Up Close: MIT's Ceramics Manufacturing and Process Integration Laboratory

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 91-94
Author(s):  
Richard L. Pober ◽  
Elizabeth A. Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuit ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Process Integration ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Manufacturing Productivity ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Processing Techniques

In a relatively short period of time ceramics have become the key elements to a variety of new technologies, including integrated circuit substrates, artificial limbs, turbocharger rotors, and, of course, superconductors. By and large, however, they have not met their potential. Though advances in basic research are responsible for the breakthroughs so far, no extensive work has been done to establish the manufacturing paradigms necessary for the production of reliable, reproducible materials.The new Ceramics Manufacturing and Process Integration Laboratory (CMPIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was conceived to address this need. As a logical extension of the science-based Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory (CPRL), also at MIT, the CMPIL will “test” fundamental ideas as they relate to ceramics manufacturing. The goal is to create a hands-on “research factory,” complete with manufactured product, to make an impact on manufacturing productivity and teach students, staff, and visiting scientists the principles that control ceramics manufacturing systems. Other thrusts include developing innovative processing techniques and collecting operating data that will ultimately be transferred to industry.

Process Integration issues for Interlevel Dielectric Materials for Sub-quarter Micron Silicon Integrated Circuits

1998 ◽  
Vol 511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijay Parihar ◽  
R. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Integrated Circuit ◽  
Process Integration ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Interlayer Dielectric ◽  
Low Dielectric ◽  
Silicon Integrated Circuits ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
Low K

ABSTRACTThe continued miniaturization towards sub-quarter micron feature size mandates the search for low dielectric constant interlayer dielectric materials. A large number of materials and processing techniques has been suggested, but so far none of the proposed dielectric materials as well as processing techniques have been integrated into standard integrated circuit processing. In this paper, a new approach has been formulated for integration of low-k dielectric materials for future integrated circuits.

scholarly journals Online Communication in Student Product Design Teams

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia D. Van de Zande ◽  
David R. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Day Of The Week ◽  
Institute Of Technology

New technological developments are changing how the product design community communicates in the workplace and in the classroom. Slack, an online communication application with some project management features, has become a popular communication tool among many workers and students. This paper examines the Slack conversation conducted by 16 student product development teams in a course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2.009: Product Engineering Processes. Following a typical product development process, co-located teams of 17–20 students each used the online communication tool in addition to face-to-face meetings to design new products in one semester. The resulting conversations were analyzed for message count over the course of the semester, message count by day of the week and hour of the day, message count by user, and communication organization. It was observed that teams tended to increase their communication right before deadlines and decrease it right after. When viewing teams’ communication patterns by day of the week and the hour of the day, it was seen that many teams increased their communication in a short period after team meetings. In both of these cases, successful teams tended to have more consistent communication. There was little correlation (R2 = 2186) between the number of hours teams reported working on the class and their Slack activity by day. When looking at a team’s total volume of communication, high volumes may indicate team members are working well, but it may also indicate they are struggling. Teams with higher levels of success tended to have more organized communication structures than teams with lower levels of success, as assessed by instructors. In addition to the data collected in this work, further research is still needed to understand with more certainty how online communication patterns correlate to teams’ levels of success or team behaviors.

scholarly journals DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES: AN EXPANDED VIEW

2005 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES M. UTTERBACK ◽  
HAPPY J. ACEE
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Harvard Business School ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Institute Of Technology

The term "disruptive technology" as coined by Christensen (1997, The Innovator's Dilemma; How New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Harvard Business School Press) refers to a new technology having lower cost and performance measured by traditional criteria, but having higher ancillary performance. Christensen finds that disruptive technologies may enter and expand emerging market niches, improving with time and ultimately attacking established products in their traditional markets. This conception, while useful, is also limiting in several important ways. By emphasising only "attack from below" Christensen ignores other discontinuous patterns of change, which may be of equal or greater importance (Utterback, 1994, Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation. Harvard Business School Press; Acee, 2001, SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Further, the true importance of disruptive technology, even in Christensen's conception of it is not that it may displace established products. Rather, it is a powerful means for enlarging and broadening markets and providing new functionality. In Christensen's theory of disruptive technology, the establishment of a new market segment acts to channel the new product to the leading edge of the market or the early adopters. Once the innovation reaches the early to late majority of users it begins to compete with the established product in its traditional market. Here we present an alternative scenario in which a higher performing and higher priced innovation is introduced into the most demanding established market segments and later moves towards the mass market.

Nonlinear Complexity Sorting Approach for 2D ECG Data Compression

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anukul Pandey ◽  
Butta Singh ◽  
Barjinder Singh Saini ◽  
Neetu Sood
Keyword(s):  
Data Compression ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Sorting Algorithm ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Nonlinear Complexity ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Ecg Data Compression ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg ◽  
Ecg Data

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is globally acknowledged research problem. The continuous Electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring can assist in tackling the problem of CVD. The redundancy in the monitoring of ECG signal is reduced by various signal processing techniques either in 1D or 2D domain. This chapter is having the sole objective of reviewing the existing 2D ECG data compression techniques and comparing it with the 1D compression techniques. Furthermore, proposing a novel nonlinear complexity sorting approach for 2D ECG data compression. The broad basic steps involved in the procedure are preprocessing, transformation and encoding. The preprocessing steps includes QRS detection, 2D ECG image formulation, Dc quantization and complexity sorting. The second stage of transformation includes the various decomposition techniques. At encoding stage, standard image codec (JPEG2000) can be employed. The performance evaluation of the proposed complexity sorting algorithm is performed on records of Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Beth Israel Hospital arrhythmia database.

scholarly journals The Higher Education Sustainability through Virtual Laboratories: The Spanish University as Case of Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Salmerón-Manzano ◽  
Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Institute Of Technology

Education has been integrated into the globalization process supported by technological advances such as e-learning. The sustainability of the universities is one of the key points of the university survival, and they strongly depend on the number of students that can enroll in them. Thus, many of the educational institutions have had to develop their curricula based on the use new technologies. Without a doubt, virtual laboratories are the latest technology in this regard. The objective of this work is to determine which are the main institutions and research trends in relation to virtual laboratories. The methodology followed in this research was to perform a bibliometric analysis of the whole scientific production indexed in Scopus. The world’s scientific production has been analysed in the following domains: first the trend over time, types of publications and countries, second the main subjects and keywords, third main institutions and their main topics, and fourth the main journals and proceedings that publish on this topic. After that, a case study was analysed in detailed as a representative country (Spain). The most productive institution in this field, Universidad de Educación a Distancia (UNED). If the ranking is established by average citations per published paper, the first three institutions are from the USA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Washington (Seattle), and Carnegie Mellon University. The scientific categories at world level and in the case of study are similar. First, there is the field of engineering followed by computer science and above all it highlights the wide spectrum of branches of knowledge in which this topic is published, which indicates the great acceptance of this teaching methodology in all fields of education. Finally, community detection has been applied to the case study and six clusters have been found: Virtual Reality, Users, E-learning, Programming, Automatic-robotics, Computer Simulation and Engineering Education. As a main conclusion, bibliographic analysis confirms that research in virtual laboratories is a very active field, where scientific productivity has exponentially increased over recent years in tandem with universities growth. Therefore, expectations are high in this field for the near future. The possibility of virtual laboratories opens up new perspectives for higher education sustainability, where the educational policies of countries could be reoriented.

scholarly journals Socrative: A tool to dinamyze the classroom

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Bello Pintado ◽  
Javier Merino Diaz de Cerio
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Continuous Working

<p>The introduction of new technologies in teaching is a challenge that teachers in Oprations Management have to deal with. "Socrative" is an application created in 2010 by profesor Amit Maimon, from School of Management and Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This tool allows to induce reflections on the meaning of concepts that are exposed in the classroom, requiring some response immediate from the studentes. <br /> <br />We consider that there are many advantages that can be obtained wtih the use of these technologies. It capture the interest of the student, promotes the involvement in a continuous working, favors collaboration in the classroom combating the "scenic fear" and allows to strengthen of knowledge. At the same time, helps to better retain what is explained and forces studentes to make mistakes or succeed, stimulating the debate.</p><p>[SOCRATIVE: Una herramienta para dinamizar el aula</p><p>La introducción de nuevas tecnologías en la docencia es un reto al que tenemos que hacer frente con urgencia los profesores de cualquier materia y por tanto también los profesores de Dirección de Operaciones.  La idea básica es <em>inducir a la reflexión sobre el significado</em> de los conceptos y propiedades que se exponen en el aula, requiriendo alguna <em>respuesta inmediata</em><strong>“Socrative”</strong> es una idea surgida  2010 y fue promovida por Amit Maimon, un profesor asistente en la Escuela de Administración y Dirección de Empresas del <strong>Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts</strong> (MIT). , nada más ser introducidos.</p><p>Consideramos que son muchas las ventajas que se pueden obtener con la utilización de este tipo de recursos: capta el interés del estudiante, le empuja a implicarse de forma continua, favorece la colaboración en el aula combatiendo el “miedo escénico”, permite afianzar el conocimiento paso a paso, ayuda a retener mejor lo explicado, obliga a todos a equivocarse o acertar y fomenta el debate]</p>

Applying the Anderson-Darling Test to Suicide Clusters

Crisis ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 434-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald W. MacKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Poisson Process ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Homogeneous Poisson Process ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Suicide Clusters ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Anderson Darling

Background: Suicide clusters at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) prompted popular and expert speculation of suicide contagion. However, some clustering is to be expected in any random process. Aim: This work tested whether suicide clusters at these two universities differed significantly from those expected under a homogeneous Poisson process, in which suicides occur randomly and independently of one another. Method: Suicide dates were collected for MIT and Cornell for 1990–2012. The Anderson-Darling statistic was used to test the goodness-of-fit of the intervals between suicides to distribution expected under the Poisson process. Results: Suicides at MIT were consistent with the homogeneous Poisson process, while those at Cornell showed clustering inconsistent with such a process (p = .05). Conclusions: The Anderson-Darling test provides a statistically powerful means to identify suicide clustering in small samples. Practitioners can use this method to test for clustering in relevant communities. The difference in clustering behavior between the two institutions suggests that more institutions should be studied to determine the prevalence of suicide clustering in universities and its causes.

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