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Introduction to 1.101:
Spreadsheets, units,
significant figures,
uncertainty, etc.
1
Portfolio, lab book,
report requirements.

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Introduction to
Measure pH with glass
Water Treatment
2 electrode sensor.
Design Project
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Measure acid
Porous Media:
neutralization time.
Packed Column
3 Measure hydraulic
Hydraulics
conductivity.
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Design and
Acid/Base
Prototyping
Chemistry
4
Design Reviews
Prof. Phil
Gschwend
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Design Reviews
(cont.)
5 Prototype Completion
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Prototype
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Demonstration

7 Introduction to Delta Design Exercise

Structures
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Structural Tension test; bending

8 Design Concepts test; strain gages.

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Failure Modes
Fabrication
9 and Criteria
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Design Review Design Review;

10 Fabrication (cont.)
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Design Concept Structure Test

11 Lecture 1
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Introduction to
Back Bay Design Team A Design Work
12 Project
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Team A Design Work

Team B Design
13 Work
Team B Design Work
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Oral Presentations;
Design Concept
Reports due
14 Lecture 2
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Project Feedback
Field trip; Portfolio
Individual due
15 Assessments
Due Einstein, Bucciarelli, et
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Water resourses

Experiment 1
Measuring pH (PDF)
Appendix 1: The Glass Electrode (PDF)
Appendix 2: Signal Conditioning Circuit (PDF)
Results (PDF)
Related Reading: Vanysek, Petr. "The glass pH
electrode." Electrochemical Society Interface 13 (2004): 19-20.
Experiment 2
Experiment 2A: Time-scale for Neutralization with Calcium Carbonate (PDF)
Experiment 2B: Hydraulic Conductivity and Porosity (PDF)
Results (PDF)
Related Reading: An English translation of Henry Darcy's "The Public Fountains of the
City of Dijon," Appendix D, can be found here.
Design Task
Your job is to design, fabricate, assemble and test a system that neutralizes the acidity and
hence much of the corrosivity of water in a residential water system.
Instructions (PDF)
Additional Information (PDF)
Water Filter Testing Protocol (PDF)
Report Guidelines (PDF)
Tructures

ntroductory Material
Spreadsheet Example (PDF)
Class Exercises (PDF)
Experiment 3
Experiment 3A: The Tension Test (PDF)
Experiment 3B: Linear Elastic Behavior of a Beam (PDF)
Experiment 3B Theory (PDF)
Experiment 3B Results (PDF)
Design Task
Your task is to design, fabricate, and test a model structure intended to
give students a better understanding of two fundamental types of
behavior of structural elements — the bending of a beam and torsion of a
shaft — and, at the same time, allow them to verify the principle of
superpositioning for linear elastic systems.
Instructions (PDF)
Revised Requirements (PDF)
Engineering Analysis (PDF)
Engineering Analysis, Expanded (PDF)

Developing back nd sign

cope and Background

This is your third project and substantially different from the first two. It is
actually a large scale planning project and as such, it is open ended. Its
complexity requires that the design is done by a team with each team
member concentrating on a specialty. You should follow the design
process as given to you in the lectures.
The intent of this project is to have you define the constraints (boundary
conditions) as part of the problem formulation. While it may be unusual to
have such a "wide open" project, it is a good way to start with any
planning or design project to assume very relaxed boundary conditions.
This will give you the freedom to come up with innovative solutions even
when you add constraints.
In this particular exercise you will not only have the opportunity to plan
and design a different "Back Bay" but you will be able to compare what
was actually done with what one (you!!) could have done.
Imagine Boston in the topographical shape of the late 18th century!
When the first settlers founded Boston, its topography looked much
different from what it looks now. At that time Boston was a pear-shaped
peninsula, which was connected to the mainland only through a narrow
neck.
The peninsula was bordered by large tidal flats and had many inlets and
coves. One of these, North Cove, was cut off by a mill dam/causeway
already in 1640. On a small scale, the shoreline was changed more or
less continuously from that time onwards. However, changes on a larger
scale did not occur until the beginning of the 19th century.
Design Task
You are charged with the development of the Back Bay area based on
the topography as it existed around 1800 but using modern construction
technology and satisfying present day requirements. You have to create a
mixed residential-commercial area with 50,000 inhabitants. You are
completely free in your choice of buildings, access (transportation),
utilities, providing foundations and so on.
The result of your work should be in form of a rough plan indicating
residential/commercial zones, major streets or other access. In an
accompanying report (max. 4 pages, double-spaced) you should explain
how your design satisfies the boundary conditions and how it addresses
structural, aesthetic and environmental concerns. You should also
indicate if what you propose will end up with medium or with high costs.
More specific comments on the deliverables are given on the next page.
Very important: Do not assume that what has been done, i.e. the present
Back Bay, is the best solution!
Back Bay Pre-Handout (PDF - 1.4 MB)

Delta game

Scope
Team or group work is central to the design process. Amongst the
advantages of working in a team is that the project benefits from different
ideas and points of view and different expertise. These differences, on the
other hand, have to be dealt with and resolved in an optimal manner. This
requires negotiation. Negotiation is particularly challenging when it
involves not only different interests but different expertise. The Delta
Game introduces you to such negotiations amongst experts.
The Delta Game is played in teams of four people. Each person will be a
specialist in one of the following disciplines: Architecture, Structural
Engineering, Thermal Engineering and Project Management.
Assignment
The four files below include both the design task and the primer for one
particular specialist's role:
 Architect (PDF)
 Project manager (PDF)
 Structural engineer (PDF)
 Thermal engineer (PDF)

First, read the design task. Each specialist will then have to read the
corresponding primer. It is very important that you are competent in your
discipline and are able to make decisions quickly. Primers should only be
read by the particular specialist and not by the other members of the
team. This contradicts in a way the "complete openness" required of good
teams; the restriction is important in the context of the Delta Game to
make the negotiation more pointed.
Before the actual game, we will hold "specialist's meetings". In these
meetings the specialists will get additional training in their fields of
expertise. In order to be prepared for the meeting you have to read the
primer and solve example A before the lab time. There are no examples
for architects. Instead they are to prepare an initial layout for the meeting.
You will have the chance to ask questions and solve example B during
the specialist meeting.
It is absolutely essential that you prepare yourselves and show up on time!

Instructor's Guide
 Instructor's guide (PDF)