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Erik Ballesteros
is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... the University of Texas at Austin, where he pursued a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering. What ... off with Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Enginering and director of the d'Arbeloff Laboratory ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/erik-ballesterosMIT Participates in the White House's National Week of Making
campus in a diversity of ways,” says Martin Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering and MIT ... Members of the MIT community host maker events on campus and give talks about making in ... Washington. MIT joined maker communities across the country to inspire Americans of all backgrounds to create, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-participates-white-houses-national-week-makingIntroducing the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance
Gallant, alliance director who is also the Kendall Rohsenow Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Lobby 13. Credit: Gretchen Ertl “MIT has a long history of impactful collaborations with industry, and ... the collaboration between MIT and GE Vernova is a shining example of that legacy,” said Chandrakasan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/introducing-mit-ge-vernova-climate-and-energy-allianceSix MIT students selected as spring 2024 MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows
in mechanical engineering and a BA in economics from University of California at Berkeley. Mahdi ... engineering from MIT, an MPhil in energy technologies from Cambridge University as a Gates Scholar, and a BS ... design. He earned a BS in electrical engineering and computer sciences from University of California at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-students-selected-spring-2024-mit-pillar-ai-collective-fellowsSylas Horowitz
collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... “Of course, something must always go wrong,” Horowitz, a mechanical engineering major with minors in ... were accepted to MIT on Pi Day 2018. Art, architecture, engineering — “it’s all kind of the same,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sylas-horowitzMechE Film "Water Is Life" Wins New England Emmy Award
for MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), attended the black tie affair where he ... Excellence Award from the The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). "Water Is ... Interested in highlighting the important work done in Professor Amos Winter’s Global Engineering and Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-film-water-life-wins-new-england-emmy-awardHermano Igo Krebs elected to Fellowship in IEEE
Fellowship. Having received his PhD in ocean engineering from MIT, Krebs pioneered the robotics rehab field at ... a Fellow of IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). The IEEE cited Krebs’ ... the Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation at MIT in collaboration with Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hermano-igo-krebs-elected-fellowship-ieeeQ&A: Options for the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
transportation. MIT News asked report co-authors Jacopo Buongiorno, the TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and ... Engineering, and John Lienhard, the Jameel Professor of Water and Food, to discuss the group’s findings. Q: ... to close in 2025. A team of researchers at MIT’s Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, Abdul ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-options-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plantGlobal MIT At-Risk Fellows Program expands to invite Palestinian scholars
visiting scholars from other troubled areas of the globe. That time arrived this fall, when MIT launched ... environment, but also very supportive,” says Youcef-Toumi, a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... international scholars to MIT for semester-long study and research meant to benefit their regions of origin ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/global-mit-risk-fellows-program-expands-invite-palestinian-scholars2.009 lights up the stage
— to do something new.” Course instructor David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering and master ... was technology. MIT-2.009-05-1024.jpg Members of each of the eight student teams take the stage for ... product designers attended one of MIT’s most anticipated annual events to cheer on the 139 students of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2009-lights-stageFolkers Rojas
oil wells. He is also a part-time instructor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. “In the ... Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, on solar energy storage. That project evolved into Rojas’s ... things when I arrived at MIT,” recalls Rojas. “I thought that a mechanical engineer was the guy who fixed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/folkers-rojas-0Turning extreme heat into large-scale energy storage
through metal pipes. Fourth Power, founded by MIT Professor Asegun Henry SM ’06, PhD ’09, is turning these ... costs.” A career in heat Henry earned his master’s and PhD degrees from MIT before working in faculty ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Heat transfer systems are usually made out of metals like iron and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-extreme-heat-large-scale-energy-storageEngineering Medical Devices
Mechanical engineering students from MIT work with clinicians from Boston-area hospitals to design cheaper, ... https://youtu.be/s83WpLs0DiQ Mechanical engineering students from MIT work with clinicians from Boston-area hospitals to design ... cheaper, safer, and more efficient medical devices. Mechanical engineering students from MIT work with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-medical-devicesNot quite a solid, not quite a liquid: Meet hydrogels
Professor and professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering, and Evelyn Wang, ... vice president for energy and climate and professor of mechanical engineering, are among the ... Thursday, September 4, 2025 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Horizontal Not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-quite-solid-not-quite-liquid-meet-hydrogelsWindow-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water
Whitaker Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. “It’s a test ... currently an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). MIT co-authors include ... origami-inspired hydrogel material, designed by MIT engineers, that swells to absorb water from the air. When water ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-waterLeslie's legacy
After forty-seven years in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Leslie Regan retired, ... you mention Leslie Regan’s name to any alum of MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, their ... thousands of mechanical engineering students. Regan joined MIT’s staff in September 1974. She started as an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leslies-legacyThe poster session goes virtual
studying mechanical engineering, developed a computational model of OARO that correlated with experimental ... Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal Student organizers of the ... Opportunities Program (UROP) projects, and postdocs gather to share their mechanical engineering research with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/poster-session-goes-virtualAn inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight
deflated in between meals,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at ... Zixun Jia, who received a PhD from MIT in 2023, is the lead author of the paper, which appears today in ... limitation.” The research was funded by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Karl van Tassel Career ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-gastric-balloon-could-help-people-lose-weightSupporting sustainability, digital health, and the future of work
Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering. A common theme in her work is the ... innovation. Established in MIT’s School of Engineering and now in its third year, the MIT and Accenture ... and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “They embody the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/supporting-sustainability-digital-health-and-future-workWhitehead Institute receives $10 million to study sex chromosomes’ impact on women’s health
Page, Whitehead Institute director and MIT professor of biology, who leads the sex differences ... own experience. She was the first woman to earn a mechanical engineering degree from Stanford ... a master’s degree at MIT in 1961, she was the sole woman in the school’s mechanical engineering department. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whitehead-institute-receives-10-million-study-sex-chromosomes%E2%80%99-impact-women%E2%80%99s-health