3.014

Materials laboratory

Prereqs

None, actually! But you should take 3.091 beforehand and 3.012 with it.

Textbook

None!

Comments

3.014 is basically the lab component to 3.012. Because it satisfies both the institute lab and CI-M requirements, there aren't many course 3 minors or double majors.

It's taken every three weeks, with labs MWF and recitation TR. 3.012 and 3.016 stop classes during these lab weeks. The labs are long and grueling, either going from 9am-1pm or 1pm-5pm. Even so, most of them are very engaging and interesting to course 3 students. For each of the four lab weeks, a writing/communication assignment is given. This includes a technical report, poster session, journal article, and a scientific memo (written during finals week).

3.014 requires a lab notebook that is checked after every lab week. Oddly enough, it's the only lab class in course 3 that does this. Most labs are done in the undergraduate teaching laboratory at the end of the infinite corridor.