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A community of making
Schor, second from left, teaches students on the use of equipment in the MIT MakerWorkshop. Photo by John ... Freidah When Culpepper was named MIT’s maker czar in 2015, he started out by mapping out MIT’s own maker ... making life of MIT students. At the same time, Culpepper says, he went on a national listening tour and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/community-makingErnesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94
Ernesto E. Blanco, a renown inventor, mechanical designer, and beloved former professor in MIT ... climbing wheelchair, one of 150 inventions showcased in the museum. // MIT President Susan Hockfield and ... VIP's kick off the celebration of the institute's 150th anniversary with an event at the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ernesto-blanco-mechanical-design-professor-and-inventor-stair-climbing-wheelchair-dies-94Tata Center adds eight new projects to its 2018-2019 portfolio
The MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design recently announced eight new projects for the ... world. The center received close to 70 inspiring proposals that will put the MIT community’s wealth of ... Diabetes" — Richard Fletcher of MIT D-Lab "Assessing the Socioeconomic and Technical Requirements for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tata-center-adds-eight-new-projects-its-2018-2019-portfolioAdvocating for science funding on Capitol Hill
This spring, 26 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional ... spring, the MIT Science Policy Initiative (SPI) organizes the Congressional Visit Days (CVD). The trip ... members of the MIT Washington Office and learn about policy careers. group-picture.png Congressional Visit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advocating-science-funding-capitol-hillSMART researchers receive Intra-CREATE grant for personalized medicine and cell therapy
interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research ... Singapore, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of experts from MIT and Singapore, for new research ... materials science and engineering, and associate provost at MIT. Understanding glaucoma progression for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-researchers-receive-intra-create-grant-personalized-medicine-and-cell-therapyClosing the gender gap in mechanical engineering
late MIT Professor Emerita Millie Dresselhaus, are revered just as much as celebrities and athletes. ... contrast to the undergraduate population in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), which as of ... starts before students set foot onto MIT’s campus. MIT’s Office of Admissions has employed a variety of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-gender-gap-mechanical-engineeringA Not-So-Trivial Pursuit
Senior Ernesto Ramirez is the first MIT student to compete in the "Hispanic College ... Crayton says Ramirez did very well: “He did a great job representing his family, his culture, and MIT ... addition to being a first for MIT, it sends an important message about the Institute. “This is just one way ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-so-trivial-pursuitDroplets break a theoretical time barrier on bouncing
to bounce away from such a surface. But MIT researchers have now found a way to burst through that ... Engineering at MIT, along with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of ... mechanical engineering at Boston University, former MIT postdoc Rajeev Dhiman, and recent MIT PhD recipient ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-break-theoretical-time-barrier-bouncingA brave new ocean world
research engineer at MIT, says to describe the ceiling-to-floor map of the world ocean and continents that ... covers the walls outside his office in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary ... of the MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm), a very widely used ocean modeling tool. Development of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/brave-new-ocean-worldStick with me
has left an indelible mark on the MIT campus. Demas and Wang met as undergraduates at Yale University ... and arrived at MIT to study mechanical engineering. Wang studied the nanoscale physics of fluid, while ... stayed their entire time at MIT. “I feel truly lucky to have made such a terrific friend in Jerry,” says ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-meAdvancing technology for aquaculture
error. With funding from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), MIT Sea Grant is ... working with Associate Professor Otto Cordero of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental ... providing high-quality shellfish seed to local and regional growers. Two MIT students have joined the effort ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-technology-aquacultureIce melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities
MIT technology and policy master's student Ilham Ali and Harvard University alumna Sahar Omer to ... partnered with MIT-Africa, an MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) program, to ... "ZAHARA approached the MIT-Africa Program as a passionate and well-organized group," says MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ice-melts-us-sudan-relations-providing-new-opportunitiesJ-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food technologies
Solutions grant recipients. The J-WAFS Solutions program aims to propel MIT water- and food-related research ... companies. 2021 Solutions Grantees1024.jpg: MIT faculty who received 2021 J-WAFS Solutions grants include ... 2015, grants have provided instrumental support in creating a number of key MIT startups that focus on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-announces-2021-solutions-grants-commercializing-water-and-food-technologiesSensing the world around us
“Sensing is all around you,” said MIT.nano Associate Director Brian W. Anthony at Ambient Sensing, ... a half-day symposium presented in May by the MIT.nano Immersion Lab. Featuring MIT faculty and researchers ... magnificent.” Minchew’s group is working with other researchers at MIT to build a drone capable of flying for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-usStudent Spotlight: Melinda Hale (PhD ’13) and Allison Yost (SM ’12)
couldn’t do it without the MIT entrepreneurial community, comprising an army of faculty, students, and ... years, she has been an organizer of the MIT Global Startup Workshop, which began as part of the MIT $100K ... identifies and maintains that point. Along with two partners she met through the MIT Martin Trust Center for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-melinda-hale-phd-%E2%80%9913-and-allison-yost-sm-%E2%80%9912A gold medal in oceanography
approaches to global ocean modeling pioneered by his group at MIT. The Sverdrup Gold Medal recognizes ... development of the MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm), which Marshall’s group first used to simulate deep ... joined MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences in 1991 as an associate professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gold-medal-oceanographyProfessor Emeritus Ali Argon, pioneer in the mechanics of materials, dies at 89
Purdue University in 1952. He then enrolled in graduate school at MIT, where he studied materials science ... under Professor Egon Orowan. Argon received his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in ... years of military service, Argon returned to MIT, having accepted a faculty position in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-ali-argon-pioneer-mechanics-materials-dies-89Richard Wiesman, professor of the practice in mechanical engineering, dies at age 69
Richard M. Wiesman ’76, SM ’76, PhD ’83, a professor of the practice in the MIT Department of ... ’76, SM ’76, PhD ’83 served for many years as a professor of the practice in the MIT Department of ... to the education of MIT students and made him a tremendous educator, mentor, and colleague. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/richard-wiesman-professor-practice-mechanical-engineering-dies-age-69Professor Emeritus Igor Paul, an expert in product design and safety, dies at 87
(43).jpg: Igor Paul was a member of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty from 1964 to 2003. ... today. Photo courtesy of the Paul family. Paul was a member of the MIT Department of Mechanical ... Creativity in Design (MIT, 1960); the Ralph R. Teetor Distinguished Educator Award (SAE); Outstanding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-igor-paul-expert-product-design-and-safety-dies-87Marilyn Wolfson named 2012 fellow of the American Meteorological Society
Marilyn M. Wolfson SM '83, PhD '90, associate leader of the Weather Sensing Group at MIT ... University of Michigan and both SM and PhD degrees from MIT, where she was named an Ida M. Green Fellow. She ... received the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Technical Excellence award in 2005 for “her work in the application of ...
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