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Burning things to make things
of mechanical engineering, is driving research into sustainable and efficient combustion ... John Freidah/MIT MechE Credits: Sili Deng, Doherty Career Development Professor in Ocean ... Utilization and associate professor of mechanical engineering, is leading research to drive the transition from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/burning-things-make-thingsInnovation in Education: MechE Goes Online
a different idea. He founded MIT to think and to do – to teach craftsmen and farmers, as well as engineers and ... The Department of Mechanical Engineering, the second course of study to be offered at MIT, was ... Professor Dick Yue’s idea for the OpenCourseWare program of offering free MIT course materials online, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovation-education-meche-goes-onlineJ-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture
MIT is known for its thriving innovation ecosystem: Numerous programs and funding mechanisms have ... and food systems to MIT’s innovation ecosystem through the J-WAFS Solutions grant program. The program ... provides one-year, renewable, commercialization grants aimed to support MIT principal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-grants-advance-sustainable-agricultureUnderstanding combustion
of mechanical engineering and the Brit (1961) & Alex (1949) d’Arbeloff Career Development ... applying to Tsinghua University for undergraduate study. “One day, I was talking about my dream school and ... degree in thermal engineering, she received her master’s and PhD from Princeton University. At Princeton, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-combustionNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, and four others at MIT and Caltech. Replacing the battery in ... Army Research Office. Thursday, November 3, 2022 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration ... like pacemakers. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way to improve the energy density of these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesExotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Power Engineering. MIT co-authors on the paper are lead authors Sam ... National Science Foundation. Wednesday, March 13, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration ... behave this way in our day-to-day surroundings. But now MIT researchers have observed this seemingly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exotic-%E2%80%9Csecond-sound%E2%80%9D-phenomenon-observed-pencil-leadArtificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
U.S. National Institutes of Health. Monday, March 17, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Collaboration ... direction, limiting any robot’s range of motion. MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure ... constrict the pupil. Image: Courtesy of the researchers Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-muscle-flexes-multiple-directions-offering-path-soft-wiggly-robotsPhD Candidate Albert Wang (SB ’10, SM ’12)
| Department of Mechanical Engineering red Culture Education Maker SANGBAE@MIT.EDU Horizontal Albert Wang is ... Sangbae Kim’s Biomimetic Lab since 2010 – first as an undergraduate, then as a master’s student, and now ... program the type of quick thinking you need in emergency situations,” says Wang, “so we decided that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-candidate-albert-wang-sb-%E2%80%9910-sm-%E2%80%9912Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI.
Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering in MIT’s departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of ... make new discoveries.” Wednesday, December 18, 2024 Zach Winn | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal ... can also be time consuming: New PhD candidates might spend the first year of their program trying to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-research-hypothesis-ask-aiRemembering George
Image Teaser Headline: Remembering George Hatsopoulos MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... MIT Corporation. Impact Home Research Home Culture Home Graduate Post-Doc Alumni Home News & Media ... thermodynamics, Hatsopoulos founded Thermo Electron and served as a life member emeritus of the MIT Corporation. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/remembering-georgeSquishy robots
robotics.” Monday, July 14, 2014 Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent red Collaboration PEKO@MIT.EDU ... the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsRobotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
mechanical engineering at MIT. “A robot wouldn’t have to ask a human so many questions about what they need. ... Systems at MIT and KACST. Wednesday, April 23, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal Using a novel ... take a huge amount of computational effort and time. Using that information to then decide how to best ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-system-zeroes-objects-most-relevant-helping-humansCheetah III robot preps for a role as a first responder
Engineering's Biomimetic Robotics Lab under the direction of Associate Professor Sangbae Kim, the quadruped MIT ... If you were to ask someone to name a new technology that emerged from MIT in the 21st century, ... there’s a good chance they would name the robotic cheetah. Developed by the MIT Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cheetah-iii-robot-preps-role-first-responderNot quite a solid, not quite a liquid: Meet hydrogels
researchers featured in a new video from MIT News that explores hydrogel research and applications. ... sustainable water purification and next-gen cooling technologies. Researchers at MIT are playing a leading ... Professor and professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering, and Evelyn Wang, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-quite-solid-not-quite-liquid-meet-hydrogelsAdi Mehrotra
demonstration in October. Mehrotra majored in electrical engineering and computer science as an undergraduate ... , but says he was drawn to mechanical engineering and took as many MechE classes as he could. During his ... a “revamping” of the MIT Electric Vehicle Team (EVT), a student-led research team that is probing the future of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/adi-mehrotraRJ Scaringe
megatrends.” Zach Winn MIT News Office Friday, February 6, 2015 Alumni Culture Prospective-Grad ... federal tax rebates. The company is planning to release lower-priced cars in the future. MIT past helps ... change the future Scaringe studied mechanical engineering for his master’s and PhD in the Sloan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/rj-scaringeRecord Temperatures
motion, locomotives, and, ultimately, the conversion of heat to mechanical work. Steam engines, and the ... increase, and it could cause something to move,” says Asegun Henry, professor of mechanical engineering and ... stemmed from MechE’s earliest lab, the Steam Laboratory. “I am a product of that legacy… of steam engines ...
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