Welcome to Precision Machine Design
2.75 (G-H), 2.750 (CI-M)*
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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
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"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
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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. |
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