Deshpande Center's latest funding cycle supports goal of 'idea to impact'
Since 2002, the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation has funded more than 80 projects with over $9 M in grants. The center supports a wide range of emerging technologies including biotechnology, biomedical devices, information technology, new materials, tiny tech, and energy innovations. Eighteen projects have spun out of the center as independent startups, having collectively raised over $150 million in outside financing from investors.
Fuel cells get a boost
Creating tiny steps to electrode surfaces can double the efficiency of the emissions-free electricity sources, MIT researchers find.
Quantum computing may actually be useful
A quantum algorithm that solves systems of linear equations could point in a promising new direction.
Grand Challenges and Engineering Systems: Inspiring and Educating the Next Generation
Engineering Systems Division hosts the second annual International Engineering Systems Symposium
Energy savings in black and white
MIT students develop concept for color-changing roof tiles that absorb heat in winter, reflect it in summer.
Hobby Shop project garners Popular Mechanics magazine award
Greg Schroll '08 named "Most Brilliant Innovator" for his spherical robot.
To peer inside a living cell
Quantum mechanics could help build ultra-high-resolution electron microscopes that won't destroy living cells, according to MIT electrical engineers.
Widnall receives NAE Bueche Award
The National Academy of Engineering presents MIT Institute Professor and Professor of Aeronautics Sheila E. Windall (‘60, MS ’61, PhD ’64) its Arthur M. Bueche Award for expanding engineering opportunities for women and minorities.