===== Men & Machines ===== Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\ Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 11:50 am – 13:05 pm ---- === Foreword === * Attendance * Fall Break * One-on-one meetings in the afternoon === Case Study Presentation === | 19 | Molecular machines | October 18, 2016 | Ishani Felix | | 20 | The Hadron Collider | October 18, 2016 | Megan | //“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”// [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Malpighi|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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFG-Lk9c2CI|Cory's Yellow Chair]] (by Arthur Ganson) === Discussion === * //Hiding Technology// * What is it that technology wants? === Homework === Work on your machine prototype over Fall break. Reminder: You should have read chapters 2, 8 and 13 of //What Technology Wants//.