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Professor
John Hart
Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP); Faculty Chair, Design and Manufacturing Facilities
Interests
- Manufacturing
- Materials
- Mechanical design and automation
Professor Hart News + Media
Velcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination
MIT engineers, including Professor John Hart have designed a food sensor from an array of silk microneedles that pierces through plastic packaging to sample food for signs of spoilage and bacterial contamination.
“Electroadhesive” stamp picks up and puts down microscopic structures
Professor John Hart has developed a miniature “electroadhesive” stamp that can pick up and place down microscopic objects. The new technique could enable assembly of circuit boards with minute components.
Engineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces
MIT engineers including Professor John Hart and Professor Neville Hogan have designed 3-D-printed mesh materials whose flexibility and toughness emulates and supports softer tissues such as muscles and tendons.
Faculty Details
Education
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2000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
B.S.E -
2002
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
S.M. -
2006
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Manufacturing
- Materials
- Machine design and automation
- Surface engineering
- Data science
- Mechanochemistry
Online Data
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations? user=V7ZsMrMAAAAJ&hl=en
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=768738
Honors + Awards
- 2018 MIT Keenan Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education
- 2017 MIT Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching in Mechanical Engineering
- 2014 3M Nontenured Faculty Award
- 2014 Best Poster Award, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting
- 2013 Mitsui Career Development Chair, MIT
- 2013 Best Paper Award in Compliant Mechanisms, 37th ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference
- 2012 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
- 2012 1938E Award, University of Michigan College of Engineering
- 2012 Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Office of Naval Research
- 2011 Robert M. Caddell Award in Manufacturing, University of Michigan
- 2011 Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- 2010 Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering
- 2010 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers
- 2010 Frontiers of Engineering Attendee, National Academy of Engineering
- 2009 Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2009 R&D100 Award (Spin-Grower Layer-by-Layer Assembly System)
- 2008 Finalist, MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize
- 2008 Young Faculty Award (YFA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- 2008 R&D100 Award (SabreTube Desktop Thermal Processing System)
- 2008 Holcim Next Generation Award for Sustainable Construction
- 2006 MIT Senturia Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Micro/Nanosystems
- 2002 Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship
- 2000 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Memberships
- Materials Research Society (MRS)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- American Physical Society (APS)
Professional Service
- 2020-22, Co-Chair, ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF)
- 2017, Co-Chair, International Workshop on Nucleation and Growth Mechanisms of Atomically-Thin Nanomaterials
- 2015, Program Committee and Advisory Committee, ASME Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Conference
- 2014-Present, Editorial Board, Carbon
- 2014, Organizing Committee, ASME Workshop on Scalable Nanomanufacturing, Benchmarks, Standards, and Metrics
- 2013-2019, Organizing Committee and Scientific Advisory Committee, International Workshop on Nucleation and Growth Mechanisms of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
- 2013, Technical Program Chair, NSF Workshop on Nano- and Micromanufacturing
- 2007-Present, Proposal Reviews for NSF, DOE, AFOSR, and others
MIT Service
- 2017-Present, Director, MIT Center for Additive and Digital Advanced Production Technologies
- 2017-Present, Director, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity
- 2017-Present, Faculty Chair, MechE Design and Manufacturing Facilities
- 2015-17, MechE General Faculty Search Committee
- 2014-Present, Coordinator, LMP Seminar Series
- 2014-15, MechE Website Design Committee
- 2012-13, MechE Graduate Admissions Committee
Teaching
- Manufacturing Processes and Systems (2.008, MIT)
- Additive Manufacturing (2.S981/2.S998, MIT)
- Nanomanufacturing
- Ph.D. Research Process
Publications
- Please refer to Google Scholar or the Mechanosynthesis Group Webpage (links above)
Patents
- Please refer to Google Scholar or the Mechanosynthesis Group Webpage (links above)