Anne Matheson, left, recreation director, Cardinal Cushing Center, assists Sarah Tabbi on a bicycle designed and built by MIT students for mechanical engineering course 2.009. The student team's goal was to create a 'cool' bike for children or young adults who are physically or mentally challenged, and to make it easier for them to gain confidence and autonomy learning to ride a two-wheeler. Photo / Donna Coveney
The course challenges students to commercialize technologies and ideas in one whirlwind semester. Alumni of the class have founded more than 150 companies.
The associate leader in the Advanced Materials and Microsystems Group at Lincoln Laboratory strongly believes in the power of collaboration and how it seeds innovation.