About MIT STE@M DAYS
MIT STE@M Days is the flagship event of MIT’s sports technology program. It is an opportunity for all of our affiliates, supporters, and members of the MIT community to come to campus and share advances, challenges and passions that lie at the intersection of engineering and sports.
About the MIT Sports Technology Research Group
The MIT Sports Technology Research Group - formerly known as STE@M – Sports Technology and Education @ MIT – is dedicated to building an interconnected community of faculty, students, industry partners, alums, and athletes who are passionate about tackling challenges that lie at the intersection of engineering and sports. The program links the expertise of MIT faculty; the unique resources of MIT’s facilities; the passion of MIT students; and the needs, experience and insight of industry partners. Learn more about us here.
LEADERSHIP
Christina Chase
Lecturer at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Managing Director of the MIT Sports Technology Research Group Christina Chase is a Lecturer at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Managing Director of the MIT Sports Technology Research Group (fka STE@M -Sports Technology Education @ MIT). Prior to this she was an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. Christina has helped hundreds of teams go from concept to company and teaches the largest undergraduate course on entrepreneurship in MIT’s School of Engineering. She was recently named by Mashable as one of the 15 People Shaping Boston’s Tech Scene. At MIT’s School of Engineering, Christina leads the largest undergraduate entrepreneurship class,Entrepreneurship in Engineering: The Founder’s Journey, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and is the co-director of Start6, the EECS Entrepreneurship Workshop. She also serves as the Academic Advisor for the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s 2A Entrepreneurship Track and advisor for the Design of Medical Devices and Precision Machine Design classes. In the Department of Material Science and Engineering, she lectures in the senior capstone design class Materials Projects Laboratory, where students create the next generation of groundbreaking materials, and serves as a mentor for the MADMEC Material Science Design Competition. Additionally, she co-teaches Applications in Advanced Entrepreneurial Techniques, for advanced MIT startup teams, and Entrepreneurial Product Development and Marketing. Christina is an entrepreneur with a track record of success in a several industries, starting her first company when she was 18 years old. Most recently she was the CEO and co-founder of Firehoze, an education technology company that focused on online education that involved over a hundred instructors from the most prestigious universities. Prior to that, she worked with the founding team of the healthcare IT startup, Casenet, to build and run the marketing and business development division, where she positioned the company as the industry leader. At the photonics company, Labsphere, Christina ran the Materials and Coating division where, in under a year, she tripled her division’s revenue and led the group to file three key patents. She has also worked at Dartmouth College’s Entrepreneurial Network to help launch startups that commercialized Dartmouth College’s intellectual property portfolio. At HP, Christina managed marketing for the newly formed OEM data storage division and changed the OEM marketing model to become an embedded member of strategic accounts. The division grew by $750 million in a year. Christina is a Techstars mentor and serves on the Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum, SXSW Accelerator Advisory Board and SXSW V2V Advisory Board. In 2013, she was named one of the 25 Most Influential Women in the Boston Tech Community. |
Professor Anette (Peko) Hosoi
Associate Department Head for Education; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Faculty Director, MIT Sports Technology Research Group Professor Anette (Peko) Hosoi is faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. She is the founder and faculty director of the MIT Sports Technology Research Group, formerly known as STE@M (Sports Technology and Education @ MIT) which is dedicated to building an interconnected community of faculty, students, industry partners, and athletes who are passionate about tackling challenges that lie at the intersection of engineering and sports. The program links the expertise of MIT faculty; the unparalleled resources of MIT’s facilities; the passion of MIT students; and the needs, experience and insight of industry partners. Prof. Hosoi’s research contributions lie at the juncture of nonlinear hydrodynamics, microfluidics and bio-inspired design. She is a world leader in the study of the hydrodynamics of thin fluid films and in the nonlinear physical interaction of viscous fluids and deformable interfaces. A common theme in her work is the fundamental study of shape, kinematic and rheological optimization of biological fluid systems for locomotion and their application to the emergent field of “soft robotics”. A unique mixture of experimental work, numerical simulation and theoretical analysis characterizes her work, and it combines elements of both engineering design and mathematical optimization. Her work is widely known and internationally respected by physicists, biologists, roboticists and applied mathematicians, as well as engineers, and is used to guide the engineering design of robotic swimmers, crawlers, burrowers and other mechanisms. She is also an exceptional and innovative teacher, an inspiring mentor and an outstanding communicator of science in general. She has been awarded both the Junior Bose and Bose award for her teaching excellence in the School of Engineering; she was elected a MacVicar Fellow and most recently won our Department’s coveted Den Hartog Award for Teaching Excellence. Professor Hosoi is a member of the Defense Science Study Group and was recently elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society. When she is not in lab, she can be found at Highland Mountain Bike Park on her downhill rig, or on the couch monitoring her Fantasy Football team. |
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