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Richard "Dick" Lyon, acoustics expert and professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, dies at 89
electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he remained for three years. He was then awarded ... Richard H. "Dick" Lyon PhD ’55, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed ... Department of Mechanical Engineering for 32 years, made many contributions to the field of acoustics both in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/richard-dick-lyon-acoustics-expert-and-professor-emeritus-mechanical-engineering-dies-89Seven from MIT named National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellows
Engineering Quantum Systems group and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, funded by ... Seven MIT graduate students have been awarded 2018 National Defense Science and Engineering ... Ocean Science and Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, funded by the Office of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/seven-mit-named-national-defense-science-and-engineering-graduate-fellowsRetired mechanical engineer puts hundreds of parts to use in kinetic sculptures
After 31 years engineering medical solutions for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Seth ... many different disciplines,” explains Goldstein, who as chief of the mechanical engineering section ... heart of a dog, and a miniature probe that could measure electrical signals from a single cell in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/retired-mechanical-engineer-puts-hundreds-parts-use-kinetic-sculpturesSchool of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards for winter 2025
Fujimoto, the Elihu Thomson Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ... “Hank” Smith, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus in the ... Engineering periodically highlights the honors, prizes, and medals won by community members working in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-faculty-and-staff-receive-awards-winter-2025Engineers invent vertical, full-color microscopic LEDs
green, and blue LEDs, arranged end to end like a meticulous Lite Brite display. When electrically ... a “screen door effect” such that users perceive stripes in the space between pixels. Now, MIT engineers have ... create vertical, multicolored pixels. MIT_Vertical-LEDs-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-invent-vertical-full-color-microscopic-ledsPat McAtamney: Empowering student-led engineering teams
the Solar Electric Vehicle Team, Motorsports team, and other Edgerton Center teams in design and ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering, teaching 2.008 (Design and Manufacturing II) for 11 years ... Most recently, the Solar Electric Vehicle Team won the American Solar Challenge two years in a row with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pat-mcatamney-empowering-student-led-engineering-teamsMIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical
viability. New research by engineers at MIT could lead to rapid improvements in a variety of electrochemical ... student Simon Rufer, professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, and three others. ... which come into contact along with an electric current in a device called a gas diffusion electrode. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-make-converting-co2-useful-products-more-practicalClosing the gender gap in mechanical engineering
individuals around the world responded to offhand comments about a female engineer with the hashtag ... #ILookLikeAnEngineer. Earlier this year, General Electric envisioned a reality in which female scientists, such as the ... technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The gender gap in these fields is pronounced, to be sure. In ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-gender-gap-mechanical-engineeringMIT engineers configure RFID tags to work as sensors
focused on manipulating a tag’s antenna, engineering it in such a way that its electrical properties ... Auto-ID Lab at MIT has long been at the forefront of developing RFID technology. Now engineers in this ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Imagine creating thousands of these inexpensive RFID tag ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-configure-rfid-tags-work-sensorsTechnology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves
Rufer, and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. A recent study found that if farmers ... with opposite electrical charges. But they found that farmers were reluctant to take on the expense and ... electric charge, they coat each droplet with a vanishingly thin layer of an oily material. In their new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technology-developed-mit-engineers-makes-pesticides-stick-plant-leaves3 Questions: A new PhD program from the Center for Computational Science and Engineering
— such as the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD; the Operations Research ... This fall, the Center for Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE), an academic unit in the ... engineering. The launch follows approval of the center’s degree program proposal at the May 2023 Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-new-phd-program-center-computational-science-and-engineeringEight MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ... Engineering. Newly elected members for this year also include an impressive 18 MIT-affiliated alumni. Election ... to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is among the highest professional distinctions accorded ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eight-mit-faculty-elected-national-academy-engineeringDecarbonizing the Diesel Engine
How does a 106-year-old company built on diesel engines evolve to thrive in a decarbonized future? ... a company built on diesel engines evolve to thrive in a decarbonized future?" Credit: Courtesy of ... engines,” Rumsey says. “Since 2010, we have improved the miles per gallon of our on-highway heavy duty engines by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/decarbonizing-diesel-engineLinda Griffith and Douglas Lauffenburger honored for contributions to biological engineering education
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “They have both been fundamental in establishing ... Professors awarded the National Academy of Engineering's prestigious Bernard M. Gordon Prize ... for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/linda-griffith-and-douglas-lauffenburger-honored-contributions-biological-engineeringGiving early-career women in mechanical engineering the tools to succeed in academia
environmental engineering, and electrical engineering and computer science, aims to prepare women for the ... For two days in late October, 34 of the brightest minds in mechanical engineering convened on ... Mechanical Engineering Workshop hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program, which is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-early-career-women-mechanical-engineering-tools-succeed-academiaMIT Society of Women Engineers’ journey into virtual connection
Society of Women Engineers (SWE), one of the largest student organizations on campus with over 400 ... engineering and MIT SWE co-president. “It just shows the impact that this organization has had and how much ... Celebration. Photo courtesy of the MIT Society of Women Engineers. MIT SWE is comprised of five departments that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-society-women-engineers%E2%80%99-journey-virtual-connectionEngineering better care
where a stem cell biologist might weigh in on a mechanical design, or an electrical engineer might spot ... L4TE brings together mechanical and electrical engineers, biologists, physicians, and veterinarians in ... explains. But “when you bring an electrical engineer together with a biologist or physician, the way that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-better-careA more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state
A strategy for cellular reprogramming involves using targeted genetic interventions to engineer ... experimental costs,” says co-senior author Caroline Uhler, a professor in the Department of Electrical ... Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) who is also co-director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-effective-experimental-design-engineering-cell-new-stateRe-engineering the sprinkler
A team of MIT engineers has described a novel way of controlling the flow of water in flexible ... Engineering: graduate student Teresa Lin, PhD candidate and Tata Fellow Pulkit Shamshery, and Assistant ... farmers cultivate small plots of land without reliable access to the electricity grid. These farmers rely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/re-engineering-sprinklerTalking Shop with Professor John Leonard
that it’s still in the process of building. He holds the degrees of B.S.E.E. in electrical engineering ... A Mechanical Engineer’s Obsession with Self-Driving Cars A Mechanical Engineer’s Obsession with ... Self-Driving Cars John J. Leonard is the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering and ...
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