close menu

Search Results

Showing Results for: “2021 U.S. News Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs MIT rank”

MIT faculty tackle big ideas in a symposium kicking off Inauguration Day

poised to have that impact.” Sunday, April 30, 2023 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration ... Big ideas took the stage on Monday morning, ahead of the inauguration of MIT’s 18th president, ... members of the MIT community gathered to welcome Kornbluth with an academic symposium exploring the theme ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-faculty-tackle-big-ideas-symposium-kicking-inauguration-day

News + Video

...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media

Faculty Research: Professor Thomas Peacock

Can Tower Hundreds of Feet By David Chandler, MIT News Office   Their effect on the surface of ... Recherche Scientifique and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche in France, and the MIT France Program ... from a team effort involving MIT and several other institutions, and coordinated by the Office of Naval ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-thomas-peacock

Moderating Extremes in Building Design

Program orange Collaboration glicks@mit.edu Horizontal Leon Glicksman has developed a fire-resistant ... and, like many of his MIT colleagues, he brings with him a high-tech portfolio. He develops aerogel ... mechanical engineering says that both will be needed in the retrofitting of existing buildings and the ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moderating-extremes-building-design

‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness

rehabilitation, using the Anklebot to train patients to walk. Thursday, October 24, 2013 Jennifer Chu, MIT News ... bunch of elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... at MIT. “That’s pretty much a description of what the ankle is. It’s nowhere near a simple joint from ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%98anklebot%E2%80%99-helps-determine-ankle-stiffness

Smart irrigation technology covers “more crop per drop”

farmers,” says Susan Amrose, research scientist with the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at MIT ... fruition,” says  Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’11, associate professor of mechanical engineering and MIT GEAR Lab ... farmers can’t continue with their current practices.” 1024PA.jpg Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-irrigation-technology-covers-%E2%80%9Cmore-crop-drop%E2%80%9D

Light-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post trauma

professor and d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and MIT ... students in her lab (Photo: Tony Pulsone, MIT MechE) “We engineer optogenetic muscle grafts that contract ... tissue engineering, but many previous studies have focused on creating replacement tissue in the lab, ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-activated-muscle-grafts-show-promise-aiding-muscle-recovery-post-trauma

MIT’s “Yo-Yo Class”

Video In class 2.008, Design and Manufacturing II, mechanical engineering students at MIT learn ... Manufacturing Innovation Environment Culture Home Undergraduate Graduate Course 2-A Prospective Student Home ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cyo-yo-class%E2%80%9D

Device that recycles vaporized water from power plants wins MIT $100K

professor of mechanical engineering and serial entrepreneur, told MIT News after the competition. Many ... 2018 Rob Matheson | MIT News Office Entrepreneurship International Horizontal Infinite Cooling, ... The grand prize winner at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition was an MIT spinout ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/device-recycles-vaporized-water-power-plants-wins-mit-100k

Kevin Rustagi

and Plexiglas business cards. A participant in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP) ... 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 leading ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/kevin-rustagi

Palladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrogen fuel

around 800 kelvins, they can break down. Now, MIT engineers have developed a new palladium membrane that ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Kim and his colleagues report details of the new membrane in ... Field, director of research at the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI); former MIT chemical engineering ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/palladium-filters-could-enable-cheaper-more-efficient-generation-hydrogen-fuel

A simple formula could guide the design of faster-charging, longer-lasting batteries

Chemical Engineering and a professor of mathematics at MIT. The new model may also help scientists ... reaction rates,” says Yang Shao-Horn, the J.R. East Professor of Engineering at MIT and a professor of ... of Rechargeable Batteries. Wednesday, October 1, 2025 Anne Trafton | MIT News Collaboration ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-formula-could-guide-design-faster-charging-longer-lasting-batteries

Sometimes the quickest path is not a straight line

what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ... funded by the Office of Naval Research and by the MIT Sea Grant College Program. Glen Gawarkiewicz, ... MIT News Office ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sometimes-quickest-path-not-straight-line

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions

climate solutions. In the following conversations prepared for MIT News, faculty from three of the teams ... Sciences; Architecture and Planning; Engineering; and Science; plus the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, ... for the sake of the planet, and welcome those who can help. Thursday, March 17, 2022 MIT News Office ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-climate-grand-challenges-finalists-accelerating-reductions-global-greenhouse-gas

UROP/UPOP

your UROP application. For information about the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), ... If you’re looking for a MechE-focused UROP or thesis project, go to Mechanical Engineering Thesis ...

https://meche.mit.edu/uropupop

MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel

MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like ... greenhouse gas emissions. 1024MIT-solar-fuels-01.jpg: MIT engineers have developed a design for a system that ... Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We’re trying to achieve ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-design-would-harness-40-percent-sun%E2%80%99s-heat-produce-clean-hydrogen-fuel
Williams Jr, James H Professor Emeritus

Researchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material

Science Foundation. Monday, August 14, 2017 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration ... to explain them. MIT-Lithium-i-1024.jpg This series of photographs shows the chemical reaction that ... Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Now, a team at MIT has carried out detailed tests that seem to resolve the questions ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-material

How to speed up the discovery of new solar cell materials

Joule, in a paper by MIT research scientist Shijing Sun, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ... Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Culture International Horizontal A streamlined system for creating ... painstaking. MIT-AI-Solar-PRESS 1024.jpg Diagram depicts the sequence of steps used in the new streamlined ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-speed-discovery-new-solar-cell-materials

Overcoming a bottleneck in carbon dioxide conversion

Initiative. Tuesday, January 11, 2022 David Chandler | MIT News Office Horizontal MIT researchers led by Kripa ... a power plant or other emissions sources. Now, researchers at MIT have identified, quantified, and modeled ... conversion systems, were published today in the journal Langmuir, in a paper by MIT postdoc Álvaro Moreno ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overcoming-bottleneck-carbon-dioxide-conversion

Pages