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Healing with hydrogels
children with limited motor skills inspired Yuk to apply to MIT for graduate school to build robots for use ... in rehabilitation. Shortly after being accepted into MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, ... Inspired by personal tragedy, graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk used his background in soft materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/healing-hydrogelsDaniel Hastings and Maria Yang appointed associate deans of engineering
MIT community as a graduate student in 1976, after receiving his bachelor’s degree from Oxford ... University. He received his MS (1978) and PhD (1980) degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. He ... Academy of Engineering. Maria Yang Yang graduated from MIT with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/daniel-hastings-and-maria-yang-appointed-associate-deans-engineeringMIT community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2026
to engineering research, practice, and education. Seven MIT researchers are among the 130 new members ... Twelve additional MIT alumni were also elected as new members. One of the highest professional ... The seven MIT electees this year include: Moungi Gabriel Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-community-members-elected-national-academy-engineering-2026Five MIT students named 2020 Rhodes Scholars
Scholarship for Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine. The MIT students were supported by MIT’s Office of ... in the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and an independent research project on ... Future Project. On campus, she founded and directs the MIT Climate Action Team, which works to organize ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-students-named-2020-rhodes-scholarsGiving early-career women in mechanical engineering the tools to succeed in academia
MIT’s campus. They all come from different backgrounds — one person studies human-robot interaction at ... Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. But they all have one thing in common: They are all female graduate students ... Mechanical Engineering Workshop hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program, which is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-early-career-women-mechanical-engineering-tools-succeed-academiaCleaning Water Without the Grid
“detective work.” That’s what he, MIT PhD candidate Natasha Wright, and their fellow researchers did for two ... MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, but he describes one of the most important aspects of his job as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-water-without-gridMeet the MITAA President: Stephen P. DeFalco ’83, SM ’88
alums—events such as the MIT Women’s Conference. Our graduate school alumni population has also been growing, ... Attending MIT was a life-changing experience, he says, and that’s why his goal as the incoming president of ... the MIT Alumni Association is to ensure that the MITAA helps the Institute change lives of those in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-mitaa-president-stephen-p-defalco-%E2%80%9983-sm-%E2%80%9988MIT engineers introduce the Oreometer
before putting the second wafer on top,” says Crystal Owens, an MIT mechanical engineering PhD candidate ... stressed. MIT engineers have now subjected the sandwich cookie to rigorous materials tests to get to the ... which turns out to be really hard,” says Max Fan, an undergraduate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-introduce-oreometerMIT engineers devise technology to prevent fouling in photobioreactors for CO2 capture
Materials, in a paper by recent MIT graduate Victor Leon PhD ’23, professor of mechanical engineering Kripa ... every couple of weeks. MIT researchers have come up with a simple and inexpensive technology that could ... forward.” The study was supported by energy company Eni S.p.A., through the MIT Energy Initiative. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-devise-technology-prevent-fouling-photobioreactors-co2-captureTo design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays
author and MIT postdoc Xinyu Mao PhD ’24. “People can choose a parameter regime of the mobula ray so they ... MIT engineers have found that one filter feeder has evolved to sift food in ways that could improve ... ray’s gills. The MIT team has shown that the dimensions of these plates may allow for incoming plankton ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-better-water-filters-mit-engineers-look-manta-raysMIT-derived algorithm helps forecast the frequency of extreme weather
director of the Center for Ocean Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. ... 1024_Predicting-Extremes-01_0-1.jpg A new prediction method fueled by an MIT-derived algorithm helps forecast frequency of extreme ... in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. The study’s MIT co-authors include postdoc ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-derived-algorithm-helps-forecast-frequency-extreme-weatherMIT Blackjack Team Shares Tips, Stories
of the MIT Blackjack Team, from left: Vipul Bhushan SM ’93, Arnout Eikeboom PhD ’94, and John Chang ... Former members of the MIT Blackjack Team—“the team that proved that brains can, in fact, beat the ... house,” as Jon Hirschtick ’83, SM ’83 says—reunited at MIT Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-blackjack-team-shares-tips-storiesDeveloping community around design
cross-disciplinary design work across MIT. The 14 graduate students enrolled as MAD’s inaugural cohort of design ... When the creation of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) — a major interdisciplinary ... center housed in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) — was announced last spring, it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-community-around-designCharlotte Minsky and Lyndie Mitchell Zollinger named 2020 Gates Cambridge Scholars
a PhD in planetary science. Regarding Minsky's work on the MIT and Slavery project, Professor Anne ... Zollinger will graduate from MIT with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, and then pursue ... MIT seniors Charlotte Minsky and Lyndie Mitchell Zollinger have won the prestigious Gates ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/charlotte-minsky-and-lyndie-mitchell-zollinger-named-2020-gates-cambridge-scholarsFirst-ever MIT Maker Faire attracts nearly 3,000 attendees to campus
attendees ascended upon the North Court of MIT campus for the first-ever MIT Mini Maker Faire. A celebration ... than half of these were MIT affiliates, while the rest were local makers. Known for its passion for ... and host this coming together of creators, technologists, scientists, engineers, and artists. “At MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-ever-mit-maker-faire-attracts-nearly-3000-attendees-campusSupporting Saudi Arabian female scientists and engineers
dean of graduate studies and research at Effat. While at MIT, Al-Nory’s work with Graves led them to ... for Saudi Arabian female scientists and engineers. CCWCE, located in the MIT Department of Mechanical ... PhDs the opportunity to conduct research at MIT with our faculty,” says Professor John H. Lienhard, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/supporting-saudi-arabian-female-scientists-and-engineersDepartment snapshot: Civil and Environmental Engineering
profiling academic departments at MIT. "T his is a department with a very long history,” says Andrew ... Whittle, the head of MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). That history, dating ... courses of study available to MIT students). But CEE is also a department that has changed significantly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-snapshot-civil-and-environmental-engineeringTeaching robots how to move objects
graduate student Maria Bauza, who served as task-planning lead for the MIT-Princeton Team, the moment was ... in Barcelona. During a year as a visiting student at MIT, Bauza was able to put her interest in ... computer science and artificial intelligence into practice. “When I came to MIT for that year, I starting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsThe race to build the Navy’s next fleet of ships
A graduate of MIT’s naval architecture and marine engineering program, Goddard took the Alpino’s trip to ... During his time at MIT, Goddard was mentored by Captain Clark “Corky” Graham ME ’67, SM ’67, PhD ’69, ... After graduating from MIT, it was time to get his feet wet once more in the Navy — quite literally. ...
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