be considered by special request, on a case by case basis. (elel-consult@mit.edu) Requests should be made as early as possible, preferably the semester before teaching in this space.

Help:

Please contact elel-consult@mit.edu.

Projects:

The Projects list is in the process of being updated. Thank you for your patience.

A selected list of recent classes hosted in this space appears below:

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Classes

16.100 Aerodynamics (2011)
18.S977 Special Subject in Mathematics (2011)
16.83J/12.43J Space Systems Engineering (2011)
11.521 Spatial DB Management and Adv. GIS (2011)
11.523 Fundamentals of Spatial Database Management (2011)
11.526 Comparative Land Use and Transportation Planning (2010, 2011)
GIS Laboratory (2011)
SP.704 Introduction to Microcontrollers (2011)
7.57 Quantitative Biology for Graduate Students recitation (2011)
11.520/11.188 Workshop on GIS (2010)
SEED Academy (2010)
16.001 Matlab Tutorials (2010)
Course 11 Computer Lab (2010)
ESP Splash (2010)
16.621/16.622 SolidWorks Tutorials (2010)
11.328 Lab/recitation (2010)
12.156s recitation (2010)
10.40s recitation (2010)
10.50s recitation (2010)
16.07 recitation (2010)

Seminars, Conferences and Educational Outreach

MIT 150 (2011)
CSAIL FACT Classes/Outreach (2010, 2011)
GIS Testout Preps (2011)
Concussion Baseline Testing (2010)
PSC Student Projects (2010)
DUSP GIS Test-Out (2010)
SSI Summer Seminar Series (2010)
Career Re-Eng Prog CRP (2010)
ESP-HSSP (2010)
STEP Teacher Workshop (2010)
Energy Initiative - Freshman Pre-Orientation (2010)
Amgen Scholars Poster Sessions (2010)
RSI Program (2010)
SEPT/NEST (2010)
Rhino Software Workshop (2010)
SolidWorks Tutorials Course 16 (2010)
MIT@Lawrence (2010)
SoS Computer Training non-Profit Acct. (2010)

IAP Sessions

4.195 RhinoScript (2011)
SIPB Computing World (2010)

Resources

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