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School of Engineering welcomes new faculty in 2024-25
William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Each brings unique ... Mechanical Engineering as an assistant professor in January. He studies bioinspired methods and ... appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the Institute for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-welcomes-new-faculty-2024-25MechE Spinoff Launches All-Terrain Wheelchair in US
Based on an original design for use in developing countries, new Freedom Chair is specially ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering to create a wheelchair that fits the needs of people with ... involved in designing products for the developing world a hindrance, but the GRIT team revels in it. “These ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-spinoff-launches-all-terrain-wheelchair-usErnesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94
Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), passed away on March 21, in Murrieta, California. He was 94 ... a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Blanco briefly returned to ... Havana to lead the University of Villanueva’s mechanical engineering department. In 1960, after the Cuban ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ernesto-blanco-mechanical-design-professor-and-inventor-stair-climbing-wheelchair-dies-94New ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
Alex d’Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design. So far, the researchers ... and strength with ultralow density, the authors say. The actual production of such materials is made ... developed, says Fang, who has discussed this work with CBA researchers. This technique, he says, uses 3-D ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedStartups take root in senior capstone class
from the ceiling. Eight teams of mechanical engineering students in class 2.009, Product Engineering ... market analysis and alpha-prototype production. MIT-2.009-Event-PRESS.jpg Mechanical engineering students ... immersed in a product development process focused on providing benefits to real people,” he says. Perhaps ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startups-take-root-senior-capstone-class3 Questions: Inverting the problem of design
The process of computational design in mechanical engineering often begins with a problem or ... Nobari: There are a few places in mechanical engineering where they’re used, and there’s very common ... path for your overall suspension mechanism. Usually, they model that in 2D with planner models of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-inverting-problem-design3Q: Leon Glicksman and John Lienhard on how to teach the unteachable
In August, Leon Glicksman, an MIT professor of architecture and mechanical engineering, and John ... Lienhard, a professor of mechanical engineering, published " Modeling and Approximation in Heat ... them, the book explores the challenges faced by engineers in systems design and research. Mastery of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-leon-glicksman-and-john-lienhard-how-teach-unteachableBaran Mensah: Savoring college life in a new country
years, he has dug deeply into many aspects of college life, choosing a major in mechanical engineering ... graduation, Mensah intends to attend graduate school and continue his studies in mechanical engineering. He ... wasn’t particularly familiar with the culture of MIT while growing up in Ghana. But for the last four ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/baran-mensah-savoring-college-life-new-countryCourse 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems
necessary for mechanical engineers to understand in order to integrate all these new technologies into ... mechanical design.” In typical MechE fashion, 2.678 emphasizes learning by doing, with weekly labs that are ... Mechanical Engineering curriculum, you’d be hard-pressed to choose anything other than “hands-on.” The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/course-2678-electronics-mechanical-systemsEngineering Defense, with the Help of Butterflies
specializing in engineering, and he went on to earn three mechanical engineering degrees at MIT. He felt at ... As a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts ... improved underwater exploration for commercial industry and national defense. Daniel also specializes in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-defense-help-butterfliesWhat will happen to sediment plumes associated with deep-sea mining?
production of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles, laptops, and mobile phones. As demand for these ... In certain parts of the deep ocean, scattered across the seafloor, lie baseball-sized rocks ... layered with minerals accumulated over millions of years. A region of the central Pacific, called the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-will-happen-sediment-plumes-associated-deep-sea-miningHow cell mechanics influences everything
Department of Mechanical Engineering. At the Institute, he has shaped his research goals around developing ... recently in 2.788 (Mechanical Engineering and Design of Living Systems), a class that challenges students ... cell. A student in China’s Tsinghua University, Guo was studying the mechanical properties of plant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cell-mechanics-influences-everythingInventing soft things to solve hard problems
MIT professor of mechanical engineering. “I got close contact with many farm animals and asked lots of ... smaller hospitals or in rural areas. What’s more, working with x-rays is dangerous for doctors. ... doctor can use a joystick and watch the catheter’s progress with x-ray imaging but doesn’t have to be in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inventing-soft-things-solve-hard-problemsMIT School of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards in summer 2025
Development Professor and associate professor in the departments of Chemical Engineering and EECS, received ... and Nancy Allen Career Development Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ... Each year, faculty and researchers across the MIT School of Engineering are recognized with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-school-engineering-faculty-and-staff-receive-awards-summer-2025MIT researchers win grants to develop and test 14 innovative ideas to improve education
Department of Mechanical Engineering While the scarcity of medical equipment in much of Africa is recognized, ... investigator of the Learning Engineering and Practice Group, lecturer in the Department of Mechanical ... with innovators who join us to lead global change in education. Educators in dozens of countries will ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-win-grants-develop-and-test-14-innovative-ideas-improve-educationThe tenured engineers of 2024
the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, with ... Engineering. He specializes in the development and assessment of advanced nuclear reactor technology. He is ... associate professor of mechanical engineering, is an expert in the mechanisms of pattern formation and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tenured-engineers-20243 Questions: The risks of using 3D printing to make personal protective equipment
Covid-19-related medical devices. Martin Culpepper is a professor of mechanical engineering, director of Project ... discusses the risks associated with using 3D printing for PPE and what designers, researchers, and engineers ... 3D printed parts with respect to their use in a clinical setting. One example involves sterilization ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-risks-using-3d-printing-make-personal-protective-equipmentCookstoves and Connections in the Himalaya
undergraduate sophomores in mechanical engineering. Working with partner universities in India and Nepal, we ... Lisa Tang, a master’s student in mechanical engineering, and Connie Ly and Luke Chapman, two ... MIT D-Lab "In this time of isolation, this trip was a precious chance to connect with the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cookstoves-and-connections-himalayaAddressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design
Glicksman, a professor of building technology and mechanical engineering, drew on his previous research in ... electricity or built-in solar panels. With a capacity of 168 produce crates, the chamber offers great promise ... farmers in Kenya, they came up with the idea to use active evaporative cooling with a used shipping ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/addressing-food-insecurity-arid-regions-open-source-evaporative-cooling-chamber-designMIT-Takeda Program heads into fourth year with crop of 10 new projects
Japan with labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has access to data and scientists who specialize in ... In 2020, the School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company launched the MIT-Takeda ... mechanisms to reduce manufacturing time for certain pharmaceutical products, submitted a patent application, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-takeda-program-heads-fourth-year-crop-10-new-projects