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Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

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Students in 2.009 came up with some useful inventions, including Laddy, a ladder/dolly/motorized tool lift. Putting the finishing touches on Laddy are Heather Marshall (left), Elizabeth Ellingson (crouching) and Kathee Lee, all seniors in mechanical engineering.

Students display creativity in product presentations

December 13, 2000

Team develops better filters for wastewater treatment

December 6, 2000

Economic value and speed will shape Internet's future

November 15, 2000

Jordan Sand, winner of the Lemelson high school apprenticeship award, stands among cattails, holding an alternative form of paper he made from corn, flax, wheat and cattails.

Teen wins Lemelson apprenticeship for his innovative uses of crops

November 15, 2000

Future auto technologies discussed

November 8, 2000

Roberto Accorsi, a doctoral candidate in nuclear engineering, uses a Coded Aperture Camera for medical imaging.

Airport detection research yields better medical imaging

November 8, 2000

Stephen Mascaro, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, displays a fingernail sensor designed to replace input from a keyboard or mouse.

Lab showcases health care, robotic projects

November 1, 2000

Research scientist David Perreault kneels next to an alternator that could dramatically increase the power available to future cars. The laboratory-scale apparatus nearest Dr. Perreault contains the new switches that enable this increase; the other part of the alternator is at right.

Future cars to have more power, thanks to MIT work

November 1, 2000

MIT's Dave Perreault kneels next to an alternator that could dramatically increase the power available to future cars. The laboratory-scale apparatus nearest Perreault contains the new switches that enable this increase; the other part of the alternator is at right.

MIT punches up power for future cars

October 30, 2000

MIT sensor on former military satellite now used to track lost space objects

October 26, 2000

Tool created for designing cleaner-burning diesel engines

October 25, 2000

Dell computer founder tells LFM alumni to take frequent vacations

October 18, 2000

Left to right: Eric Wilhelm, Professor Joseph Jacobson and Colin Bulthaup at the Collegiate Inventors award ceremony

Graduate students win inventors competition

October 4, 2000

MIT contributes component to Magellan telescopes

October 4, 2000

Dr. George R. Ricker, principal investigator for the High-Energy Transient Explorer satellite (HETE-2), takes a photograph during the final inspection of the satellite's soft X-ray cameras. The two dark circles are lens caps covering the optical cameras, and the two curved "ears" behind them are the soft X-ray cameras built at MIT. The four white rectangles on the satellite's front, which is small...

MIT satellite set for Saturday launch

October 4, 2000