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Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award
features spanning from the nano- to the macro- scale. Buehler was the first to explain how hydrogen bonds, ... the nation’s oldest and most esteemed engineering honors. The Washington Award is conferred to ... accomplishments in computational modeling and mechanics of biological materials, and his contributions to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/markus-buehler-receives-2025-washington-awardStudent Spotlight: Grace Young (SB ‘14)
is that NOAA can use accurate data to set annual catch limits or mark some zones as ... continue her work on marine robotics to help protect the oceans. “I’m especially interested in how humans can ... the sea isn’t uncommon, but it takes a true love of the ocean to want to live beneath the sea. When ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-grace-young-sb-%E2%80%9814Under the sea
explains. “The idea is that NOAA can use accurate data to set annual catch limits or mark some zones as ... hopes to continue work on marine robotics to help protect the oceans. “I’m especially interested in how ... A house by the sea isn’t uncommon, but it takes a true love of the ocean to want to live beneath ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/under-seaPhysicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow
for how to design an experiment based on their hypothesis. They plan to build a laboratory-sized ... then stimulate using a laser beam at microwave wavelengths. They are looking for ways to engineer the ... jumps to hyperspace is a canonical image. But what would a pilot actually see if she could accelerate in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-embark-hunt-long-sought-quantum-glowDesigning cleaner vehicles
team’s motorcycle is fondly named Toothless, a nod to the dragon in the Dreamworks movie “How to Train ... Vehicle Team (SEVT) and eventually led the group to victory in a five-day, 900-mile race. Later, he ... translated the skills he learned from SEVT to a summer internship in Ghana with the startup Moving Health, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehiclesJosh Randolph: Taking care of others as an EMT and ROTC leader
high-pressure situations took some getting used to, but he loved that he was helping. “It feels a little ... the quality of patient care. “It’s great to see how new students integrate and gain bigger roles and ... “I always wanted to be in public service, serve my community, and serve my country,” says the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/josh-randolph-taking-care-others-emt-and-rotc-leaderFormer MIT president Charles M. Vest dies at 72
achieve with edX and MITx.” In 1999, Vest charged a faculty committee with considering how to use the ... birth of the Singapore-MIT Alliance, intended to promote global engineering education and research using ... life comes down to how one handles the points where the roads cross. I am also overwhelmed with the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/former-mit-president-charles-m-vest-dies-72Two MIT PhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for their research on water
uses low-cost, remote sensors to better understand water fetching practices. Bessette is conducting ... using machine learning models, propose novel hypothetical MOFs tailored to specific ion separations from ... interdisciplinary research aimed at solving the world's most pressing water and food security challenges to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-phd-students-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-their-research-waterMirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes
can be used to generate detailed dark-field images of algae, bacteria, and similarly translucent tiny ... They can therefore appear to change colors depending on how their structures are arranged or ... intended to use as a miniature laser. The middle layer functions as the chip’s light source, made from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mirrored-chip-could-enable-handheld-dark-field-microscopesStudy finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch
commonly used in the laboratory. In each cell, an engineered gene was initially set to a different level of ... colleagues have beautifully shown how analog memory arises through chemical modifications to the DNA itself,” ... When cells are healthy, we don’t expect them to suddenly change cell types. A skin cell on your ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cell-memory-can-be-more-dimmer-dial-onoff-switchFive from MIT named 2023 Quad Fellows
he combines electrophysiology and virtual reality to understand how the hippocampus forms episodic ... Quad Fellowship aims to build the next generation of STEM leaders by recognizing exceptional ... individuals who intend to pursue STEM graduate study in the United States. Twenty-five fellows from each of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-named-2023-quad-fellowsEngineering Joy
only how to design an object, but also how to build it and, by demonstrating the value of practical, ... ourselves a team,” she says. Today, in addition to using the kit of mechanical parts and materials, students ... affinity for making things, and for making them work. When he transitioned from student to teacher, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-joy-0Tackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time
addressed simultaneously because of how they affect each other, from renewable fuel infrastructure to ... As a major contributor to global carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, the transportation sector has ... immense potential to advance decarbonization. However, a zero-emissions global supply chain requires ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-energy-revolution-one-sector-timeAI and machine learning for engineering design
explains Ilan Moyer, a graduate student in MechE. “Our task was to [determine], how can we do better?” Live ... the practice skill of “literally how to code it.” The curriculum incorporates discussions on research ... Futami In Ahmed’s course, 2.155/156 (AI and Machine Learning for Engineering Design), students use tools ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-and-machine-learning-engineering-designInfinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition
costs Infinite Cooling’s patent-pending technology uses electrical fields to recapture up to 80 percent ... Plant, where they are monitoring and gathering data on how water consumption changes with the use of ... Infinite Cooling, an energy startup founded at MIT, pitched its business plan to a panel of energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/infinite-cooling-wins-cleantech-university-prize-competitionNew method for propulsion in fluids
tasks. The team decided to use a metal wedge, about 5 inches long, containing a heating element that ... Researchers at MIT have discovered a new way of harnessing temperature gradients in fluids to ... boundary. “People had only ever studied this phenomenon in relation to a fixed object,” Peacock says. But ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsCooling when there’s too much heat
times smaller. Using that approach, they produced textured surfaces that could be heated to temperatures ... can figure out how to fit a system into the small space inside electronic devices.” Yoav Peles, ... emergency power supplies, crews sprayed seawater on the reactors to cool them — to no avail. One possible ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-when-there%E2%80%99s-too-much-heatThe tenured engineers of 2021
rapid design of open shell transition metal complexes. Her group uses these tools to bridge the gap from ... The School of Engineering has announced that MIT has granted tenure to eight members of its ... scholars has shown an incredible commitment to teaching and research — they have each had a tremendous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tenured-engineers-2021“Mens et manus” in Guatemala
government farm extension workers to teach avocado producers how to improve their practices. The long-term ... them to test the device. “For us, it is a dream to be able to interact with technology,” said Francisca ... and thyme. Their objective: to explore processes for extracting essential oils from their plants and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cmens-et-manus%E2%80%9D-guatemalaAn energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
long-duration energy storage contenders. “We performed a comprehensive, bottom-up analysis to understand how the ... flowable semi-solid electrodes, and to guide battery engineering using techno-economics of such flowable ... don't sink to the bottom of the flow tanks when the system isn’t being used, as well as not separate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-cream