James S. Tyler Jr. ’65 D.Enghas made a new $20 million commitment to support the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID), a program and design laboratory serving Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the greater Yale community. The generous contribution will establish and endow a director’s resource fund, which will help sustain the activities of the center in perpetuity.
With four new cutting-edge projects, a commendation from the White House, and community outreach programs, the Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association continues to rocket skyward.
Read more: http://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/aeronautica-yuaa-continues-its-rocketing-ascent
Notes from Woodbridge Hall: Innovation, if you look around you, is everywhere on Yale campus: students work together across disciplinary boundaries on fascinating projects supported by the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design, where a professor of French literature and her students translate Emile Zola’s words into three dimensions and a mechanical engineering class’s project leads to improvements in vaccination delivery in India.
Read more: http://president.yale.edu/speeches-writings/notes-woodbridge-hall/leap-day
Appropriate Technology Design Course Product: Around 1.5 million children die around the world every year from diseases that could be prevented through vaccination. India has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the world at under 60% - well below the World Health Organization's 90% target. But in rural Rajasthan, a simple necklace - which contains a child's vaccination records in a computer chip - is helping boost the numbers protected.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35655035
The course ENAS 400: Making It, sits at the intersection of design, technology, and entrepreneurship. Taught by Dr. Joseph Zinter, the class started out with making a custom pair of headphones using many of the equipments found in the CEID including but not limited to the milling machine, lathe, laser cutter, 3D printers, sewing machine, hand tools, sheet metal shear, and puncher.
Read more: http://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/want-custom-pair-headphones-enas-400-students-are-making-it
In less than 24 hours, Yale's first mental health care hackathon produced a number of innovative ideas, including devices that would assist people who can't speak and another that would improve communications between patients and doctors.
Read more: http://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/innovations-abound-first-mental-health-care-hackathon
Startup Launched from Yale CEID: When Ellen Su started at Yale, she planned to major in art and study painting, but got interested in design and sculpture. She supplemented her studies with courses in mechanical engineering and ended up with a degree in art focused on product design. "I think recently there's been a big resurgence in design and design thinking," she says. "I ended up picking courses that I felt were related to what I was doing."
Read more: http://www.courant.com/hometown-heroes/hc-hometown-hero-ellen-su-20160123-story.html
Co-taught by Dr. Joseph Zinter, assistant director of the Center for Engineering Innovation & Design, and Dr. Jean Zheng, engineering director at the Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT), the course brings together interdisciplinary teams of students to with physicians from the Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital to address unmet clinical needs. This year, the four teams tackled creating realistic patient simulator, reduce pain in bone marrow biopsies, what happens after an organ transplant, and making gall bladder surgeries more efficient.
Read more: http://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/more-medical-devices-future-mengbeng-404
Since the first human heart transplant nearly 50 years ago, the standard of care for transporting donor organs has changed little. A heart, kidney, or liver is harvested, cleaned, placed in a cooler on ice, and shipped off via ambulance or jet plane. There are fancier transport containers, but they can be prohibitively expensive or too unwieldy to travel long distances. For a particular organ—the intestine—a cooler simply won’t work. A doctor worked with engineering students to find a way to transport intestines for transplant.
Read more: http://yalemedicine.yale.edu/winter2016/features/feature/222247/
Over the course of a frenetic weekend in March, five unlikely colleagues—an undergrad, a nursing student, a doctoral candidate, an employee at a marketing startup, and a hospital resident—came together to design a device to help asthma sufferers. Inspired by a keynote speech at a hackathon, the initial group formed over a shared interest in asthma dosing. Rounding out their team at lunch, they then spent the rest of the weekend working like mad to complete their device.
Read more: http://yalemedicine.yale.edu/winter2016/features/feature/222244/
3D printing holds the promise of bioengineered organs. It offers a new possibility: custom-printed 3D models, which surgeons could handle and experiment with, of the structures that they would later cut, stitch, and screw together.
Read more: http://yalemedicine.yale.edu/winter2016/features/feature/222252/
In 2013, Bulldogs Racing took top prize in the 2013 Formula Hybrid International at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The club, a student group sponsored by SEAS that builds hybrid gas-electric race cars, seeks to reclaim the title in 2016 by building what could be one of the fastest electric cars in the U.S.
Read more: http://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/end-year-report-bulldogs-racing
“Here’s the bottom line: Every day, everywhere, the entrepreneurial spirit animates Yale. And, importantly, there’s a double bottom line, as that spirit seeks results that have a positive social impact,” Yale President Peter Salovey ’86 Ph.D. told alumni volunteer leaders in a luncheon address on Nov. 14, during the annual assembly of the Yale alumni association.
Read more: http://news.yale.edu/2014/11/17/salovey-heralds-strength-yale-entrepreneurship-alumni-assembly
The start-up company behind a small health-data-storing necklace that could save countless lives – developed at the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design - has won the Wearables for Good challenge sponsored by UNICEF, ARM and Frog.
Read more: http://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/khushi-baby-started-ceid-wins-unicef-award & http://wearablesforgood.com/finalist-khushi-baby/
Environmental Technology in the Developing World, is one of the newest to be offered in Yale’s Center for Engineering Innovation & Design (CEID). Like many CEID courses, Environmental Technology in the Developing World tasks students with improving a real world problem over the course of the semester under the mentorship of an actual “client” who works in the field.
Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association will be recognized by President Barak Obama at the White House for their work on the optical telescope. The telescope can see deep space objects and will be programmed to track objects as they move through the sky. Upon the telescope's completion the team hopes to have educational nights open to the community utilizing the telescope.
Amy Rockwood and Chris Datsikas took third place in a bio-medical engineering design competition for a project they developed in the CEID. Their pitch, a training platform that teaches healthcare providers how to use an external pacemaker in a way that mimics real time feedback, without having to practice on a patient. CardiSim is a platform that bridges the gap between live teaching and teaching only through lectures and video simulations.
Yale Design for America has started working on five new projects to change the world. The design focused undergraduate club is responsible for organizing and implementing several projects that focus on improving the world around us. This year projects range from using Green Engineering in Haiti, to re-designing the tennis ball so that blind students and adults can play the game with family members and friends.
Read more: http://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/yale-design-america-sets-its-agenda-year
Congratulations Kushi Baby! After receiving a $200,000 grant from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), Kushi Baby continues to help the children of rural India.
Kushi Baby started as class project in the CEID's “Appropriate Technology in the Developing World" course, co-taught by Dr. Joseph Zinter, assistant director of the CEID, and SEAS Lecturer Bo Hopkins.
The project helps document and record a child's vaccination records in areas like rural India. This allows health workers to know exactly what treatment and attention a child has had or needs at a given point in time.
Read more: http://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/ceid-india-khushi-baby-receives-200000-grant
Not far from the laser cutters and 3D printers of the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design, a seventh-generation master coppersmith gave a presentation of his craft Thursday.
Bhalchandra Kadu, part of the Tambat caste that goes back generations, demonstrated the techniques of coppersmithing as they’re practiced in his home city of Pune, India. Kadu was accompanied by Professor Prasad Boradkar of Arizona State University. Together, they have been conducting research on the tradition of making copper utensils and other items from the Pune region.
