Welcome to 2.007! This course is a first subject in engineering design.
FREE
This course includes
Units & Quizzes
15
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
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.
Course Currilcum
- Course introduction, contest overview Unlimited
- Problem definition and design Unlimited
- Actuators – DC motors, servomotors, pneumatics Unlimited
- Creating CAD components 1 Unlimited
- Creating CAD components 2 Unlimited
- Mechanisms (2D kinematic analysis) Unlimited
- Creating CAD assemblies Unlimited
- Mechanisms (synthesis of 4 bar mechanisms) Unlimited
- Gears – basics, terminology, involute curve Unlimited
- Gears – strength, gear trains Unlimited
- Microcontrollers Unlimited
- Sensors Unlimited
- Belts / chains / cams Unlimited
- Optimization Unlimited
- Professional ethics Unlimited