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Sylas Horowitz
“Of course, something must always go wrong,” Horowitz, a mechanical engineering major with minors in ... sustainable development. In addition to the ROV, Horowitz has tackled engineering projects through D-Lab, ... dovetailed into a fascination with architecture, then shifted to engineering. In high school, Horowitz and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sylas-horowitzQS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2018-19
Information Systems; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing ... For the seventh year in a row MIT has topped the QS World University Rankings, which were ... announced today. The full 2018-19 rankings — published by Quacquarelli Symonds, an organization specializing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-ranks-mit-world%E2%80%99s-no-1-university-2018-19QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26
edition of the rankings — published by Quacquarelli Symonds, an organization specializing in education and ... Ertl The Institute received a No. 1 ranking in the following QS subject areas: Chemical Engineering ... Intelligence; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Linguistics; Materials Science; Mechanical, Aeronautical, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-ranks-mit-world%E2%80%99s-no-1-university-2025-26Heather Beem
set Beem, who earned her doctorate in 2015, on a mission to share the power of hands-on learning with ... partnered with a few other MIT students and applied for the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge program, in ... running PEN, Beem is also an engineering professor at Ashesi University in Ghana, where the lasting power ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beemHeather Beem
set Beem, who earned her doctorate in 2015, on a mission to share the power of hands-on learning with ... partnered with a few other MIT students and applied for the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge program, in ... expand to other parts of Africa more quickly. In addition to running PEN, Beem is also an engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beem-0Making her way through MIT
When Du finished her master’s in mechanical engineering in 2016, she was ready to experience something ... a master’s student, she served as an instructor for the Women’s Technology Program in Mechanical Engineering ... projects in the MIT MakerWorkshop or inspiring other students to try their hands at engineering. “The best ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-her-way-through-mitWhy boiling droplets can race across hot oily surfaces
graduate student Victor Julio Leon and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. In previous ... When you’re frying something in a skillet and some droplets of water fall into the pan, you may ... droplet can move across the surface with little friction. If the surface is coated with hot oil, which has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-boiling-droplets-can-race-across-hot-oily-surfacesHarvesting Fresh Water from Fog
Engineering, working with colleagues at the Pontificial University of Chile in Santiago, are harvesting potable ... system of suspended mesh structures, placed on hilltops in areas with persistent fog and prevailing ... westerly winds, local Chilean communities collect fog water for drinking and agricultural use. Mechanics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harvesting-fresh-water-fog-0Teaching robots how to move objects
object it was interacting with, and where to place that object. “Maria was in charge of developing the ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal PhD candidate Maria Bauza is developing ... engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsConnecting through conversation
proceeded to have a conversation in Mandarin, Woodard’s minor, which ended with an on-the-spot invitation ... diplomacy, Woodard, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago, envisioned a future in engineering at MIT. ... a foundation in STEM. By the time he was in the seventh grade, he knew he wanted to attend MIT for engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/connecting-through-conversationCharles Stuard Woodard
proceeded to have a conversation in Mandarin, Woodard’s minor, which ended with an on-the-spot invitation ... up on the South Side of Chicago, envisioned a future in engineering at MIT. Childhood experiences ... with LEGO robotics and Northwestern University game design courses gave Woodard a foundation in STEM. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/charles-stuard-woodardNano flashlight enables new applications of light
scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Singh’s coauthors on the second paper are Agarwal; ... disadvantages; together they resulted in a final, optimal design that can be adapted to create flashlights with ... with a collimated beam, or one in which the rays of light are perfectly parallel to each other. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nano-flashlight-enables-new-applications-lightHuman-machine teaming dives underwater
Even ROVs are challenging to work with underwater in very skilled manipulation tasks because the ... Group, led by John Leonard, to develop diver-AUV teaming algorithms. With their navigation algorithms, ... skiff, we can move more slowly and get the relative motion in tune with how a diver and AUV would ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/human-machine-teaming-dives-underwaterNew Faculty
Engineering is in an exciting period of faculty renewal, with four faculty searches this year in ... Winter earned a BS in mechanical engineering from Tufts University in 2003 and an MS and PhD in 2005 and ... 2010, respectively, in mechanical engineering from MIT. His research interests include design for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-faculty-2Advocating for science funding on Capitol Hill
Marie Floryan and Andrew Fishberg, two PhD students in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and ... Julian Ufert, a doctoral student in chemical engineering, says, “CVD was a remarkable opportunity to ... and computer engineering. Dina Sharon, a PhD student in chemistry, adds, “The offices where we met ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advocating-science-funding-capitol-hillCharlotte Minsky and Lyndie Mitchell Zollinger named 2020 Gates Cambridge Scholars
Zollinger will graduate from MIT with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, and then pursue ... wheel fell on top of her in one of her mechanical engineering classes, she realized the importance of ... tutor for the Women’s Technology Program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, where she worked ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/charlotte-minsky-and-lyndie-mitchell-zollinger-named-2020-gates-cambridge-scholarsThe challenges and triumphs of the graduate experience
associate professor of mechanical engineering, who reminded her that she belonged in MechE, buoyed her ... Gallant ’08, SM ’10, PhD ’13, associate professor of mechanical engineering. “It’s by definition ... a transitory time, which can feel unsettling.” The mechanical engineering faculty and staff at MIT aim to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/challenges-and-triumphs-graduate-experienceClosing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices
of Hong Kong; and her advisor, Peter T. So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ... engineering at MIT. The research will be presented at the SIGGRAPH Asia Conference. Printing with light ... would fabricate a design. The researchers integrate this simulator into a design framework, along with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-design-manufacturing-gap-optical-devicesJohn Lewandowski
cost and sensitivity were going in the same direction,” says Lewandowski. “Engineers would design ... Magnets in the device pulse a magnetic field across the consumable with permanent magnets rotating around ... properties. As a mechanical engineer, Lewandowski, who had originally wanted to be a medical doctor and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/john-lewandowskiMarkus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award
accomplishments in computational modeling and mechanics of biological materials, and his contributions to ... engineering education and leadership in academia. Photo: Gretchen Ertl Buehler was selected for ... his “groundbreaking accomplishments in computational modeling and mechanics of biological materials, and his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/markus-buehler-receives-2025-washington-award