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Engineering better care
a hundred members of Giovanni Traverso’s Laboratory for Translational Engineering (L4TE) fill a large ... everyone, and updates across disciplines from mechanical engineering to veterinary science, it’s a place ... where a stem cell biologist might weigh in on a mechanical design, or an electrical engineer might spot ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-better-careEngineers design bionic “heart” for testing prosthetic valves, other cardiac devices
engineers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a bionic “heart” that offers a more realistic model for ... and animal tests,” says Ellen Roche, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “[The new ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who specializes in developing hydrogel-based ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-bionic-%E2%80%9Cheart%E2%80%9D-testing-prosthetic-valves-other-cardiac-devices3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles
As part of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future’s new series of research briefs, Professor ... Leonard is the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of ... Mechanical Engineering, a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-john-leonard-future-autonomous-vehiclesMaintaining the equipment that powers our world
— who recently completed his PhD program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and will be ... Business School and Vega-Brown was pursuing his doctorate, they were again classmates in MIT’s Energy ... worked at GE Energy and Vega-Brown was well into his PhD work at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maintaining-equipment-powers-our-worldMIT community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2026
to engineering research, practice, and education. Seven MIT researchers are among the 130 new members ... Engineering Collaboration Horizontal MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering for ... and 28 international members recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2026. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-community-members-elected-national-academy-engineering-2026Full Steam Ahead
sciences and energy conversion that continues today." A photo from the MIT archives labeled “Steam ... Engine Test” and “MIT Steam and Hydraulic Lab” date unknown. Credit: MIT Museum The Steam Lab was built ... Ocean Science and Engineering in 2005. MIT’s first undergraduate courses in aeronautical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/full-steam-aheadNew Theory of Deep-Ocean Sound Waves May Aid Tsunami Detection
Kadri and his colleague, Triantaphyllos Akylas, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, have ... a matter of minutes. MIT-audio-waves.jpg “Without compressibility and gravity, we cannot describe ... overlooked acoustic-gravity waves.” Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT Researchers at MIT have now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-deep-ocean-sound-waves-may-aid-tsunami-detectionMIT engineering students crack egg dilemma, finding sideways is stronger
force, kinetic energy, and engineering design. The annual egg drop competition is a highlight of ... first-year orientation in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “Every year we follow ... the data — it was really unclear.” MITStudentResearch_DynamicTesting1024.jpg MIT engineering students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineering-students-crack-egg-dilemma-finding-sideways-stronger3 Questions: Peko Hosoi on the data-driven reasoning behind MIT’s Covid-19 policies for the fall
in the School of Engineering. The group, which is organized through MIT’s Institute for Data, ... associate dean in the School of Engineering. Image Credit: John Freidah Hosoi spoke with MIT News about the ... As students, faculty, and staff prepare for a full return to the MIT campus in the weeks ahead, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-peko-hosoi-data-driven-reasoning-behind-mit%E2%80%99s-covid-19-policies-fallAddressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design
Engineer Eric Verploegen of MIT D-Lab have released their open-source design for a forced-air ... optimize the system, both in Kenya and India, as well as our test chambers here at MIT,” says Verploegen. ... quickly transferred to cold — or at least cool — storage, much of it can go to waste. Now, MIT Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/addressing-food-insecurity-arid-regions-open-source-evaporative-cooling-chamber-designOffice of Sustainability names 2018 grant winners
Systems, and Society, and Professor Douglas Hart, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Trancik ... team seeks to study on-site renewable energy storage systems and the Hart team will be engaging in ... This year, undergraduate students taking 2.013 (Engineering Systems Design) and 2.014 (Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/office-sustainability-names-2018-grant-winnersUsing combustion to make better batteries
avert the threat of climate change, the energy system is changing. Notably, solar and wind systems are ... internal combustion engine for powering vehicles. As the energy transition progresses, researchers ... combustion. Now an assistant professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Class of 1954 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-combustion-make-better-batteriesRemoving carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust
fuels such as methane. But running such “aqueous” (water-based) systems requires large energy inputs, ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and her group at MIT have therefore been focusing on ... such as sodium or calcium. With seed funding from the MIT Energy Initiative, the team has already ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/removing-carbon-dioxide-power-plant-exhaustArtificial reef designed by MIT engineers could protect marine life, reduce storm damage
amount of material to break enough wave energy to adequately protect coastal communities. The MIT team ... instead looked for ways to engineer an artificial reef that would efficiently dissipate wave energy with ... left increasingly vulnerable to frequent flooding and erosion. An MIT team is now hoping to fortify ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-reef-designed-mit-engineers-could-protect-marine-life-reduce-storm-damageMIT spinout Gradiant reduces companies’ water use and waste by billions of gallons each day
industrial water footprint. Founded by a team from MIT, Gradiant offers water recycling, treatment, and ... demand. MIT-Gradiant-02-PRESS.jpg Gradiant builds tailored water treatment solutions that combine chemical ... drastically cut water usage and waste. To date, the company has built more than 2,500 end-to-end systems for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinout-gradiant-reduces-companies%E2%80%99-water-use-and-waste-billions-gallons-each-dayMIT engineers configure RFID tags to work as sensors
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 ... of Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at MIT. The researchers presented their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-configure-rfid-tags-work-sensorsMIT Maritime Consortium releases “Nuclear Ship Safety Handbook”
Engineering at MIT, director of the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, and co-director of the MIT Maritime ... the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), director of the MIT Sociotechnical Systems ... Koroush Shirvan, the Atlantic Richfield Career Development Professor in Energy Studies at MIT and director ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-maritime-consortium-releases-%E2%80%9Cnuclear-ship-safety-handbook%E2%80%9DOptimizing carbon nanotube electrodes
A common challenge in developing energy storage devices and desalination systems is finding a way to ... by the MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund Program and by the King Fahd University of Petroleum and ... Minerals (KFUPM) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, through the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/optimizing-carbon-nanotube-electrodesTwo from MIT recognized as outstanding engineering leaders
2012 as an undergraduate in the MIT Engineering Systems Design and Engineering Systems Development ... Alexander Feldstein '15, an MIT graduate student in aerospace engineering, and Kristen Railey ... '13, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering and former technical staff member in MIT Lincoln ...
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