MIT/CIMIT
Medical Engineering Fellowship

Attention:
MIT School of Engineering
second- or
third-year graduate students

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(MIT/CIMIT Fellowship)

Department nominations are due at the Dean's Office by
September 14
2007.

Questions?
Please check with departmental graduate student administrator.

The School of Engineering and CIMIT are co-sponsoring a new, multi-year graduate student fellowship, now in its second year. This award supports the work of MIT engineering students who wish to focus their graduate studies on healthcare research.

Congratulations to our 2007 CIMIT Medical Engineering Fellows, Faisal Kashif, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering and computer science, and Benjamin Rapoport, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and to Olumuyiwa “Muyiwa” Ogunnika, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering and computer science who received the first MIT-CIMIT Medical Engineering Fellowship last year and continues as a fellow for a second year. Full Story >

The MIT/CIMIT Medical Engineering Fellowship offers multi-year support for graduate engineering students to work in highly innovative yet classically under-funded areas of healthcare research.

Medical device development
New algorithms
Software for use in clinical practices, and
Engineering of medical environments

are all essential to accelerate the adoption of available technologies into patient care. This fellowship can support work in any of these exciting areas.

Each year, one outstanding student will be selected from a pool of candidates and will receive an award for stipend and tuition, plus $500 for travel to present at a national society meeting; renewal in the second year is possible upon review.

Candidate Requirements:

MIT School of Engineering 2nd or 3rd year graduate student
academic excellence, willingness to collaborate, strong desire to solve complex medical engineering problems
nominated by an MIT faculty member through the student's department

Nominations:

Must be submitted to the Dean's Office, MIT Room 1-206, by September 14, 2007.
Must be submitted by department heads (maximum of 2 candidates from each department).

See: Instructions for 2nd and 3rd year School of Engineering graduate students Interested in applying.

The Dean of Engineering will submit a partially-ranked, short list of candidates to the MIT/CIMIT Medical Engineering Fellowship Award selection committee. Finalists might be interviewed by the selection committee. Fellowship awards are presented annually in November.