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Providing hands-on photonics education across Massachusetts
electronics technicians and engineers. Weninger teaches LEAP bootcamp-1024.jpg: MIT materials science and ... facility. MIT’s LEAP, located on the fifth floor of MIT.nano, was the first in what is now a network of five ... labs supporting innovation in advanced manufacturing across Massachusetts. Photo courtesy of MIT LEAP. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/providing-hands-photonics-education-across-massachusettsInnovating for health equity
Throughout her time at MIT, senior Abigail Schipper has volunteered as an EMT with MIT EMS, ... a student-run ambulance supporting the MIT community as well as Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Boston. As a first ... 1024-Abigail-Schipper-01-press.jpg A longtime leader of MIT EMS, senior Abigail Schipper hopes to increase peoples’ access to medical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovating-health-equityEvelyn Wang joins leadership team in MechE
Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor and the director of MIT’s Device Research ... (MechE). Evelyn N. Wang 1024.jpg Professor Evelyn Wang, the director of MIT’s Device Research Laboratory, ... as associate department head — she has provided outstanding service to MIT and her profession,” says ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-joins-leadership-team-mecheFeatured video: Building a roller coaster
Every year during residence exploration week at MIT, or REX week, our undergraduate residence ... hopefully choose to join. So, how do you get the attention of first-year MIT students? At East Campus, you ... students who use them to customize their rooms. Video by: Melanie Gonick/MIT News | 3 min 21 sec Sunday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-building-roller-coasterAmos Winter wins the Harold E. Edgerton Award
Faculty Achievement Award, announced today at MIT’s faculty meeting. The award was established in 1982 as ... persistent challenges in the developing world.” The committee, chaired by MIT Sloan School of Management ... Winter's laboratory, Dan Dorsch, have both been awarded the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, Wright this year ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/amos-winter-wins-harold-e-edgerton-awardLincoln Laboratory and National Strategic Research Institute launch student research program to tackle biothreats to national security
The following announcement was released jointly by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the National ... Strategic Research Institute. MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI) at ... Department of Defense (DoD), have established a joint student research program. NSRI release image.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lincoln-laboratory-and-national-strategic-research-institute-launch-student-researchEvelyn Wang named head of Department of Mechanical Engineering
Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall (1978) Professor and director of MIT’s Device Research ... Laboratory, has been named head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, effective July 1. ... was named as one of MIT Technology Review ’s 10 breakthrough technologies of 2017. Her work on the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-named-head-department-mechanical-engineeringResponsive design meets responsibility for the planet’s future
MIT senior Sylas Horowitz kneeled at the edge of a marsh, tinkering with a blue-and-black robot ... collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... gas emissions from thawing permafrost, MIT senior Sylas Horowitz has been developing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/responsive-design-meets-responsibility-planet%E2%80%99s-futureLights, camera, inspiration
Alumni from MIT’s 2004 Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) Team and the Carl Hayden Community High ... the national MATE (Marine Advanced Technology Education) ROV Competition. Back in 2004, the MIT ROV ... competition by one point and gaining the status implied by "beating MIT." An article in Wired ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lights-camera-inspirationWiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence
sensing and computation. At MIT, Arbelaiz is an applied math student who is working on the fundamentals of ... fascinating as compared to what we can achieve with human-made machines.” A fluid transition to MIT Her ... graduate studies at the University of Navarra in San Sebastian led to her working with MIT Professor John ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wiggling-toward-bio-inspired-machine-intelligenceAffordable high-tech windows for comfort and energy savings
a startup spun out of MIT, is poised to start manufacturing such windows. Building operations make up 36 ... Technology development at MIT Research on AeroShield’s window technology began a decade ago in the MIT lab of ... Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). In late 2014, the MIT team received funding from ARPA-E, and other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/affordable-high-tech-windows-comfort-and-energy-savingsDepartment snapshot: Civil and Environmental Engineering
profiling academic departments at MIT. "T his is a department with a very long history,” says Andrew ... Whittle, the head of MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). That history, dating ... courses of study available to MIT students). But CEE is also a department that has changed significantly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-snapshot-civil-and-environmental-engineeringUsing Engineering Savvy to Improve Product Designs
would improve them. Edward Burnell_1024.jpg Edward Burnell is a graduate student in MIT ... and appreciated its focus on intrinsic motivation. Finding his place at MIT Burnell, who also has ... a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT, didn’t expect to attend such a large university, but during ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-engineering-savvy-improve-product-designs“Mens et manus” in Guatemala
Amy Smith (center), professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and founder of the MIT D-Lab, and ... by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and managed by MIT’s Department of ... challenges — results that are picked up and used by policymakers and actors in the private sector,” says MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cmens-et-manus%E2%80%9D-guatemalaWhere the wind blows
world's total energy usage over the next half-century? As the MIT Energy Initiative approaches its fifth ... simply because the technology is mature," says Paul Sclavounos, an MIT professor of mechanical ... relatively close to consumers, are generally far enough away to be out of sight. MIT's Sclavounos has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-wind-blowsClass opens the door to a new world of mechanical engineering
says Portela, who is the d’Arbeloff Career Development assistant professor in MIT’s Department of ... challenge brought students into a lab at the world-class MIT.nano facility, an environment so delicate that ... enormous excitement in having participated in the competition and experienced the MIT.nano lab. “You walked ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-opens-door-new-world-mechanical-engineeringWhen healthy meets fast food
MIT, now runs the largest vegan/vegetarian restaurant company in the U.S. “I saw the issues in the ... so.” Read more stories like this in the Slice of MIT blog. Tuesday, October 10, 2017 Julie Barr | MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-healthy-meets-fast-foodEngineering Joy
When the late professor emeritus Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73 was a student at MIT ... engineering students are educated — at MIT, and around the world. A victor is crowned in the 1983 2.70 final ... competition. Credit: Calvin Campbell, Historical Collections, MIT Museum Flowers passed away in 2019, but his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-joy-0Using aluminum and water to make clean hydrogen fuel — when and where it’s needed
mechanical engineering at MIT. “Using aluminum as our source, we can ‘store’ hydrogen at a density that’s 10 ... Thomas W. Eagar, a professor of materials engineering and engineering management in the MIT Department of ... aluminum from a variety of sources. Using those samples, the MIT researchers performed a series of tests to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-aluminum-and-water-make-clean-hydrogen-fuel-%E2%80%94-when-and-where-it%E2%80%99s-neededReimagining an iconic design class
For the past 50 years, mechanical engineering students at MIT have convened on campus for ... many students, the class and competition are a driving factor in their decision to enroll in MIT. “Each ... year, students tell us that they came to MIT specifically to take 2.007 and participate in the mayhem of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reimagining-iconic-design-class