This Laboratory Gives You the Chance to Work on Real, Practical Projects being Researched by Local Industry

10.26 is an introduction to industrial research. It features interesting, practical projects so that you can discover what it is like to be a researcher in an industrial setting. Every year, fresh new projects are developed. There are no "cookbook procedures". Every project comes from a real problem faced in the real world. The project topics are varied and you can pick your own project from among a group of interesting choices.

Below is a list of recent projects and the companies which sponsored them:

• Biotechnology and Bioengineering
  • Production and recovery of an anti-cancer drug (Repligen Corp. and New Brunswick Scientific Co., Inc.)
  • Development of tissue adhesive: efficacy and durability (Focal, Inc.)

• Chemical Engineering Systems and Process control
  • Control and optimization of a nitrogen pressure swing adsorption process (Air Products)

• Catalysis and Reaction Engineering
  • Early detection for a bead lumper (ICI Resins, U.S.)

• Energy and Environment
  • Solvent elimination/replacement (Polaroid Corp.)
  • Contamination of indoor air by fume hood exhausts (MIT Environmental Health Services)

• Transport Processes and Thermodynamics
  • Heat transfer determination in convection ovens (Polaroid Corp.)
  • Permeability to microsolutes of membranes for extravascular biohybrid artificial pancreas (Baxter Healthcare)

• Polymers
  • Polyurethane synthesis (Focal, Inc.)
  • Processing of polymer product for pharmaceutical use (Focal Therapeutics, Inc.)

• Surface Science and Thermodynamics
  • Polarizer stability (Polaroid Corp.)

• Separation technology
  • Separation of rubber from mixed plastics (wTe Corp.)
  • Clarification of process fluid using microfiltration (CUNO Inc.)
  • Vapor-liquid equilibrium properties of the ethyl acetate-methanol-polymer coating solution (Polaroid Corp.)

• Industrial chemistry
  • Extraction of processing oil from a porous membrane (W.R. Grace)
  • Flavored oil solids removal study (General Foods)
  • Design of a candy wrapper recycling process (M&M/Mars)