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Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson, expert in human-powered transport and gas turbines, dies at 91
then the head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wilson joined MIT’s faculty in 1966. He ... David Gordon Wilson, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed away on May 2 at the age ... engineering community up until his death. David Gordon Wilson_1024.jpg Wilson was born in 1928 and grew up in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilson-expert-human-powered-transport-and-gas-turbinesArtificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA-funded collaboration
Department of Mechanical Engineering; Faez Ahmed, ABS Career Development Assistant Professor of mechanical ... with particular attention paid to the bladed disk (blisk) geometry commonly found in turbomachinery ... mechanics analyses with cutting-edge generative AI design technologies to unlock the plastic reserve of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-intelligence-meets-%E2%80%9Cblisk%E2%80%9D-new-darpa-funded-collaborationMIT engineers design surfaces that make water boil more efficiently
with a specially tailored surface treatment for the materials used in these systems. The improved ... industrial processes, including most electricity generating plants, many chemical production systems, and ... scales. The new findings are described in the journal Advanced Materials in a paper by recent MIT graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-design-surfaces-make-water-boil-more-efficientlyMIT Society of Women Engineers’ journey into virtual connection
Society of Women Engineers (SWE), one of the largest student organizations on campus with over 400 ... diversity in engineering, and to determine and advocate for the needs of women engineers at MIT and the ... In addition to promoting diversity among women engineers, SWE seeks to introduce students of all ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-society-women-engineers%E2%80%99-journey-virtual-connectionMIT graduate engineering, business, science programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2019
with Stanford and Berkeley), materials engineering, and mechanical engineering. It placed second in ... disciplines, MIT placed first in six areas: aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering (tied with ... Report has named MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering the number one graduate program in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-graduate-engineering-business-science-programs-ranked-highly-us-news-2019K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center will prioritize innovations for resource-constrained communities
poverty. These problems persist because solutions offered in developed countries often do not meet the ... Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center at MIT, founded with a $28 million gift from philanthropist and ... professor of mechanical engineering. Photo: Todd Zimmermann “As she has shown over and over through her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/k-lisa-yang-global-engineering-and-research-center-will-prioritize-innovations-resourceTabletop factory-in-a-box makes hands-on manufacturing education more accessible
scientist in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE). Through on-campus learning, participants ... both a digital course that they are developing, and in directly working with the devices. The digital ... (Tec), one of the largest universities in Latin America, have worked together to develop innovative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tabletop-factory-box-makes-hands-manufacturing-education-more-accessibleWinners of 2020 Teaching With Digital Technology Award recognized for their innovations
teaching with digital technology in an online ceremony hosted by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna ... for teaching and learning. Launched in 2016, the awards have a special significance this year, ... Banzaert — Mechanical Engineering Kara Blackburn — Sloan School of Management Amanda Bosh — Earth, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/winners-2020-teaching-digital-technology-award-recognized-their-innovationsHow to create selective holes in graphene
led by graduate student Sean O’Hern and associate professor of mechanical engineering Rohit Karnik, is ... the first step toward actual production of such a graphene filter. Making these minuscule holes in ... areas. “We bombard the graphene with gallium ions at high energy,” O’Hern says. “That creates defects in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-create-selective-holes-grapheneTransforming boating, with solar power
water taxis. With warmth and humor, he drew parallels between the boat’s components and mechanics and ... how far I’ve come as an engineer with SEVT. James also explained the boat using solar car terms, as he ... drew on his experience with solar cars for his solar boats. It blew my mind to see the engineering we ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transforming-boating-solar-powerDepartment News
company’s products, Hypr3D. This web-based tool brings photo-realistic 3D modeling to the masses with ... engineering, and even 3D printing. Viztu, the company Martin and Milnes started after meeting in an iTeams ... class at the Sloan School, has developed several 3D-focused tools since forming in 2010. In addition to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-4Powering Desalination with the Sun
graduate student Natasha Wright began her PhD program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to ... mechanical engineering, in 2012. The lab was just getting established, and the aim of Wright’s project was ... vague at first: Work on water treatment in India, with a possible focus on filtering biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powering-desalination-sunWith campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT
engineering Professor Tim Gutowski have guided classes of graduate and undergraduate students in developing ... efficiency. With the significant capital renewal of the CUP coming online in 2021, its increased capacity and ... emissions. MIT continually works to collect the full picture of this impact and in 2019 began developing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/campus-test-bed-climate-action-starts-and-continues-mitEngineers turn the body’s goo into new glue
In their new work, the engineers combined sticky, mussel-inspired polymers with mucus-derived ... When Degen came to MIT, he worked with both McKinley, a professor of mechanical engineering and an ... teamed up with Haag and colleagues in Berlin who specialize in synthesizing bioinspired materials. Haag ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-turn-body%E2%80%99s-goo-new-glue“Mens et manus” in Guatemala
Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with UVG and the Guatemalan Export Association (AGEXPORT). Launched ... I was in a developing country, I couldn’t invent products.” With that mindset, he says, he went to work ... to identify new products to manufacture with these oils. Currently, farmers sell their herbs in local ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cmens-et-manus%E2%80%9D-guatemalaMIT graduate engineering, business, science programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2023
engineering, and mechanical engineering. It placed second in nuclear engineering and in biomedical engineering ... MIT's graduate mechanical engineering program placed first in the U.S. News ranking for 2023. ... MIT’s graduate program in engineering has again topped the list of U.S. News and World Report’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-graduate-engineering-business-science-programs-ranked-highly-us-news-2023Bridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices
2-inch Humanity United with MIT Art and Nanotechnology in Space (HUMANS) wafer (left) landed on the moon ... International Space Station in 2023. Photo: Maya Nasr Dubbed the Humanity United with MIT Art and ... Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; nano-etching and testing from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bridging-earth-and-space-and-art-and-science-global-voicesDeveloping community around design
currently enrolled in masters or doctoral programs across MIT. Engineers, business students, architects, ... city planners, policy developers — they all wanted to participate in the academy to expand their ... for classes and curriculum development in design. MAD expects to also offer a variety of public events ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-community-around-designProfessor Emeritus T. Francis Ogilvie, former ocean engineering department head, dies at 89
ocean engineering at MIT. Upon stepping down as department head in 1994, he was honored with the launch ... series was created in recognition of Ogilvie’s contributions to the field of ocean engineering and “with ... students. After graduating with his bachelor’s degree in physics from Cornell, Ogilvie realized that he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-t-francis-ogilvie-former-ocean-engineering-department-head-dies-89-03 Questions: Sanjay Sarma and Bill Bonvillian on new technologies in workforce education
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and William B. Bonvillian, lecturer in the MIT Program in Science, ... through laptops and cell phones, it reached an inflection point in 2012 with the development of MOOCs ... To complicate the problem, our workforce has been upskilling, with rote jobs in decline and jobs that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-sanjay-sarma-and-bill-bonvillian-new-technologies-workforce-education