Amy B. Smith
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Amy Smith is an instructor at the Edgerton Center at MIT specializing in Engineering Design for Developing Countries. She teaches a class named D-Lab.
Her designs include the screenless hammer mill and the phase-change incubator, and she is also involved with the application of the Malian peanut sheller in Africa.[1] She also helped start the MIT IDEAS Competition.
[edit] Awards
Collegiate Inventors Award, 1999 (for the phase-change incubator)
First woman to win the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, in 2000.
MacArthur Fellowship (aka genius award), 2004-2009.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Amy's Home Page
- Amy Smith - 2000 Student Prize Winner Describes some other inventions (including a technology for diagnosing tuberculosis, and a clamp to regulate intravenous drips), as at Feb. 2000.
- Necessity Is the Mother of Invention - New York Times article.
- A MacGyver for the Third World - Wired article
- Design that Matters article on an MIT website
- MIT Report: Amy Smith in Ghana Full Belly Blog entry, 2/2/2006
- Video of Amy Smith discussing her inventions including eco-friendly charcoal and a laboratory incubator which doesn't require electricity. Presented at the TED Conference (February 2006) Monterey, CA. Duration 15:48
