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  • MIT Alum & Portal Instruments CTO Visits

    Last week MechE alum Bobby Dyer, BS ’01, MS ’03, stopped by our Medical Device Design class to share his journey and insights from over the past decade helping to…

  • 2.75 Designed Torniquets Commercialized

    Back in 2013, Dr. Jay Connor from Mt. Auburn hospital presented a project – develop an easier to administer and more reliable emergency arterial torniquet. Today the prototype, developed by…

  • 2021 Projects published by ASME and IEEE

    We are excited to again present work from the Medical Device Design course at the 2021 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and Design of Medical Devices Conferences. Further…

  • 2020 Syllabus Posted

    We are looking forward to the fall together. It will be a challenging semester, but also an opportunity to explore new ways of delivering hands on-experiential learning. The syllabus can…

  • IEEE EMBC 2020 Papers

    Two projects from last year’s class will be presented virtually at the 2020 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference. “Monitoring surgeons’ stress and fatigue during surgery”“Needle depth insertion…