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Letter from the Department Head: A Manufacturing Renaissance
the 1950s and ‘60s, through Nam Suh’s establishment of the MIT-Industry Polymer Processing Program in ... the spirit of MIT’s motto, mens et manus. Students are asked to fabricate tools and products in ... department. On the Institute level, MIT President Susan Hockfield has created an interdisciplinary commission ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-manufacturing-renaissancePills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence
MIT engineers designed capsules with biodegradable radio frequency antennas that can reveal when ... on schedule, MIT engineers have designed a pill that can report when it has been swallowed. The new ... maximize their health,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-communicate-stomach-could-improve-medication-adherenceLetter from the Department Head
engineering alumni, including graduates who earned the titles of Vice Admiral in the US Navy and managing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-0Faculty Research: Professor Harry Asada
Engineering Light-Activated Muscles by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Many robotic designs take ... terrain like cheetahs. Photo credit: MIT News Office Now, scientists at MIT and the University of ... Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the group’s design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-harry-asadaMulti-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials ... support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing a technology ... that underpins the future of mobility and autonomous systems: energy storage. MIT’s Martin Bazant, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multi-university-effort-will-advance-materials-define-future-mobilityCombined energy and water system could provide for millions
efficiently using clean-energy resources, a team of researchers from MIT and the University of Hawaii has ... Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. "There was not the extreme ... and his co-authors — Maha Haji, Sasan Ghaemsaidi, and Marco Ferrara of MIT; and A Zachary Trimble of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/combined-energy-and-water-system-could-provide-millionsWelcome to the “most wicked” apprentice program on campus
fellow apprentice Jade Durham. The mold was made using CNC machining. (Aditya Mehrotra/MIT MechE) ... at the MIT Museum. This spring will focus on copper alloys and fabrication of a replica of an 1899 ... sloops, designed by MIT Class of 1870 alumnus Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for wealthy New York Yacht Club ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/welcome-%E2%80%9Cmost-wicked%E2%80%9D-apprentice-program-campus-0Running on Waste Heat
change, thanks to thermoelectric innovators such as MIT’s Gang Chen. Thermoelectric materials convert ... of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, used nanotechnology to ... — including Institute Professor Emeritus Mildred Dresselhaus at MIT — began using nanotechnology to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/running-waste-heatFirst-year students take center stage on Killian Court
On a chilly Monday in May, MIT’s Killian Court was transformed into a festival of fun. Over 1,200 ... iconic location so early in their time at MIT was a surreal experience. “It was such a symbolic setting. ... realize the capacity you have as an MIT student to create something that could have an impact on the world ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-year-students-take-center-stage-killian-courtEngineers design sutures that can deliver drugs or sense inflammation
Inspired by sutures developed thousands of years ago, MIT engineers have designed “smart” sutures ... a modern twist, the MIT team coated the sutures with hydrogels that can be embedded with sensors, drugs, or ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-sutures-can-deliver-drugs-or-sense-inflammationMechE Alumna Catches Rare Glimpse of Marine Life
renowned MIT engineer Harold “Doc” Edgerton, the namesake of MIT’s Edgerton Center. A visionary in ... will be on display at MIT's Wiesner Art Gallery starting Jan. 4, 2015. Young's Kickstarter ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-alumna-catches-rare-glimpse-marine-lifeVisual Thinking for Engineers
early-stage design. “My pitch is for visual thinking,” she explains. “Students come to MIT and they are very ... of mechanical engineering and engineering systems who directs MIT's Ideation Lab, conducted ... Mariello Mallinson | Mechanical engineering yellow Culture Education MCYANG@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/visual-thinking-engineersExploring Surfaces of Nanomaterials
been at MIT, the Electrochemical Energy Laboratory she directs has grown “to one with a research team ... http://spectrum.mit.edu/articles/features/exploring-surfaces-of-nanomaterials/. Monday, December 5, 2011 sadlers yellow Collaboration shaohorn@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-surfaces-nanomaterialsSlow-Motion Science and the Art of Capturing Marine Life
New MIT exhibit features high-speed underwater photography by former aquanaut Grace Young (SB ’14) ... of the MIT and greater Boston communities. “I heard about Grace’s adventures and I’ve been following ... her blog ever since,” said John Currier, an MIT philanthropic adviser. “I’m excited to see her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/slow-motion-science-and-art-capturing-marine-lifeStudent Spotlight: Spencer Wilson (Candidate SB ’15)
students to start the famously hands-on Course 2 program in mechanical engineering at MIT with little ... a scientific point of view…. A lot of people discredit learning those ideas formally, but MIT does a really ... still building on those projects. For his senior thesis, he’s working at MIT’s Center for Bits and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-spencer-wilson-candidate-sb-%E2%80%9915Lallit Anand selected for ASME Drucker Medal
Mechanical Engineering yellow anand@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lallit-anand-selected-asme-drucker-medalInnovation at the Interfaces
interface between mechanical engineering and biology. The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering was at ... http://meche.mit.edu/people/cloud. Thank you, as always, for your continued support of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovation-interfacesStudy shows forward osmosis desalination not energy efficient
In a recent study published in the Journal of Membrane Science, MIT professor John Lienhard and ... Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-shows-forward-osmosis-desalination-not-energy-efficientMorphable surfaces could cut air resistance
caused by air resistance in half. Now researchers at MIT are aiming to harness that same effect to reduce ... a surface whose smoothness can be altered, literally, on the fly — and that’s what the MIT team has ... developed. The new work is described in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials by MIT’s Pedro Reis and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistance‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness
at MIT. “That’s pretty much a description of what the ankle is. It’s nowhere near a simple joint from ... Lee, Patrick Ho, and Hermano Krebs from MIT and Mohammad Rastgaar Aagaah from Michigan Technological ... University. A robotic walking coach Hogan and Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%98anklebot%E2%80%99-helps-determine-ankle-stiffness