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Darya Guettler
MIT Energy Initiative program called Solar Spring Break, which had partnered with Homeboy Industries, ... and soon joined the MIT Undergraduate Energy Club, where she says she met inspiring and equally ... outreach programs and encourage kids to get excited about ways they can use engineering to help the planet. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/darya-guettlerDiscovering the Micro/Nano World
classes to offer undergraduates a hands-on experience with cutting-edge micro/nano engineering. <iframe ... micro/nano engineering. 2.674: One of the first classes to offer undergraduates a hands-on experience with ... frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> One of the first classes to offer undergraduates a hands-on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/discovering-micronano-worldHow MIT LGO alumni are powering Amazon’s global operations
hours later — you likely have three graduates of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program to ... Amazon, applauding the program’s uniquely multidimensional focus on tech, engineering, and leadership, all ... and an engineer. “The technology and engineering education that I received at MIT plays directly into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit-lgo-alumni-are-powering-amazon%E2%80%99s-global-operationsThe Quest for Clean Water
Amos Winter, director of the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at the MIT Department of ... Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International awinter@mit.edu Vertical Cleaner water, ... MIT researchers design a solar-powered desalination device for rural India. The air was hot and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quest-clean-waterPropelling Transportation Forward
Electronics, and Michael Defilippo, Research Engineer at MIT Sea Grant College Program, have conducted research ... gradually – to the consumer level. In the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, faculty are researching ... battery recharging. Professor Chathan Cooke, Principal Research Engineer at MIT Research Laboratory of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/propelling-transportation-forwardDe Florez Competition Winners Split $20K in Prize Money
With an impressive array of some of the best gadget and product developments mechanical ... engineering students have to offer, this year’s de Florez Competition pitted 25 applicants against each other ... to compete for a total of $20,000 in prize money. Entrants do their best to pitch the gizmos and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/de-florez-competition-winners-split-20k-prize-moneyHow MIT’s rocket, electric car, and solar vehicle teams have adjusted to the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit all areas of the MIT communty. Those for which in-person hands-on ... experiences traditionally take center stage have had to pivot in unique ways. In this Q&A, the MIT ... traditionally plan their activities around engineering vehicles or devices in preparation for national or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit%E2%80%99s-rocket-electric-car-and-solar-vehicle-teams-have-adjusted-pandemicHugh Herr
Undergraduate Alumni Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab; Director, Biomechatronics Group SM '93 ... sciences and leader of the Biomechatronics Group in MIT’s Media Lab, Herr is building sophisticated devices ... directed at one thing: climbing. “My singular objective was to be the best climber in the world,” he says. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hugh-herrUsing mechanics for cleaner membranes
soon be in sight. A team of researchers from the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, supported by ... materials. MIT-Lienhard-Zhao1024.png Mechanical engineering professors John Lienhard and Xuanhe Zhao teamed ... ’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. The unique perspective that each team member brought helped foster ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-mechanics-cleaner-membranesMISTI pilots conversations in energy
While fall typically sees MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) programs ... options to the MIT community, including internships and research, faculty research, and teaching programs ... gearing up to facilitate international summer internship and research experiences for MIT students, this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/misti-pilots-conversations-energyNew model of the GI tract could speed drug development
MIT engineers have devised a way to speed up the development of new drugs by rapidly testing how ... engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Many of the drugs that are being ... a drug in just hours. In a paper appearing today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the researchers used ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-gi-tract-could-speed-drug-developmentUsing mechanical forces to improve wound healing
’80s, Orgill earned his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT through the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and ... Technology (HST) program. Orgill’s particular course of study within HST was the Medical Engineering and ... Medical Physics program, which combines a traditional mechanical engineering education with clinical and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-mechanical-forces-improve-wound-healingThe MIT Bike Lab: A place for community, hands-on learning
| Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal MIT's Bike Lab, an all-volunteer student-run bike shop, ... love of bikes really materialized when she was in college. Champenois studied mechanical engineering ... continued to grow. When she arrived at MIT for her master’s studies, she joined the cycling team. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-bike-lab-place-community-hands-learningSolar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The ... Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center at MIT. “Being able to make drinking water with renewables, ... climate change,” says Jonathan Bessette, MIT PhD student in mechanical engineering. “This technology could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteriesWhy boiling droplets can race across hot oily surfaces
trivial phenomenon has been analyzed and understood for the first time by researchers at MIT — and may ... expected to move much more slowly. But, counterintuitively, the series of experiments at MIT has showed ... graduate student Victor Julio Leon and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. In previous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-boiling-droplets-can-race-across-hot-oily-surfacesLet it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof
Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering and associate provost at MIT. Credit for ... for Technological Innovation. Thursday, June 28, 2018 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office ... researchers can find safe substitutes. Now, a team at MIT has come up with a promising solution: a coating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-it-rain-new-coatings-make-natural-fabrics-waterproofInstrument may enable mail-in testing to detect heavy metals in water
transporting them to distant laboratories for analysis. To simplify the monitoring process, MIT researchers ... easily dropped in the mail and shipped to a laboratory for further analysis. MIT ... -Dry-Testing-01-1024.jpg MIT graduate student Emily Hanhauser demonstrates a new device that may simplify the logistics of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/instrument-may-enable-mail-testing-detect-heavy-metals-waterUnderstanding the Arctic
Image Teaser Headline: Navigating beneath the Arctic ice A team of engineers from MIT developed ... ice with GPS accuracy. A team of MIT engineers and naval officers led by Professor Henrik Schmidt ... Robotics Ocean Science and Engineering Innovation Environment Security Impact Home Research Home Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-arctic