Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)
Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 11:50 am – 13:05 pm

• Attendance
• Fall Break
• One-on-one meetings in the afternoon

“Nature, in order to carry out the marvelous operations in animals and plants, has been pleased to construct their organized bodies with a very large number of machines, which are of necessity made up of extremely minute parts so shaped and situated such as to form a marvelous organ, the composition of which are usually invisible to the naked eye, without the aid of microscope” Marcello Malpighi – The Father of microscopical anatomy, histology, physiology and embryology Wikipedia (seventeenth century)

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Molecular Machines, Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vELfuiUpKM0
• MNX company (fabricator for MEMS and nano-devices technologies): https://www.mems-exchange.org/MEMS/what-is.html
• Reminder for Janar about Cory's Yellow Chair (by Arthur Ganson)

• Hiding Technology
• What is it that technology wants?

Work on your machine prototype over Fall break. Reminder: You should have read chapters 2, 8 and 13 of What Technology Wants.