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Asegun Henry wins National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award

mechanical engineer to ever win the award. In addition to a medal, Henry and his fellow awardees, Natalie S. ... Mechanical Engineering, as a 2023 recipient of its  Alan T. Waterman Award. This award is the NSF's ... highest honor for early-career researchers and provides funding for research in any science or engineering ...

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Legena Henry SM ’10

Henry and McKenzie set out to test the potential in the lab. After mixing rum distillery wastewater with ... Lab of Future Barbados, is working to scale up production in advance of its first pilot program, ... In 2019,  Legena Henry  SM ’10 and the students in her renewable energy course at the University ...

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Faculty Promotions

nanoscale to develop new concepts, devices, and systems with improved engineering performance. His group has ... informed engineering choices and used in an ensemble manner, offers key advantages over widely used ... engage with the design process in contrast to experiencing a loss in intuition and disengagement in ...

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Minimally invasive 3D-printable bioadhesive cardiac pacing lead may reduce complications, improve safety for cardiac patients

with improved bioelectronic performance In 2012 at the age of 82, Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk ... minimally-invasive, detachable bioadhesive temporary cardiac pacing lead developed by researchers in the lab of ... happen.” The team, comprising researchers affiliated with the lab of  Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical ...

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Crystan McLymore

mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... Credit: Tony Pulsone In the lab of Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... radiation in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.  Top Left: Crystan (right) with her mother, Crystal Wright ...

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Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability

is due in part to its antennae-like whiskers. Now engineers at MIT have fabricated and tested ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, says that biologically inspired sensors, modeled after the harbor ... formed the basis of the work, have published their results in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics ...

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Women’s Technology Program 2021: The sweet sound of success

now in its 19th year, brings high school students with little-to-no engineering and computer science ... demonstrating their newly acquired knowledge of a broad range of topics in mechanical engineering. The WTP-EECS ... and then learn from them.” To support students as they engaged in productive struggle, the WTP-EECS ...

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SAE honors MIT researchers for best paper

of Mechanical Engineering — C. Justin Kamp, Alex G. Sappok, and Victor W. Wong — with the 2014 Arch ... The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) recently presented three researchers in the Department ... 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering orange ...

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Six from MIT awarded 2026 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Engineering and Computer Science. She graduated from MIT in 2021 with a BS dual degree in mathematics along ... with electrical engineering and computer science, and received her master of engineering degree in ... engineered synthases. Desai graduated with degrees in chemistry and biochemistry as a first-generation ...

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Evelyn Wang appointed as director of US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

will share plans for the search for her replacement with the mechanical engineering community in the ... Gustus L. Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering in 2017 and was named an ... as co-chair of the inaugural Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering program to encourage women ...

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A recipe for health

Earlier in the day, Lakshmi met with MIT Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart and dean of engineering Anantha ... expert in endometriosis, Linda Griffith, an MIT School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation, ... Biological Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Padma_Lakshmi_Visit-1024.jpg From left: Linda Griffith, ...

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Crystan McLymore

mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... Credit: Tony Pulsone In the lab of Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... radiation in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.  Top Left: Crystan (right) with her mother, Crystal Wright ...

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MIT Faculty Founder Initiative announces finalists for second competition

d'Arbeloff Career Development Professor in Engineering Design and assistant professor of mechanical ... in 2020 by the MIT School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Martin Trust Center for MIT ... with Ellen Roche, Latham Family Career Development Professor, an associate professor of mechanical ...

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MIT researchers demonstrate ship hull modifications to cut fuel use

of Mechanical Engineering, along with Alfonso Parra Rubio and Neil Gershenfeld of the Center for Bits ... presented at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 2025 Maritime Convention in Norfolk, ... hull,” explains Michael Triantafyllou, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT Sea ...

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From large labs to small teams, mentorship thrives

established research effort, or work with a new faculty member in a growing group? Cynthia_and_Ming.jpg ... and Ming Guo, with a lab of fewer than 10, demonstrate that excellent mentorship can thrive in ... sign up for meetings with Breazeal and participate in paper review sessions with her and co-authors. In ...

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Novel membrane reveals water molecules will bounce off a liquid surface

Karnik and his colleagues — Jongho Lee, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering, and Tahar ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “There’s a lot of controversy, and there’s no easy way ... membrane and the probability that a molecule would bounce, rather than condense. In experiments with ...

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“This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio

MIT, I just fell in love with the place. I fell in love with this idea of being in this environment ... Mechanical Engineering, and Jerry Lu MFin ’24, a former researcher at the MIT Sports Lab, visit The Curiosity ... quest to cure ovarian cancer. In a wide-ranging live conversation, MIT President Sally Kornbluth joined ...

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Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost

lab.” With the new artificial tendons in place, Raman’s group is moving forward to develop other ... bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate “biohybrid robots” made ... limited in the amount of motion and power they can produce. Now, MIT engineers are aiming to give bio-bots ...

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Four researchers earn interdisciplinary Schmidt Science Fellowships

Photo courtesy of MIT News. Álvaro Fernández Galiana is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering. As ... early-career researchers. “An initiative of Schmidt Futures, delivered in partnership with the Rhodes Trust, ... the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, or computing, and places them in a postdoctoral ...

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Talking Shop: Professor Sanjay E. Sarma

Professor Sanjay Sarma has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 1996, after ... earning his PhD from University of California at Berkeley. Renowned for his co-development of ... standards-based radio frequency identification (RFID) technology use in commercial supply chain management, ...

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