The Birth of a Hands-On Education

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  • čas přidán 1. 12. 2015
  • Coming to life in the 1970s with then-instructor Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers at the lead, 2.007 was at the forefront of a revolution in engineering education, becoming one of the first hands-on classes to teach students not only how to design an object but also how to build it. Today, it’s a fun celebration of making that ends in an annual head-to-head robot competition on MechE’s Innovation Day in May.
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Komentáře • 107

  • @ABC-gj1xb
    @ABC-gj1xb Před 3 lety +32

    I prefer this type of teaching. Letting student to fail and succeed, unlike to most school where they just base your capability on sheet paper

  • @danaililiev1404
    @danaililiev1404 Před 3 lety +110

    after 200 years the schools have realized they need to implement practice...

    • @rayanbehr209
      @rayanbehr209 Před 3 lety +1

      also but most time should still be spent on the drawing board or fundamental principles

    • @sevendesign1805
      @sevendesign1805 Před 3 lety +2

      It's starts with the individual. We have an opportunity today like never before. The information learned in this video is available now free. I've had opportunity to build some crazy stuff with just passion and CZcams.

    • @sushantsrivastava7013
      @sushantsrivastava7013 Před 2 lety

      MIT considered this point of "implementing practice" , very early .... and great People Professor Emeritus Woodie gave it a boost

    • @mhgscrubadub9917
      @mhgscrubadub9917 Před rokem

      @@rayanbehr209 That is 100% false. Its important but if you spend most of your time on it youll lose a lot of knowledge you could have found doing something

  • @idks477
    @idks477 Před 3 lety +61

    Meanwhile in India
    I chose Mechanical Engineering because I could get only that much with my jee rank not that I have any interest in it whatsoever

    • @Avdheshkumar-kv5fz
      @Avdheshkumar-kv5fz Před 3 lety +1

      literally I'm crying for being at home for complete sophomore year of bachelor's degree in mech. Miss the first year of college making RC plane,Line-follower robot and pitching machine.

  • @Abbas950able
    @Abbas950able Před 3 lety +16

    Watching this in the era of corona, thank you for recommending it after 5 years

  • @jamesnike7127
    @jamesnike7127 Před 3 lety +16

    i have huge respect for professor woodie flowers 0:28 . he is the most legendary instructor... the creator of hands on education himself.. the pioneer of engineering study..

  • @diwakar8815
    @diwakar8815 Před 3 lety +56

    lol thats how education should have been from the very beginning hands on!

    • @mduzondi
      @mduzondi Před 3 lety +3

      So true 😂,

    • @itsDhiran
      @itsDhiran Před 3 lety +2

      And in india, when it will be ,i am worried as i am about to class engineering from next year🥺🥺🥺

    • @borgir6368
      @borgir6368 Před 3 lety +3

      @@itsDhiran this reminds me of old India when there was gurukul system where they used to teach every thing practically and give birth to world class geniuses like Aryabhatta 😣

    • @vinayakk2745
      @vinayakk2745 Před 3 lety

      @@itsDhiran IITs do have these facilities

    • @vinayakk2745
      @vinayakk2745 Před 3 lety +1

      @@borgir6368 nowadays we have only 5% of practical education in our schools, in India

  • @TheRakeshgautam
    @TheRakeshgautam Před 3 lety +29

    ...And in India we are just busy in documentation 😭

  • @chetanjadhav9730
    @chetanjadhav9730 Před 5 lety +89

    The thing that works perfectly on paper but, terrible in real life.... LOL
    Yeah that's a part of engineering.

  • @brightsight3903
    @brightsight3903 Před 3 lety +29

    In india
    .. people will memorize it😂😂😂😂

    • @itsDhiran
      @itsDhiran Před 3 lety +7

      Yeah, true i am from india and the education system is in terrible state, not to say about lower institutes, bit the topmost best are also not good.... don't know what to do

    • @Avdheshkumar-kv5fz
      @Avdheshkumar-kv5fz Před 3 lety

      literally I'm crying for being at home for complete sophomore year of bachelor's degree in mech. Miss the first year of college making RC plane,Line-follower robot and pitching machine.
      btw mai bhi hindustani hu

  • @rcoverc
    @rcoverc Před 4 lety +15

    woodie flowers! a legend. r.i.p. first robotics wouldnt be the same without him.

  • @fifaham
    @fifaham Před 3 lety +2

    I started using the lath machines, huge machine cutters, benders, trimmers and many other heavy machines since I was 12 years old. It is amazing what you can do with them. What is more amazing is when you dress intelligent electronics inside your mechanical creation - this can be truly fascinating. My dad had a factory and this is where I learned how to use those big machines, I then graduated as electrical engineer - it is God's blessing to learn and build great things for life.

  • @vnaveenkumar982
    @vnaveenkumar982 Před 3 lety +2

    Who else got this video as recommendation after 6 years, and the craziest part is people are even debating about this concept !

  • @shankarwain4289
    @shankarwain4289 Před 3 lety +6

    Some people are unable to join MIT , I wish even small engineering colleges have such programs ! There are many mechanical minded people who never get to join prestigious institutions ! That's why!

  • @Digagz390
    @Digagz390 Před 3 lety +3

    In my country in the University I am at, its theory only,never stepped into a practical except my first year classes. The levels cannot be compared

  • @kiragu8845
    @kiragu8845 Před 3 lety +4

    this looks fun, really fun

  • @erikk6604
    @erikk6604 Před 4 lety +12

    Does MIT, at some point, teach these students WHY things would seem to work perfectly in theory but fail when they built it? If they spend so much time learning theory, why is theory insufficient? I wonder whether they show examples of past student projects, and real world devices, and explore what worked and didn't work (and why).

  • @ibrahimhassan4278
    @ibrahimhassan4278 Před 8 měsíci

    I wish my professor of machine design course would see that video one day to know how to teach design courses.

  • @MrBLAA
    @MrBLAA Před 3 lety +6

    Amazing how "trade skills" facilitate _creativity_ (higher learning should take a note from MIT)

  • @Avdheshkumar-kv5fz
    @Avdheshkumar-kv5fz Před 3 lety

    literally I'm crying for being at home for complete sophomore year of bachelor's degree in mech. Miss the first year of college making RC plane,Line-follower robot and pitching machine.

  • @sarath9793
    @sarath9793 Před 3 lety +4

    In india we do everything in paper and we left unemployed

  • @jmtruthful3273
    @jmtruthful3273 Před 5 lety

    Cool video

  • @fm21lzd95
    @fm21lzd95 Před 3 lety +2

    sadly my first hands-on lab was this semester and it was online very boring :(

  • @jitendratiwari6886
    @jitendratiwari6886 Před 3 lety +2

    creation , creation, creation it's the only thing that matters.

  • @mahalingama4162
    @mahalingama4162 Před 5 lety +3

    any MIT vlogs?

  • @senorimotor
    @senorimotor Před 4 lety +3

    Love it! Mens Et Manus

  • @lealue442
    @lealue442 Před 3 lety +5

    What! the school is providing material?? what is this, my school doesn't even want to spend a single dime on us

  • @vaishnavraj6930
    @vaishnavraj6930 Před 5 lety

    Love it

  • @Equinoxtrills
    @Equinoxtrills Před 3 lety +1

    That is cool 😁🤘

  • @hassamahmad7041
    @hassamahmad7041 Před 3 lety

    lovely

  • @sanjaybhatikar
    @sanjaybhatikar Před 3 lety +1

    Arduino Nano spotted @2:24. Learning at MIT sounds fun. Even outside MIT, making with platforms like Raspberry Pi and Arduino opens the door to seeing engineering principles come to life. All it takes is a little imagination and loads of determination. Thank you for continuing to inspire.

  • @abisrizvi2621
    @abisrizvi2621 Před 3 lety +1

    This is what my uni used to do but I'm part of the damned batch that is somehow supposed to learn online

  • @ericde-la-cruz5786
    @ericde-la-cruz5786 Před 3 lety

    Angela stone Walls or diamond wall. Separators with see through vision and Yayo smart screens.

  • @denniswambua4471
    @denniswambua4471 Před 3 lety +1

    If only I was a genius to get to MIT

  • @mhgscrubadub9917
    @mhgscrubadub9917 Před rokem

    meanwhile my university struggles to give us a roll of duct tape

  • @gunu4990
    @gunu4990 Před 3 lety +2

    The naina, mehta makes me think I can be there tooooooooo

    • @vvksailor
      @vvksailor Před 3 lety +5

      12 mese 8 comment indians ke he...
      Ye batat he ki india ke students me curiosity thus thus ke bhari he...lekin usse bahar lane wala infrastructure,school,collage india ke paas nahi he..
      Aur ye india ki problem nahi he...ye world ki problem he..kyoki agar india me aisa infrastructure ho to wo india ko nahi puri humanity ko effect karega...

    • @robertwalker8070
      @robertwalker8070 Před 3 lety

      @@vvksailor get a govt. job bro :-D

    • @vvksailor
      @vvksailor Před 3 lety

      @@robertwalker8070 why?
      I don't like government job..

    • @robertwalker8070
      @robertwalker8070 Před 3 lety

      It was sarcasm. But why you don't like govt job like civil service?

  • @adityaramachandran5223

    Olin College wya?

  • @claudemacgyver4278
    @claudemacgyver4278 Před 3 lety

    cool

  • @ericde-la-cruz5786
    @ericde-la-cruz5786 Před 3 lety

    More space more real estate extra rooms.

  • @abdiijamaal8976
    @abdiijamaal8976 Před 11 měsíci

    In my country we have the rule & regulation which is an examples the worlds.

  • @johnm9548
    @johnm9548 Před 9 měsíci

    I would say a more appropriate title is to call this The Return of Hands-On Education. Nothing new here. Technical trade schools have been doing class projects for years but they were always looked down upon.

  • @mr-de9db
    @mr-de9db Před 4 lety +1

    Great

  • @scarlet0017
    @scarlet0017 Před 3 lety

    this video shows me that school is really a life killa

  • @mickhernandez2665
    @mickhernandez2665 Před 3 lety +4

    wow.. these guys are the biggest geeks.. cant believe theres actually a person would enjoy those hard difficult majors

    • @Tea-ei1cl
      @Tea-ei1cl Před 3 lety +1

      Well I certainly beleive a brainlet like you can never beleive that

  • @jeetenderkakkar7570
    @jeetenderkakkar7570 Před 3 lety

    10

  • @ableone8956
    @ableone8956 Před 3 lety

    This is normal

  • @vvksailor
    @vvksailor Před 3 lety +12

    12 mese 8 comment indians ke he...
    Ye batat he ki india ke students me curiosity thus thus ke bhari he...lekin usse bahar lane wala infrastructure,school,collage india ke paas nahi he..
    Aur ye india ki problem nahi he...ye world ki problem he..kyoki agar india me aisa infrastructure ho to wo india ko nahi puri humanity ko effect karega...

    • @jagadeeshgp7154
      @jagadeeshgp7154 Před 3 lety

      Well said

    • @amanupadhyay2142
      @amanupadhyay2142 Před 3 lety +2

      India mein nhi hai tabhi india se sare brilliant minds bahar jaa rahe hai and effect india pe dikh raha hai loss ka

    • @astromaniacnihilist6749
      @astromaniacnihilist6749 Před 3 lety +7

      mai India me aisa Infrastructure aur institutes establish karuga jaha log passionately chize sikhe aur explore kare aur humanity k liye bahot kuch contribute kre, jo ki pure world ke students k liye open hoga...mai ye kar k rahuga

    • @vvksailor
      @vvksailor Před 3 lety +1

      @@astromaniacnihilist6749 wah bhai...1 sal se me bhi yahi soch raha hu..me abhi 12 th me hu...me physics me PhD karke research field me jaunga...fir me abroad me jitne bhi indians he unke sath ek group banauga aur unse fund collect karunga....aur indian goverment ke sath collaborate karke ek world class institute banauga...jaha sirf research ki baat hogi...world si sari technology mojud hogi..

    • @vvksailor
      @vvksailor Před 3 lety

      @@astromaniacnihilist6749 muje bhi tumhari tarah pure education system me revolution cahiye..lekin uske liye hamare paas sabse pahle power honi cahiye...issi liye pahle khud ka power gain karo..fir revolution karenge pure system kai..

  • @ErikBongers
    @ErikBongers Před 3 lety +5

    This class, being called 2.007 should have it's professor named Q.

  • @hud86
    @hud86 Před 3 lety +7

    I've been telling people for 30 years the only way to learn is to do. Thanks higher education for making it nearly impossible to make a living with your hands these days, then tell people how important it is to be hands on. I didn't go to college and ended up homeless. Now I'm in school, getting less intelligent, so I can earn a living wage. It's obvious school is basically there to get people in debt and on the hamster wheel. Academia hasn't brought forward what they said they would. We are a weak, unintelligent nation because of higher education or as I like to call it "indoctrination". The fact someone with a degree makes more than someone with 20 years experience is utterly asinine, but here we are.

    • @robertwalker8070
      @robertwalker8070 Před 3 lety

      I think that's the reason students dropout and go on to find a successful company

  • @KyberRay
    @KyberRay Před 3 lety +1

    thats aslo why i want to go to MIT

  • @rayanbehr209
    @rayanbehr209 Před 3 lety +3

    not 100% true, you gotta also have a clear understanding of fundamental things

    • @victorayllon8910
      @victorayllon8910 Před 3 lety

      Absolutely agree. You cannot just send someone to build something from scratch. Theroy is important.

  • @brandonporter6223
    @brandonporter6223 Před 3 lety

    The fuck do they mean the birth of hands on education? Are they forgetting the last 80,000+ years of human existence?

  • @saurabhsharma7123
    @saurabhsharma7123 Před 3 lety +2

    no engineering can be as engaging as computer science and engg.

  • @adventour167
    @adventour167 Před 3 lety +1

    This is a big advantage if the school as well as the government are supporting the education system, in the Philippines before, they are all crap.

  • @jayadevashok2070
    @jayadevashok2070 Před 3 lety +1

    Why oly 10+1 comments?

  • @gundarvarr1024
    @gundarvarr1024 Před 3 lety

    Damn, this is a Middle school grade material taught in University? for real?
    No wonder no want want to hire engineer from US.

  • @Californiansurfer
    @Californiansurfer Před 3 lety +1

    I work with new engineers but have no on hands experience. It’s a knight mar. Yes, they know the math but applying it.

  • @grizzsimbol4441
    @grizzsimbol4441 Před 3 lety

    Mechanical engineers doing programming? In the professional world, we have programmers to do that with so much more skill. As for hands-on skills, we got technicians with not only years of experience but higher skills to do that. ME should focus on machine designs + physics understanding, not these unnecessary skills, it's good to have but the experts can do the job better.

    • @byttlejuice145
      @byttlejuice145 Před 3 lety +1

      This is all about hands on learning. It makes you more aware of how things work than in theory, hence if you are a designer, making you a better one.

    • @grizzsimbol4441
      @grizzsimbol4441 Před 3 lety

      @@byttlejuice145 no it doesn't. Design gets better with experience and each iterations of your designs based on feedback from more experienced workers like your technicians and customers
      .

    • @victorayllon8910
      @victorayllon8910 Před 3 lety

      Agree with you Grizz, engineering should focus on machine design and the understanding of phsyics. Things that are going to be useful. Not this hands-on stuff.