Airliners crisscrossing the globe, rockets hurtling into space, satellites orbiting distant planets—it’s where the fantastic meets the familiar—it’s aerospace! It’s where dreams of soaring above the clouds come true. And those dreams are made real by—mathematical models!

The methods underpinning those models are the focus of 16.90 Computational Methods in Aerospace Engineering, a course just published on OCW.

The OCW site showcases the materials for this course as it was taught in Spring 2014 by Professors Karen Willcox and Qiqi Wang. To improve student learning, the instructors used the Residential MITx platform to flip their classroom, requiring students to work through the assigned readings and problem sets before coming to class, so that class time could be devoted to problem-solving, small group exercises, and project work.

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There were cheers of joy, tears of frustration, roses and death.  Re-live it all vicariously and watch the entire reality web series - ChemLab Boot Camp - again!

Each year, groups of MIT freshmen are introduced to MIT's laboratory environment through a four-week January course called 5.301 Chemistry Lab Techniques. In January 2012, we followed 14 students as they struggled to complete experiments required in the class.

The stakes are high—students who pass the class are guaranteed a job in an MIT research lab. Watch these students face the challenges of learning chemistry the MIT way in ChemLab Boot Camp.

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