A mechanical designer walks between the realms of science and creativity. In this Build Project, you - the ambitious innovators, will understand how to develop an idea by following engineering design principles. You will learn to identify a problem strategically, use brainstorming tools to create multiple ideas, and use your engineering knowledge to develop these ideas for production.

During your project, you will apply practical mechanical engineering tools used in the industry to maximize the reliability of your solutions. Skills learned during this project will help you understand the fast iteration of idea development and follow-through required to excel in a modern engineering environment.

Industrial Engineering in Action: Optimizing Biotech Pharma Supply Chains

biotech-supply-chain, lean-principles, optimization, six-sigma

Akshay Mavani

and 1 more

Apply industrial engineering principles to tackle real-world challenges in biotech and pharmaceutical supply chains, focusing on efficiency, compliance, and risk management.

Industrial Engineering Fellow

Step into the world of biotech and pharma, where supply chains handle life-saving medicines under strict regulations and complex logistics. In this Build Project, you’ll act as an Industrial Engineer, solving real-world challenges with tools like Lean principles, Six Sigma, and data analytics.

Guided by an industry expert, you’ll learn to optimize supply chains, tackle inefficiencies, and gain skills essential for today’s dynamic biotech field. Build your expertise, solve impactful problems, and prepare for a future in one of the fastest-growing industries. Let’s innovate together!

Creating an Objective Legal Memo

legal-research, legal-analysis, case-law, statutory-application

Nkechi Nnachetta

and 1 more

Learn how to draft a legal memorandum like a lawyer, that showcases objective legal analysis and conclusions.

Law Fellow

There are two forms of writing most used within the legal industry: objective legal writing and persuasive legal writing. Whether in a law firm or in-house legal team, a necessary skill for all lawyers is the ability to draft an objective legal memorandum, in which a legal question is answered objectively, with all sides and possibilities looked at. In this Build Project, you will wear the hat of an entry level lawyer and will learn how to formulate a research strategy when presented with a legal question that needs answering, how to find and analyze the laws relevant to your search, and finally, how to write this analysis down for your legal or non-legal audience to understand.

Drug Development Meets Physics

chromatography, spectroscopy, electromagnetic-radiation, molecular-weight

Irene Ingabire

and 1 more

This project explores the applications of physics in drug development, enhancing our understanding and effectiveness of drugs from molecular interactions to delivery and quality control.

Biophysics Fellow

Spectroscopy and spectrometry are indispensable analytical techniques in drug discovery, extensively used to analyze molecular structures, interactions, and concentrations at every stage of the process. Their ability to provide detailed qualitative and quantitative data makes them essential for developing safe and effective drugs.

In this Build Project, you will explore the physics principles behind these techniques and their real-world applications. You'll also read and analyze spectroscopy and spectrometry data. By the end of the project, you will be able to identify and present a real-life case study on their use in drug development. This project offers valuable, hands-on experience for students aiming for careers in biotechnology and drug development.

Six Sigma: Statistical Tool for Process Improvement

six-sigma, material-development, process-improvement, project-management, statistics

Kazutaka Ozawa

and 1 more

Understand Six sigma methodology for efficient material development

Chemical Engineering Fellow

Similarly to all the other industries, chemical engineering requires efficiency improvement. But, since the world is getting more and more complicated, it is getting more challenging to understand what the actual problem is, how we should communicate to align with team members, what tools should be used to monitor, and how we should fix it. Six Sigma is a methodology to solve these situations.

In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of Project Manager in the chemical engineering team, and utilize Six sigma tools to fix cases. Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you'll

‍Learn about Six sigma methodology
Learn some of the statistical analysis methods
Analyze the results using case studies.

All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real (either product design or manufacturing process) team.

Visualizing Supply Chain Stability: Power BI's Role in Inventory Risk

inventory-management, risk-analysis, supply-chain, data-analytics

Sandeep Kumar Ravi Kumar

and 1 more

Develop a Power BI solution to analyze inventory risks, streamline stock management, and drive proactive decision-making to enhance supply chain resilience.

Industrial Engineering Fellow

Embark on an engaging journey into the world of industrial engineering and operations optimization. This Build Project presents an exciting opportunity to address key challenges in inventory and warehouse operations management. By developing a dynamic PowerBI dashboard, you'll gain practical experience in analyzing inventory levels, assessing risks, and proactively optimizing supply chain parameters to improve operational resilience. You'll focus on applying industrial engineering principles to enhance inventory management strategies, streamline processes, and boost overall warehouse and manufacturing efficiency. These skills are highly transferable, making them valuable not only in the supply chain and logistics sectors but also in industries such as manufacturing, consulting, hospitality, and beyond. This hands-on experience will provide you with the critical skills needed for a successful career in operations optimization, setting you apart in a variety of industries.

AI-Powered Image Retrieval With Vector Databases

deep-learning, python, vector-databases, software-development

Kamalesh Kalirathinam

and 1 more

Develop an AI-driven application that uses machine learning models and vector databases to retrieve relevant images based on visual queries

Data Science Fellow

Efficient image retrieval systems are crucial across multiple sectors, including media, e-commerce, and education. This Build Project offers a gateway into the essential AI and machine learning work that underpins advanced technology careers, particularly in firms that are leading the innovation in digital content management and user interface technologies.

During this Build Project, you will step into the role of a Data Scientist, tasked with developing an AI-powered image retrieval system using state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies. Guided by a seasoned industry professional, you will gain skills to conduct research and explore machine learning frameworks and develop software using vital production tools such as Python, PyTorch, FAISS, and Docker.

Why we get old and how to measure it: a computational analysis of aging biomarkers

computational-biology, genomics, aging-biology

Maarten de Vries

and 1 more

Biomarkers of aging have been notoriously difficult to find. In this Build Project, you will analyze real-world biological data to find good ones.

Data Science Fellow

As long as humans have existed, they have tried to live longer. But today, the combination of large-scale ‘omics data and machine learning may help us unlock some of the secrets behind why we get old, and what we can do about it.

In this Build Project, you'll assume the role of a Computational Biologist, analyzing methylomics data to identify novel biomarkers of aging. During the Build Project, we will cover the theory behind the field of aging biology, which you will then use to build models. You will retrieve, clean, and process omics data, apply machine learning models for data analysis, and produce scientific figures. It is assumed that you have familiarity with biology OR data science (ideally both). If you don’t have experience with one of them, you can still enroll but you will need to learn on your own to get the most out of the project.

TweetLens: Unveiling Insights from Twitter Data

data-pipeline-development, python, data-visualization, social-media-analytics

Shruti Adoni

and 1 more

Analyze and transform raw tweets into interactive visualizations to derive actionable insights using the Twitter API.

Business Intelligence Fellow

In today's data-driven world, businesses rely heavily on social media analytics to extract valuable insights from platforms like Twitter, making it a crucial skill for entry-level data analysts and engineers. In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of a Business Intelligence Analyst and develop a pipeline to analyze and transform raw tweet data into interactive visualizations for actionable insights. Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you'll fetch Twitter data via the API, preprocess and clean it, and visualize trends and patterns using tools like matplotlib, seaborn etc. You'll become familiar with industry tools and methodologies like Python, data wrangling, and data visualization techniques. All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real analytics team, preparing you for the fast-paced world of data analysis and visualization.

From Plans to Execution: Concrete Placement of a Berth Modernization

concrete-placement, civil-engineering, construction, quality-control

Sara Rodriguez

and 1 more

Design and execute a comprehensive plan for the construction and modernization of a berth, while mastering the critical techniques of concrete placement, from interpreting placement plans to ensuring durability and safety on real-world construction sites.

Civil Engineer Fellow

Concrete placement is one of the most fundamental processes in civil and marine construction, where precision and quality are key. In this Build Project, you'll step into the role of a field engineer, learning to prepare and execute concrete pours with a focus on safety and efficiency. Under the guidance of an experienced professional, you’ll gain hands-on experience tackling challenges such as managing environmental conditions and ensuring material quality. You will also explore the importance of curing methods and quality assurance practices. By working on real-world scenarios, this project equips you with industry-relevant skills critical for success in construction.

Prepare a New Food Product for its Commercialization

recipe-creation, food-production, packaging, storage-and-logistics, compliance

Zulma Yaneth Paredes Sanchez

and 1 more

Develop a comprehensive plan to produce at scale a food product of your choice.

Food Science Fellow

Every day, companies in the food sector must innovate with the creation of new products that adapt to the needs of consumers. This leads to rethinking healthy products, with specific nutritional characteristics. At the same time, companies need to keep production costs low, make packaging more ecological, and captivate consumers with engaging marketing.

In this Build Project, you are going to create a food product from scratch. Under the supervision of an experienced Food Scientist, you’ll select a food product to work on. You’ll then prepare a master recipe, and other documents required for the product’s mass production and distribution. You’ll learn the legal requirements and best practices to follow, like ABC Costing skills, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) and the logistic model for its distribution.

🚨 Please note that this project is specifically designed for Spanish-speaking students. English terminology will be mentioned in group sessions and documents, but workshops will be held in Spanish.

Negotiating Investments in Start-Up Companies

venture-capital, investments, entrepreneurship, legal-frameworks, law, negotiation

Nir Nordan

and 1 more

Learn how lawyers can help start-ups raise funds and negotiate investment agreements. Discover how you can become a better negotiator and entrepreneur.

Law Fellow

Much of the innovation in today's world is done by Start-Up Companies, many of which are funded by Venture Capital investors. This project provides an introduction to the way lawyers, entrepreneurs, and VC investors negotiate investment agreements.

This project will guide you through the essential aspects of venture investments. Starting with basic terms and concepts, the project will progressively cover more complex topics such as different corporation types and investment vehicles. We will also learn how professional negotiators prepare for such complex negotiations.

The final workshops will involve hands-on mock negotiations, in which you will act as the legal representative of one of the parties to a venture capital investment, providing you with practical experience in applying your knowledge.

Lawyering 101: Think, Talk and Write like a Lawyer

analytical-thinking, legal-research, legal-writing, oral-advocacy

Arshiya Sharda

and 1 more

You will prepare briefs for a fictional dispute and participate in a trial simulation.

Law Fellow

Think of this Project as a day in the life (likely a month) of a lawyer. You will learn the basics of how the US Legal system operates, how laws are interpreted, how to analyse decisions of different US courts and how to apply this law to factual circumstances. You will acquire skills vital for a career in the legal profession such as analysis, research, legal writing and oral advocacy. You will then apply these skills to a fictional legal dispute, draft a legal brief and present these arguments in a trial simulation. These skills are helpful for those of you contemplating taking the LSATs. These skills would also benefit those of you considering careers in fields such as communications, business management and consultancy.

Trauma-Informed and Culturally-Proficient Leadership at Work

empathy, cultural-awareness, mental-health-awareness, workplace-wellbeing, leadership-skill

Lidya Tandayu

and 1 more

Introduction to trauma-informed and culturally-proficient leadership skills to promote positive work culture.

Psychology Fellow

The US consists of a diverse population where people are becoming more aware of the need for diversity, inclusion, and mental health proficiency across the job market. In this project, you will learn to identify, explain, and distinguish mental-health-informed leadership qualities that will be effective in nowadays workplace environments. You will present a report of case study analysis, where you get to utilize and apply the skills that you have learned in the previous weeks. The case study will be displaying trauma-informed and culturally proficient leadership skill.

Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you will develop skills that will showcase the ability to navigate interpersonal interactions through the lens of mental-health awareness. You will be equipped for challenges outside your own context of culture or identity development to provide a positive and effective work environment.

Demystifying Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling in Construction

construction, critical-path-method, scheduling, project-controls

Siddharth Chodavarapu

and 1 more

Develop a model Critical Path Method (CPM) schedule in Microsoft Excel for a typical highway or heavy civil construction project.

Civil Engineering Fellow

Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling is of immense importance today in the construction field and drives most construction planning and project controls processes. In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of a Construction CPM scheduler/project controls professional. Schedulers and Project Controls professionals manage and monitor cost, schedule and risk on construction projects.

You will build a basic model construction CPM schedule for a typical highway or heavy civil construction project. Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you'll become familiar with the industry standard CPM scheduling methodology. All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real Project Controls or Scheduling team.

Developing Renewable Energy Project using Simulation Tools

electrical-engineering, pysyst-simulation, engineering-project-finance-modeling, electric-load-and-power-flow-analysis, engineering-project-development

Harshvardhan Gupta

and 1 more

Develop a project proposal that includes PVsyst and PVWatts simulation tools for plant sizing and energy calculations, along with Excel models for project financing.

Electrical Engineering Fellow

The need of the hour is to transition over to clean renewable energy for our electricity demand. With the climate change moving to an irreversible tipping point, both state and federal governments along with international authorities have introduced policies (administrative and monetary) to support the building and operations of renewable energy power plants. This opens many entry-level opportunities for firms that build, own, and operate these plants and are in constant need of engineers to support their mission and vision.

In this Build Project, you’ll wear the hat of an electrical engineer and develop and present a utility scale power plant project proposal. Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you’ll run simulations on the project’s electrical output, showcasing the project’s electrical power and energy calculations, and would also provide cost and financing models. You’ll become familiar with industry tools like PVSyst, PVWatts, and Microsoft Excel, for project cost and finance. All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real electrical engineering project development team.

Deep Insight with Novel Next Generation Sequencing Assay

gene-editing, gene-therapy, next-generation-sequencing, assay-development, data-analysis

Malvenderjit Jagjit Singh

and 1 more

Strategize and spearhead the development of an assay aimed at determining the therapeutic potential for curing genetic disorders by leveraging novel generation sequencing approaches

Molecular Biology Fellow

RNA-seq has been selected as one of the most reliable assays in biotech research for studying gene expression level. In fact, this assay has emerged as a widely used technique for quantifying all gene expression levels. In this Build Project, you’ll imagine you assume the role of a research associate for a well-known company. They have decided to assign you the task of on boarding this assay with the purpose of investigating gene expression levels within the context of assessing the genetic tool your company has developed as part of curing genetic disorders. You will be exposed to common therapeutic approaches being conducted at molecular level and will dive deeper into different next generation sequencing technologies. These experiences represent the daily task of a research associate in the biotech industry and will be a good learning curve as part of your career development.

Venture Fund Investing: Aligning Founders and Institutional Investors

venture-capital, valuation-techniques, startups, entrepreneurship, portfolio-management

Nadia Koritareva

and 1 more

Develop an understanding of the fundamental principles that drive Venture Capital fund investing and get insights into ways to bridge the incentives gap between entrepreneurs and institutional investors.

Finance Fellow

Innovation is powered by funding yet the relationship between startup founders and investors is often marked by misaligned incentives and conflicting interests. Receiving funding from reputable Venture Capital (VC) firms is a strong positive signal of success for any entrepreneur, yet many founders could benefit from gaining a deeper understanding of what institutional VC investors look for when identifying their next big investment opportunity.

In this Build Project, you will put yourself in the position of a private institutional investor and analyze the performance factors of a successful venture portfolio, practice negotiating a term sheet, and develop an investment memo pitching a compelling startup investment opportunity to an Investment Committee. With the guidance of a professional with private institutional investing experience, you will calculate a venture portfolio’s performance metrics and practice identifying and pitching startup investments. You will master the fundamentals of key startup valuation metrics and portfolio management basics such as calculating pre-/post-money valuations, portfolio performance metrics, and others. This project will stimulate the operations of a venture capital firm and provide holistic insights into the skills both venture investors and founders need for success in the competitive venture ecosystem.

Process Development: Driving Cell Therapy from Research to Market

ipsc-derived-cell-therapy, process-development, bioreactor, flow-cytometry

Claire Wang

and 1 more

Exploring stem cell therapy with a focus on bioreactors and bioassays used for developing a scalable cell differentiation process.

Biomedical Engineering Fellow

Cell therapy refers to the transplantation of autologous or allogeneic cells into patients to treat diseases or repair damaged tissues. However, the gap between research-scale proof of concept and clinical patient doses is significant and multifaceted. This build project aims to explore key aspects of bridging the gap between R&D and clinical application in stem cell therapy, focusing on scalable/automated cell differentiation process development and cell-based analytical techniques.

You will delve into various types of bioreactors and close-system cell processing instruments, get exposed to different analytical techniques for cell phenotyping and drug efficacy assessment, and conduct an experimental proposal using the design of experiment (DoE) concept. The project will also introduce the drug commercialization process from the perspective of CMC (chemistry, manufacturing, controls) team. You will draft master batch records and raw material risk assessments, documents required for ensuring the drug consistent productivity and quality. This comprehensive project will equip you with practical skills in designing and scaling-up cell differentiation processes, applying advanced cell-based analytical techniques, and preparing documents related to therapeutics safety and regulatory compliance.

Identifying the Best: Competitor Analysis for a Medical Device

biotechnology, business, medical-devices, data-visualization, market-analysis, competitive-analysis

Ariel Seidner

and 1 more

Compare key qualitative and quantitative characteristics of Adipose Tissue Filtering Devices produced by Tiger Aesthetic Medical and its competitors.

Material Science Fellow

By the end of the project, you will develop a PowerPoint presentation that provides an overview of key qualitative and quantitative parameters of a medical device as well as be able to explain these parameters in a way that adds business value and gives a company’s executive team strategic direction regarding a class of products in the reconstruction and aesthetic space. You will also develop skills to present these findings in visually concise and appealing way with the use of plots and graphics. All these skills are critical to any budding entrepreneur or new product development engineer!

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