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MIT students hack assistive technology solutions for local clients
Laboratory; Don Fredette of The Boston Home; Michael Buchman of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... During the event this spring, MIT students develop technological solutions to problems faced by Greater ... a technology that suits those needs," says MIT graduate student Jaya Narain, who co-directed the event ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-hack-assistive-technology-solutions-local-clientsMechE Spinoff Launches All-Terrain Wheelchair in US
designed for US and European markets. Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT), an MIT MechE ... Professor Amos Winter SM ’05 PhD ’11, recently launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the U.S. ... specially designed for the U.S. and European markets. In 2007, the GRIT team came together as students in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-spinoff-launches-all-terrain-wheelchair-usNew parameters in graduate mentoring
than any other on-campus resource, according to the most recent MIT Enrolled Graduate Student Survey. ... for holistic graduate mentorship at MIT. Three of the most recent honorees, professors Cullen Buie, ... ‘the best ability is availability’,” says Professor Cullen Buie of the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-parameters-graduate-mentoringDepartment Head John Hart Announces New MechE Leadership
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. In 2021, he was elected Fellow of the American ... Engineering and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES). Her research focuses on the ... robotics, and other areas of biomedical engineering. Ellen has co-taught design classes (2.009 and 2.75) in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-head-john-hart-announces-new-meche-leadershipWater vapor sets some oxides aflutter
Science and Engineering and the MIT Energy Initiative’s Center for Energy Storage. The research team also ... | MIT News Office Horizontal ... Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. She is the senior author of a paper describing the research that is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutterTwo MIT Faculty Win 2016 NSF CAREER Awards
rising stars in science and engineering through its Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program ... . MIT faculty members James Swan, assistant professor in chemical engineering, and Konstantin Turitsyn, ... Konstantin Turitsyn is among 160 young scientists and engineers poised to explore new frontiers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-faculty-win-2016-nsf-career-awardsSynthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly’s stretch and strength
surprisingly tough. This marine under-armor, as MIT engineers reported in 2019, is made from the toughest known ... Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who characterized the mechanical properties ... Office through the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT. Friday, April 23, 2021 Jennifer Chu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-gelatin-material-mimics-lobster-underbelly%E2%80%99s-stretch-and-strengthA new way to harness waste heat
Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... States ends up as low-grade heat.” The MIT work was partially funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, in ... Research Foundation of Korea. Wednesday, May 21, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office orange ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-harness-waste-heatMIT HUMANS project breaks down borders, empowering global voices to reach for the stars
MIT Media Lab, the HUMANS project embarked on their ambitious campaign in July 2021, asking ... Harvard-MIT Sciences and Technology Policy Program and Dava Newman, director of the MIT Media Lab. The ... never heard beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The Humanity United with MIT Art and Nanotechnology in Space ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-humans-project-breaks-down-borders-empowering-global-voices-reach-starsMaker Break: A celebration of making at MIT
life during Maker Break, the first annual celebration of making at MIT that took place on April 17 at ... 700 MIT students took a much needed break from their studies and tapped into their creative sides for ... for the win. Dan Dorsch, a mechanical engineering PhD candidate and the winner of the RC car ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maker-break-celebration-making-mitDesigning Toys
Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get hands-on ... engineering and In class 2.00b, Toy Product Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... a new toy. Home Page Education Home Undergraduate Alumni Home Prospective Student Home News & Media ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-toysThe Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ... skin of pumpkins. Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering ... | MIT News Office orange zhaox@mit.edu Horizontal New research provides a general formula for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasingTalking Shop: Professor Themis Sapsis
marine engineering in 2005. He began his graduate studies at MIT in 2006, earning his PhD in mechanical engineering ... engineering, including uncertainty quantification of turbulent fluid flows, passive protection configurations ... Sciences at NYU. As an MIT student, he was named the George and Marie Vergottis MIT Presidential ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-themis-sapsisSolving a Rubik's Cube in record time
Rubik’s Cube the fastest by hand. Engineers then started building robots programmed to solve the cube at ... by: Ben Katz/Jared Di Carlo | 0 min, 33 sec Thursday, March 15, 2018 MIT News Office Culture ... engineering graduate student Ben Katz and third-year electrical engineering and computer science major Jared ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-rubiks-cube-record-time'Imagine it, build it' describes spirit of 2.679 (Electronics for Mechanical Systems II)
Hands-on approach provides the skills engineers use to create and solve problems 2.679 ... says Tonio Buonassisi, professor of mechanical engineering. "Between those two is a universe, and ... the purpose of this class is to aid aspiring engineers to bridge that gap.” Senior Jessica Lam marvels ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imagine-it-build-it-describes-spirit-2679-electronics-mechanical-systems-iiPhD student recognized by International Desalination Association
MIT doctoral candidate Ronan K. McGovern SM '12 has received the Best Presentation Award of ... engineering blue Education LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ... the Young Leaders Program at this year's World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse, hosted ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-student-recognized-international-desalination-associationLamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
most advanced in the world". Serenella Sferza, MIT-Italy Program co-director, concurs, praising ... and Italy’s centers of excellence, the MIT-Italy Program opens avenues for research and innovation ... Patricia and Angela when they applied to the MIT-Italy Global Teaching Labs program, and, based on their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lamborghini-and-mit-pave-way-electric-supercar-futureWinners of 2020 Teaching With Digital Technology Award recognized for their innovations
Leadership Program Karthish Manthiram — Chemical Engineering Isadora Nicholas — Global Languages Phiala ... to teaching and learning. In short: it reveals the MIT community at its best. Says Rajagopal, ... are celebrating the creativity and ingenuity of MIT’s best and most dedicated teachers; ‘Teaching ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/winners-2020-teaching-digital-technology-award-recognized-their-innovationsSolar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The ... Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center at MIT. “Being able to make drinking water with renewables, ... climate change,” says Jonathan Bessette, MIT PhD student in mechanical engineering. “This technology could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteriesA protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy
National Cancer Institute, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the U.S. Advanced Research ... cancer patients from the side effects of radiation therapy. Image: iStock; MIT News When the researchers ... mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Traverso and James ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protein-tiny-tardigrades-may-help-cancer-patients-tolerate-radiation-therapy