David Edwards (engineer) | EPFL Graph Search

David A. Edwards (born April 6, 1961) is an American biomedical engineer, and the founder of Sensory Cloud. He was the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University. Edwards designs inhalable medicines, vaccines and victuals. In 2001, Edwards was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for transfer of scientific principles of engineering to industry, including invention and commercial development of a novel, generic aerosol drug-delivery system. Edwards studied chemical engineering, receiving a BS from Michigan Technological University in the field in 1983, and a PhD in 1987 from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Between 1987 and 1995, Edwards held a postdoctoral and lectureship at the Technion in Israel and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, Robert Langer, a professor at MIT, encouraged Edwards to develop an efficient way for inhalers to deliver medicine to the lungs. Edwards joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty as an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1995, where he continued to research ways to make medicine inhalable. In 1997, Science published his study on a new type of inhalable aerosol that efficiently delivered drugs to the lungs. Edwards left academia in 1998 when he and Langer founded Advanced Inhalation Research (AIR); the startup was purchased a year later by Alkermes for $114 million. He returned to academia in 2002, joining the Harvard faculty. Edwards' scientific work in biomedical engineering concerns the research and development of drug delivery platforms for treating infectious diseases in the developing world. He was a founder of Advanced Inhalation Research, now part of Alkermes, Inc., of Pulmatrix, and of Medicine in Need, an international non-governmental organization aimed at developing new drugs and vaccines for diseases of poverty, such as tuberculosis. In 2020, Edwards founded the company Sensory Cloud.

Commande d'un micromoteur MEMS

Sascha Spiegl

Le laboratoire a développé un micromoteur MEMS à très basse consommation. Dans ce cadre, on s’intéressera au développement de l’électronique de commande du moteur en portant une attention particulière à la consommation du système. A cause des caractéristiques du moteur, il faudra également implémenter une commande PWM haute fréquence, haute résolution pour le contrôle du moteur. Un démonstrateur implémentant une commande sans capteur en boucle fermée sera réalisé.

2011

Validation de programmes de calcul des échanges d'air à l'aide de mesures expérimentales

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Claude-Alain Roulet, Raphaël Compagnon

L'aération des bâtiments consomme une qualité d'énergie importante et le laboratoire s'est donc intéressé de près au problème de la ventilation. Il a développé un appareil de mesure de renouvellement d'air par gaz traceur à concentration constante et une soufflante pour la mesure de la perméabilité des bâtiments.

1990