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New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
they never had before,” says A. John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering. “If we can replace some ... plastics. Now, an MIT team has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with ... microscopic cells. A single wood cell wall is constructed from fibers of cellulose — nature’s most abundant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-plant-derived-composite-tough-bone-and-hard-aluminumEleven MIT students accept 2019 Fulbright Fellowships
a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering. She will be going to Taiwan as an English Teaching Assistant ... three applicants from MIT were selected as finalists but decided to decline their grants. MIT’s newest ... Development. The MIT winners are: Annamarie "Anna" Bair ’18 earned a bachelor of science in computer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eleven-mit-students-accept-2019-fulbright-fellowshipsChuck Goddard
Chryssostomidis, professor of mechanical engineering ocean engineering. After graduating from MIT, it was time to ... Nicholas Makris, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and director of the Center for Ocean ... MIT’s Ocean Engineering Research and Development Fund. Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/chuck-goddard“It’s Okay if it Breaks and Blows Up”
the Department of Mechanical Engineering who participated in “BattleBots” as an MIT student during the ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s MakerWorks space, the MIT Electronics Research Society ... of MIT’s thriving maker culture, according to Dawn Wendell ’04, SM ’06, PhD ’11, a senior lecturer in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-okay-if-it-breaks-and-blows-up%E2%80%9DNew approach makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their targets
findings are reported today in the journal Physical Review Fluids, in a paper by MIT associate professor of ... land instead of bouncing off. MIT-Mesh-Droplets-1024.jpg Photos illustrate how the tiny droplets ... Varanasi Research Group Now, a team of MIT researchers has found a way to balance those properties and get ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-makes-sprayed-droplets-hit-and-stick-their-targetsMaintaining the equipment that powers our world
— who recently completed his PhD program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and will be ... undergraduates, they took a few of the same courses, with Vega-Brown double majoring in mechanical engineering and ... bulb goes on Vega-Brown and Garrity crossed paths in a number of ways at MIT over the years. As ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maintaining-equipment-powers-our-worldVelcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination
.edu Horizontal MIT engineers, including Professor John Hart have designed a food sensor from an array of silk ... MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array of silk microneedles, ... says Benedetto Marelli, the Paul M. Cook Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/velcro-food-sensor-detects-spoilage-and-contaminationMIT MechE Research Exhibition Showcases Breadth of Student and Postdoc Innovation
Design, Impact, and Presentation The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering held its 2026 Research ... Association of MechE (GAME) in partnership with the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. For more ... information about MERE, visit mere.mit.edu. Tuesday, March 17, 2026 Lisa Maxwell | Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-meche-research-exhibition-showcases-breadth-student-and-postdoc-innovationMaria Yang named vice provost for faculty
the mechanical engineering department at Stanford University, returned to MIT in 2007 as an assistant ... Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed vice provost for faculty at MIT, a role in which she will oversee ... International and the Axim Collaborative. Yang, who attended MIT as an undergraduate in mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maria-yang-named-vice-provost-facultyA new way to irrigate crops year-round
Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT, for encouraging students to pursue ideas outside of ... beginning of 2016, while Simon stayed at MIT to pursue his PhD. Although the challenges didn’t stop when ... lifestyles of farmers and minimizes risk for vulnerable communities. MIT-Khethworks-02-PRESS 1024.jpg The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-irrigate-crops-year-roundMo Mirvakili
engineering, followed by a PhD in mechanical engineering under MIT Professor Ian Hunter, which involved ... Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 was in the middle of an experiment as a postdoc at MIT when the Covid-19 ... completing his PhD, Mirvakili joined Institute Professor Bob Langer’s lab as a postdoc, where he worked ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mo-mirvakiliAlbatross robot takes flight
professor of mechanical engineering and information sciences and of brain sciences; and Michael ... Triantafyllou, the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering. The physics of speed ... a mechanical process called a “transfer of momentum,” in which it takes momentum from higher, faster layers of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightMaking her way through MIT
MIT), she has found ways to make building things and engineering more accessible to others — from ... crash course, she served as one of three graduate instructors for the mechanical engineering curriculum, ... share how she got started in engineering. This fall marks the 10th year of Du’s MIT career. As she ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-her-way-through-mitMIT launches MITx MicroMasters in Principles of Manufacturing
uncertainty,” says David Hardt, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “All too often, people fail to get ... MIT today announced the launch of the Institute’s third MITx MicroMasters program, in principles ... in a broad array of engineering capacities, including manufacturing, supply chain management, design, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-launches-mitx-micromasters-principles-manufacturing3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to ... Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ... printers,” says Shaochen Chen, professor of nano-engineering at the University of California at San Diego, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesTesting new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”
MIT-ALS-Model_1024.jpg MIT engineers created this model of the neuromuscular junction using motor neurons derived from ... Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at ... Bashir, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering at the University of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/testing-new-drugs-%E2%80%9Cals-chip%E2%80%9DResearchers design moisture-responsive workout suit
Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a co-author on the ... Wang’s co-authors include 14 researchers from MIT, specializing in fields including mechanical ... Lining Yao as part of MIT’s Tangible Media group, led by Hiroshi Ishii, the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-moisture-responsive-workout-suit2.013: Engineering Systems Design
take advantage of the heat energy generated, while also trying to devise a way to draw power from the ... cost of petroleum perpetually threatening to shoot upwards, and its potentially devastating effects on ... A student rendering of the aluminum-fueled electric vehicle being designed by undergraduate students in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2013-engineering-systems-design