MADMEC

MADMEC, the Making and Designing Materials Engineering Contest, is entering its fifth year. The competition is a joint venture between MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Saint Gobain, BP, and the Dow Chemical Company. MADMEC challenges teams of students to design and build prototypes that address a variety of energy, environmental, or habitat issues through the use of materials science.

Please join us for the MADMEC finals, Tuesday Oct. 5, 7:00, Room 4-237.

MADMEC, the Making and Designing Materials Engineering Contest, provides an opportunity for student teams to build prototypes that provide materials solutions for alternative energy.

Please join us for the team presentations, after which we'll have some ice cream while the judges deliberate. This year's five teams have done great work.

At the MIT Energy Conference, now in its fifth year, visitors learn about new inventions and network with the innovators and problem-solvers. CNET covered the event and mentioned Sunpoint, the 2008 MADMEC winners.

Congratulations to the Course III student teams members of SunPoint and Levant Power who have advanced to the Grand Prize judging which will take place May 12, 2009 at 2:00pm at the Wong Auditorium, E51.

SunPoint:
Forrest Liau
Vyom Sharma
George Whitfield

Levant Power:
Shakeel Avadhany
Vladimir Tarasov

Both teams got started through MADMEC I (2007) and MADMEC II (2008) as and CurieBrothers (now Levant Power) and Heliotrope (now SunPoint), respectively.

A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. The students hope to initially find customers among companies that operate large fleets of heavy vehicles. They have already drawn interest from the U.S. military and several truck manufacturers.