Welcome to Precision Machine Design

2.75 (G-H), 2.750 (CI-M)*

The 2.75 class, since 2004, has partnered with CIMIT to bring together physicians from Boston-area hospitals and MIT engineering students in developing new medical devices.  Physicians present their particular challenges then student teams work with them during the course of a semester to develop solutions. Over the past few years, this class has become a highly effective mechanism for generating new research ideas and collaborations with patents filed and many of the projects receiving subsequent funding and accelerating from prototypes to products. *2.750 is an alternative to the ME 2.009 requirement - info - Prof. Alexander H. Slocum, Instructor

 

FINAL PRESENTATIONS:

Monday 7th & Wednesday 9th December

MIT Main Campus, Building 3, Room 270

18:00 - 19:00 Dinner

19:00 - 20:00 Presentations

 

Sponsored by CIMIT- Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology

"By offering real-time, clinically-based problems, CIMIT and the physicians from our Boston teaching hospitals are able to engage engineering students in the collaborative, multidisciplinary process of innovation that is so necessary in solving today's healthcare challenges."  - John A. Parrish, MD, Executive Director, CIMIT

Course Highlights

• Work with a local doctor on a real medical challenge!
• Lectures: MW 11:00 am - 12:30 pm & W 4 - 5 pm in Room 3-442
• Weekly design reviews with the instructors
• Guest lectures from the local medical and device Community
• No exams or P-Sets
• Presentations through the course
• Learn the real design process
• Prototype a solution
• Journal quality final paper and possible patent application
• Public presentation at the CIMIT Forum

Explore Sample Past Projects

Partners

Candidate Projects for 2009

Presentation Schedule Download

Pectoral Based Wheelchair Locomotion	Dr. Keith Ozaki - Brigham & Women's Hospital
Fool-proof Call Button & Incontinence Alarm	Dr. Matthew Liang - Brigham & Women's Hospital
Laparoscopic Lens Cleaning System	Dr. Keith Isaacson - Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Adjustable Pulmonary Artery Banding	Dr. Frank Pigula - Children's Hospital
Rib Fracture Fixation	Dr. Suresh Agarwal - Boston Univ. Medical Ctr.
Low Maintenance Ventilator	Dr. Jussi Saukkonen - Boston Univ. Medical Ctr.
Hybrid Optical & X-ray CT	Dr. Rajiv Gupta - Mass. General Hospital
Special: Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing - miniature fine powder and thin films desiccation system. Special: Rapid recharge battery pack for electric vehicles.