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Physicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow
study co-author Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is designing ... one were to observe the Unruh effect, “one would have observed a mechanism that is common to both ... stimulate the conventional, or resonant, effects, but we show that by engineering the trajectory of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-embark-hunt-long-sought-quantum-glowElliot Avila
Elliot Avila (SB ’14) is a recent graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering who has ... Summit (IDDS) project, and he recently began a new job in Tanzania as a product designer and engineer for ... things were better. What are you doing currently? Currently I’m a product designer and engineer for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/elliot-avilaOur History, at Hart
– mechanics, design and manufacturing, control, instrumentation and robotics, energy, ocean engineering ... , biological engineering, and micro and nano technology. The displays told the stories of research that ... on a collaborative effort involving staff and faculty members, students, and designers who worked ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-history-hartJennifer Rumsey
her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at Purdue University, which was closer to home, she ... came to the Institute for her master’s in mechanical engineering. The experience broadened her ... How does a 106-year-old company built on diesel engines evolve to thrive in a decarbonized future? ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jennifer-rumseyThree MIT students named 2026 Schwarzman Scholars
Brandon Man, from Canada and Hong Kong, is a master’s student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... at MIT, where he studies generative artificial intelligence (genAI) for engineering design ... civil and environmental engineering with a focus on manufacturing and operations. Gong, who hails from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-students-named-2026-schwarzman-scholarsHugh Herr
degree in mechanical engineering in 1993. He also received a PhD in biophysics at Harvard, and worked at ... that his lab designed. As both a rock climber and a user of prostheses, Herr has direct experience with ... frustratingly poor prosthetic design – and an athlete’s determination to overcome them. His lab is working to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hugh-herrDora Aldama
can take a lot of time and money, and can zap an engineer’s satisfaction in seeing their design come ... Dreamliner plane, headed from Los Angeles to Shanghai. To a typical passenger, the twin-engine jet airliner ... engineering and an exciting glimpse into her immediate future. The 787 was the same model she would be working ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dora-aldama-0MIT announces 2025 Bose Grants
Mechanical Engineering Professor Kripa Varanasi, Civil & Environmental Engineering Associate Professor ... Thomas A. Frank Professor of Physics Peter Fisher. Mechanical Engineering Professor Kripa Varanasi is ... Engineering Jacob White, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Elfar Adalsteinsson, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-2025-bose-grantsSoft robots that grip with the right amount of force
and Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a principal investigator at CSAIL. “Here we explore regulating ... scientist at Toyota Research Institute; Tao Pang, mechanical engineering PhD student at MIT and CSAIL ... in collaboration with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), have designed a system that can grasp ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robots-grip-right-amount-forceJim Christian
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... trails and snow-capped mountains. Safely within the halls of MIT, Christian was charged with designing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-christianDarya Guettler
forward to now is her capstone for mechanical engineering, 2.s009 (Explorations in Product Design). The ... process as equitable as possible.” Guettler decided to combine her mechanical engineering major with ... most looking forward to now is her capstone for mechanical engineering, 2.s009 (Explorations in Product ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/darya-guettlerDroplets Made to Order
Jonathan Boreyko, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics at Virginia Tech who was ... applications. The work is described in the journal Nature Communications by associate professor of mechanical ... engineering Evelyn Wang, former postdocs Rishi Raj and Ryan Enright, and graduate student Solomon Adera. Wang ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-made-orderRapid rovers, speedy sands: fast-tracking terrain interaction modeling
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 ... April 23, 2021 issue of the journal Science Advances, a team of engineers and physicists from the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rapid-rovers-speedy-sands-fast-tracking-terrain-interaction-modelingMicroscope system sharpens scientists’ view of neural circuit connections
of mechanical engineering and biological engineering at MIT. Newer single-line and the mosTF systems ... images fuzzy. In an open access paper in Scientific Reports, a collaboration of MIT engineers and ... neuroscientists describes a new microscopy system designed for fast, clear, and frequent imaging of the living ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscope-system-sharpens-scientists%E2%80%99-view-neural-circuit-connectionsInvisible tagging system enhances 3D object tracking
Mechanical Engineering, are also authors. The researchers used fluorescent filaments provided by DIC Corp. ... placing the tag within the geometry of their design, they can export it as an STL file for 3D printing. ... cameras. The researchers designed two attachable hardware setups capable of detecting BrightMarkers: one ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/invisible-tagging-system-enhances-3d-object-trackingThis ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs
MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs ... designed to pick up on signs of disease, such as liver and kidney failure and the progression of solid ... can stiffen over time,” says the senior author of the paper, Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-sticker-senses-changing-stiffness-deep-internal-organsFive from MIT named 2023 Quad Fellows
Maryland, she will be pursuing her PhD in mechanical engineering at Stanford University. Outside of ... May 2022 with a BS in materials science and engineering and a minor in physics, he has been working as ... an electrochemical materials researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, designing solid-state ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-named-2023-quad-fellowsStartup aims to flush away the problem of icky toilet seats
Department of Mechanical Engineering and germs were top-of-mind for everyone. In 2020, Li connected with ... different designs. There were a number of moments that tested the founders’ commitment to the toilet ... a regular toilet seat with a special handle — but don’t let the standard design fool you; creating Cleana’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-aims-flush-away-problem-icky-toilet-seatsRichard Li
height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when he was a master’s student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Engineering and germs were top-of-mind for everyone. In 2020, Li connected with Cleana co-founders Kevin Tang, ... working with hand tools, heavy machinery, and 3D printers to test different designs. There were a number ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/richard-liA new way to make microstructured surfaces
Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the ... engineering and applied mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in this research, ... exhibit a variety of useful properties — including controllable mechanical stiffness and strength, or the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-microstructured-surfaces