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Researchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging
journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, in a paper by associate professor of mechanical engineering ... 2010, leading to the worst oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, the well’s operators ... thought they would be able to block the leak within a few weeks. On May 9 they succeeded in lowering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-coatings-prevent-pipeline-cloggingMIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders
the discipline. The Department of Mechanical Engineering first offered a program in marine engineering ... Gillespy says. “We’ve had students working in electrical engineering on power systems, in mechanical ... closely with MIT, where some of the world’s foremost experts in each of those disciplines converge. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-graduate-programs-empower-next-generation-naval-leadersThree MIT professors named 2024 Vannevar Bush Fellows
that defy conventional boundaries. Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical engineering and the ... Sapsis, the William I. Koch Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Center for Ocean ... Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, in a press release. “It's ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-professors-named-2024-vannevar-bush-fellowsRetirements
Faculty Fellow in 2000. He recently retired from his position as Professor of Mechanical Engineering in ... of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Medicine, and the National ... Mechanical Engineering for 7 years. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the ASME Heat ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/retirementsStents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract
stents in patients. The research was funded by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors ... stents are coated in a smooth layer of plastic etched with small “needles” that pop up when the tube is ... an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stents-inspired-paper-cutting-art-can-deliver-drugs-gi-tractMIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team wins 2021 American Solar Challenge
(equivalent to 597.5 miles). In the process, SEVT member and rising junior in mechanical engineering Cameron ... Mehrotra, a rising senior in electrical engineering and computer science. “We were all hopeful, but I don’t ... American Solar Challenge (ASC) on August 7 in the Single Occupancy Vehicle (SOV) category. During the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-solar-electric-vehicle-team-wins-2021-american-solar-challengeHarnessing the speed of light
group at MIT might have found a solution. “In my group we play tricks with optics,” says Fang, an ... associate professor of mechanical engineering. These tricks have led to findings that allow for generating ... says. The hope could lie in transmitting light on chips with graphene. Light itself is a marvelous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harnessing-speed-lightPhonon catalysis could lead to a new field
just like it's very hot,” says Asegun Henry, professor of mechanical engineering and co-author of ... process in lithium phosphate. Armed with this knowledge, researchers could use lasers to selectively ... Batteries and fuel cells often rely on a process known as ion diffusion to function. In ion ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phonon-catalysis-could-lead-new-fieldMobius App Released to Empower MIT Maker Community
entrepreneurial projects. Rebecca Li, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, notes that students often have ... through the vast array of makerspaces and equipment on campus. Developed in partnership with students, ... students. Available to download for iOS (with an Android version in development), Mobius will match users’ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mobius-app-released-empower-mit-maker-communityHidden ocean waves
MIT for this research; Pierre Lermusiaux, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ocean ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering at MIT. Photo by Tim ... observed in their simulations. To do this, they started with an existing equation that characterizes the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hidden-ocean-wavesSix from MIT, including MechE's Thomas Peacock and Lydia Bourouiba, named American Physical Society Fellows for 2021
hydrodynamics.” Thomas Peacock is a professor in mechanical engineering. He joined the MIT faculty in 2000 and ... Mechanical Engineering, and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where she founded and ... coherent structures in turbulent flow, and the application of fluid mechanics to deep-sea mining.” Lindley ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-including-meches-thomas-peacock-and-lydia-bourouiba-named-american-physicalDrug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition
Mechanical Engineering. “Over the course of six years of research and development at MIT, we’ve overcome ... as part of his ongoing PhD in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Finally, the audience ... The $100K program began with student pitches in December and was followed by mentorship, funding, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-injection-device-wins-mit-100k-competitionMIT-Royalty Pharma Faculty Founder Initiative supports biotech innovators
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The MIT-Royalty Pharma Faculty Founder Initiative ... associate department head for research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, won the grand ... forward to seeing the transformative solutions this latest cohort will develop.” In 2021, the Faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-royalty-pharma-faculty-founder-initiative-supports-biotech-innovatorsMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
more toward mechanical engineering, as it intersects with so many other fields,” says Yang. Yang went ... on to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering at MIT, where he worked on improving an ultrasound ... (LIDS), where he works with Luca Carlone, the Leonardo Career Development Associate Professor in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionCreating “big, beautiful things”
things with [my] hands and being able to actually work in the physical world, and by studying mechanical ... engineering, computers, mechanical stuff, everything someone needs to know in order to be able to do that,” ... to be as emotionally educated as I am technically educated.” Parrish, who is majoring in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-%E2%80%9Cbig-beautiful-things%E2%80%9DIlluminating a complex disease
infertility, but very little is known about how it arises. In 2009, biological engineer Linda Griffith launched ... Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s biological engineering and ... mechanical engineering departments, and a senior author of the paper. “Endometriosis patients report symptoms ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/illuminating-complex-diseaseJulien Barber
a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... business and engineering. I love being in a lab, I like crunching numbers and solving problems with pen and ... superconductors used in the new conceptual design present opportunities for fusion research. “With LTS you were ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/julien-barberGetting a grip on robotic grasp
to the pinky and thumb. A novel control algorithm enables it to move in sync with the wearer’s ... way to move your robotic fingers,” says Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT’s ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You do not need to command the robot, but simply move your fingers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspDesigning the Next-Generation Prosthesis
a low cost for those in need in developing countries. MIT graduate student Katy Olesnavage redesigns the ... Jaipur Foot to create a high-value prosthesis at a low cost for those in need in developing countries. ... developing world. <iframe width="640" height="360" ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-next-generation-prosthesis