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School of Engineering faculty receive awards in summer 2024
Faculty and researchers receive many external awards throughout the year. The MIT School of ... Engineering periodically highlights the honors, prizes, and medals won by community members working in ... Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, professor of brain and cognitive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-faculty-receive-awards-summer-2024Blending medicine and mechanical engineering
position in mechanical engineering and medical engineering at MIT after completing her PhD. She deferred ... Roche sees a major role for engineers. “A lot of the systems in the body are very mechanical,” she ... both industry and academia. As an assistant professor at MIT, she holds a joint appointment in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/blending-medicine-and-mechanical-engineeringEngineers turn the body’s goo into new glue
recent years to design similar bioinspired, waterproof adhesives. Now engineers from MIT and Freie ... When Degen came to MIT, he worked with both McKinley, a professor of mechanical engineering and an ... Chu | MIT News orange Horizontal George Degen, a postdoc in Mechanical Engineering, and Gareth ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-turn-body%E2%80%99s-goo-new-glueTurning emissions into fuel
MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power ... chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. The new membrane-based system was developed by MIT ... postdoc Xiao-Yu Wu and Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-emissions-fuelJani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Natel Energy, she designed components for a novel hydropower system. At MIT, she has served as an ... a senior pursuing a double major in physics and electrical engineering and computer science. At MIT, Bent ... use their combined MIT and Stanford educations to improve the world through renewable energy and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jani-adcock-and-drew-bent-named-knight-hennessy-scholarsDesigning for a more equitable world
School of Engineering to discuss her love of teaching MIT students about international development work, ... This October marks 15 years since Amy Smith, a celebrated inventor and educator, founded MIT ... challenges. MIT-D-Lab-Amy-Smith-1024.jpg D-Lab classes, research groups, and programs are connected to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-more-equitable-worldTeaching mechanical engineering in a pandemic
nature of many mechanical engineering classes posed a unique challenge for faculty and staff in MIT ... engineering at MIT. New bonds and friendships form during lectures, labs, and recitations. “This class is ... history. Well before MIT announced its plans for fall semester in early July, faculty and teaching staff ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-mechanical-engineering-pandemicPat McAtamney: Empowering student-led engineering teams
student-led engineering teams at MIT's Edgerton Center. ... At the Open House for the Edgerton Center Clubs and team this past fall, MIT Technical Instructor ... (46).jpg McAtamney came to MIT in 2002, having worked as a research machinist on NASA's Hubble Space ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pat-mcatamney-empowering-student-led-engineering-teamsSchool of Engineering first and second quarter 2020 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... Engineering was named principal investigator for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Early ... service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes their achievements by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-first-and-second-quarter-2020-awardsFive MIT faculty elected 2021 AAAS Fellows
MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, director of Model Systems and Neurobiology at the Stanley ... structures to create innovative solutions in thermal management, energy, and water harvesting systems. Her ... Five MIT faculty members have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-faculty-elected-2021-aaas-fellowsIce melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities
member in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, had an opportunity to observe the ... MIT technology and policy master's student Ilham Ali and Harvard University alumna Sahar Omer to ... partnered with MIT-Africa, an MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) program, to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ice-melts-us-sudan-relations-providing-new-opportunitiesSchool of Engineering third quarter 2021 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science won the 2022 IEEE Control Systems Award on July 1. Markus ... service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes their achievements by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-third-quarter-2021-awardsScientists observe a single quantum vibration under ordinary conditions
energy known as phonons. MIT-Quantum-1024.jpg MIT researchers detect a single quantum vibration within ... materials specially engineered to harbor very few phonons, at relatively high energies. These researchers ... a diamond sample (shown here) at room temperature. Image: Sabine Galland Now scientists at MIT and the Swiss ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-observe-single-quantum-vibration-under-ordinary-conditions3 Questions: Sanjay Sarma and Bill Bonvillian on new technologies in workforce education
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and William B. Bonvillian, lecturer in the MIT Program in Science, ... Sanjay Sarma, MIT vice president for MIT Open Learning and the Fred and Daniel Fort Flowers ... Technology, and Society and former director of MIT’s Washington D.C. office, recently produced a new research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-sanjay-sarma-and-bill-bonvillian-new-technologies-workforce-educationNew model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance
a person’s particular running style. MIT engineers are hoping to change that with a new model that predicts ... _Sneaker-Design-01-PRESS_0.jpg A model developed by MIT engineers predicts the optimal running shoe design for a given runner. Pictured ... is authored by Fay and Anette “Peko” Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Running, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-predicts-how-shoe-properties-affect-runner%E2%80%99s-performanceSylas Horowitz
collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... were accepted to MIT on Pi Day 2018. Art, architecture, engineering — “it’s all kind of the same,” ... Denmark, one of the countries they toured during a summer 2019 field trip led by the MIT Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sylas-horowitzInfinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition
Infinite Cooling, an energy startup founded at MIT, pitched its business plan to a panel of energy ... Austin, Texas, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Infinite-Cooling ... wins-DOE-CleanTech-UP-MIT-1024.jpg Left to right: Infinite Cooling researchers graduate student Karim Khalil, associate professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/infinite-cooling-wins-cleantech-university-prize-competitionMapping the effects of crystal defects
unsolved. Now, the MIT team has found a new mathematical approach to analyzing such systems, using a new ... MIT has been able to learn important details about how those interactions work, which could inform ... future efforts to develop thermoelectric devices and other electronic systems. The findings are reported ...
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