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Making hydropower plants more sustainable
insects in the bed of the river with the beaver dams. MIT_Natal-energy1024.jpg A fish-safe turbine ... siblings admit coming to MIT was a major culture shock, but they loved the atmosphere of problem solving ... and master’s degrees. All the while, they never lost sight of hydropower. In the 1998 MIT $100K ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-hydropower-plants-more-sustainable2.S01: Special subject invites first-year students to get their feet wet working with underwater vehicles
engineering and the primary lecturer and content creator of 2.S01, and Captain Michael Sacarny from MIT Sea ... class during her sophomore year after participating in an MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities ... a deeper insight into what they were doing. This class was a prime opportunity to jump into the world of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2s01-special-subject-invites-first-year-students-get-their-feet-wet-working-underwaterThree MIT professors named 2024 Vannevar Bush Fellows
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced three MIT professors among the members of the ... 2024 class of the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF). The fellowship is the DoD’s flagship ... join an elite group of approximately 50 fellows from previous class years. “The Vannevar Bush Faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-professors-named-2024-vannevar-bush-fellowsTalking Shop: Professor Themis Sapsis
Professor Sapsis’ research focuses on the area of stochastic dynamical systems in ocean ... engineering, including uncertainty quantification of turbulent fluid flows, passive protection configurations ... focus is on the characterization of the ocean conditions that cause extreme wave events (rogue waves) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-themis-sapsisA teacher’s education in Haiti
Eli, can you stay here and teach me?’” recalls Brooks. He decided to take a leave of absence from MIT ... engineering classes at MIT. He saw an opportunity to replicate class 2.00b (Toy Product Design), when teaching ... middle school and high school students. Offered to MIT’s first-year students each spring, the class ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teacher%E2%80%99s-education-haitiStudent Spotlight: David Larson ’16, SM ’18, PhD Candidate
boats and is a member of the MIT Nautical Association Executive Committee. As a PhD student in MIT ... Sclavounos, professor of mechanical engineering and naval architecture. The class would end up shaping the ... worked. The two struck up a conversation after class, marking the beginning of their collaboration. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-david-larson-%E2%80%9916-sm-%E2%80%9918-phd-candidateDavid Larson
high school. In his free time, he designs and tinkers with boats and is a member of the MIT Nautical ... class 2.016, Hydrodynamics, taught by Paul Sclavounos, professor of mechanical engineering and naval ... architecture. The class would end up shaping the rest of his academic career. On the second day of teaching ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-larsonGraduate Professional Development Opportunities
Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities for Graduate Students MIT Mechanical Engineering ... Graduate Travel Grants MIT Mechanical Engineering Department is pleased to again offer five Graduate Travel ... Grants of $1,500 to support the travel of MechE graduate students to present their graduate research at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/graduate/developmentTiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens
engineers have identified a new optical signature in a widely used class of magnetic beads, which could be ... bound to the beads. The MIT team found a faster way to confirm the presence of Dynabead-bound pathogens, ... patience. “It’s kind of a needle-in-a-haystack problem,” Tadesse says. The numbers present are so small that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tiny-magnetic-beads-produce-optical-signal-could-be-used-quickly-detect-pathogensTurning any room into an operating room
Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty research director of MIT’s D-Lab. Frey had been ... open to working on products in a number of fields and am excited to see what my future holds after ... MIT.” Sunday, January 7, 2018 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-any-room-operating-roomTalking Shop: Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao
interact with the human body in a number of ways. From bandages that rest on the skin to catheters which ... often rigid. Catheters, glucose sensors, insulin pumps, and IV tubes are comprised of hard materials ... hoping to change that. Talking shop_1024.jpg As Director of the Soft Active Materials Laboratory, Zhao ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-associate-professor-xuanhe-zhaoEntrepreneurship
out to market in order to make a real-world, lasting impact. All of us at MIT have at least one ... 15.S24 Applications of Advanced Entrepreneurial Techniques Profile Link: jchun@mit.edu ... point during your time at MIT, it is likely that you will develop a brilliant solution to a real-world ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/entrepreneurshipAI and machine learning for engineering design
and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Within mechanical engineering, machine ... class has quickly become one of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE)’s most popular non-core ... environmental engineering, aeronautics and astronautics, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and nuclear and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-and-machine-learning-engineering-designA new strategy for choosing cancer drugs
Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ... a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, who is one of the paper’s senior authors. ... patients with that type of cancer. The MIT and Dana-Farber researchers took a different approach, inspired ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-strategy-choosing-cancer-drugsChanging lives with heart, humor, and engineering
7. MIT-Schwartz-Nick-01_1024.jpg “The kind of engineering that I want to do is the kind that can ... tradition, which is funded by the MIT SHASS-based de Florez Fund for Humor. Schwartz tends to make a lot of ... people smile with his work — both inside and outside of MIT. Meaningful engineering When Schwartz first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/changing-lives-heart-humor-and-engineeringDarya Guettler
The classes were taught through MIT Splash, which allows MIT students to teach any topic of their ... concentrations. She arrived at MIT with the goal of mitigating climate change through technological innovation, ... a degree in political science and has gravitated to classes focused on the intersection of sustainable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/darya-guettlerFaculty Spotlight
walls of MIT, you often lose the hands-on experience that MIT does so well. You walk into a machine shop ... Associate Professor Martin L. Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then became ... Teaching, and the TR100 award for top young innovators. He is a member of ASME, the American Society for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlightThere’s Magic in Mechatronics
paper, and make sketches, and write down key calculations in order to be creative,” says MIT professor of ... problems across different domains,” says Trumper. “MIT students tend to have seen lots of math and lots of ... design The field of mechatronics is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, occupying the intersection ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/there%E2%80%99s-magic-mechatronicsNick Schwartz
makes a lot of people smile,” he says proudly of his annual tradition, which is funded by the MIT ... and outside of MIT. Meaningful engineering When Schwartz first arrived at the Institute, he wasn’t ... Schwartz’s confidence to pursue his goals comes from the encouragement of MIT professors and staff, starting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nick-schwartz