Culinairy Labs, the startup from Manu Ponnapati (MIT Media Lab) and Michael Raspuzzi (MDE '18), will demo at Food+Tech Connect's A.I. in Food panel on Tuesday, March 19. The event explores the future of the food industry as transformed by artificial intelligence and machine learning. 

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Meet Taylor Greenberg Goldy (MDE '20) and Mengxi Tan (MDE '20), two MDE students in their second semester.

Taylor Greenberg Goldy
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The MDE student team (Erin McLean, Emily Yang, Berlynn Bai, Anahide Nahhal, Hanif Wicaksono, and Hane Roh) has been selected as a finalist in the NASA SUITS challenge. Their task is to "Develop a user interface, utilizing the Microsoft HoloLens, which enables astronauts to finish a task more efficiently by providing a set of instructions via the display environment (audibly, visually, etc.). The task requires dexterity, physical activity, and navigation between various points within the test environment."

Learn more at: https://microgravityuniversity.jsc.nasa.gov/nasasuits...

Master in Design Engineering (MDE) students spent the summer of 2018 exploring a variety of issues and industries, from the intersection of privacy and technology to the future of work. In their owns words, the experiences made for an amazing summer.

Kenneth So
Designer Intern, IDEO

I interned as a designer at IDEO this summer, where I got to work with a client in the autonomous vehicle space. Unfortunately, I can’t share much beyond that!
 

Vish Srivastava
Business Designer Intern, IDEO.org

Santiago Mota (MDE '18) spent the summer "Mapping patterns of poverty in Laredo, Texas" as a Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative fellowship recipient. 

“To understand why poverty is so persistent across generations, city leaders asked Santiago Mota, who is pursuing a master’s in design...