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Two MIT films nominated for New England Emmy Awards
environmental research. “No Drop to Spare,” created by the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), was ... Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center working in Kenya, Morocco, and Jordan to deploy affordable, user-driven ... users.” Freidah has worked with Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’11, associate professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-films-nominated-new-england-emmy-awardsCrack densification in drying colloidal suspensions
Hyman, Jr. Career Development Professor of mechanical engineering, rationalizes the spectacular crack ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crack-densification-drying-colloidal-suspensionsAn inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight
engineers have designed a new type of gastric balloon that can be inflated and deflated as needed. In an ... deflated in between meals,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at ... 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-weightOn a quest for a better football helmet
Next time you’re watching football you might be looking at an important feat of engineering from ... an MIT alumnus. For the last year, former MIT middle linebacker and mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ... “I’m currently the only engineer at LIGHT, so I wear a lot of different hats,” Brush says. A safer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quest-better-football-helmetLincoln Laboratory and National Strategic Research Institute launch student research program to tackle biothreats to national security
conducted a pilot of the program embedded within the MIT Engineering Systems Design and Development II ... engineering design and prototyping, challenges students to take what they learned in the classroom in their ... fluid mechanicals, controls, and solid mechanics." In total, 12 mechanical engineering students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lincoln-laboratory-and-national-strategic-research-institute-launch-student-researchCreeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale
even art conservation, where salt damage is a major threat to heritage materials. In civil engineering ... when salt begins to creep, engineers can better design protective coatings or drainage systems to ... professor in Cornell University); Jeff Punch and Vanessa Egan from the School of Engineering at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creeping-crystals-observing-salt-creep-single-crystal-scaleDigital Instruments for Musical Togetherness
Engineering graduate student Joseph Ntaimo ’23 builds instruments that “empower people to jam with ... measured, and is converted to a sonic output. Today, as a graduate student in mechanical engineering ... degree. “He’s really pushed me to become a better engineer,” says Ntaimo. In addition to that work, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/digital-instruments-musical-togethernessKodiak Brush
Next time you’re watching football you might be looking at an important feat of engineering from ... an MIT alumnus. For the last year, former MIT middle linebacker and mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ... “I’m currently the only engineer at LIGHT, so I wear a lot of different hats,” Brush says. A safer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/kodiak-brushAmber Velez
be different and better. After assembling an engine by hand in an introductory mechanical ... engineering (MechE) course, she declared her first major and forged a career path. She explains, “I love ... engineering.” Her research focuses on clean energy and decarbonization. Velez built her second major by hand, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/amber-velezRavi Patil ’93, SM ’95, IT Executive and Storyteller
alumna who is using her engineering skills to unravel the mystery of her husband’s puzzling disease, ... components and streamlined manufacturing processes for worldwide vehicle platforms. “As mechanical engineers ... mechanical engineering, and he stays actively connected to MIT through a variety of volunteer activities. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ravi-patil-%E2%80%9993-sm-%E2%80%9995-it-executive-and-storytellerColoring outside the lines
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other ... envisions materials such as fabrics, fibers, and fluids that can be engineered to generate colors without ... engineered to generate colors without chemicals. | Right: Mathias Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coloring-outside-linesMaking agriculture more resilient to climate change
Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ... “Bringing together our strengths across disciplines, including engineering, processing at scale, biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeOutside-the-Box Thinker
an aspiring mechanical engineer on a budget wants a top-of-the-line guitar, what does he do? He makes ... a functional object. MIT-Nathan-Spielberg1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone As a mechanical engineering major at ... power lines, they’re usually swaying in the wind. There are a lot of inherent engineering and physics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/outside-box-thinkerMIT alumnus Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel gives major gift to solve urgent challenges in world food and water security
of disciplines: urban planning and design, engineering and technology, climate and hydrology, and ... water supply, according to MIT professor of mechanical engineering John Lienhard, who will direct the ... science and engineering and then coordinate the efforts of MIT's faculty, labs, and centers to work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-alumnus-mohammed-abdul-latif-jameel-gives-major-gift-solve-urgent-challenges-worldAn Eye for Design
freely? Maria Yang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which ... planners, designers, and engineers — improve their creative process by measuring the activities they engage ... She wound up majoring in mechanical engineering, and was instantly drawn to the design courses. Not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eye-designHow to float your coffee creamer
locations in a chip, at certain temperatures. With this new understanding, researchers could also engineer ... engineers can determine what is the initial critical temperature difference they need to maintain two drops ... able to sustain,” says Michela Geri, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-float-your-coffee-creamerPaper-folding art inspires better bandages
engineers have come up with a stickier solution, in the form of a thin, lightweight, rubber-like film. The ... kirigami. MIT-Kirigami-Film_1024.jpg Ruike Zhao, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Fahrenheit. The group has also engineered a wearable electronic film outfitted with light-emitting diodes. All ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/paper-folding-art-inspires-better-bandagesLobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber
carapace that shields the rest of the crustacean. But engineers at MIT and elsewhere have found that this ... Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “If you could make armor out of these types of ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and another senior author of the paper. Flexible protection ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lobster%E2%80%99s-underbelly-tough-industrial-rubberRobotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide ... engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “If we could design a device to reverse blood ... Mechanical Engineering, describe their soft robotic design today in the journal Science Robotics. The paper’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsStudents present product prototypes inspired by kindness
On the evening of Dec. 7, six teams of mechanical engineering students presented the product ... of class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). For many MIT seniors, their entire undergraduate ... mechanical engineering. Thanks to the efforts of course instructor Professor David Wallace and a massive team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-product-prototypes-inspired-kindness