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MIT researchers win grants to develop and test 14 innovative ideas to improve education
The MIT Jameel World Education Lab has awarded $917,526 in Education Innovation Grants to support ... labs, and centers across MIT. j-wel-grant-recipients-2023_0.jpg J-WEL grant recipients “Our Education ... Innovation Grants support MIT research that can improve learning everywhere,” says Anjali Sastry, faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-win-grants-develop-and-test-14-innovative-ideas-improve-education3 Questions: From the bench to the battlefield
a quintessential part of the academic experience at MIT. The program, known as UROP, allows students to be ... “shoulder to shoulder” with faculty, graduate students, and affiliated researchers in MIT’s labs. Given the ... MIT, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and industry partners work together to develop technologies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-bench-battlefieldDepartment News
Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random vibrations and ... Needham, Mass. He was 92 years old. After earning his PhD in mathematics from MIT in 1946, Crandall ... Professor of Engineering in 1975, and an emeritus professor in 1991. While at MIT, Crandall led the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-1Remembering ‘Papa Flash’
The late MIT Professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton enchanted the world with his high-speed flash ... reconnaissance. He also took his cameras underwater. Oceans at MIT remembered Edgerton’s major contributions to ... ocean exploration and marine biology on the 23rd anniversary of his death by pouring through MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/remembering-%E2%80%98papa-flash%E2%80%992N: Graduate Program in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
a professor of marine engineering at MIT, Professor Hovgaard was a commander in the Danish Navy when he came ... to the 2N program. He taught several hundred Navy officers during his time at MIT and was the author ... architects go to MIT. They have all earned a technical undergraduate degree, although not necessarily in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2n-graduate-program-naval-architecture-and-marine-engineeringGoing with the flow
Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ... four-part series examines current MIT efforts to refine AUVs’ artificial intelligence, navigation, stability ... course when currents are pushing it in different directions. Now, MIT researchers have developed sensors ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-flowQ&A: Alberto Rodriguez on teaching a robot to find your keys
guide me through the process of trying again.” Rodriguez arrived at MIT as a postdoc in 2013, where he ... in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. 1024Sangwoon-Alberto-MCube.jpg Alberto Rodriguez is ... MIT’s Phillip Isola and Russ Tedrake, one project is focused on training a robot to pick up, move, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-alberto-rodriguez-teaching-robot-find-your-keysTalking Shop: Professor Themis Sapsis
marine engineering in 2005. He began his graduate studies at MIT in 2006, earning his PhD in mechanical engineering ... 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-sapsisNews & Awards: Winter 2019
Departmental News- Evelyn Wang, Gail E. Kendall (1978) Professor and director of MIT’s Device ... Research Laboratory, has been named head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her leadership ... Associate Professor Rohit Karnik, associate department head for education.- In September, the MIT-Woods Hole ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-awards-winter-2019QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26
MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which ... were announced today. This is the 14th year in a row MIT has received this distinction. The full 2026 ... international faculty, and proportion of international students. MIT was also ranked the world’s top university ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-ranks-mit-world%E2%80%99s-no-1-university-2025-26Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visits MIT
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visited MIT on Monday, meeting Institute leaders, ... through the MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance, and watching energy research demos in the lab ... business leaders and a fireside chat with MIT Professor Ernest Moniz, who was the U.S. secretary of energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secretary-energy-chris-wright-%E2%80%9985-visits-mitMIT announces the Initiative for New Manufacturing
MIT today launched its Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM), an Institute-wide effort to ... elevate its impact. MIT-ManufacturingAnn-01-press_1024x768.jpg The Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM) ... for increased productivity,” MIT President Sally A. Kornbluth wrote in a letter to the Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-initiative-new-manufacturingMIT Sea Grant students explore the intersection of technology and offshore aquaculture in Norway
Agriculture Organization. Two MIT students recently traveled to Trondheim, Norway to explore the cutting-edge ... intelligence and decision-making, and Tony Tang, a junior in mechanical engineering, first worked with MIT Sea ... Farm-Sveinung-Beckett-MIT-Aquaculture-1024.jpg MIT Sea Grant student intern Beckett Devoe (foreground) looks into one of the net pens at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-sea-grant-students-explore-intersection-technology-and-offshore-aquaculture-norway-0Faculty and staff reflect on international collaboration, shared learning as MIT-SUSTech research agreement concludes
materials, and manufacturing processes. group photo of MIT-SUSTech collaboration 2023-V2.png The Centers ... for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT and at the Southern University of Science and ... Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering, and a delegation of MIT faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-and-staff-reflect-international-collaboration-shared-learning-mit-sustechMaterials Research Laboratory: Driving interdisciplinary materials research at MIT
Materials research thrives across MIT, spanning disciplines and departments. Recent breakthroughs ... Beyond individual projects, the MIT Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) fosters broad collaboration ... mit-dome-campus-2024_0_1024.jpg MIT's Great Dome also known as Building 13 houses the offices and many of the facilities of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/materials-research-laboratory-driving-interdisciplinary-materials-research-mitDrug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition
The winner of this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is helping advanced therapies ... with Vishnu Jayaprakash PhD'21 and MIT Professor Kripa Varanasi. “Biologic drugs are capable of ... MIT-100K-2025-01-Press_1024x768.jpg In addition to the $100,000 grand prize awarded to CoFlo, the $50,000 David T. Morgenthaler ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-injection-device-wins-mit-100k-competitionMIT plays key role in statewide effort to produce PPE
health care workers safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. MIT_plays_key_role_PPE_1024.jpg This photo, from ... fill positions that didn't previously exist. Across M-ERT’s operations, MIT students, faculty, staff, and ... founded, MIT Professor John Hart had been in contact with several initiatives exploring ways to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-plays-key-role-statewide-effort-produce-ppeMultimillion-dollar grant to MIT funds research into acute and chronic Lyme disease
gift to the MIT School of Engineering to fund a two-year research project examining a physiomimetic ... Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, will combine four ... independent research groups at MIT and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. “As a result of this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multimillion-dollar-grant-mit-funds-research-acute-and-chronic-lyme-diseaseMIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator
volunteer team of engineers, physicians, computer scientists, and others, centered at MIT, is working to ... MIT-Ventilator-Project-1024.jpg This shows the setup used for preliminary testing of an earlier version of the low-cost prototype ... courtesy of the researchers The team, called MIT E-Vent (for emergency ventilator), was formed on March ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-based-team-works-rapid-deployment-open-source-low-cost-ventilatorMIT 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 ... neuromuscular diseases. MIT_Cell-Water-Eflux-01-Press_1_1024.jpg These images directly visualze interstitial ... deformation, is completely ignored,” says Ming Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-uncover-surprising-reason-why-tissues-are-flexible-or-rigid