MIT英文介绍

Good afternoon. The university I’d like to introduce to you all is

MIT--- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hope you like it.

1. 地理位置

MIT is a comprehensive private university in the US. It is one of the most famous polytechnic universit ies over the world. It is located in Massachusetts, Cambridge, Charles River, with the Boston Back Bay.And it adjacents to Harvard.

名字由来

MIT's correct translation name shall be the Massachusetts state institute of technology, but because MIT was translated into Massachusetts province institute of technology as early as the qing dynasty, then the name went ahead with it.

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格言

2. This is the school seal of MIT.

“year 1861”refers to the date (April 10th, 1861) the MIT was incorporated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts .

“S cience and Arts” reflect s the ideal of cooperation between knowledge and practice.

图标意义

The school motto of MIT is "Mens et Manus", which translates from the Latin to "Mind and Hand." The motto reflects the educational ideals of MIT's founders who were promoting, above all, education for practical application.

3. Here are the three aspects I would talk today.

4. MIT campus covers an area of 168 acres. The central campus is consisted by a group of interconnected buildings.

5.It very odd that all the buildings in the campus are labeled by digitals.Do you know why? It’s said students there believe numbers are easier to be found. Maybe the MIT is the kingdom of engineers.

6. Let’s step into the campus, to see if there is anything interesting.

建筑物

This is Killian Hall, the symbol construction of MIT. It’s the place where important ceremonies and events are held, just like our Action Center

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Simmons building

This is Simmons building, a ten-story dormitory for 350 undergraduate students and faculty. Astonished by its 6,000 operable windows, aren’t you?The whole building features by balconies and doorways. It includes a computer cluster, fitness center, music rooms and street-level dining.

Media lab

This is the Media lab.It was designed by IM Pei—the World-class

architect. The complex houses the Office of the Arts, the Design Lab as well as MIT's Program in Comparative Media Studies.

Stata Center

This irregular and creative building is Stata Center. It is the home of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Oh, foget its ugly ,disorganize ,imposing appearance.

7.And here I’d add a group of data information about MIT.

MIT wireless network has been installed throughout the campus, a total of 3500 reception points , which is even out of the external one kilometer , the reception rate is still more than 97%.

There are 60 sets of high speed laser printer, it not only can automatic printing pros and cons, but also print speed for each minute 90 copies, These high speed laser printer scatter in every corner of the campus, students and professors can use any computer to print at any printer, this has great help for study and research

MIT’s library resource is rich, the collection is up to 5 million copies.

MIT has implemented its Open Course Site, it was announced 500 courses (by the end of 2006, it has already opened 2000 courses), aiming to establish global unity of knowledge base, which make users from all over the world study the professional knowledge content through the network

The ratio of teachers and students is 1 to 7, such a high proportion is rare among the United States . Because the number of students is not so much, professors have enough energy to care about the students' work and development

8. Now I want to share some very famous people to you all.

Hsue-shen Tsien the father of China's missile and space

technology programme Air dynamics master Ben Bernanke chairman of the Federal Reserve of US

doctor of economic

Robert Mundell father of Euro doctor of economic

Kofi Atta Annan master's degree in school of management

Samuel ting the Nobel Prize for physics

professor of MIT department of physics

IM Pei World-class architect Bachelor of Architecture

C harles Zhang sohu CEO doctor of MIT

There are also 55 Nobel prize winners and five Turing winners

9.发明

Kismet is a robot made in the late 1990s at MIT. The robot's auditory, visual and expressive systems were intended to allow it to participate in human social interaction and to demonstrate simulated human emotion and appearance. The name Kismet comes from the Arabic, which means