{"id":84944,"date":"2022-06-20T13:21:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T10:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/turning-a-dream-into-reality\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T10:21:32","slug":"turning-a-dream-into-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/turning-a-dream-into-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning a Dream into Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Technion \u2013 Israel Institute of Technology inaugurates the Mehoudar Center for Inventors \u2013 a center for creative engineering design. The center will encourage inventors from all over the country, school children, university students, and faculty members to dream and imagine. Most importantly, the center will provide them with the necessary engineering tools for building and testing prototypes – with the assistance of a highly skilled technical team and the resources to plan and execute their designs. The Mehoudar Center for Inventors will also be home for cross-faculty collaborations, for example the development of multidisciplinary final projects.<\/p>\n

The center is named in honor of Technion graduate Raphael (Rafi) Mehoudar, graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion (1966) and the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the Technion (2014). On Israel’s 67th Independence Day (2015), Mehoudar was given the honor of being selected as one of the torchbearers, in acknowledgement of his contribution as \u201ca successful, world-renowned engineer and entrepreneur who developed the drip irrigation technology that became an international success.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mehoudar\u2019s children, Yael and Eyal, at the inauguration ceremony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Technion President Professor Uri Sivan<\/strong> stated that “The Mehoudar Center for Inventors offers a new and innovative approach to the challenge of maintaining and fostering the spirit of ingenuity in our students, faculty, high school students, and anybody interested in building and testing a prototype. The center will allow its users to transform their creative ideas and innovations into models and prototypes using its advanced new facilities, as well as experienced mentors. A hands-on approach will provide them with access to a productive space to explore and test their ideas and research before taking them to scale. We are confident that this approach will greatly inspire current and future creators to turn their inventions into practical technologies and follow the example set by Rafi and others.”<\/p>\n