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Mats Howard Cooper
Mats Cooper
Doctoral Candidate in Engineering
(1/11) Teaching Assistantships Completed:
2.005 / 2.006 sequence in Thermal Fluids Engineering (2003-2004)
<A HREF="https://web.mit.edu/acadinfo/sse/evaluations/S04/c2/s2_006.html">https://web.mit.edu/acadinfo/sse/evaluations/S04/c2/s2_006.html (MIT certificates required)</A>
BE.342 / BE.442 Molecular Structure of Biological Materials (2005)
<A HREF="https://web.mit.edu/acadinfo/sse/evaluations/F05/cBE/sBE_442.html">https://web.mit.edu/acadinfo/sse/evaluations/F05/cBE/sBE_442.html (MIT certificates required)</A>
(2/11) Community Outreach:
<A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/seed/">SEED Academy</A> - Saturday Engineering Enrichment and Discovery Academy. (2006)
<A HREF="http://www.beaconacademy.org/">Beacon Academy</A> – Academics, Character, Opportunity. (2005-2006)
(3/11) Research Funding generously provided by:
(2002-2003) Department of Mechanical Engineering <A HREF="http://www-me.mit.edu/">http://www-me.mit.edu/</A>
(2004-2005) Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/deshpandecenter/">http://web.mit.edu/deshpandecenter/</A>
(2005) ROHM of Japan <A HREF="http://www.rohm.com/products/index.html">http://www.rohm.com/products/index.html</A>
(4/11) Public Presentations:
(2004) MIT <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/game/www/seminars/2004/fall/">Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers</A>
(2003) <A HREF="http://www.ntcri.gov.tw/Files/MatchNews/TALENET%202003-2004-1.doc">Talente</A> exhibition Munich Germany.
(5/11) Business Plan Contest Submissions:
(2002) <A HREF="http://50k.mit.edu/docs/MIT$1KEntrantReport.pdf">Chemicube</A> in the $1K Entrepreneurship Competition.
(2003) <A HREF="http://50k.mit.edu/alumni/2003_50k_summaries.php">Chemicube</A> in the $50K Entrepreneurship Competition.
<A HREF="http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2003/03/17/story7.html">Mass High Tech </A>News Coverage of the Chemicube (2003)
(6/11) Research Contributions for <A HREF="http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/%7Ethies">William Thies</A>:
<A HREF="http://cag.csail.mit.edu/commit/papers/06/thies-dna06.pdf">Abstraction
Layers for Scalable Microfluidic Biocomputers</A>.
William Thies,
John Paul Urbanski, Todd Thorsen and Saman Amarasinghe.
Proceedings
of the 12th International Meeting on DNA Computing (DNA 2006).
Seoul, Korea, June, 2006.
<A HREF="http://cag.csail.mit.edu/commit/papers/04/thies-asploswild04.pdf">Programmable
Microfluidics</A>.
William Thies, J.P. Urbanski, Mats Cooper,
David Wentzlaff, Todd Thorsen, and Saman Amarasinghe.
<A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/skeckler/wild04/">ASPLOS
Wild and Crazy Ideas Session. </A>
Boston, MA, October, 2004.
<A HREF="http://cag.csail.mit.edu/commit/papers/04/thies-rqe-slides.pdf">Towards
Programmable Microfluidics</A>.
William Thies, Research
Qualifying Examination, MIT EECS, April, 2004.
(7/11) Support for Prof. <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/thorsen/www/">Todd Thorsen</A>:
<A HREF="http://www.njnano.org/pasi/event/talks/thorsen2.pdf">Fabricating Microfluidic Devices for High-Density Biological Assays</A>. Panamerican Advanced Studies Institute: Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems; San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina (2004)
<A HREF="http://cag.csail.mit.edu/commit/papers/06/urbanski-loc06.pdf">Digital
Microfluidics Using Soft Lithography</A>.
John Paul Urbanski,
William Thies, Christopher Rhodes, Saman Amarasinghe and Todd
Thorsen.
Lab on a Chip 2006, 6(1), 96-104.
J.P. Urbanski <A HREF="https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/32373/1/61516280.pdf">Masters Thesis</A> (2004)
(8/11) Patent Filings:
<A HREF="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=thorsen.IN.&s2=cooper.IN.&OS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper&RS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper">20060088449</A> <A HREF="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=thorsen.IN.&s2=cooper.IN.&OS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper&RS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper">Systems and methods for transferring a fluid sample </A>
<A HREF="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=thorsen.IN.&s2=cooper.IN.&OS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper&RS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper">20050277125</A> <A HREF="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=thorsen.IN.&s2=cooper.IN.&OS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper&RS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper">High-density reaction chambers and methods of use</A>
My inventors page at <A HREF="http://www.freshpatents.com/Mats-Cooper-Chicago-invdirc.php">FreshPatents.com</A>
(9/11) Student Government:
(2004-2006) <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/committees/president/Rosters/intellprop.pdf">Roster</A> for Graduate Student Council <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/gsc/www/about/reps/">Institute Committee on Intellectual Property.</A>
Graduate Student Council General Council Meeting <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/gsc/www/about/reps/gscreps/GCM-attendance.pdf">Attendance.</A>
Secretary: Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers (2005-2006) as reported in the <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/game/www/resources/game_final_report_2004_2005.pdf">Annual Report</A> and <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/game/www/newsletter/2005.fall.newsletter.pdf">Newsletter.</A>
Social Chair: Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers (2004-2005) as reported in the <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/game/www/newsletter/2004.spring.newsletter.pdf">Newsletter</A>.
Social Chair: Sidney Pacific (2003-2004) as reported in the <A HREF="http://s-p.mit.edu/docs/newsletter_2003_09.pdf">Sidney Pacific Newsletter </A>and house meeting <A HREF="http://s-p.mit.edu/government/house_docs/docs/housemtg_minutes_20031007.doc">minutes</A>.
Sidney Pacific <A HREF="http://s-p.mit.edu/committees.php?comm_name=sp-brunch-chair">Brunch helper</A>
(2005) <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/scuba-club/www/Membership.html">MIT Scuba Club.</A>
(10/11) Research pics:
<A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/mhc/Public/2.744/MatsCooperClock.ppt">2.744 Clock</A> and <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/mhc/Public/2.744/matsCooperSolidModel/">Solidworks parts</A> for a <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/mhc/Public/2.744/MatsCooperUserNeeds/">mobile PDA stethoscope</A>
(2005) Jess Vey's writeup on page 10 of the <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/gsc/www/news-events/gsn/2005_12_december/GSN2005-12-web.pdf">Graduate Student News</A>
(2003) Photographer and Web Publisher: <A HREF="http://www.media.mit.edu/~jpbonsen/Rndm-Pix.htm">Joost Bonsen</A>
(11/11) 20th century projects:
(2000) Jitter compensation control, beam calibration, beam setup and alignment for the Artificial Star 3 Gravity Probe B project at Stanford as detailed in the <A HREF="http://stuff.mit.edu/people/eba2/dissertation.PDF">doctoral thesis</A> of <A HREF="http://www.mit.edu/people/eba2/index.html">Ted Acworth</A>.
(2000) Graduate study with the <A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/group/AIM/index.html">Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at Stanford</A>
<A HREF="http://patrifriedman.com/">Patri Friedman </A>is in this category because we haven't done any 21st century projects yet.
(1999) First-place award of the <A HREF="http://www.hmc.edu/admin/colrel/greensheet/gs3_31_99.html">Pacific Southwest Section of the American Society for Engineering Education</A> (ASEE/PSW) in the section's Undergraduate Engineering Design Competition goes to my Harvey Mudd team.
(1994) Diploma - Geneva Community High School via the <A HREF="http://static.namesdatabase.com/schools/IL/Geneva/GenevaCommunityHighSchool.html">Names Database.</A>
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