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Historic Inspirations
MIT, having participated in high school FIRST Robotics competitions, a program co-founded by Flowers. ... passion for design and engineering to one specific MechE course – a course that has also inspired ... generations before them. “Classes like 2.007 are how engineers are forged,” says Weizer, who took 2.007 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/historic-inspirationsBound for Robotic Glory
engineering at MIT, hypothesizes that this force-control approach to robotic running is similar, in principle, ... Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. These motors are controlled by amplifiers designed by David ... Otten, a principal research engineer in MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. The combination of such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bound-robotic-gloryMIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows
PhD in biochemical engineering at MIT in 1987 and was a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of ... additional MIT alumni for their efforts to advance science and related fields. Six current MIT affiliates and ... 27 additional MIT alumni have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-affiliates-named-2024-aaas-fellows-0Danielle Zurovcik
MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ... our protocol,” she explains. When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ... method and effective, inexpensive design, Zurovcik, who also has a minor in business from the MIT Sloan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/danielle-zurovcikStick with me
has left an indelible mark on the MIT campus. Demas and Wang met as undergraduates at Yale University ... and arrived at MIT to study mechanical engineering. Wang studied the nanoscale physics of fluid, while ... Fund, a grant program supporting ideas to make MIT a more welcoming, inclusive, and healthy place. They ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-meDemo Day features hormone-tracking sensors, desalination systems, and other innovations
A program with a purpose This year’s Demo Day featured 70 students from across MIT, with 16 startups working ... MIT student teams celebrate business milestones at the capstone event for the 2025 delta v summer ... accelerator. Kresge Auditorium came alive Friday as MIT entrepreneurs took center stage to share their progress ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/demo-day-features-hormone-tracking-sensors-desalination-systems-and-other-innovationsKarina Pikhart
2.009: Product Engineering Processes. Karina Pikhart 1024.jpg Pikhart was on a 15-member team ... because of it, but it turned out to be the best decision we could have made.” After graduation, ... to work on the project. While earning a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/karina-pikhartRacing into the future of autonomous driving
students. Zhang and her teammates from MIT Driverless — working under the auspices of the Edgerton Center ... white, the automobile named DUT18 wasn’t an ordinary race car. First, it was built by engineers at TU ... Delft; then, programmers at MIT wrote algorithms that would replace its human driver. Together, the two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/racing-future-autonomous-drivingStudy shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable
MIT_Hydrogen-FOOTPRINT-01-PRESS_1024x768.jpg MIT engineers have developed a new aluminum-based process to produce hydrogen gas, that they are ... systems.” The study’s MIT co-authors are Brooke Bao, Enoch Ellis, and professor of mechanical engineering ... supported, in part, by the MIT Portugal Program. Tuesday, June 3, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-shows-making-hydrogen-soda-cans-and-seawater-scalable-and-sustainableAlumni Spotlight: Dr. Dana Yoerger (SB ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’83)
research and academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT ... determined which directions the currents were taking it. As an MIT student, Yoerger studied under Professor Tom ... put those pieces together in the best possible way.” One day during his job hunt, he got a call from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-dr-dana-yoerger-sb-%E2%80%9977-sm-%E2%80%9979-phd-%E2%80%9983Controlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact
demonstrated before,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of ... through the Center for Nanoscale systems, by the MIT and Masdar Institute Cooperative Program, and by the ... pair of liquid and solid materials, but now MIT researchers have developed a way of making even the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-how-%E2%80%9Codd-couple%E2%80%9D-surfaces-and-liquids-interactSmart laser cutter system detects different materials
MIT Mechanical Engineering MathWorks Seed Fund Program. Thursday, August 19, 2021 Rachel Gordon | MIT ... researchers Steven Acevedo Colon and Varnika Sinha in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and ... naked eye, scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) came up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-laser-cutter-system-detects-different-materialsTapping the MIT talent pool for the future of fusion
MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... of Engineering at MIT. “We need to be working on a host of integrated technologies to actually make ... Sorensen.Fusion.1024.jpg MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen earned a master’s degree at MIT in a MechE lab but is based ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tapping-mit-talent-pool-future-fusionHow cell mechanics influences everything
of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Mingo-Guo-01-press_1024.jpg Ming Guo’s research bridges multiple ... But really, not much is known about this process.” His work in cell mechanics led him to MIT, where he ... fields, including cell biology, physics, and mechanical engineering, and he is working to apply the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cell-mechanics-influences-everythingMick Mountz
were roommates as MechE undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) ... When a handful of MIT graduates get together to solve a problem, amazing things can happen – in ... software application. Soon thereafter, VP of hardware Matthew Verminski (SM ‘98), VP of product and program ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mick-mountzOobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable
— a material that appears thicker or thinner depending on how it is physically manipulated. Now MIT engineers ... engineering at MIT. “But it turns out the rules that govern how this material flows are very nuanced.” Kamrin, ... into an added shield against sudden impacts. With the team’s new oobleck model, designers and engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oobleck%E2%80%99s-weird-behavior-now-predictableDrug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition
Mechanical Engineering. “Over the course of six years of research and development at MIT, we’ve overcome ... as part of his ongoing PhD in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Finally, the audience ... The winner of this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is helping advanced therapies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-injection-device-wins-mit-100k-competitionBuilding robots to expand access to cell therapies
startup came from Melocchi, who was a visiting PhD candidate in MIT’s chemical engineering department in ... early funding from the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program. After going through the Y Combinator startup ... move to cell therapy comes after Parietti’s small team of mostly MIT-trained roboticists and engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-robots-expand-access-cell-therapiesHelen Greiner
Greiner’s heart and inspired her to apply to MIT to learn how to build something similar. For Greiner, ... the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), was like a dream come true. ... delivery. Greiner was named one of America’s Best Leaders by the Kennedy School at Harvard in conjunction ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/helen-greinerSlowing the Spread
Evelyn Wang, Gail E. Kendall Professor and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This ... environmental engineering with a joint appointment in mechanical engineering at MIT, is trying to understand the ... Class of 1960 Fellow and professor of mechanical engineering, and his team at MIT Project Manus were one ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/slowing-spread