Instructors

Nathan Delson teaches many of the (undergraduate) design courses at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He has a PhD in robots from MIT and uses his passion for building robotic systems in this cluster to teach students many of the main design concepts. Robotics components reappear in the design of the kinetic sculptures when students use actuators to modify the behavior of the sculpture.

Raymond de Callafon teaches classes in the area of Dynamic Systems and Control. His expertise is used in this cluster to help students derive mathematical models to describe the swinging of the pendulum clock and the dynamics (kinematics) of the balls flowing through the kinetic sculpture. He will also try to convince the students that one can change the dynamic behavior of the sculpture by applying principles of control using the COSMOS micro controller box. Click here to visit his personal webpage.