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Kripa Varanasi named faculty director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
Kripa Varanasi, professor of mechanical engineering, was named faculty director of the MIT ... faculty director of the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. Credit: MIT Department of ... Mechanical Engineering The MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation is an interdepartmental center ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-named-faculty-director-deshpande-center-technological-innovationThree from MIT Named Inaugural Schwarzman Scholars
New award pays for one-year master's at Tsinghua University in China. Two MIT undergraduates ... and one MIT alumna were named Schwarzman Scholars and will be awarded a year of study and leadership ... in global trends.” The 2016 MIT Schwarzman Scholars are: Annabeth Gellman '13 Annabeth Gellman ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-named-inaugural-schwarzman-scholarsNominations open for Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
The MIT Sea Grant College Program announces that nominations are now open for the Doherty ... Professorship in Ocean Utilization. All non-tenured MIT faculty members from any Institute department are ... Sea Grant Committee; and the director of the MIT Sea Grant College Program — following review and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nominations-open-doherty-professorship-ocean-utilizationSupporting Saudi Arabian female scientists and engineers
for Saudi Arabian female scientists and engineers. CCWCE, located in the MIT Department of Mechanical ... PhDs the opportunity to conduct research at MIT with our faculty,” says Professor John H. Lienhard, ... director of CCWCE at MIT and KFUPM. “Our faculty have had many years of productive collaboration with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/supporting-saudi-arabian-female-scientists-and-engineersProfessor Emeritus Justin “Jake” Kerwin, an expert in propeller design and ship hydrodynamics, dies at 90
at the age of 90 on May 23. Kerwin, who served on MIT’s ocean engineering faculty for four decades, ... As an undergraduate at MIT he joined the MIT Sailing Team. In his research, he developed the ... growing up in the Netherlands, London, and eventually New York. He first arrived at MIT as an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-justin-%E2%80%9Cjake%E2%80%9D-kerwin-expert-propeller-design-and-ship-hydrodynamicsMIT Hyperloop team competes in SpaceX global competition
A team of MIT student designers is heading to California with a concept pod, a vision for the ... weekend the MIT Hyperloop Team will be firing their concept pod along a 1-mile test track in Hawthorne, ... Jan. 27-29, followed by a final competition this summer. MIT’s team of 28 students was awarded Best ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-hyperloop-team-competes-spacex-global-competitionSix from MIT named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Six MIT affiliates have been selected for the newest cohort of the prestigious Knight-Hennessy ... mentorship, and experiential learning opportunities. Since the program’s inception, 11 MIT affiliates ... job of supporting brilliant young MIT students who seek to transform the world,” says Kim Benard, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-named-2021-knight-hennessy-scholars2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Awards honor MIT educators’ innovation and empathy
This June, 23 faculty and instructors from over a dozen departments, labs, and centers across MIT ... of Open Learning. Established in 2016 and co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the ... use of digital technologies in the context of MIT’s in-person, on-campus classes. But in the last two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2021-teaching-digital-technology-awards-honor-mit-educators%E2%80%99-innovation-and-empathyMIT-Takeda Program heads into fourth year with crop of 10 new projects
In 2020, the School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company launched the MIT ... co-chair of the MIT-Takeda Program. “These cross-disciplinary teams are working to improve the lives and ... biopharmaceutical industry with MIT’s deep experience at the vanguard of artificial intelligence and machine ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-takeda-program-heads-fourth-year-crop-10-new-projectsSix from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2025
Six MIT faculty members are among the nearly 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public ... culture, and education. MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering Gareth H. McKinley Credit: John Frediah ... Those elected from MIT in 2025 are: Lotte Bailyn, T. Wilson Professor of Management Emerita; Gareth ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences-2025Harvesting fresh water from fog
electrodialysis can provide cost-effective treatment of salty water from fracked wells. Researchers at MIT ... surface chemistry, the team — which includes MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gareth McKinley and ... MIT professor of chemical engineering Robert Cohen — has been able to increase the fog-collecting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harvesting-fresh-water-fogMIT Society of Women Engineers’ journey into virtual connection
When the student body was sent home last March in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, the MIT ... most MIT clubs and organizations were not in session — on ways to adapt and run all of their customary ... engineering and MIT SWE co-president. “It just shows the impact that this organization has had and how much ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-society-women-engineers%E2%80%99-journey-virtual-connectionDepartment News
lay underwater cables, Winter says. –Helen Knight, MIT News Office MechE Students Win Both “Use it!” Category ... Lemelson-MIT Prizes Ben Peters MechE students won both the undergraduate and graduate student prizes in this year’s ... Lemelson-MIT Program “Use it!” categories, which recognize students working on technology-based inventions that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-0Intelligent Towing Tank propels human-robot-computer research
a matter of weeks. The automated experimental facility, developed in the MIT Sea Grant Hydrodynamics ... to accelerated scientific discovery. Image: Dixia Fan and Lily Keyes/MIT Sea Grant Guided by active ... Robotics. Fan, now a postdoc, and a team of researchers from the MIT Sea Grant College Program and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/intelligent-towing-tank-propels-human-robot-computer-research-0Focusing on innovative solutions to the world’s energy challenges
Like many things in 2020, the annual MIT EnergyHack hosted by the MIT Energy Club looked very ... different this year. For the first time since its founding six years ago, MIT EnergyHack was run as an ... Guided by principles of engagement, impact, and innovation, “the goal of MIT EnergyHack 2020 was to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/focusing-innovative-solutions-world%E2%80%99s-energy-challengesMorris Chang ’52, SM ’53 describes the secrets of semiconductor success
long-term ascendancy in semiconductor manufacturing, while speaking to a large campus audience in an MIT ... lower production costs. Copy of PrecisionAgriculture.jpg MIT alumnus Morris Chang, founder and former ... longtime head of TSMC, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, spoke at MIT about the semiconductor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morris-chang-%E2%80%9952-sm-%E2%80%9953-describes-secrets-semiconductor-success