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At the forefront of building with biology
and PhD in mechanical engineering. Her postdoc at MIT was funded by a L'Oréal USA for Women in ... It would seem that engineering is in Ritu Raman’s blood. Her mother is a chemical engineer, her ... father is a mechanical engineer, and her grandfather is a civil engineer. A common thread among her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/forefront-building-biologyOnce abroad is not enough
a mechanical engineering major, has integrated three study abroad experiences into his MIT education. “I first ... authors in London, or taking summer courses in Scandinavia are just some of the ways that MIT students ... programs are now a growing sector in MIT’s global education offerings. The multi-week courses are attractive to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/once-abroad-not-enoughWomen’s Technology Program 2021: The sweet sound of success
Each year, a new cohort of high school students come to MIT’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus to ... now in its 19th year, brings high school students with little-to-no engineering and computer science ... experience to Cambridge every summer for an immersive, four-week exploration of all things engineering. But ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/women%E2%80%99s-technology-program-2021-sweet-sound-successLetter from the Department Head
Department Head Dear Friends, The Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT has been at the forefront of ... MIT. Sincerely, Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and Department Head ... innovators, and engineering leaders.” Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-1From 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars
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 ... ; and Jaya Narain, PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at the Fluid Interfaces Group in the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-limbs-semi-autonomous-race-carsFirst-year students take center stage on Killian Court
On a chilly Monday in May, MIT’s Killian Court was transformed into a festival of fun. Over 1,200 ... “PLAYsentations” — demonstrating the toys they created this semester in mechanical engineering class 2.00b (Toy ... iconic location so early in their time at MIT was a surreal experience. “It was such a symbolic setting. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-year-students-take-center-stage-killian-courtStick with me
and arrived at MIT to study mechanical engineering. Wang studied the nanoscale physics of fluid, while ... has left an indelible mark on the MIT campus. Demas and Wang met as undergraduates at Yale University ... stayed their entire time at MIT. “I feel truly lucky to have made such a terrific friend in Jerry,” says ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-meCourse 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design
courses mechanical engineering students can opt to take at MIT, “this class integrates all the other ... other mechanical engineering courses that I have previously taken at MIT and showed me how to apply the ... Mechanical Design isn’t a typical course, even for mechanical engineering. One of the last undergraduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/course-272-elements-mechanical-designAlumni Profile: Peter Lehner
Cotchett’s machine shop solidified his interest in mechanical engineering. A few years later, he came to MIT ... a teenager. He loved rebuilding old cars and wanted to become an aircraft engineer after college. “I knew ... a man named Mr. Cotchett who was a mechanical engineer during the Depression,” explains Lehner. “He was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-profile-peter-lehnerPeter Lehner
solidified his interest in mechanical engineering. A few years later, he came to MIT on the GI Bill and ... cars and wanted to become an aircraft engineer after college. Peter Lehner.jpg “I knew a man named Mr. ... Cotchett who was a mechanical engineer during the Depression,” explains Lehner. “He was involved in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/peter-lehnerQuick Test for Ebola
’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the technical staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. “We ... treatment and isolation. A new test from MIT researchers could change that: The device, a simple paper strip ... symptoms and it’s not clear what they have,” says Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, a visiting scientist in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-test-ebolaSynthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion
By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply ... Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham ... National Institutes of Health, and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Tuesday, August 25, 2020 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-coating-gi-tract-could-deliver-drugs-or-aid-digestionPolymer Day 2023 showcases interdisciplinary innovation
bubbles Saurabh Nath, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering with the Varanasi Research ... MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, for his presentation “Development of Cartilage Penetrating ... fabrics and used as microphones or loudspeakers. Such was the varied innovation that crowded MIT’s Morss ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/polymer-day-2023-showcases-interdisciplinary-innovationStudent Spotlight: Spencer Wilson (Candidate SB ’15)
students to start the famously hands-on Course 2 program in mechanical engineering at MIT with little ... a budding engineer’s goldmine. His house was in a constant state of flux and renovation, and his father had ... a scientific point of view…. A lot of people discredit learning those ideas formally, but MIT does a really ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-spencer-wilson-candidate-sb-%E2%80%9915New material could make it easier to remove colon polyps
Mechanical Engineering. Monday, July 29, 2019 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Entrepreneurship ... remove safely. However, this cushion doesn’t last long. MIT researchers have now devised an alternative ... a more stable and longer-lasting cushion. Injectable-Hydrogel-1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-could-make-it-easier-remove-colon-polypsLiving Undersea
Ocean engineering alumna Grace Young (SB '14) reflects on her experience as part of Fabien ... mechanical and ocean engineering alumna Grace Young '14 reflects on her experience. Young led the team ... footage of marine life on the coral reef in slow motion. Ocean Science and Engineering Environment Impact ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/living-underseaAlumni Spotlight: Professor Woodie Flowers (SM ‘68, MEng ‘71, PhD ‘73)
Flowers breathed new life into the MIT way of teaching engineering by doing, a reinvigoration at the right ... engineering is all about having fun. But it wasn’t always that way. As a high school student from a poor ... convictions led him to become a major force in the transformation of mechanical engineering education. Having ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-professor-woodie-flowers-sm-%E2%80%9868-meng-%E2%80%9871-phd-%E2%80%9873Guided discovery in teaching structural mechanics
Over the course of their education at MIT, mechanical engineering undergraduate students have many ... MIT AeroAstro, where some of these same discoveries are used in class 16.001 (Unified Engineering ... mechanics. Class 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials I) provides mechanical engineering students the foundation ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guided-discovery-teaching-structural-mechanicsCancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests
Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and an author of the study. MIT graduate ... author. Other MIT authors include Peter So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ... A study from MIT now shows that tumor cells become much softer as they undergo this process. The findings ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cancer-cells-soften-they-metastasize-study-suggestsBuie, Kim receive DARPA Young Faculty Award
autonomous control algorithms. Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Mechanical engineering green Culture crb@mit.edu ... Assistant Professors Cullen Buie and Sangbae Kim of the Department of Mechanical Engineering both ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/buie-kim-receive-darpa-young-faculty-award