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2.150: Celebrating Mechanical Engineering at MIT
150 years ago, in 1873-74, MIT opened its first mechanical engineering laboratory. Around then, ... Mechanical Engineering History at MIT Since MIT’s founding, mechanical engineers have led the charge in ... we also swapped numbers with Civil Engineering and first became known as Course 2! On May 14 and 15, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/2150-celebrating-mechanical-engineering-mitNew Kind of “Tandem” Solar Cell Developed
student Jonathan Mailoa; associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi; Colin Bailie and ... have been successfully paired with silicon cells in this configuration, a feat that posed numerous ... a professor at the University of New South Wales, in Australia, who was not connected with this research. “The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-%E2%80%9Ctandem%E2%80%9D-solar-cell-developedNew model of the GI tract could speed drug development
MIT engineers have devised a way to speed up the development of new drugs by rapidly testing how ... a drug in just hours. In a paper appearing today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the researchers used ... the intestine. The researchers also developed new mechanical devices to press the tissue between two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-gi-tract-could-speed-drug-developmentSustainable and Global Development
Developing Countries Suggested subjects with limited or no engineering content (the number of engineering ... Sustainable and Global Development Two tracks are possible in this program. One track, in ... Engineering for Sustainability, is intended for students interested in work on sustainability in the context ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/sustainable-and-global-developmentMIT team races to second in electric car competition
Award at the Society of Automotive Engineers' Formula SAE Electric competition in Lincoln, ... was understandably pleased with the outcome. “Nothing in the classroom can prepare you for the ... team had issues with the rain test that prevented them from competing in the Endurance category. “But ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-team-races-second-electric-car-competitionQ&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions
of Shipping Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, discusses her work with ... leading in partnership with Ed Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan professor of neurotechnology and Howard Hughes ... photosynthesis, carbon fixation, and food production has the potential to usher in a second green revolution. Q: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-climate-grand-challenges-finalists-accelerating-reductions-global-greenhouse-gasProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... information helps you know where to start with design.” This research was supported in part by the MIT ... everywhere in our daily lives, from toothpaste and shower gel to mayonnaise and yogurt. Colloidal gels are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsHeather Theberge, mechanical engineering staff member, dies at 42
Heather Theberge, an administrative assistant in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... instrumental in ensuring that the mechanical engineering undergraduate program ran smoothly. Her caring nature ... assistant, she was instrumental in ensuring that the mechanical engineering undergraduate program ran ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/heather-theberge-mechanical-engineering-staff-member-dies-42Ingestible medical devices can be broken down with light
done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break down inside ... develop different ways in which we can trigger the disassembly of devices in the GI tract without the ... requirement for a major procedure,” says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-medical-devices-can-be-broken-down-lightProfessor Emeritus Ronald Probstein, world-renowned expert in fluid mechanics, dies at 93
Ronald Probstein, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed away at the age of 93 on ... Sept. 19. Probstein, who joined MIT’s faculty in 1962, was a leading expert in fluid mechanics. His ... assistant professor of engineering and applied mathematics in 1954. Eight years later, he joined the faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-ronald-probstein-world-renowned-expert-fluid-mechanics-dies-93Professor Emeritus Ali Argon, pioneer in the mechanics of materials, dies at 89
Engineering, passed away on Dec. 21, 2019, at the age of 89. A world-leading expert in the mechanics of ... under Professor Egon Orowan. Argon received his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in ... Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Throughout his career, Argon combined novel experiments with theoretical and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-ali-argon-pioneer-mechanics-materials-dies-89The answer may be blowing in the wind
a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of mechanical engineering, is developing ... Chemical Engineering, in his introduction to the event. In sessions devoted to technology, deployment and ... worst possible conditions,” said Paul Sclavounos, a professor of mechanical engineering and naval ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/answer-may-be-blowing-windU.S. News Gives Top Rankings to MIT Graduate Programs in Engineering, Business
Berkeley), materials engineering, and mechanical engineering (tied with Stanford). MIT also received the No. ... 2 ranking in nuclear engineering and biomedical engineering (tied with Georgia Tech). In the rankings of ... graduate program in engineering has once more placed at the top of U.S. News & World Report’s annual ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/us-news-gives-top-rankings-mit-graduate-programs-engineering-businessFifteen Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive 2024 R&D 100 Awards
injury. Today, the system is in use by select U.S. Special Forces units. The laboratory co-developed ... Mechanical Engineering developed new forms of biocompatible fabrics that mimic the mechanical properties of ... is shared with the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. FocusNet is a machine-learning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fifteen-lincoln-laboratory-technologies-receive-2024-rd-100-awardsU.S. News ranks MIT’s graduate program in Engineering No. 1; Sloan is No. 5 business school
with Stanford and Berkeley); mechanical engineering (tied with Stanford); and nuclear engineering (tied ... with the University of Michigan). MIT’s graduate program in biomedical engineering was also a top-five ... MIT’s graduate program in engineering has been ranked No. 1 in the country in U.S. News & ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/us-news-ranks-mit%E2%80%99s-graduate-program-engineering-no-1-sloan-no-5-business-schoolSeaPerch, a robot with a mission
Engineering. SeaPerch II, which has been in development at MIT Sea Grant since 2021, builds on the original ... engineering, first became involved with the project in January 2023 through a UROP with MIT Sea Grant. ... interested in ocean science and engineering The SeaPerch underwater robot is a popular educational tool for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/seaperch-robot-missionEvelyn Wang named head of Department of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineers Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer in 2012, and she was honored ... Laboratory, has been named head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, effective July 1. ... development of a device that can extract fresh water from the air in arid environments was selected by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-named-head-department-mechanical-engineeringNew laser setup probes metamaterial structures with ultrafast pulses
Courtesy of the researchers The technique, developed by MIT engineers, probes metamaterials with a system ... materials,” says Carlos Portela, the Brit and Alex d’Arbeloff Career Development Professor in Mechanical ... with figures courtesy of the researchers But engineers are severely limited in their options for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-laser-setup-probes-metamaterial-structures-ultrafast-pulsesSENSE.nano awards seed grants in optoelectronics, interactive manufacturing
sensing and recognition Jeehwan Kim, associate professor with a dual appointment in mechanical engineering ... associate director of MIT.nano, and a principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical ... know that so much important research — in sensors; sensor systems; and sensor science, engineering — is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensenano-awards-seed-grants-optoelectronics-interactive-manufacturingSystem provides cooling with no electricity
the radiative cooling device was measured under full sunlight, both with the insulating material in ... a paper in the journal Science Advances, by MIT graduate student Arny Leroy, professor of mechanical ... E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering. But this is a different issue that has received much ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-provides-cooling-no-electricity