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News & Awards: Winter 2019
MIT-Graphene-Wafers-1024.jpg Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has developed ... A group of alumni gathered in the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Undergraduate Office on September ... from the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop in October. Credit: Tony Pulsone Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-awards-winter-2019Running on Waste Heat
with Dresselhaus and brought in Ren, a materials expert, to develop new materials. Then, in 2008, Chen, ... of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, used nanotechnology to ... to cars, with aims of improving efficiency by 5 percent. Decades in the making The concept of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/running-waste-heatDepartment News
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Winter and his co-developer, Professor Anette Hosoi, investigated how ... including mechanical engineering (which tied with Stanford). Other top-ranked engineering programs at MIT this year are ... Michigan). MIT’s graduate program in biomedical engineering was also a top-five finisher, tying for third with the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-0Going local in the "Coral Triangle"
villages are having less success with reef comeback than others. “It’s like there is a gap in knowledge,” ... When Kelly Heber goes snorkeling in Bali, she’s not exactly vacationing: In a few minutes, she’ll ... be onboard a nearby boat, asking the captain if he’s seen any comeback in his fish stocks in recent ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-local-coral-triangleInaugural Morningside Academy for Design Professorships named
assistant director for education at MAD; and David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering, MacVicar ... Farahi brings her critical lens to design research and education. With a foundation in architecture, her ... of critical thinking in philosophy and social sciences with the concerns of “matter” in science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inaugural-morningside-academy-design-professorships-namedMethod rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions
Electrical Engineering at the University of Oulu in Finland, and who was not involved with this work. This ... researchers have developed a safety check technique which can prove with 100 percent accuracy that a robot’s ... useful for robots that must move rapidly avoid collisions in spaces crowded with objects, such as food ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-rapidly-verifies-robot-will-avoid-collisionsBringing meaningful technologies to market
MIT-Student-Chun-01-1024.jpg After graduating from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in management ... a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in management science, Chun aims to earn a master’s degree ... a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and member of the Global Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-meaningful-technologies-marketJim Christian
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... a product that solves a real-life problem for course 2.739 (Product Design and Development). Inspired by ... Markle’s brush with a dangerous avalanche in Switzerland, Christian and his fellow students designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-christianCharlene Xia ’17, SM ’20
announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ... Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT. ... combine my passion for food, my technical expertise in ocean engineering, and my interest in sustainably ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/charlene-xia-%E2%80%9917-sm-%E2%80%9920Two MIT films nominated for New England Emmy Awards
users.” Freidah has worked with Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’11, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... environmental research. “No Drop to Spare,” created by the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), was ... Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center working in Kenya, Morocco, and Jordan to deploy affordable, user-driven ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-films-nominated-new-england-emmy-awardsA new way to irrigate crops year-round
co-founder who is no longer with the company), who were classmates in of hers in 2.760 (Global Engineering ... four-month monsoon season. In just a couple of months, the product has started to change the fortunes of ... release is the culmination of an uncompromising journey, begun in 2014, to create a product that fits the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-irrigate-crops-year-round2023-24 Takeda Fellows: Advancing research at the intersection of AI and health
Engineering. Park specializes in the integration of AI and biomedical engineering to address complex challenges ... release duration and improving mechanical properties. The innovative use of AI in developing advanced drug ... The School of Engineering has selected 13 new Takeda Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year. With ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2023-24-takeda-fellows-advancing-research-intersection-ai-and-healthStudy finds potential in brackish groundwater desalination
early access to begin working on it in collaboration with USGS scientists. While seawater around the ... guide plans to develop new water resources, Ahdab says. In addition, the team correlated the location of ... that “Using the approach developed in this paper, water agencies, municipal water authorities, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-potential-brackish-groundwater-desalinationDesigning cleaner vehicles
a second-year master’s degree student in mechanical engineering, Mehrotra has channeled his energy into two ... and help them build. I knew of MIT as one of the best mechanical engineering departments in the world. ... translated the skills he learned from SEVT to a summer internship in Ghana with the startup Moving Health, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehiclesUsing “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases
mechanical engineering, and the senior author of the study. This approach, described today in the journal ... development, the field really struggles with anything that’s not a single-gene disease.” In the new Cell ... between different organs and the immune system, on a specialized microfluidic platform seeded with human ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-%E2%80%9Corgans-chip%E2%80%9D-model-complicated-diseasesNoninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue
by cutting it or staining it with dyes. Instead, a specialized laser illuminates deep into the ... Biological and Mechanical Engineering; Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching ... Innovation in the Department of Biological Engineering; and other MIT colleagues. The research appears today ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-imaging-method-can-penetrate-deeper-living-tissueBryan Schmid
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies’ (ISN) annual Soldier Design Competition in 2005 with fellow MechE ... conducted with an APA involves only one or two rescuers and is completed in a fraction of the time. How ... up to 600 pounds. What kind of engineering challenges did you encounter in your design? When you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/bryan-schmidMIT-led team receives funding to pursue new treatments for metabolic disease
and health care providers,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering ... Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... to stimulate production of therapeutic molecules to treat a variety of diseases. In this project, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-led-team-receives-funding-pursue-new-treatments-metabolic-diseaseLetter from the Department Head: A Manufacturing Renaissance
Mechanical Design (2.72), Engineering Systems Development (2.014), and Manufacturing Processes and Systems ... fundamental knowledge in engineering.” Mary C. Boyce, Ford Professor of Engineering Dear Friends, ... Manufacturing has consistently been an integral part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. From the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-manufacturing-renaissanceNew 3D printing method enables complex designs and creates less waste
mechanical properties necessary for durable products,” says professor of mechanical engineering John Hart. ... involves printing structural supports from the same material to hold the product in place as it’s printed. ... waste. MIT engineers have found a way to bypass this last finishing step, in a way that could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-method-enables-complex-designs-and-creates-less-waste