Principal Investigator
Prof. Lee Gehrke, School of Engineering; Mr. Jose Gomez-Marquez, D-Lab; Ms. Anna Young, D-Lab; Grace Teo, D-Lab; Dr. Julie Greenberg, Institute for Medical Eng. and Science
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2016
Department/Lab/Center:
School of Engineering
The broad goal of this project is to channel MIT student creativity and intellectual power toward solving pain points in medicine and health care through experiential learning. The two components of the project are 1) a physical “maker space” containing the tools for creating, and 2) construction sets/maker lab courses and interdisciplinary faculty- mentored building experiences to enable MIT students to transform theory into prototypes and products with potential to alleviate human suffering. Alumni funds are requested to share the costs of equipping a novel Medical Maker Space, providing the physical tools for creating health technologies. This support will be leveraged with funds from IMES and other units to continue new and existing offerings that will use the Maker Space year-round.