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  • As Earth Heats Up, This Inventor is Focused on Keeping Cool

    As Earth Heats Up, This Inventor is Focused on Keeping Cool

    As the climate heats up throughout much of the globe, more and more people are dependent on air conditioning to live comfortably. But the very technology that helps them stay cool is contributing to the rising temperatures it’s trying to combat. MIT lecturer and engineer Sorin Grama is focused on trying to break that cycle,…

  • ASME ISHOW India Announces 2021 Winners

    ASME ISHOW India Announces 2021 Winners

    The international accelerator of hardware-led social innovation has supported and funded over 160 startups across the world.  The ASME Innovation Showcase (ISHOW) India announced its 2021 winners: Offgrid Energy Labs, PadCare Labs, and Life and Limb (P) Ltd. All three prototypes – Offgrid Energy Labs’ efficient battery technology, PadCare Labs’ menstrual hygiene management system, and…

  • The Power of Invention—and the Value of Diversity and Inclusion

    The Power of Invention—and the Value of Diversity and Inclusion

    For 25 years, the annual $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize has supported and celebrated inventors who are changing the world. The 26 winners of the Prize have gone on to receive over 3,800 patents – and more than 40,000 subsequent patents have cited those Prize winners’ inventions as a precedent.   In February 2021, Rand Corporation released…

  • How One High School Teacher and an Invention Project Made All the Difference

    How One High School Teacher and an Invention Project Made All the Difference

    Ford Grundberg and his former teacher Doug Scott Now a satellite orbital analyst, Ford Grundberg used to intentionally blow off his schoolwork. Then an invention education experience changed his life. Ford Grundberg was a sophomore in high school in Natick, Massachusetts, when he met Doug Scott. It was during a study hall, and Mr. Scott…

  • Winners of the Global Cooling Prize Announced

    Winners of the Global Cooling Prize Announced

    Their prototypes have five times less climate impact than standard air conditioning units available in the market today. The Global Cooling Prize, an international innovation competition to develop super-efficient and climate-friendly residential cooling solutions, announced its two winners: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai, with partner Tsinghua University; and Daikin, with partner Nikken Sekkei Ltd.More

  • 2021 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winners Announced

    2021 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winners Announced

    This World IP Day, we celebrate collegiate student inventors recognized for ground-breaking, patentable solutions to issues related to maternal health, energy efficiency and plastic waste. Cambridge, MA – April 26, 2021 – Following a year that demonstrated the importance and practical applications of scientific advancement and invention, the Lemelson-MIT Program announced seven winners of its annual…

  • Pushing for an Engineering Revolution

    Pushing for an Engineering Revolution

    On April 22, 1970, millions of Americans took to the country’s streets, parks, college campuses and classrooms to demand action for a healthier planet. This was the first Earth Day, and it sparked the modern environmental movement. Today, sustainability has become a key touchstone and point of concern across all sectors, from government to industry…

  • Invent Oregon, Oregon’s Innovation Competition, Launches for 2021

    Invent Oregon, Oregon’s Innovation Competition, Launches for 2021

    The innovation competition is the culmination of the invention pathway, Oregon’s statewide K through capstone entrepreneurial pipeline for economic talent development The Invent Oregon Collegiate Challenge (InventOR), Oregon’s only statewide invention competition hosted by Portland State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship, returns in 2021 for its fifth year of student-pitched inventions and innovations. Held virtually to…

  • Engineer and Children’s Author Arlyne Simon Breaking Barriers for Female Patent Holders

    Engineer and Children’s Author Arlyne Simon Breaking Barriers for Female Patent Holders

    Simon describes her own invention journey and how she works to inspire other young women and girls to enter STEM fields. At first, biomedical engineer, inventor, and author Arlyne Simon didn’t consider the possibility of becoming an entrepreneur or patent holder. “I don’t think I really associated those terms with something that I would have,…

  • National Inventors’ Day: Recognizing the Economic Impact of Invention

    National Inventors’ Day: Recognizing the Economic Impact of Invention

    Three new reports underscore why supporting a robust invention ecosystem is critical for economic resilience and creating the industries of the future. For the last 25 years, The Lemelson Foundation has focused on supporting invention as a catalyst for fueling economies and improving lives. Now, as a new administration is setting its agenda for economic…

  • Engineering for One Planet Initiative Launches Website and Curricular Framework

    Engineering for One Planet Initiative Launches Website and Curricular Framework

    The Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Initiative has launched a website to share information, resources, events and updates with the global engineering education community to help advance the goal of integrating environmental sustainability education in all engineering disciplines. Mobilized by The Lemelson Foundation and VentureWell with collaboration from hundreds of academic, non-profit, and industry leaders,…

  • How Adversity Led to a Lifetime of Engineering and Invention

    How Adversity Led to a Lifetime of Engineering and Invention

    Dr. Rory A. Cooper is a veteran, an athlete and the holder of more than 20 groundbreaking patents in wheelchair and other assistive technology.