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Whether you’re planning to ride a horse or a motorcycle, compete in swimming or wrestling, do some yoga or sell some veggies, organize your workshop or calm an elderly relative, MIT’s mechanical...
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Remembering Professor Emeritus Stephen Crandall
Professor Stephen Crandall Photo courtesy of MechE
Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random...
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John Hart, Associate Professor
During his six years at the University of Michigan, Associate Professor John Hart established a leading research group focused on creating new manufacturing...
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Martin Culpepper, Full Professor
Professor Martin Culpepper is a widely respected leading authority in the field of precision engineering. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, and...
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“Our top priority has always been preparing MechE students to go forth and become inventors, innovators, and engineering leaders.”
Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering...
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Have you ever wondered how flying insects survive in the rain? With a weight approximately 50 times that of a mosquito, a raindrop has a considerable force in comparison, similar in ratio to a...
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Photo Credit: Tony Pulsone
For Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers (SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73), engineering is all about having fun. But it wasn’t always that way.
As a high school student from a...
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2.678 students present their final projects, autonomous robotics cars, which have to follow an obstacle course. Photo credit: Tony Pulsone
If you had to pick one word to describe the Department of...
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Fog-harvesting system developed by MIT and Chilean researchers could provide potable water for the world’s driest regions.
By David Chandler, MIT News Office
Photo courtesy of researchers.
In...
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Droplets Break a Theoretical Time Barrier on Bouncing
By David Chandler, MIT News Office
Those who study hydrophobic materials — water-shedding surfaces such as those found in nature and created...
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Making Silicon Devices Responsive to Infrared Light
Photo Credit: Dr. Mark Winkler
by David Chandler, MIT News Office
Researchers have tried a variety of methods to develop detectors that are...
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By Alissa Mallinson
The online learning revolution isn’t the first time that the Department of Mechanical Engineering – nor the Institute as a whole for that matter – has been at the forefront...
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Photo Credit: John Freidah
By Alissa Mallinson
Six years ago, Guangtao (Taotao) Zhang had just moved to the US from China during her junior year of high school, and she didn’t speak a word of...
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Photo Credit: Tony Pulsone
It is not unusual for some undergraduate students to start the famously hands-on Course 2 program in mechanical engineering at MIT with little machine experience.
But not...
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Photo credit: Tony Pulsone
Professor David Gossard (PhD ’75) has been a faculty member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering since he earned his PhD here in 1975, having previously earned...
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Four MIT seniors — Kate Koch, Colleen Loynachan, Kirin Sinha, and Grace Young — are among 34 new winners nationwide of prestigious Marshall Scholarships, which support two years of graduate study in...
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Drugs delivered by nanoparticles hold promise for targeted treatment of many diseases, including cancer. However, the particles have to be injected into patients, which has limited their usefulness...
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Those who study hydrophobic materials — water-shedding surfaces such as those found in nature and created in the laboratory — are familiar with a theoretical limit on the time it takes for a water...
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Lithium-air batteries have become a hot research area in recent years: They hold the promise of drastically increasing power per battery weight, which could lead, for example, to electric cars with a...
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When an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011, knocking out emergency power supplies, crews sprayed seawater on the reactors to cool them — to no avail.
One...