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School of Engineering third and fourth quarter 2020 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes their achievements by ... centers. The following are awards presented to engineering faculty in the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2020. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-third-and-fourth-quarter-2020-awardsHow strong is your knot?
their results today in the journal Science. Pressure’s color In 2018, Kolle’s group engineered ... what exactly makes one knot more stable than another has not been well-understood, until now. MIT ... mathematicians and engineers have developed a mathematical model that predicts how stable a knot is, based on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knotSurface coating designed to improve power plant efficiency wins 2022 Water Innovation Prize
MIT’s Ford Professor of Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Such ... ’18, who is currently a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT. “When compared to what’s ... Program this fall. “Support from MIT will be crucial for building the core team on the ground,” said ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surface-coating-designed-improve-power-plant-efficiency-wins-2022-water-innovation-prizeMaintaining the equipment that powers our world
— who recently completed his PhD program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and will be ... undergraduates, they took a few of the same courses, with Vega-Brown double majoring in mechanical engineering and ... estimate if and when components will fail. MIT-Tagup-01_1024.jpg Tagup's industrial equipment ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maintaining-equipment-powers-our-worldCrystan McLymore
mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... and she chose to apply to MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), even though she says she ... engineering. “As someone who started her research career only two years ago, to reach this level is a testament ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/crystan-mclymore-0Staff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service
On Thursday, June 5, 11 individuals and four teams were awarded MIT Excellence Awards — the ... protecting and serving MIT. The medal recognizes an individual or group whose actions demonstrate the ... impact on the MIT community. The Gordon Y. Billard Award is given to staff or faculty members, or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/staff-members-honored-2025-excellence-awards-collier-medal-and-staff-award-distinctionIngestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Entrepreneurship International ... Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule ... transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user’s smartphone. MIT-Wireless-Pill 1024.jpg ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-capsule-can-be-controlled-wirelesslyWhales Dine with Their Own Kind
Nicholas Makris, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with their students, are co-authors of ... predators to the shallow banks, including many species of whales. Now researchers from MIT, Northeastern ... team’s results are published today in the journal Nature. MIT-Predator-Prey_1024.jpg Using acoustic data, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whales-dine-their-own-kindVishnu Jayaprakash
On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... while he was a student in the lab of Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering. Currently, ... startup AgZen. Helping droplets stick Varanasi and his lab at MIT work on what is known as interfacial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/vishnu-jayaprakashJoe Brown
Beyoncé and her dance team at Coachella 2018. Photo courtesy of Beyonce.com. For those who know Brown, his ... engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own theme park.” Brown’s passion for ... as step master of his fraternity while at MIT. But it wasn’t until after graduation that dance became ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/joe-brownMIT senior wins 2020 Rhodes Scholarship for Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine region
and Human Rehabilitation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Daher helped design a robotic ... mechanical engineering with a concentration in biological engineering and then head to Oxford University for ... graduate study. MIT-Ali-Daher-1024.jpg As a Rhodes Scholar, MechE senior Ali Daher will undertake a degree ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-senior-wins-2020-rhodes-scholarship-syria-jordan-lebanon-and-palestine-regionAnnMarie Thomas
engineering program for deaf middle school students that recreated the Angry Birds video game using plastic ... ocean engineering (now a part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering) while at MIT. “He had an ... create fun, hands-on engineering projects. “The common theme in our lab is a mix of technology, fun, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/annmarie-thomasDesigning vehicles that drive, fly — and swim
mechanical engineering. She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, ... through the undergraduate research opportunities program (UROP) in the Mechatronics Research Laboratory ... her first year at MIT, Winston has been involved with the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-vehicles-drive-fly-%E2%80%94-and-swimTackling poverty, one person at a time
MIT's mechanical engineering shop, the Pappalardo Lab, for the past two years, where she has served as ... success in mechanical engineering at MIT is not a male one, but anyone.” Oxford and beyond When Tress ... When Staten Island-native Sarah Tress first arrived at MIT, she had never been outside of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-poverty-one-person-timeUsing combustion to make better batteries
combustion. Now an assistant professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Class of 1954 ... internal combustion engine for powering vehicles. As the energy transition progresses, researchers ... the best way we can contribute to the energy transition?” says Deng. In considering the possibilities, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-combustion-make-better-batteriesProcessing waste biomass to reduce airborne emissions
Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Biomass fuels, including wood, peat, ... product. It was 2011, and Kung was at MIT as a biological engineering grad student focused on cancer ... MIT spinoff Takachar converts agricultural waste into clean-burning fuel, and wins Earthshot ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/processing-waste-biomass-reduce-airborne-emissionsWith Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch
With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They ... will satisfy a coffee drinker's desire. MIT-Coffee-Cookie-1024.jpg MIT seniors Victoria Gregory ... to 90 degrees Celsius. Both fourth-year mechanical engineering students, Alba and Gregory conceived ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coffee-cookie-meche-duo-takes-product-idea-launchDora Aldama
engineering major as an undergraduate at MIT before working for five years on oil systems of jet engines as an ... MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program. “I was checking it out — what’s great, not so great. ... airplanes. Aldama decided to return to MIT and join the LGO program for a dual masters in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dora-aldama-0Powering Desalination with the Sun
graduate student Natasha Wright began her PhD program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to ... MIT-natasha-wright_1024.jpg Photo by: Bryce Vickmark Wright joined the lab of Amos Winter, an assistant professor of ... mechanical engineering, in 2012. The lab was just getting established, and the aim of Wright’s project was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powering-desalination-sun