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Inspired by hands-on learning, MechE junior creates Haiti’s first of its kind open-use Makerspace
centers at MIT to design the project to best meet the needs of the targeted students. Collaborating groups ... Inspired by MIT’s hands-on approach to learning, Junior MechE student Wilhem Hector spent the ... experience motivated him to work on a project to foster hands-on education for aspiring young engineers back ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inspired-hands-learning-meche-junior-creates-haiti%E2%80%99s-first-its-kind-open-use-makerspaceMIT engineers uncover a surprising reason why tissues are flexible or rigid
Now, MIT engineers have found that this “intercellular” fluid plays a major role in how tissues respond ... deformation, is completely ignored,” says Ming Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now ... to transport nutrients between cells.” Friday, June 20, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News green Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-uncover-surprising-reason-why-tissues-are-flexible-or-rigidMIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries
Fellowship, and the Maria Zambrano Fellowship. Tuesday, October 14, 2025 Zach Winn | MIT News Horizontal MIT ... efficient. MIT-CellAdhesion-02-press_1024.jpg To test their setup, researchers allowed algae cells to stick ... from the surfaces without harming them. Credit: Joy Zheng Now, MIT researchers have developed an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-solve-sticky-cell-problem-bioreactors-and-other-industriesMIT engineers design surfaces that make water boil more efficiently
Youngsup Song PhD ’21, Ford Professor of Engineering Evelyn Wang, and four others at MIT. The researchers ... | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professor Evelyn Wang and Youngsup Song PhD ’21 have ... could significantly reduce their energy use. Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to do just that, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-design-surfaces-make-water-boil-more-efficientlyMIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
Damian Stefaniuk at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, James Weaver at the Wyss ... Institute, and Yunguang Zhu in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The work was supported by the MIT ... David L. Chandler | MIT News Horizontal Postdoc Yunguang Zhu is part of the team that created an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-create-energy-storing-supercapacitor-ancient-materialsGiving robots a sense of touch
a senior research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Chenzhuo Zhu, an undergraduate ... electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and is now a postdoc at the University of California at ... something about our own sense of touch and motor control.” Sunday, June 4, 2017 Larry Hardesty | MIT News ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touchMIT engineers design a robotic replica of the heart’s right chamber
MIT engineers have developed a robotic replica of the heart’s right ventricle, which mimics the ... mechanical ventilation,” says Manisha Singh, a postdoc at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science ... member of IMES and the associate head for research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-design-robotic-replica-heart%E2%80%99s-right-chamberMIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical
David L. Chandler | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal New research by engineers at MIT could lead to ... viability. New research by engineers at MIT could lead to rapid improvements in a variety of electrochemical ... process. The findings are reported today in the journal Nature Communications, in a paper by MIT doctoral ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-make-converting-co2-useful-products-more-practicalEngineers develop a better way to deliver long-lasting drugs
MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less pain, by ... MIT_Injectable-Microcrystals 1024.png MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), an associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-better-way-deliver-long-lasting-drugsEngineers design “tree-on-a-chip”
MIT-Tree-on-Chip.jpg Engineers have designed a microfluidic device they call a “tree-on-a-chip,” which mimics the ... pumping mechanism of trees and other plants. Now engineers at MIT and their collaborators have designed ... head for operations in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the chip’s passive pumping may ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-%E2%80%9Ctree-chip%E2%80%9DEngineers develop surgical “duct tape” as an alternative to sutures
in many structural materials. MIT engineers have now developed a kind of surgical duct tape ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Surgeons could use it as they use duct tape in the ... and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT; and collaborators from the Mayo Clinic and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-surgical-%E2%80%9Cduct-tape%E2%80%9D-alternative-suturesEngineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”
Now MIT engineers have devised a new kind of wearable sensor that communicates wirelessly without ... Wednesday, August 17, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A team led by Associate ... mechanically vibrate in response to an electrical impulse. MIT-Chip-Free-Sensor-1024.jpg The device senses and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-fabricate-chip-free-wireless-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9DEngineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
engineers at MIT have designed an artificial synapse in such a way that they can precisely control the ... 21, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal Assistant Professor ... departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and a principal investigator in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-artificial-synapse-%E2%80%9Cbrain-chip%E2%80%9D-hardwareMechE announces three new appointments
Technology and Education @ MIT (STE@M) program for students and faculty. She is also the founder and director ... of the Battelle/MIT Postdoctoral Associate Program. Hosoi’s research interests lie in developing and ... 2A program. She is known for her passion for engineering innovation, her dedication to student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-announces-three-new-appointmentsStudent Spotlight: Engineers of tomorrow
meche.mit.edu/magazine. Sunday, March 31, 2024 Kimberly Tecce | Department of Mechanical Engineering yellow Education ... bioengineering, to sustainable energy solutions, ocean engineering, nano technology, and innovative materials ... (Design Computation and Digital Engineering) Lab. Credit: Tony Pulsone Solving a whale of a problem ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-engineers-tomorrowDeveloping community around design
currently enrolled in masters or doctoral programs across MIT. Engineers, business students, architects, ... 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-designFour researchers earn interdisciplinary Schmidt Science Fellowships
Photo courtesy of MIT News. Álvaro Fernández Galiana is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering. As ... I have gained at MIT at the interface of physics and engineering to a new discipline.” In her doctoral ... MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, advised by Anantha Chandrakasan, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-researchers-earn-interdisciplinary-schmidt-science-fellowshipsAutomating Aquaculture
Image Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: Automating aquaculture with robots MIT students, including ... MechE Alum Michelle Kornberg, and researchers from MIT Sea Grant work with local oyster farmers in ... mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, and electrical engineering, and computer sciences students work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/automating-aquacultureNew 3D bioprinting technique may improve production of engineered tissue
The field of tissue engineering aims to replicate the structure and function of real biological ... tissues. This engineered tissue has potential applications in disease modeling, drug discovery, and ... Development Chair of Tissue Engineering and an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. She adds, “given ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-bioprinting-technique-may-improve-production-engineered-tissueWater is Life
in-the-field research. Mechanics Design and Manufacturing Energy Science and Engineering Health Environment ... Security Home Page Impact Home Research Home Culture Home Education Home Undergraduate Graduate Post-Doc ... Alumni Home Prospective Student Home News & Media Home Prospective Undergrad Home Prospective Grad ...
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