tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185278800 2008-06-16 14:37:28 -0400 MIT CTL <p>John Leggate, BP - CIO and Group Vice President </p><p><em><strong>MIT Supply Chain Management Speaker Series</strong></em></p><p>As part of the MIT Supply Chain Management Club's speaker series, John Leggatte maps BP’s journey of innovation, from discovery to business-as-usual, including finding and testing new ideas, identifying which ones work, applying them at scale and then dismantling corporate legacies. In particular, John talks about Blue Chalk processes, the mythical meeting of minds that takes place each year and forms the nexus of the BP innovation process.</p><p>October 20, 2006, 0:41:00 </p> 2331 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185257260 2008-09-08 10:59:28 -0400 Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education (DUE) Videos <p><strong>Genius (Students) + Ingenious (Curriculum) = <br />Extraordinary Learning @ MIT<br /><br /></strong>Students and professors talk about innovation and creativity in teaching and learning at MIT. See four examples: The hands-on Hydrodynamics Lab, HASS subject: "Learning From the Past: Drama, Science, Performance" Concourse Giant Axon Project, and the MIT Energy Initiative.</p> 416 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185236020 2008-07-07 12:51:12 -0400 School of Engineering EducationalInnovation – "The Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP)" 359 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185212200 2008-07-16 15:09:09 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program <p>Martin Fisher is co-founder of the non-profit social enterprise KickStart. To date, Fisher’s low-cost irrigation pumps and innovative business model have helped to lift nearly 80 percent of his customers – poor African farmers – out of poverty. </p><p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-fisher.html" target="_blank">Biography</a> | <a href="http://web.mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/n-press-08LMA.html" target="_blank">Press Release</a> </p><p><img alt="Martin Fisher" src="http://web.mit.edu/invent/images/awards/fisher_160.jpg" width="160" /></p> 333 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185190060 2007-08-08 10:50:13 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams are teams of high school students, teachers, and mentors that receive grants up to $10,000 each to invent technological solutions to real-world problems. The InvenTeam initiative aims to excite high school students about invention through science, technology, engineering, and math; empower students to problem solve; and encourage an inventive culture in schools and communities.<br><br>The 2007 InvenTeams Odyssey was hosted at MIT by the Lemelson-MIT Program during June 20-22.<br><br>Visit http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/ for more information.<br><br>Music by Sbbrucey, available at http://www.sectionz.com. This video complies with the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, viewable at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ . 202 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185150860 2008-08-13 15:09:10 -0400 MIT News Office <p>Using a bicycle wheel to thresh millet, making LEGO-like bricks from dirt, or hooking up an electric generator to an irrigation pump may not save the world, but such simple projects could go a long way toward improving the lives of millions of people living in the world's developing countries. That's the guiding principle behind a month-long summer workshop at MIT. <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/idds-0808.html">More</a></p><p>Video: MIT News Office/AMPS </p> 178 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185104060 2007-04-27 16:56:24 -0400 MIT Video Productions Test drive the future of automotive transportation with the ultra-efficient <a href="http://web.mit.edu/erc/spotlights/small_engine.html">ethanol boosted gasoline engine</a>. An excerpt from MIT ZigZag Episode #13 produced by MIT Video Productions. 148 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185079880 2007-08-08 10:41:27 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams are teams of high school students, teachers, and mentors that receive grants up to $10,000 each to invent technological solutions to real-world problems. The InvenTeam initiative aims to excite high school students about invention through science, technology, engineering, and math; empower students to problem solve; and encourage an inventive culture in schools and communities.<br><br>The 2007 InvenTeams Odyssey was hosted at MIT by the Lemelson-MIT Program during June 20-22.<br><br>Visit http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/ for more information.<br><br>Music by STE316, available at http://www.sectionz.com. This video complies with the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, viewable at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ . 142 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185057560 2008-11-20 10:23:22 -0500 X-Prize Idea Contest <p>MIT LFM students are finalists in X PRIZE Foundation’s "Crazy Green Idea" Contest.</p> <p>Cast <a href="http://www.xprize.org/crazy-green-idea" target="_blank">your vote now</a> for Energy X PRIZE: Reduce Home Energy Usage</p> <p>A team of LFM 2010 students has been named one of three national finalists in the X PRIZE Foundation’s “What’s Your Crazy Green Idea?” video contest on YouTube. Sponsored by Prize Capital, the competition invited contestants to submit a two-minute video describing what they would propose for an X PRIZE in Energy and the Environment.</p> <p>The video, produced by LFM team members Jonathan Dreher, Mike Norelli, and Jeremy Stewart, is entitled Energy X PRIZE: Reduce Home Energy Usage. It was created in conjunction with ESD.932 “X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Energy,” taught by Dr. Erika Wagner, within the new LFM energy and sustainability track, which offers a new engineering major in this arena for LFM students.</p> <p>The LFMs’ video was selected from 133 submissions by the X PRIZE Foundation, an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The winner will be chosen by online voting, which runs through Nov. 30. The contestants receiving the most votes will win a $25,000 award from Prize Capital and have their Crazy Green Idea explored as the next X PRIZE in Energy and the Environment.</p> <p>View the LFM video at <a href="http://www.xprize.org/crazy-green-idea" target="_blank">www.xprize.org/crazy-green-idea</a>. -- and don’t forget to vote by Nov. 30!</p> 121 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185029380 2008-12-03 09:40:29 -0500 MIT News Office The exhibition features works by six artists from five countries and represents artistic and technical advancements in the field of display holography. 56