On Monday evening, inside a rainbow-lit Kresge Auditorium, a capacity crowd whooped and hollered and shook their pom-poms along to one of the most anticipated shows of the year: the final student presentations of 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). Known on campus as “two-double-oh-nine,” the popular fall semester course challenges teams of undergraduates over three months to design, build, and draft a business plan for a product prototype, which they then demo and pitch in front of a live audience, on MIT’s largest stage. This year, students worked in one of…
