Amy B. Smith

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Amy Smith is a graduate student at MIT specializing in Engineering Design for Developing Countries.

Her designs include the screenless hammer mill and the phase-change incubator, and she is also involved with the application of the Malian peanut sheller in Africa.[link] She also helped start the MIT IDEAS Competition.

Awards

Collegiate Inventors Award, 1999 (for the phase-change incubator)

First woman to win the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, in 2000.

MacArthur Fellowship (aka genius award), 2004-2009.

[Amy's Home Page]
[Amy Smith - 2000 Student Prize Winner] Describes some other inventions (including a technology for diagnosing tuberculosis, and a clamp to regulate intravenous drips), as at Feb. 2000.
[Necessity Is the Mother of Invention] - New York Times article.
[A MacGyver for the Third World] - Wired article
[Design that Matters] article on an MIT website
[MIT Report: Amy Smith in Ghana] Full Belly Blog entry, 2/2/2006

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