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Beyond the Infinite Spring 2008

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Beyond the Infinite, Spring 2008

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Feature: A self-sifting composter, a novel oil filter cleaner:
service learning challenges students to solve real problems with innovative, hands-on solutions
In Product Engineering Processes — 2.009 and Solving Real Problems — 2.00B, students work in teams on projects that benefit the community and the environment

David Wallace explains his interest in service learning
 Winner of the Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Engineering, Professor David Wallace, a MacVicar Faculty Fellow, reflects on service learning at MIT.

A breath of fresh air
New challenges by alumni spur MIT student innovation
By Sally Susnowitz

Yunus Challenge
The world takes note of the uBox, and field tests are underway

Need It, Think It, Build It, Space Exploration
Matt Gethers develops an engineering curriculum for Tutoring Pluss program, Future Engineers

Collective wisdom
New Leadership Council to help guide the PSC

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did you know...

  • facts about improperly discarded oil filters
  • a single improperly discarded oil filter can contaminate 62,000 gallons of drinking water.

    that 450 million filters are discarded every year

    25.5 million gallons of recyclable oil and 230,000 tons of steel are wasted

did you know...

  • facts about The Food Project
  • Teens from diverse backgrounds work together on a farm to grow nearly a quarter-million pounds of food without chemical pesticides, donating half to local shelters.

    To insure the safety of produce grown in the urban lead-contaminated soil, they must replenish the top two-feet of soil with compost.

    Over a hundred teens and thousands of volunteers farm on 31 acres in Lincoln, MA. The Food Project has a land base of 2 acres in Dorchester and Roxbury.