Idea Bank: Education & Facilities

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We have video conferencing and one to one but lack the personal touch of eye contact.
One study of parents and children found that eye-contact between parent and child occured only 8 seconds per day!
For students and teacher to really '...

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First, some background. I got my degrees, SB, SM and PHD, all from MIT 1964-72. My freshmen advisor turned into my PHD advisor. I am grateful to MIT for getting me out of Kansas and helping me get where I am today. I love the place and care for it...

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To offer power engineering courses, which existed in the past, in order train future electrical engineers in designing more efficient electrical power grid; as well as improving the efficiency of present power grid and enhancing their stability (...

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Immesive classes are similar to the e-lab and D-lab offered at sloan, where the class would consist of spending time with a local company working on a project, under the supervision of an MIT alum

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Include a 6-12 months stint after sophomore year to help solidify choices for major.

The 6-12 months internships would be under the supervision of MIT alums

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Currently, capturing video is a very manual process and is very expensive. There must be technology out there which can radically automate the video capture process. We should identify it and then roll out the same, standardized technology in every...

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I’d like to see MIT vastly improve its people directory. Our current directory system (ie. http://web.mit.edu/bin/cgicso?query=theplaz) is based on vastly outdated technology. As...

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For example, the 6.046 exam is tomorrow. What if the class staff booked a classroom (say 1-132) from say 5pm to 8am the next day and then publicized that room to the class. Then anyone who is looking for a study buddy could just drop by any time...

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I attended MIT from 1973 to 1976 - I've mourned the loss of that intense intellectual experience ever since. I don't mean the lectures, but the conversations with other students and teaching assistants who really cared about the ideas of the time. I...

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I went to MIT from 1992-1997 and graduated with an M. Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. After taking a hiatus from the engineering world after working for five years, I recently had the pleasure of reading through MIT's...

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