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Scientists Tune Polymer Material’s Transparency
through. Now MIT scientists have come up with a theory to predict exactly how much light is transmitted ... inflated like a balloon. MIT-Color-Composites-1024.jpg Three colors of PDMS — a widely used rubbery, ... shows the PDMS material before being inflated. The bottom row shows the PDMS inflated, revealing the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-tune-polymer-material%E2%80%99s-transparencyBuilding 31 powers back up
joint research and educational program with MIT Lincoln Laboratory. “It was the generosity and ... Laboratories for Aircraft and Automotive Engines, originally opened in 1928 as a single-story home for MIT ... A $52 million renovation of the 90-year-old Building 31 on MIT’s campus has transformed the space ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-31-powers-backProfessor Ioannis Yannas, pioneer of regenerative medicine who invented artificial skin for the treatment of severe burns, dies at 90
appointments in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and ... Engineering. Credit: John Freidah/MIT MechE: Credits:: Yannas, known to friends and colleagues as Yanni, held ... School, and an affiliate of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Yannas and Spector ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-ioannis-yannas-pioneer-regenerative-medicine-who-invented-artificial-skin“You’re surrounded by a community that cares about you”
intelligence. “I had come to MIT to become an electrical engineer, and I had certainly learned that,” Raman ... President Reif and MIT faculty members welcome the Class of 2025 to campus. As the sun broke ... Oval for MIT’s Convocation, the Institute’s annual welcome to the incoming class. The ceremony marked ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cyou%E2%80%99re-surrounded-community-cares-about-you%E2%80%9DInnovations in water accessibility
point, Klise had focused on medical devices throughout her undergraduate experience at MIT. Concerned ... accessibility, Klise sought a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) project on water research. She ... Through Xylem’s two-year Engineering Leadership Development Program, Klise will rotate between three ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovations-water-accessibilityGame changer: How Christopher Weaver transformed video games and game studies at MIT
In the mid-1980s, an electrical engineer and avid sports fan named Ed Fletcher approached his boss ... the company’s founder and president, had a background in physics, mechanical engineering, and computer ... a physics engine bounded by the rules of football and see what it looks like. It will be a hell of a lot ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/game-changer-how-christopher-weaver-transformed-video-games-and-game-studies-mitElliot Avila
Elliot Avila (SB ’14) is a recent graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering who has ... a particular interest in the developing world. As an undergraduate student in D-Lab, he traveled to India and ... Summit (IDDS) project, and he recently began a new job in Tanzania as a product designer and engineer for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/elliot-avilaNew general law governs fracture energy of networks across materials and length scales
environmental engineering at MIT. “This discovery has significant implications for the design of new materials, ... networks? A recently published paper by MIT researchers offers new insights. “Our findings reveal a simple, ... Xuanhe Zhao, the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor and professor of mechanical engineering and civil and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-general-law-governs-fracture-energy-networks-across-materials-and-length-scalesFive with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025
Nicole Pham Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her ... Engineering; and a recipient of the ACM Computing Prize. Additional MIT alumni who were elected to the NAM for ... and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology; Michael E. Matheny SM ’06, an alumnus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-ties-elected-national-academy-medicine-2025MIT community members honored with 2024 Franklin Institute Awards
a graduate of MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and is a former ... bicentennial celebration. Since its inception, the Franklin Institute Awards Program has honored the most ... influential scientists, engineers, and inventors who have significantly advanced science and technology. It is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-community-members-honored-2024-franklin-institute-awardsProfessor Harry Asada Awarded a $2 Million Grant to Develop Robotic Educational Tool, “Teach-Bot”
manufacturing workers on robotics. Founded by professor of mechanical engineering and Ford Professor of ... Engineering Harry Asada, Teach-Bot is a table top robot outfitted with actuators, sensors, and embedded ... conversations with Vice President for Open Learning and professor of mechanical engineering Sanjay Sarma. Sarma ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-harry-asada-awarded-2-million-grant-develop-robotic-educational-tool-%E2%80%9Cteach-botDeveloping community around design
currently enrolled in masters or doctoral programs across MIT. Engineers, business students, architects, ... When the creation of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) — a major interdisciplinary ... center housed in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) — was announced last spring, it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-community-around-designPeter Godart
a driving force in Godart’s academic career. As a mechanical engineering undergraduate at MIT, he took the ... engineering and Godart’s advisor. “It is inexpensive, robust, efficient, and clean – producing no toxic ... class 2.013, Engineering Systems Design. During the class, he worked with aluminum fuel. “That ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/peter-godartClass Close-Up: 2.S999
campus. Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Solving for carbon neutrality at MIT While so many faculty and researchers at MIT are developing ... students’ hands. In class 2.S999, Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT, teams of students are tasked with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2s999Double-sided tape for tissues could replace surgical sutures
medical devices. Inspired by a sticky substance that spiders use to catch their prey, MIT engineers have ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study. ... MIT graduate student Xinyu Mao, MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering Ellen Roche, Mayo ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/double-sided-tape-tissues-could-replace-surgical-suturesStudents present product prototypes inspired by kindness
of class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). For many MIT seniors, their entire undergraduate ... On the evening of Dec. 7, six teams of mechanical engineering students presented the product ... mechanical engineering. Thanks to the efforts of course instructor Professor David Wallace and a massive team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-product-prototypes-inspired-kindnessStudent-led conference charts the future of micro- and nanoscale research, reinforces scientific community
a letter to attendees, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) graduate ... New Hampshire on Jan. 24-25 for the first time since before the pandemic, MARC gathered over 240 MIT ... (MTL) and, since 2020, co-sponsored jointly with MIT.nano. 2023-01 MARC 316 edit.jpg Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-led-conference-charts-future-micro-and-nanoscale-research-reinforces-scientificA community of making
Schor, second from left, teaches students on the use of equipment in the MIT MakerWorkshop. Photo by John ... Freidah When Culpepper was named MIT’s maker czar in 2015, he started out by mapping out MIT’s own maker ... system, and, with help from a range of internal partners, launched several new programs to improve the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/community-makingRapid rovers, speedy sands: fast-tracking terrain interaction modeling
arbitrarily shaped objects moving through granular media. 264105_web1024.jpg Engineers and physicists from MIT ... rovers," notes Ken Kamrin, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and the ... Shashank Agarwal (also of Mechanical Engineering at MIT) in collaboration with Daniel Goldman, Dunn Family ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rapid-rovers-speedy-sands-fast-tracking-terrain-interaction-modeling