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MIT MechE DEI Vision Statement
fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment in the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department where ... everyone in our community can thrive. Citations 1 Mechanical Engineering at MIT 2 MIT Human Resources: ... a better place, the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department (MechE) aims to solve global challenges by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/mit-meche-dei-vision-statementGliding From Classroom to Market
co-founded ELLO with mechanical engineering classmates Nate Robert ’13, Tyler Wortman PhD ’16, and Chris ... a product for Course 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), where students design products with commercial ... beer and other beverages to bars in Boston and other cities with old infrastructure — where many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gliding-classroom-market“Body on a chip” could improve drug evaluation
MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect ... Innovation, a professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering, and one of the senior authors of ... are designed to interact with the human immune system. David Trumper, an MIT professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cbody-chip%E2%80%9D-could-improve-drug-evaluationCatching (radio) waves
modules and in-vehicle devices, becoming a leading developer of these technologies. In 2010, ThingMagic ... are working in Kendall Square to help incorporate RFID technology into Trimble products. Other ... mechanical engineering professor Sanjay Sarma, now director of digital learning at MIT, had already done ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/catching-radio-wavesMaterials Research Laboratory: Driving interdisciplinary materials research at MIT
(Department of Materials Science and Engineering); the discovery of unexpected magnetism in atomically thin ... around medical implants (departments of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering ... Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering who became MRL director in April. “Our goal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/materials-research-laboratory-driving-interdisciplinary-materials-research-mitCould lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?
Beckwith is lead author and a PhD student in mechanical engineering. Coauthors are Beckwith’s co-advisors ... the idea is akin in some ways to cultured meat — an opportunity to streamline the production of ... bypass all that inefficiency.” The paper will be published in the Journal of Cleaner Production. Ashley ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-lab-grown-plant-tissue-ease-environmental-toll-logging-and-agricultureEven as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
thermal regulation,” says Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... drying effects. MIT engineers have now found that polyethylene glycol (PEG) — a hydrogel commonly used in ... increase with increased temperature.” The team then developed a theory to predict how hydrogels absorb ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moistureSun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
Thomas Cooper, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at York University, who led the work as ... a sun’s beam to heat up a patch of pavement. With this added shielding, the structure produced steam in ... steam from sea water, without contaminating the surface of the device with salt crystals. In another set ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamEnergy Conversion Engineering
Energy Conversion Engineering The Energy Conversion Engineering concentration is for students who ... wish to pursue energy conversion technologies. Students in this concentration will learn basic ... rapid pace of progress in the field. Conversion from different fossil, renewable, and nuclear sources, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/energy-conversion-engineeringCould we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?
a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina and her colleagues have ... her colleagues tried to make weavable fibers from polyethylene. They started with polyethylene in its ... In considering materials that could become the fabrics of the future, scientists have largely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-fabrics-futureVishnu Jayaprakash
while he was a student in the lab of Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering. Currently, ... On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... He and his team have developed solutions for everything from consumer product packaging to power ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/vishnu-jayaprakashExtending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries
Energy Yang Shao-Horn, and professor of mechanical engineering Douglas P. Hart. While several other ... promotes corrosion in conventional systems. The result is an aluminum-air prototype with a much longer ... … I really think this is a game-changer in terms of the use of these batteries.” With the greater shelf life ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/extending-life-low-cost-compact-lightweight-batteriesIce melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities
Program Managing Director Ari Jacobovits. "It was clear that now was the time to engage with Sudan in ... policy and Sudan's civil unrest. A significant development occurred in July 2011, when South Sudan ... voted to break away from Sudan and establish a new country with a capital in Juba. During 2018 and 2019, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ice-melts-us-sudan-relations-providing-new-opportunitiesEngineering Medical Devices
Mechanical engineering students from MIT work with clinicians from Boston-area hospitals to design cheaper, ... https://youtu.be/s83WpLs0DiQ Mechanical engineering students from MIT work with clinicians from Boston-area hospitals to design ... cheaper, safer, and more efficient medical devices. Mechanical engineering students from MIT work with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-medical-devicesBringing it all back home
experience with Wolf Home Products. “I spent 25 years in business where we did go head-to-head with overseas ... following the work of MIT’s Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) task force. Berger, an expert in ... capacities, development of renewable energy, and improvements in ports, in Erie, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-it-all-back-homeMark Kurz
skills, with its 170-year history in glass production. (In the early days, it helped to develop ... Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as an SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management. “I was really ... Engineering while participating in an immersive, six-month research fellowship at partner organizations, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mark-kurzSchool of Engineering first quarter 2019 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, was named Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Engineering in ... ” by Deep Knowledge Analytics on Feb. 1. Sangbae Kim, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-first-quarter-2019-awardsA new way to mend a broken heart
Image: Whyte, et al./Nature Biomedical Engineering A new study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering ... Roche, co-first author of the study and assistant professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Entrepreneurship International Horizontal ...
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