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TOM:UCI Makeathon Set to Harness Cutting-Edge Technology to Design Affordable Solutions for People with Disabilities

  (Irvine, CA, April 25, 2017)  Professional, amateur, and student engineers, designers and innovators will gather at the UC Irvine’s Institute for Design and Manufacturing Innovation in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering this weekend, April 28-30, for TOM:UCI, a three-day technology marathon where participants will work with local people with disabilities to develop solutions More +

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First Annual IDMI Advisory Board Meeting

  October 16 and 17, 2016 marked the first gathering of the Advisory Board Members of the Institute for Design and Manufacturing Innovation (IDMI).  Highly regarded individuals from multiple disciplines around the country met for a casual, informal reception at The Deck on Laguna in Laguna Beach, California. Evening weather was perfect and conversation was lively More +

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Summer STEM Learning Thrives in our Institute

  In September, 2016, IDMI opened its doors to a multitude of youth through a variety of outreach programs, giving students a taste of what it would be like to study engineering at UC Irvine. The FabCAMP has become a summer routine on our campus. “We need to encourage kids to be creators and not just More +

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Base 11 / UCI Summer Engineering Academy

  On August 5, 2016, the UCI Samueli School of Engineering and IDMI hosted an open house celebration for the newly created Base 11 Summer Engineering Academy program. Base 11 is a non-profit outreach organization that was created to unite America’s high-potential, low-resource students with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) opportunities.  Its goal is More +