The challenge for this year's 2.007 robots is to clean up the environment. (Image by Daniel Frey.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Daniel Frey
Prof. David Gossard
MIT Course Number
2.007
As Taught In
Spring 2009
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
- Class competition - video
- Selected lecture notes
- Projects and examples
- Assignments: problem sets with solutions
- Exams and solutions
Course Description
Welcome to 2.007! This course is a first subject in engineering design. With your help, this course will be a great learning experience exposing you to interesting material, challenging you to think deeply, and providing skills useful in professional practice. A major element of the course is design of a robot to participate in a challenge that changes from year to year. This year, the theme is cleaning up the planet as inspired by the movie Wall-E.
From its beginnings in 1970, the 2.007 final project competition has grown into an Olympics of engineering. See this MIT News story for more background, a photo gallery, and videos about this course.
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