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Lifetime Achievement: Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram
courtesy of the MIT Museum He refers to himself as a seagoing Sherlock Holmes. Known for many things, not ... unrelenting seeker of the most precise ocean science and engineering truths. He was a member of the MIT team ... undergraduate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, adding naval architecture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-emeritus-jerome-milgramDepartment of Mechanical Engineering Wins New England Emmy Award for “Hope Regenerated”
1970s. The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) multimedia team has been recognized with ... A Life-Saving Discovery at MIT MechE,” the only winning film submitted by an institute of higher education. ... Yannas was studying the physics of collagen and the theory of viscoelasticity in polymers at MIT when he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-mechanical-engineering-wins-new-england-emmy-award-%E2%80%9Chope-regenerated%E2%80%9DA community of making
Schor, second from left, teaches students on the use of equipment in the MIT MakerWorkshop. Photo by John ... Freidah When Culpepper was named MIT’s maker czar in 2015, he started out by mapping out MIT’s own maker ... making life of MIT students. At the same time, Culpepper says, he went on a national listening tour and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/community-makingErnesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94
Ernesto E. Blanco, a renown inventor, mechanical designer, and beloved former professor in MIT ... climbing wheelchair, one of 150 inventions showcased in the museum. // MIT President Susan Hockfield and ... VIP's kick off the celebration of the institute's 150th anniversary with an event at the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ernesto-blanco-mechanical-design-professor-and-inventor-stair-climbing-wheelchair-dies-94Building 31 powers back up
A $52 million renovation of the 90-year-old Building 31 on MIT’s campus has transformed the space ... from MIT alumnus Kent Kresa. Professor Jonathan How from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics ... joint research and educational program with MIT Lincoln Laboratory. “It was the generosity and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-31-powers-backJani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Two MIT seniors, Jani Adcock and Drew Bent, will be part of this fall’s inaugural class of ... Natel Energy, she designed components for a novel hydropower system. At MIT, she has served as an ... adviser for the student-run MIT Fall Career Fair, and as vice president of career development for MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jani-adcock-and-drew-bent-named-knight-hennessy-scholarsTata Center adds eight new projects to its 2018-2019 portfolio
The MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design recently announced eight new projects for the ... world. The center received close to 70 inspiring proposals that will put the MIT community’s wealth of ... Diabetes" — Richard Fletcher of MIT D-Lab "Assessing the Socioeconomic and Technical Requirements for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tata-center-adds-eight-new-projects-its-2018-2019-portfolioProfessor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson, expert in human-powered transport and gas turbines, dies at 91
of 91. Wilson served on MIT’s faculty since 1966 and remained an active member of the mechanical ... Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to conduct research abroad at MIT and Harvard University. At the conclusion of his ... then the head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wilson joined MIT’s faculty in 1966. He ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilson-expert-human-powered-transport-and-gas-turbinesAdvocating for science funding on Capitol Hill
This spring, 26 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional ... spring, the MIT Science Policy Initiative (SPI) organizes the Congressional Visit Days (CVD). The trip ... members of the MIT Washington Office and learn about policy careers. group-picture.png Congressional Visit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advocating-science-funding-capitol-hillSMART researchers receive Intra-CREATE grant for personalized medicine and cell therapy
interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research ... Singapore, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of experts from MIT and Singapore, for new research ... materials science and engineering, and associate provost at MIT. Understanding glaucoma progression for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-researchers-receive-intra-create-grant-personalized-medicine-and-cell-therapyRohit Karnik named director of J-WAFS
Rohit Karnik, the Tata Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named ... impact around the world,” Waitz wrote. J-WAFS is the only program at MIT focused exclusively on water and ... at MIT, taking advantage of MIT’s strengths in so many disciplines that contribute to these most ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rohit-karnik-named-director-j-wafsClosing the gender gap in mechanical engineering
late MIT Professor Emerita Millie Dresselhaus, are revered just as much as celebrities and athletes. ... contrast to the undergraduate population in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), which as of ... starts before students set foot onto MIT’s campus. MIT’s Office of Admissions has employed a variety of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-gender-gap-mechanical-engineeringA Not-So-Trivial Pursuit
Senior Ernesto Ramirez is the first MIT student to compete in the "Hispanic College ... Crayton says Ramirez did very well: “He did a great job representing his family, his culture, and MIT ... addition to being a first for MIT, it sends an important message about the Institute. “This is just one way ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-so-trivial-pursuitDroplets break a theoretical time barrier on bouncing
to bounce away from such a surface. But MIT researchers have now found a way to burst through that ... Engineering at MIT, along with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of ... mechanical engineering at Boston University, former MIT postdoc Rajeev Dhiman, and recent MIT PhD recipient ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-break-theoretical-time-barrier-bouncingA brave new ocean world
research engineer at MIT, says to describe the ceiling-to-floor map of the world ocean and continents that ... covers the walls outside his office in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary ... of the MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm), a very widely used ocean modeling tool. Development of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/brave-new-ocean-worldAdvancing technology for aquaculture
error. With funding from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), MIT Sea Grant is ... working with Associate Professor Otto Cordero of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental ... providing high-quality shellfish seed to local and regional growers. Two MIT students have joined the effort ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-technology-aquacultureIce melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities
MIT technology and policy master's student Ilham Ali and Harvard University alumna Sahar Omer to ... partnered with MIT-Africa, an MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) program, to ... "ZAHARA approached the MIT-Africa Program as a passionate and well-organized group," says MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ice-melts-us-sudan-relations-providing-new-opportunitiesJ-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food technologies
Solutions grant recipients. The J-WAFS Solutions program aims to propel MIT water- and food-related research ... companies. 2021 Solutions Grantees1024.jpg: MIT faculty who received 2021 J-WAFS Solutions grants include ... 2015, grants have provided instrumental support in creating a number of key MIT startups that focus on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-announces-2021-solutions-grants-commercializing-water-and-food-technologiesSensing the world around us
“Sensing is all around you,” said MIT.nano Associate Director Brian W. Anthony at Ambient Sensing, ... a half-day symposium presented in May by the MIT.nano Immersion Lab. Featuring MIT faculty and researchers ... magnificent.” Minchew’s group is working with other researchers at MIT to build a drone capable of flying for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-usSupporting sustainability, digital health, and the future of work
The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology has selected three new ... innovation. Established in MIT’s School of Engineering and now in its third year, the MIT and Accenture ... future of work. Accenture research selectees.jpg: The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/supporting-sustainability-digital-health-and-future-work