MIT emphasizes smart design. (special section: Teaching Mechanical Engineers to use Microprocessors)

From: Mechanical Engineering-CIME | Date: April 1, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering offers a course called Designing Smart Machines, to teach students about microprocessors and interface electronics. Students are required to design and build a device that incorporates an embedded processor. Projects to date have included a vehicle driven by an infrared link, a broomstick-balancing cart and a dry-ingredient dispenser for bakers.

Mechanical engineers who call themselves designers should have experience with embedded processors and interfacing those processors to actuators and sensors. The reason for this is clear when one looks ...

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