MIT Portugal Presents Research at Innovation Days

Faculty and students from the MIT Portugal Program took part in the Fourth Annual Innovation Days exhibition held in Lisbon June 18-20, 2009 as part of Portugal’s chairing of Eureka, a European network for industrial innovation. The aim of Innovation Days is to promote the results of successful market-oriented R&D projects, boost their economic exploitation and promote new partnerships among companies, researchers and investors.

The four focus areas of the MIT Portugal Program were well represented at the event. Featured R&D projects included one involving mesenchymal stem cells (Bio-Engineering), as well as prototypes developed during the Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing Product Design and Development module in Fall 2008 (‘Baby Bottle Anywhere’ and ‘helpUcarry’). Posters from PhD research projects were also presented.

The following faculty and students attended:

Bio-Engineering
Professor Cláudia Lobato da Silva, Dr. Margarida Diogo, and PhD students Ana Fernandes, Francisco dos Santos and Pedro Andrade

Sustainable Energy Systems
PhD students André Pina, Daniel Wiesmann, Joana Abreu and Nuno Clímaco

Transportation Systems
Prof. Richard de Neufville

MIT Portugal Coordination Office
Dr. Natália Dias, Irina Constantino