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Staff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service

Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering John E. Fernández, professor, Department of Architecture, ... pompoms rang out in Kresge Auditorium in celebration of the honorees. In addition to the Excellence ... Awards, staff members received the Collier Medal, the Staff Award for Distinction in Service, and the ...

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Going with the flow

Engineering equipped a small vessel with sensors in locations that mimic where they are on fish. They also ... course when currents are pushing it in different directions. Now, MIT researchers have developed sensors ... engineering. “But while we get ideas from fish, we needn’t use exactly the same design that they do.” In fish, ...

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Materials’ Key Role in Addressing Climate Change is Focus of Materials Day Symposium

Boriskina, a principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is developing “smart” ... specializes in sustainable architecture, emphasized the need for architects and engineers to work together ... works on the development of novel chemicals, materials, and engineered systems with a focus not only on ...

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MIT J-WAFS awards eight grants in seventh round of seed funding

with Evelyn N. Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, to find ... a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has teamed up with Pratik Shah, a principal research ... Organophosphates," Ariel L. Furst, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, is developing ...

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"Biomedical lab in a box" empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries

Leroy Sibanda SM’24, a recent graduate with a dual degree in Management and Electrical Engineering and ... of us who have investigated healthcare systems in LMICs are familiar with so-called ‘equipment ... graveyards,’” says Nevan Hanumara, SM ‘06, PhD ‘12, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...

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Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool

candidates. But once a material is made, verifying its quality still involves scanning it with specialized ... development and distribution of new technologies. MIT-SpectroGen-01-press_1024.jpg The circle with the chip ... Credit: Courtesy of the researchers  Now, a new AI tool developed by MIT engineers could help clear the ...

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The most interesting startup in America is in Massachusetts. You’ve probably never heard of it.

mechanical engineering at MIT and cofounder of the most interesting startup in America. It’s called ... to plan, the company will be operating the most productive metal additive manufacturing plant in the ... a guide vane, which helps direct the air flow in a jet engine. | Top Right: Workers assess a set of 3-D ...

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Designing for a more equitable world

others. A senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Smith recently sat down with the ... In the field, we work with people who design amazing engineering solutions, and they may only have ... the products of design that have an impact in development, but that the design process itself is ...

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How much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?

materials  is rising, explains Yang Shao-Horn, JR East Professor of Engineering in the MIT Departments of ... Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Currently, most lithium is extracted from  hard ... amount of energy they can store in a small space, charging capabilities, and ability to remain effective ...

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3-D scanning, with your smartphone

engineering. He is now working with two other MIT alumni on another startup, OpenWater Power, developing ... Systems integrate the Viztu technology, Milnes returned to MIT to finish his PhD in mechanical ... Martin is still with 3-D Systems, running its consumer products division — including the Cubify software ...

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With “MIT Fundamentos Electrónicos,” MechE Grad Student Brings Electronics Workshops to Students in Mexico

pursuits. Savannah Gordon SB ’24, now a graduate student in mechanical engineering, spent IAP 2025 in ... developed a program for high school students in Mexico The summer months and Independent Activities Period ... Leeb, the Emanuel E. Landsman (1958) Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.   Her ...

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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to physically apply ... project. In 2021, as Kachkine made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he ... Scans of the painting during various stages in its restoration. At left is the damaged piece, with the ...

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Alumni Spotlight

in every aspect, starting with a fully integrated team of designers and engineers focused on common, ... capability of computer simulations has reduced engineering and development expenses by enabling deep design ... a mature industry with a bad reputation? For those precise reasons exactly, says a determined Scaringe. ...

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Waves in the Deep

a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ... a purely acoustic perspective, or surface waves in an incompressible ocean. Drifting with the wave Kadri ... Acoustic-gravity waves — a special type of sound wave that can cut through the deep ocean at the speed of sound ...

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MIT Mechanical Engineering 2020 Staff Awards

On July 1, 2020, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering celebrated the many talented staff ... members of the support staff for outstanding service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering.     •   ... July 9, 2020 MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal MechE ...

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Meet the women shaping science and engineering in Saudi Arabia

Mechanical Engineering, the 27 fellows have been placed in 14 different departments, labs, and centers across ... home country. She worked with Tonio Buonassisi, associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... engineering projects, with Maria Yang, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT’s ...

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Student product ideas range from lifesaving to just plain fun

The theme for this year’s student projects in the mechanical engineering class called Product ... Engineering Processes was “rough, tough, and messy,” but the student teams’ product ideas were much more ... or at least lots of fun. Three of the products introduced Monday night, in a raucous, enthusiastic, ...

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Making solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories

year. From surgical robots to solar robots While majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, Hunter found ... Hunter and Justicz, who majored in mechanical engineering and computer science, had discussed starting ... autonomously puts the finished product — which amounts to a completed section of solar farm — in its final ...

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Healing with hydrogels

to develop a bioadhesive tape for repairing damaged tissue. In November, mechanical engineering PhD ... in rehabilitation. Shortly after being accepted into MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, ... promote healing and minimize complications after surgery. 1024_Hyunwoo Yuk_04.jpg Mechanical engineering ...

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Saving seaweed with machine learning

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 ...

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