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Engineering Light-Activated Muscles
by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office
Many robotic designs take nature as their muse: sticking to walls like geckos, swimming through water like tuna, sprinting...
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Visualizing Sneaky Tumor Cells
Professor Roger Kamm and PhD candidate Ioannis Zervantonakis.
Photo Credit: Tony Pulsone
by Alissa Mallinson
Not many people have watched as a single...
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In a New Microchip, Cells Separate by Rolling Away
Associate Professor Rohit Karnik in his lab.
Karnik’s new microfluidic device isolates target cells (in pink) from the rest of the flow...
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A Lifetime of Bioengineering Achievement
by Alissa Mallinson
Photo credit: Tony Pulsone
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering C. Forbes Dewey Jr. first came to MIT’s...
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A Lifetime of Biomaterials Engineering Achievement
by Alissa Mallinson
Professor Ioannis V. YannasPhoto courtesy of Professor Yannas
In 1969, Professor Ioannis V. Yannas was an expert on...
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The Micro Mass Spectrometer
by Alissa Mallinson
Photo credit: Tony Pulsone
Professor Ian W. Hunter sat down with us recently to discuss one of his newest inventions, a miniature (“micro”)...
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Oceans at MIT's Genevieve Wanucha sat down with Chiang C. Mei, Ford Professor Emeritus of Engineering in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, to ask for his perspective on the...
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Three MIT researchers were named Marine Microbiology Initiative investigators on Monday by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation — an honor that includes funding for pioneering research in the field...
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Each winter, wide swaths of the Arctic Ocean freeze to form sheets of sea ice that spread over millions of square miles. This ice acts as a massive sun visor for the Earth, reflecting solar radiation...
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Anna Mikusheva receives Elaine Bennett Research PrizePrize recognizes outstanding young women in economics
Anna Mikusheva, the Castle Krob Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, has...
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The MIT Sea Grant College Program announces that nominations are now open for the Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization. All non-tenured MIT faculty members from any Institute department are...
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Photos: M. Scott Brauer and Stuart Darsch
This is part of an occasional series of features profiling academic departments at MIT.
"This is a department with a very long history,” says Andrew...
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PhD Student Wins First Place for 3D Modeling Tools
This past March at the South by Southwest Festival’s Accelerator-Innovative Web Track competition, two MIT students—Tom Milnes, MechE PhD...
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American Bureau of Shipping Department Service Award (Outstanding Service to M.E. Department)
Guangtao Zhang, Yazan Z. AlNahhas
Lockheed Martin Prize (Outstanding Sophomore in Mechanical &...
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We are pleased to introduce two new faculty members, Mark Thomas and Amos Winter. Mechanical Engineering is in an exciting period of faculty renewal, with four faculty searches this year in...
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RJ Scaringe, CEO, Rivian
RJ Scaringe (Photo: Courtesy of Rivian)
When most people first hear that alum RJ Scaringe (SM ‘07, PhD ‘09) has started a new car company, they are stunned. Why focus...
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Associate Professor Martin L. Culpepper
Professor Martin Culpepper (Photo credit: Tony Pulsone)
Associate Professor Martin L. Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then...
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“Core engineering principles can be brought to bear to invent and improve manufacturing processes, but the ever-changing commercial demands of manufacturing also create opportunities to expand...
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Most courses don’t end in a death test, but Course 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design isn’t a typical course, even for mechanical engineering.
One of the last undergraduate courses mechanical...
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Professor Nick Fang Explores Etching at the Nanoscale
Using electrochemical and optical processes, programmable metamaterials, composed of functional micro- and nanostructures, are...