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Charles Stuard Woodard
Last year, during a reception on campus, MIT senior Joshua Charles Woodard was introduced to ... countries, discussing Institute policies as a member of the eight-student advisory cabinet convened by MIT ... up on the South Side of Chicago, envisioned a future in engineering at MIT. Childhood experiences ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/charles-stuard-woodardLIVE FROM KILLIAN COURT: It's PLAYsentations!
importantly, students. After enjoying fried dough, hot dogs, and bouncy castles, over 1,200 members of the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/live-killian-court-its-playsentationsAlex Hattori
Each spring, accepted MIT students trek to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Institute’s annual ... not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering, ... a pivotal moment came during his Campus Preview Weekend as he was browsing The Coop, MIT’s bookstore. “I ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-hattoriOrisa Coombs
senior Orisa Coombs outside the Stata Center at MIT. Photo Credit: John Freidah “At 15, the intense pain and sense of ... make a difference in the world led her to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. “I didn’t ... Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that improved the lives of others. Her work on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/orisa-coombsTraining STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential
In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ... she noticed something special about MIT’s community. “Everyone had this confidence that we could solve ... world to have that experience in their education as well.” Beem realized that part of MIT students’ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/training-stem-teachers-uncover-students%E2%80%99-full-potentialBringing it all back home
speaking at MIT on Thursday, contending that if U.S. states pursue broad, long-term measures to improve the ... society,” said Wolf, who received his doctorate in political science at MIT. 1024TomWolf.png Gov. Tom Wolf ... of Pennsylvania, a 1981 graduate of MIT's PhD program in the Department of Political Science, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-it-all-back-homeA. Michael West
An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and ... shaped by programs including the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), the MIT-Takeda Program, and the MIT ... to participate in the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP). The program identifies talented ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/michael-westJ-WAFS welcomes Daniela Giardina as new executive director
every MIT department, lab, and center, spanning all disciplines. Supported research projects include ... and awards to the MIT community, supporting roughly 10 percent of MIT’s faculty and 300 students, ... postdocs, and research staff from 40 MIT departments, labs, and centers. J-WAFS grants have also helped ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-welcomes-daniela-giardina-new-executive-directorCelebrating the life and legacy of George Hatsopoulos
Corporation. But at an event hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in January, Hatsopoulos’ ... University of Athens, he enrolled at MIT where he earned a bachelor’s degree, master of science degree, ... a business, Hatsopoulos continued to teach at MIT. Fueled by his passion for education and love of fun, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/celebrating-life-and-legacy-george-hatsopoulosProtecting machine learning datasets
to graduate school at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he joined Associate Professor ... friend, Antoni Rosinol SM’18, a graduate student in MIT AeroAstro, started brainstorming ideas that solved ... practical problems outside of the lab. They joined MIT Fuse, a micro-accelerator program organized by the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-machine-learning-datasetsProfessor Ioannis Yannas, pioneer of regenerative medicine who invented artificial skin for the treatment of severe burns, dies at 90
artificial skin for the treatment of severe burns, and a longtime member of the MIT faculty, died on Oct. 19 ... Engineering. Credit: John Freidah/MIT MechE: Credits:: Yannas, known to friends and colleagues as Yanni, held ... appointments in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-ioannis-yannas-pioneer-regenerative-medicine-who-invented-artificial-skinPioneering Pedagogy
design process, transforming the design curriculum in mechanical engineering at MIT. He also wrote ... development of the Utah Elbow and the MIT Knee, shown here working with Flowers, who was then a graduate ... student. Credit: MIT Museum “My academic career of more than 50 years has been committed to involving ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pioneering-pedagogyMechE Milestones
MIT celebrates the 150-year anniversary of its first lab opening and its designation as Course ... engineering at MIT dates back to the founding of the Institute in 1861. In fact, when the first students ... industry guests, and MIT community members traveled to campus, with more tuning in to watch event live ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-milestonesTransforming boating, with solar power
The MIT Sailing Pavilion hosted an altogether different marine vessel recently: a prototype of ... a solar electric boat developed by James Worden ’89, the founder of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team ... the MIT Edgerton Center, MIT Sea Grant, and the broader community an inside look at the Anita, named ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transforming-boating-solar-powerHeather Beem
In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ... she noticed something special about MIT’s community. “Everyone had this confidence that we could solve ... world to have that experience in their education as well.” Beem realized that part of MIT students’ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beemDarya Guettler
MIT Energy Initiative program called Solar Spring Break, which had partnered with Homeboy Industries, ... concentrations. She arrived at MIT with the goal of mitigating climate change through technological innovation, ... and soon joined the MIT Undergraduate Energy Club, where she says she met inspiring and equally ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/darya-guettlerThe Making of a Mechanical Engineer in Seven UROPs
In 2004, a few days into his first semester at MIT, Folkers Rojas ’09, SM ’11, PhD ’14 stopped by ... a safety tool to seal off free-flowing oil wells. He is also a part-time instructor in the MIT Department ... attempt to build a satellite that could harvest solar energy, designing a camera for MIT’s Wallace ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-mechanical-engineer-seven-uropsMark Kurz
never expected to be at the forefront of a pandemic — who does? — but his participation in the MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as an SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management. “I was really ... drawn to the MIT LGO program because it covered three main areas: engineering and technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mark-kurzEvelyn Wang appointed as director of US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). RS2421_Evelyn_08-lpr.JPG Evelyn Wang, MIT ... engineering from MIT in 2000. After receiving her master’s degree and PhD from Stanford University, she ... returned to MIT as a faculty member in 2007. In 2018, she was named department head of MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-appointed-director-us-department-energy%E2%80%99s-advanced-research-projects-agencySeaPerch, a robot with a mission
Launched by MIT Sea Grant, SeaPerch and SeaPerch II have had a big impact on young learners ... PhD ’97, MIT SeaGrant education administrator and s enior l ecturer in the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering. SeaPerch II, which has been in development at MIT Sea Grant since 2021, builds on the original ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/seaperch-robot-mission