Funded Initiatives

MIT Faculty Travel Grants
2005-2009

Ali Khademhosseini, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology, Assistant Professor, “Mathematical modeling of cell based diagnostic devices”, 2007
Roman Stocker,MIT, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, “Application of fluid dynamics - in particular microfluidics - to environmental and biological questions.”2006
Todd Thorsen, MIT, Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering, “Development of microfluidic devices for biomedical applications, including modeling, fabrication and manufacture of devices for diverse applications such as DNA diagnostics, artificial respiration, and modeling biofilm formation in tooth decay.” 2005
Tomasz Wierzbicki, MIT, Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, “ Collaboration between the impact and crashworthiness lab at MIT and the department of aerospace engineering at Politecnico.” 2005
Laurence R. Young, MIT, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, “Exploratory visit to advance collaboration with Prof Antonio Pedotti at Politecnico.” 2005
Federico Casalegno, Mobile Experience Lab, "Sustainable Mobility and Design," May 2008

FACULTY COLLABORATIONS
2005-2009

High-energy, Phase-controlled, Few-Optical-cycle Light Pulses and Attosecond Pulse Generation, MIT: professor Erich Ippen, Electrical Eng & Computer Science; Politecnico: Giulio Cerullo. Field of collaboration: Physics and Materials Science
Analysis of the Interactions Among Quality and Productivity Performance Measures in Production System. MIT: Dr Gershwin, Mechanical Engineering; Politecnico professor Tullio Tolio. Field of collaboration: Mechanical Engineering.
Reduced Basis Methods for Fluid Mechanics Problems. MIT:Anthony Patera, Mechanic Engineering: Politecnico Alfio Quarteroni, (MOX modeling and Scientific Computing). Field of collaboration: Mechanical Engineering.
Design and Modeling of Microconduits for Oxygenation and Artificial Respiration. MIT: Todd Thorsen, Mechanical Engineering; Politecnico: Alberto Redaelli, Biomechanics. Field of collaboration: Biomechanical-Biomedical Engineering.
Computational Fracture Mechanic. MIT: Tomasz Wierzbicki, Mechanical and Ocean Engineering: Politecnico: Chiara Bisagni. Field of collaboration: Materials Science-Mechanical Engineering.
Thermophoretic Effects in Nanofluids. MIT: Jacopo Buongiorno, Nuclear
Engineering; Politecnico: Roberto Piazza, Soft Condensed Matter Laboratory. Field of collaboration: Materials Science.
Optoelectronic Biomechanical Analysis of Human Movement During Short-Radius Centrifugation. MIT: Larry Young, Aeronautics and Astronautics: Politecnico: Antonio Pedotti, Biomedical Engineering. Field of collaboration: Mechanical Engineering.
Tissue Engineering in Human Cartilage in Bioreactors. MIT: Lisa Freed, Dr. Matteo Moretti, Harvard – MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology: Politecnico: Manuela Raimondi, Riccardo Pietrabissa, Bioengineering. Field of collaboration: Bioengineering.
Tumour Real-Time Targeting in High-Precision Radiation Therapy. MIT-Harvard, HST - MGH Radiation Oncology:Rakesh Kumar Jain, Dava J Newman, George TY Chen; Politecnico: Antonio Pedotti, Guido Baroni, Bioengineering. Field of collaboration: Biomedical Engineering.
Multi-scale computational study of tendon hierarchical structure and collagen-related diseases, MIT:prof. Markus Buehler: Politecnico: prof. Alberto Redaelli. Field of collaboration: BioEngineering.
Failure analysis of inertial MEMS sensors subject to impacts: A multiscale-statistical approach. MIT:prof. Raul Radovitzky; Politecnico: profs. Stefano Mariani and Anna Pandolfi and Dr. Anna Ferrara. Field of Collaboration: Computational Engineering.
Development of numerical Simulations and Modelling tools for MEMS and Emerging Technologies. MIT:Luca Daniel and Jacob White; Politecnico:Attilio Frangi and Alberto Corigliano. Field of collaboration:EECS
Iso-dielectophoretic separation and impedance measurement for intrinsic cell sorting. MIT:Joel Voldman; Politecnico:Marco Sampietro. Field of collaboration:EECS- Bioengineering.
Self Adaptive Autonomic Systems MIT: Anant Agarwal; Politecnico:Donatella Sciuto. Field of collaboration:EECS-AI.