Opportunities

The Engine Blueprint Program—Apply by Aug. 12

The Engine Blueprint is a nonresident program for graduate students, postdocs, and research scientists to explore the commercial opportunities of their scientific breakthroughs. The program is designed to give future Tough Tech leaders a chance to learn the entrepreneurial process from those who are living it, as well as provide a platform to crystallize the commercial potential of participants’ startup concepts.

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PowerMEMS 2022—Abstracts Due Aug. 9

The 21st International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS 2022) will take place December 12-16 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

The objective of the PowerMEMS Conference is to catalyze innovation in micro and nano technology in support of power/energy generation, conversion and storage applications as well as micro/nanosystem-enabled energy-efficient applications.

Read more and submit an abstract.

START.nano 2022 Call for Applications

MIT.nano is now accepting applications for the 2022 START.nano cohort. Participating startups will have access to tools and other advantages that can help them develop their prototypes, validate the data, and position their companies for the next stage of growth. Read more and apply by January 14.

Spring 2022 course—2.S981 Engineering of nanoscale materials

The spring 2022 course 2.S981 Engineering of Nanoscale Materials, taught by Prof. Jeehwan Kim, is chance to learn about low dimensional materials: engineering principles and most updated progress/applications of graphene, transition dichalcogenides, quantum dots, nanotubes, nanowires, and thin films.

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Science Hub doctoral student fellowships

The Science Hub​, a new engagement between MIT and Amazon and hosted by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, is offering doctoral student fellowships for Spring 2022, focusing on conversational AI; energy efficient computing, efficient AI and computing on the edge; fairness & privacy in AI. The call for nominations​ is open until January 6, 2022.

Read more and apply.