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Legena Henry
engineering master’s from MIT and a PhD from the University of the West Indies (where she is a lecturer). They ... operated a portable generator, which in turn charged an electric vehicle. Henry estimates that if 75 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/legena-henryGEARing technology for developing markets
resulted in the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), developed at the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) ... single-cylinder turbocharged engine. “The convergence of the technical and the socioeconomic is the backbone of ... GEAR Lab,” says Winter, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “One ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gearing-technology-developing-marketsNylon fibers made to flex like muscles
the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Previously, researchers had come up with the basic principle ... easily be achieved, they say. Various heat sources can be used on the fibers, including electric ... versatile. The method of actuation is by simple electrical input. The bending actuation performance is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nylon-fibers-made-flex-musclesTraining STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential
the bucket was the centerpiece of a small wind turbine that could generate electricity. The project ... capable of,” Beem says. “They realized, ‘I made something. If I don't have electricity, I can find ... running PEN, Beem is also an engineering professor at Ashesi University in Ghana, where the lasting power ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/training-stem-teachers-uncover-students%E2%80%99-full-potentialHeather Beem
the bucket was the centerpiece of a small wind turbine that could generate electricity. The project ... capable of,” Beem says. “They realized, ‘I made something. If I don't have electricity, I can find ... running PEN, Beem is also an engineering professor at Ashesi University in Ghana, where the lasting power ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beemBy attracting the world’s sharpest talent, MIT helps keep the US a step ahead
electrical engineering and computer science professor Akintunde Ibitayo (Tayo) Akinwande, who grew up in ... community to be part of.” Daniela Rus agrees. Now the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical ... Engineering and Computer Science and director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/attracting-world%E2%80%99s-sharpest-talent-mit-helps-keep-us-step-aheadHeather Beem
the bucket was the centerpiece of a small wind turbine that could generate electricity. The project ... capable of,” Beem says. “They realized, ‘I made something. If I don't have electricity, I can find ... expand to other parts of Africa more quickly. In addition to running PEN, Beem is also an engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beem-0A cool new way to study gravity
are Tina Heyward and Rajesh Menon of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the ... Shin, a PhD candidate in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE). “The key to answering ... 08_1024x768.jpg Dongchel Shin, a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering and the lead author of a new paper that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cool-new-way-study-gravityMIT team races to fill Covid-19-related ventilator shortage
Detienne, an electrical engineer and member of the MITERS makerspace. Two students at the MIT Maker Workshop ... He says “your mechanical and electrical engineering team will have to inquire as to what's in ... units, professor of mechanical engineering Alex Slocum Sr. and other engineers at MIT swung into action, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-team-races-fill-covid-19-related-ventilator-shortageHow “2D” materials expand
MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as others from the Department of Electrical ... engineering. Zhong is co-lead author of a research paper that demonstrates just such a “ruler.” Rather than ... could help engineers design next-generation electronics. “By confirming this narrower physical range, we ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-%E2%80%9C2d%E2%80%9D-materials-expandNew Device Could Make Large Biological Circuits Practical
electrical engineering and computer science. There are many potential uses for such synthetic biological ... professor of mechanical engineering Domitilla Del Vecchio and professor of biological engineering Ron Weiss. ... lead author of the paper is Deepak Mishra, an MIT graduate student in biological engineering. Other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-device-could-make-large-biological-circuits-practicalStudent-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes
Simulated ski run challenges mechanical engineering students to produce a wide array of robots. ... This year’s arena for the annual robotics competition that caps the mechanical engineering class called ... legendary at MIT. Clare Zhang, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, built that winning robot. While ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-built-robots-compete-slopesScientists Tune Polymer Material’s Transparency
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, says the researchers’ experimental polymer structure and ... Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; and Shanmugam Kumar ... color or transparency in response to external stimuli, such as electrical, chemical, or mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-tune-polymer-material%E2%80%99s-transparencyMIT Students Win First Round of SpaceX Hyperloop Contest
mile-long run. With strengths in aeronautics, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering and ... dozen fellow graduate students from a variety of engineering disciplines have been racing to create ... MIT. Douglas P. Hart of Mechanical Engineering, is facilitating team members working on the project for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-win-first-round-spacex-hyperloop-contestTalking Shop: Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao
a bachelor’s in electrical engineering, a master’s in materials engineering, a PhD in mechanical engineering ... , and I did a post-doc in biomedical engineering. My education has inspired me to ask interdisciplinary ... external technologies. That has become my major research interest – using mechanical engineering to improve ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-associate-professor-xuanhe-zhaoFrom Naval Architecture to Big Tech to MIT’s Corporation Chair
engineering, and electrical engineering and computer science. Greene has also been a member of the Deshpande ... As Diane Greene SM ’78 approached the end of her undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering ... Berkeley in 1988. Greene went on to work as a software engineer, then executive, entrepreneur, and investor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/naval-architecture-big-tech-mit%E2%80%99s-corporation-chairA new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
particular problem that they have, so a lot of engineering and not so much flexibility in terms of the ... complex robotics tasks,” says mechanical engineering doctoral student Antonia Delores Bronars SM ’22. ... Bronars, who is now working with Pulkit Agrawal, assistant professor in the department of Electrical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-offers-robots-precise-pick-and-place-solutionsApplying For Admission
General Admissions Information Applications to the Mechanical Engineering (MechE) Graduate Program ... a Bachelor’s degree. Most incoming students will have a degree in mechanical engineering or ocean engineering ... backgrounds in other branches of engineering or in science may apply. To qualify for a graduate degree, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/prospective-students/graduate/applyResearchers present novel, enzyme-free strategy for detaching cells from culture surfaces
contamination-conscious workflows for cell therapies, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine Anchorage-dependent ... professor of mechanical engineering. “Enzymatic treatments can damage delicate cell membranes and surface ... from the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Cancer Program at the Broad Institute of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-present-novel-enzyme-free-strategy-detaching-cells-culture-surfaces