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Alumni Spotlight: Kevin Rustagi (SB ’11)
by Alissa Mallinson Photo credit: Ted Perkins Recent MechE graduate Kevin Rustagi (SB ’11) is ... got an organization, you can do all kinds of things.” From the time he arrived at MIT in 2007 as ... a freshman, Rustagi threw himself into project after project, from starting the MIT live music club and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-kevin-rustagi-sb-%E2%80%9911Weighing particles at the attogram scale
MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... function. The system builds on a technology previously developed by Scott Manalis, an MIT professor of ... system in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Graduate student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scaleMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
published in the journal Nature Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor ... institutions, including MIT, could eliminate many of those limitations. The new approach is described in a paper ... than gold, the MIT team’s work is the first clear demonstration that the technique can work with gold ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-lightNew materials improve oxygen catalysis
double perovskites are surface-stable is a great advance.” The team also included MIT graduate students ... MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in ... MIT researchers say. The specific compounds used in this research were made by combining a lanthanide ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-improve-oxygen-catalysisStudent Spotlight: Yamile Pariente
division. When coordinators at MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives), which organized ... a moment’s hesitation, took a leave of absence from MIT, and flew to Germany. “It wasn’t even a question,” ... me. I’ve gotten some pretty hilarious reactions from people when I tell them I go to MIT and I’m ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-yamile-parienteGraphene holds up under high pressure
But engineers at MIT have found that the ultrathin material is exceptionally sturdy, remaining intact ... associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the team’s results, reported today ... possibilities for energy-efficient desalination at high salinities.” Karnik’s co-authors are lead author and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-holds-under-high-pressureCollaboration runs through J-WAFS-funded projects
Voigt, a professor in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering, made those comments at the first of ... Sept. 14th and Sept. 28th at the Samberg Center. The annual workshop brings members of the MIT community ... collaboration is a hallmark of MIT’s research culture. J-WAFS seeks to leverage that collaboration by being ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaboration-runs-through-j-wafs-funded-projects“In everything I do, I’m a creator”
her interests now: “That definitely paved the way.” Untitled design (34).jpg An MIT senior ... by MechE- Gazdus, who created prints of these paintings of MIT campus scenes. “I’ll always be writing ... MIT by project classes such as 2.00B (Toy Design) and 2.008 (Design and Manufacturing). “It was so ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-everything-i-do-i%E2%80%99m-creator%E2%80%9D3 Questions: The risks of using 3D printing to make personal protective equipment
urgent. Institutions and organizations across the country – including MIT – have been scrambling to ... a recent memo, MIT faculty members Martin Culpepper, Peter Fisher, and Elazer Edelman, with input from Neil ... Manus, and a member of MIT’s governance team on manufacturing opportunities for Covid-19. Here, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-risks-using-3d-printing-make-personal-protective-equipment3 Questions: Engineering hurricane barriers of the future
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 ... Wanucha | Oceans at MIT Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-engineering-hurricane-barriers-futureAlumni Spotlight: Atlas Devices
Mallinson MechE alumni Nate Ball (SB ’05, SM ’07) and Bryan Schmid (SB ’03, SM ’05) entered the MIT ... alumni Daniel Walker (SB ’05, SM ’09) and Tim Fofonoff (SM ’03, PhD ’08). The competition challenges ... an issue. In fact, one of our earliest sales was actually to MIT for that purpose: the Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-atlas-devicesMechE History and Timeline
II and Civil Engineering became Course I. That same year Assistant Professor Channing Whitaker, MIT ... ocean engineering and graduate programs in Naval Architecture and Construction (previously XIII-A) and ... the Joint MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program (previously XIII-W) will continue. Heads of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/meche-history-and-timelineA creative desire, and the grit to get it done
water during practice.” She has applied to graduate school at MIT and has worked on projects through ... When Laura Rosado was headed to MIT four years ago, she was undecided about choosing a major. ... Rosado, who will graduate in May. “Being allowed to explore and learn without hard constraints completely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creative-desire-and-grit-get-it-done“Robot, make me a chair”
toward enabling that future,” says lead author Alex Kyaw, a graduate student in the MIT departments of ... Gupta, an MIT architecture graduate student; Faez Ahmed, associate professor of mechanical engineering; ... an effort to make design faster and more accessible for non-experts, researchers from MIT and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Crobot-make-me-chair%E2%80%9DIoannis Yannas to be Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Biomaterials. Yannas will be inducted along with 13 others, including John Burke and fellow MIT graduate Edith ... MIT professor of polymer science and engineering recognized for inventing "artificial ... skin" Ioannis V. Yannas, professor of polymer science and engineering in the MIT Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ioannis-yannas-be-inducted-national-inventors-hall-fameNew particle-sorting method breaks speed records
several fields.” The team also included MIT graduate students Eugene Lim and Thomas Ober and five others. ... such detections possible in real time, according to a team from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital ... McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-particle-sorting-method-breaks-speed-recordsHow cormorants emerge dry after deep dives
feathers. The research was carried out by MIT professors Robert Cohen, Michael Rubner, and Gareth McKinley; ... graduate students Siddarth Srinivasan and Shreerang Chhatre; Andrew Parker of London’s Natural History ... Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “By putting our ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cormorants-emerge-dry-after-deep-divesSolving a mystery of thermoelectrics
researchers at MIT and elsewhere say they have finally found a theoretical explanation for the differences, ... which could lead to the discovery of new, improved thermoelectric materials. The findings — by MIT ... graduate student Sangyeop Lee; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering; and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mystery-thermoelectricsOrienteering for robots
Recognition in June, MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that could make it much easier, by ... scene — which it could, in turn, match to stored 3-D models of known objects. Julian Straub, a graduate ... student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, is lead author on the paper. He’s joined by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/orienteering-robotsNew surface treatment stops scale buildup
at MIT has come up with a potential solution to this huge but little-recognized problem. A new kind ... are reported this week in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials Interfaces written by graduate ... Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-stops-scale-buildup