ESP Biography



SAURABH KWATRA RESOLVE, Hands-on Engineering BY Design trainer



Major: Not available.

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: Not available.

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

Dr Saurabh Kwatra Resolve is an inventive-step amplifier and experiential STEM trainer. He holds a master’s in innovative design technology from Ukraine and a D.Sc. in innovation management. He owns and runs Trimmed Innovations, which provides free education resources that focus on low-cost, lean engineering products and processes. Trimmed Innovations was amongst Exhibitors showcased in Diversity & Inclusion conference 2023, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK.

Saurabh is also a member of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering’s Ambassadors Network Council.

As part of MIT Community at large, he is constantly involved as a Mentor /SME / Reviewer / Facilitator / Tutor in several programs of MIT.

His two projects, Engineering by Design and Crowd Adaptive Mask, are included in the MIT Innovation Initiative. The latter was also selected and presented as a poster during NATO Military Medicine Centre of Excellence’s Force Health Protection Event in 2021. He gave a presentation on a sound sleep surveillance system as a speaker at the same event in Munich in 2022.

Saurabh makes hands-on engineering BY Design versatile, scale-able in complexity, understandable (as distinct from making it familiar with) and hence accessible, useful & usable across a wide spectrum of levels. In his classes, activities to transform an idea and a design into a tangible product are carried out, with ample joy on students’ faces!



Past Classes

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E15637: StudentS' STEM (S3) in HSSP Summer 2023 (Jul. 09, 2023)
StudentS' STEM or S3 is an approach empowering students. You choose a technical system (product or process or any combination) to be analyzed or synthesized. Can be from your surroundings, previous experiences, junkyard collected stuff, or just randomly decided out of blue!. So it is clearly the other way round! To excite & encourage you to think far and wide, some previous case studies are shown. They include thermal power exchange in kitchen while using heat of tea being brewed to warm milk; converting existing mattresses to extra-firm ones using local materials; replacing symmetrically round weights by rectangular ones in gym for comfort and safety; mechanical waves or mechanics' waves (wave equation for wave pulse on string derived from tension and linear density experimentally). Along with, Conservative Design methodology is taught to facilitate building of low-cost prototypes, wherever possible.