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Jani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Two MIT seniors, Jani Adcock and Drew Bent, will be part of this fall’s inaugural class of ... Natel Energy, she designed components for a novel hydropower system. At MIT, she has served as an ... adviser for the student-run MIT Fall Career Fair, and as vice president of career development for MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jani-adcock-and-drew-bent-named-knight-hennessy-scholarsTata 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-portfolioProfessor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson, expert in human-powered transport and gas turbines, dies at 91
of 91. Wilson served on MIT’s faculty since 1966 and remained an active member of the mechanical ... Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to conduct research abroad at MIT and Harvard University. At the conclusion of his ... then the head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wilson joined MIT’s faculty in 1966. He ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilson-expert-human-powered-transport-and-gas-turbinesAdvocating 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-therapyLife in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality
the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is designing and researching the activities humans will ... microgravity. This May, the SEI supported researchers from the Media Lab; MIT's departments of Aeronautics ... Engineering; MIT Kavli Institute; the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology; the MIT Computer Science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/life-space-preparing-increasingly-tangible-realityRohit Karnik named director of J-WAFS
Rohit Karnik, the Tata Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named ... impact around the world,” Waitz wrote. J-WAFS is the only program at MIT focused exclusively on water and ... at MIT, taking advantage of MIT’s strengths in so many disciplines that contribute to these most ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rohit-karnik-named-director-j-wafsClosing 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-engineeringAdventures in the Pappalardo Lab
calling at MIT's hands-on mechanical engineering space. In about 2010, working as a principal and ... that what he was providing wasn’t as meaningful as he would like. Luckily for MIT's Department of ... just, say, the next product development cycle.” So he headed back to MIT, where he had earned his PhD in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adventures-pappalardo-labA 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-meLearners today, leaders tomorrow
online event hosted by MIT Open Learning. With Vice President for Open Learning Professor Sanjay Sarma ... conjunction with departments, labs, and centers all over MIT: DEDP is offered jointly through the Department ... who completed the same program, was inspired to apply for MIT’s PhD program in civil engineering, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/learners-today-leaders-tomorrowAdvancing 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-usSupporting sustainability, digital health, and the future of work
The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology has selected three new ... innovation. Established in MIT’s School of Engineering and now in its third year, the MIT and Accenture ... future of work. Accenture research selectees.jpg: The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/supporting-sustainability-digital-health-and-future-workPowerful shrinking technique could enable devices that compute with light
MIT researchers created tiny 3D photonic devices with features small enough to channel visible ... it to about 1/2,000 of its original volume, MIT researchers have designed nanotechnology devices that ... features can then be shrunk to less than 100 nanometers. MIT engineers have developed a way to generate 3D ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powerful-shrinking-technique-could-enable-devices-compute-light