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Karina Pikhart (SB ’09)
by Alissa Mallinson
Courtesy of ProxTalker
The beginnings of 6dot Innovations, an assistive technology company started by MechE alumna Karina Pikhart (SB ’09), take us...
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Nate Ball (SB ’05, SM ’07) and Bryan Schmid (SB ’03, SM ’05)
Nate Ball
Bryan Schmid
by Alissa Mallinson
MechE alumni Nate Ball (SB ’05, SM ’07) and Bryan Schmid (SB ’03, SM ’05)...
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by Alissa Mallinson
Photo credit: Ted Perkins
Recent MechE graduate Kevin Rustagi (SB ’11) is a serial entrepreneur. Well, perhaps not quite yet, but he will be. His eyes light up when he talks...
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Benge Ambrogi (SM ‘87), Pete Mansfield (PhD ’90), Mick Mountz (SB ‘87), Matt Verminski (SM ‘98), and Pete Wurman (SB ‘87)
by Alissa Mallinson
Courtesy of Kiva Systems
When a handful of MIT...
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Dave Smith (SM ’11)
Courtesy of LiquiGlide
Everyone has probably heard of LiquiGlide by now. Almost every media channel has reported on the company’s star product or published the now...
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Efficiency Innovation for Water Purification
From left to right: Karim Chehayeb, Gregory Thiel, Steven Lam, Prakash Narayan Govindan, Max St. John, Ronan McGovern,and Professor John Lienhard...
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by Alissa Mallinson
Innovation and creativity are concepts that imbue everything we do in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. They’re woven into every lab, every experiment, every faculty...
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STE@M students gather around Professors Hosoi and Slocum, and Patagonia’s O’Hara, as well as Francisco Goya (holding MIT penant) at Goya Windsurfing.
Courtesy of STE@M
by Alissa...
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Melinda Hale
Allison Yost
by Alissa Mallinson
Entrepreneurs abound in MechE, but they couldn’t do it without the MIT entrepreneurial community, comprising an army of faculty, students...
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2013 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner
by Stephanie Martinovich, Lemelson-MIT Program
Photo credit: Tony Pulsone
PhD candidate Nikolai Begg (SM ‘11) grew up in a box of LEGO® bricks and hasn’t...
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A Modern-Day Inventor
by Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office
Photo credit: Allegra Boverman
As a child, Paul Lazarescu (SB ‘13) dreamed of becoming an inventor.
“I always loved building things,”...
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Thinking Outside the Box Leads to Surface Innovations
By Alissa Mallinson
Photo credit: Tony Pulsone
Associate Professor Kripa Varanasi’s research lab became a sudden media sensation this...
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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
A version of this quote, originally penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in “The Case-...
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From the Fukushima tsunami disaster to the Deep Water Horizon oil spill, environmental disasters exact all-too-memorable damage to coastal communities. Imagine if it was possible to predict the exact...
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Offshore wind could provide abundant electricity — but as with solar energy, this power supply can be intermittent and unpredictable. But a new approach from researchers at MIT could mitigate that...
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Fifty-five million years ago, the Earth was ice-less. Winters were balmy. Palm trees flourished all the way to the poles. As evidenced by fossils, crocodiles and broad-leaved, water-loving plants...
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As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, biogeochemical modeler Michael (Mick) Follows investigates the enormous role phytoplankton play in the ocean...
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President Barack Obama on Friday presented MIT professors Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and Robert Langer with the nation’s highest honors for scientific discovery and invention. They were among 22 eminent...
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There’s a tricky chemical trade-off at work in our skies. As greenhouse gases provide their famous warming effect to Earth’s surface, aerosol pollution in the atmosphere actually partly counteracts...
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The late MIT Professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton enchanted the world with his high-speed flash photography, which could “freeze time” down to the millionth of a second — as a bullet tore through a banana...