MechE News

Kevin Cedrone Leads Winning Team in 2013 MIT IDEAS Global Challenge - May 09, 2013

MechE PhD Candidate Kevin Cedrone led one of two top winning teams in this year's MIT IDEAS Global Challenge.

Tomorrow begins the renowned annual 2.007 Robotics Competition at Johnson Ice Rink.

With an impressive array of some of the best gadget and product developments Mechanical Engineering students have to offer, this year’s de Florez Competition, which took place this past Friday, April 26, made good on its namesake as always.

2.01x Now Open on edX, Starts April 15 - Apr 10, 2013

We’re pleased to announce that the first MIT MechE course on the edX platform is now open for enrollment. 2.01x: Elements of Structure is an online version of 2.01, the introductory-level solid mechanics class in our new flexible 2A program. Everyone is welcome to register for 2.01x on the edX web site (https://www.edx.org/courses).

Mechanical engineering is a crossroad between almost as many science and engineering fields as you can think of, so it comes as no surprise that MechE courses reflect that. Course 2.737: Mechatronics, which teaches mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and control, is a great example of our cross-disciplinary program. Through a series of lectures and hands-on labs, students learn elements of modeling, control, instrumentation, analog electronics, digital logic, and real-time implementation.

We are pleased to announce that MechE PhD candidate Nikolai Begg (advisor: Professor Alexander Slocum) was announced this week as the 2013 winner of the prestigious $30K Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his suite of innovative medical device inventions.

Dr. Danielle Zurovcik (SM ’07, PhD ’11) started WiCare (Worldwide Innovative Healthcare Inc) with the goal of bringing high-quality medical devices to low-income countries. Now, the company’s first product, the Wound-Pump, a negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) pump, has been awarded an Innovation Award from the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech).

Congratulations to MechE Professor Emeritus Ronald Probstein, who was recently awarded with the 2013 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Post-doctoral associate Anurag Bajpayee, a member of Professor Gang Chen’s lab, had one of the top 10 world-changing ideas in 2012, according to Scientific American. Bajpayee’s work as a PhD student at MIT inspired his idea of directional solvent extraction, or molecular desalination as he likes to call it, for highly contaminated waters, such as those from unconventional oil and gas wells.

Fall/Winter Newsletter Hot off the Press! - Dec 13, 2012

Education and research innovations in mechanical engineering are increasingly occurring at the interfaces of our disciplines. This is true not only within our department but also between MechE and other broad disciplines, such as materials science, chemistry, and electrical engineering. This issue of MechE Connects focuses on the exciting advances being made in bioengineering – the interface between mechanical engineering and biology.