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Four from MIT awarded 2018 Schwarzman Scholarships
in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT earlier this year. Aspegren aspires to ... Henry Aspegren, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, is an MIT master’s student in engineering. He received his BS ... worked as a software engineer with BetterWorks in Palo Alto. Aspegren is now completing his MEng degree ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-awarded-2018-schwarzman-scholarshipsSix from MIT awarded 2023 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
clean energy. While studying mechanical engineering at Duke University, he helped lead the Duke Electric ... ’22 Desmond Edwards graduated from MIT in 2022 with a double major in biological engineering and ... also worked with Professor Viviana Gradinaru at Caltech to engineer solutions for a novel gene therapy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-awarded-2023-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americansRJ Scaringe
Electric vehicle startup Rivian Automotive has spent the first nine years of its existence in ... been up to, dropping the curtains on its first two products, an all-electric pickup truck and SUV, at ... change the future Scaringe studied mechanical engineering for his master’s and PhD in the Sloan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/rj-scaringeInternet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other
Engineering at MIT, “was to track everything in the supply chain.” Some companies knew they had too much ... we have little or no information on something, we over-compensate. We burn more electricity, more ... electricity they should not, that are heating when no one is there. If you knew that a person was still ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/internet-things-let-avatars-talk-each-other“Electroadhesive” stamp picks up and puts down microscopic structures
who worked in the lab of mechanical engineering associate professor John Hart. “So a special ... temporarily charged, forming prickles of electrical attraction that can attract a minute particle. By turning ... rolled into microscopic tubes. CNTs are known for their exceptional mechanical, electrical, and chemical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Celectroadhesive%E2%80%9D-stamp-picks-and-puts-down-microscopic-structuresThe best semiconductor of them all?
a paper by MIT postdoc Jungwoo Shin and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen; Zhifeng Ren at ... despite its lower electrical mobilities. Imagine what boron arsenides can achieve, with 10 times higher ... still has yet to be proven.” And while the thermal and electrical properties have been shown to be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/best-semiconductor-them-allOverlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help ... says Jean-Jacques Slotine, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive ... potentials, the electrical impulses that carry information throughout the brain. However, they can use calcium ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overlooked-cells-might-explain-human-brain%E2%80%99s-huge-storage-capacity“It’s Okay if it Breaks and Blows Up”
their dreams, but also to apply and test engineering concepts in an exhilarating, hands-on manner. In ... engineering experiences. “One of the more fun things about ‘BattleBots’ and combat robotics in general is you ... get to do head-to-head engineering with other people and you get to do it in a pretty low-stress ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-okay-if-it-breaks-and-blows-up%E2%80%9DScientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene
electrical engineering. Plugging graphene To make the graphene membrane, the researchers first used a common ... making it difficult for target molecules to quickly pass through. Now MIT engineers have fabricated ... Engineering, says the team’s findings demonstrate that graphene may improve membrane technology, particularly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-produce-dialysis-membrane-made-grapheneMIT researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals
MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique, ... MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. “That’s what we’re doing at the nanoscale.” The ... light-based computing, that manipulate light instead of electricity so that devices can be faster and more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-3-d-print-colloidal-crystalsTesting new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”
Bashir, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering at the University of ... States. In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs, MIT engineers have designed ... MIT-ALS-Model_1024.jpg MIT engineers created this model of the neuromuscular junction using motor neurons derived from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/testing-new-drugs-%E2%80%9Cals-chip%E2%80%9DGame changer: How Christopher Weaver transformed video games and game studies at MIT
In the mid-1980s, an electrical engineer and avid sports fan named Ed Fletcher approached his boss ... the company’s founder and president, had a background in physics, mechanical engineering, and computer ... a physics engine bounded by the rules of football and see what it looks like. It will be a hell of a lot ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/game-changer-how-christopher-weaver-transformed-video-games-and-game-studies-mitFrom 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars
and Professor of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering J. Kim Vandiver, panelists included Robert Bond, ... chief technology officer of MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Dan Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and ... MIT D-Lab faculty research director; Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-limbs-semi-autonomous-race-carsRacing into the future of autonomous driving
— vehicles. For Zhang, the competition was the test of a year’s work. A Course 6 (electrical engineering and ... white, the automobile named DUT18 wasn’t an ordinary race car. First, it was built by engineers at TU ... will pose the Driverless team an engineering problem they didn’t have in Germany. “We’re going to be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/racing-future-autonomous-drivingFaith Brooks
engineers, electrical engineers, computer scientists, marine biologists, and oceanographers, and we had teams ... could you get a better education in ocean engineering than MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ... projects and lectures on a variety of topics related to oceanography, engineering, and marine robotics. “My ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/faith-brooksHow to Hide Like an Octopus
their surroundings — a capability that engineers have long struggled to duplicate in synthetic ... Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and Duke University Professor of Chemistry Stephen ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, says the new material is essentially a layer of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-hide-octopusHow to create selective holes in graphene
Kong, the ITT Career Development Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; MIT graduate students ... led by graduate student Sean O’Hern and associate professor of mechanical engineering Rohit Karnik, is ... student David Cohen-Tanugi of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. But producing such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-create-selective-holes-grapheneStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14
Recover and reuse. Despite having two degrees in mechanical engineering, a passion for ... engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and his master’s degree in mechanical ... engineering at MIT, Swaminathan has always loved math. “It feels good to solve math problems,” says the former ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-jaichander-swaminathan-sm-14