Andrew Heafitz

Andrew Heafitz is an American inventor. He is the VP of product development at Terrafugia, a company developing a flying car.

Early life and education

Heaftiz grew up in Newton, Massachusetts[1][2] and attended Newton South High School.[3][4][5] He was awarded his first patent when he was 19[6] for a camera shutter. He was the founder of TacShot, a rocket-propelled camera capable of being quickly launched and deployed to photograph an area from overhead.[7][8][9]

Heafitz holds a SB and MS (2000) from MIT.[10]

Awards and honors

In 2003, he was recognized on the MIT Technology Review's TR100 list.[11]

He received the MIT Lemelson Student Inventor prize in 2002.[12]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=andrew-heafitz-westinghouse-model-rockets
  2. ↑ http://web.mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/n-press-02SP.html
  3. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19870407&id=EOcrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lwUGAAAAIBAJ&pg=5536,4636745
  4. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19870414&id=GrUtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6HEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4589,3733694
  5. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/1987-11-21/news/vw-5685_1_student-attitudes
  6. ↑ http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=292
  7. ↑ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=andrew-heafitz-westinghouse-model-rockets&page=2
  8. ↑ http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2004/03/01/newscolumn4.html?page=all
  9. ↑ http://www.zdnet.com/news/student-powers-to-30k-prize/121218
  10. ↑ "Invented inexpensive rocket-based surveillance systems". Technology Review. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  11. ↑ "Invented inexpensive rocket-based surveillance systems". Technology Review. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  12. ↑ "2002 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 13 January 2012.