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Prof. Alexander Slocum is in charge of teaching the sophomore Mechanical Engineering class 2.007 - Introduction to Design and Manufacturing. Together with other faculty and two or three graduate students that serve as Teaching Assistants, he is guiding up to 150 students through the process of designing and building a remote controlled robot that needs to perform a specific task in order to compete at the anual 2.007 design competition.
For graduate students, 2.75 - Precision Machine Design, is taught in the spring term.
The Urban Design Corps is a corporation focused on starting companies guided towards providing careers and resources for minorities and underprivileged people. The Urban Design Corps gives successful minorities the opportunity to invest in a permanent solution to the economic problems facing minority and underprivileged communities. Started by Prof. Alexander Slocum and Mark Graham.
Most of the students in 2.971 participate in the Second Summer Program. The Program (SSP), fostered by the MIT OME (Office of Minority Education) , provides students practical industry experience as paid engineering interns during the summer after the first year at MIT. Student participation requires successful completion of the freshman core and a three-week design workshop (2.971,) held during the Independent Activities Period (IAP) in January
Pathways to Peace is a new course for 2002 which combines students artistic creativity with geeky engineering know-how to produce sophisticated artistic tiles.