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SAE honors MIT researchers for best paper
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) recently presented three researchers in the Department ... of Mechanical Engineering — C. Justin Kamp, Alex G. Sappok, and Victor W. Wong — with the 2014 Arch ... chosen from thousands of papers published in 2012. The work was supported by an MIT research consortium ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sae-honors-mit-researchers-best-paperComputing
to represent complex engineering systems digitally, create and optimize computational models of ... Computing Mechanical Engineering aims to prepare students to tackle some of the world’s most ... challenging engineering problems by leveraging computational tools and methods. This concentration allows ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/computingA leg up for STEM majors
engineering, are on widely divergent paths at MIT. But their lives do intersect in one dimension: They share an ... his work at MIT's Election Data and Science Lab. “When I started, I was just looking for a place ... at MIT's Environmental Dynamics Lab (ENDLab) developing monitoring technology for marine carbon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leg-stem-majorsSyringe technology could enable injection of concentrated biologic drugs
in MIT’s mechanical engineering department who is the first author on the paper, designed a system ... diluted and injected intravenously. MIT-slippery-syringe-02-press-1024.jpg Researchers designed a system ... Kripa Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. “Drug makers need to focus on what they do ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/syringe-technology-could-enable-injection-concentrated-biologic-drugsOverlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
says Jean-Jacques Slotine, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive ... and grows with the size of the network. This makes the system not only high capacity, but also energy ... system. The brain also contains billions of astrocytes — star-shaped cells with many long extensions that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overlooked-cells-might-explain-human-brain%E2%80%99s-huge-storage-capacityFaculty Spotlight
Associate Professor Martin L. Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then became ... Precision Engineering, and the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology. Why is ... the engineering and science that enable these new technologies. How important is it to understand the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlightCrystal Winston
were at risk of going bad. Engaging others in engineering Since her first year at MIT, Winston has been ... a job,’” she laughs. “‘But maybe you could do mechanical engineering.’” Now, a decade or so later, Winston ... has taken her dad’s advice to heart. This June, she’ll complete her degree in mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/crystal-winstonInventing future fabrics
a rising MIT senior double majoring in materials science and engineering and physics; Melanie Wong of ... are the forward-looking concepts presented by a group of three students from MIT and three students ... technologies. AFFOA-FIT-MIT-Workshop_1024.jpg Advanced Fiber workshop participants compare the differences ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inventing-future-fabricsFast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease
rather stiff. MIT-Cell-Moves 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a way to assess a cell’s mechanical ... microscopes and optical tweezers, which make direct, invasive contact with the cells. Now MIT engineers have ... Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This technique really opens a door so that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fast-noninvasive-technique-probing-cells-may-reveal-diseaseMIT and Fashion Institute of Technology join forces to create innovative textiles
further than the collaboration between MIT and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). ... AFFOA_MIT-FIT_3415 1024.jpg New Balance Knit Innovation Designer Michelle Dunbar (standing at right) addresses ... participants in the Summer 2019 MIT and FIT AFFOA Workshop in Advanced Functional Fabrics. Photo: Garrett Souza ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-and-fashion-institute-technology-join-forces-create-innovative-textiles“It’s Okay if it Breaks and Blows Up”
system to power a robot. The high level of participation by MIT affiliates in “BattleBots” is an example ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering who participated in “BattleBots” as an MIT student during the ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s MakerWorks space, the MIT Electronics Research Society ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-okay-if-it-breaks-and-blows-up%E2%80%9DResurrecting an MIT “learning by doing” tradition: NEET scholars install solar-powered charging station
team. Students enrolled in MIT’s New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program recently ... undergraduate engineering education at MIT, NEET seeks to empower students to tackle complex societal challenges ... learning fundamental concepts in systems engineering, the class analyzed the station and suggested changes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/resurrecting-mit-%E2%80%9Clearning-doing%E2%80%9D-tradition-neet-scholars-install-solar-powered-chargingWiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence
MIT. In 2018, her doctoral research shifted to the interdisciplinary Sociotechnical System Research ... some degree of autonomy. This distributed sensing and information processing system intrigued Arbelaiz, ... who is researching how to design decentralized intelligence for human-made systems with embedded ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wiggling-toward-bio-inspired-machine-intelligence3 Questions: From the bench to the battlefield
ISN benefits from the work of exceptional science and engineering students from MIT, who will also be ... a quintessential part of the academic experience at MIT. The program, known as UROP, allows students to be ... “shoulder to shoulder” with faculty, graduate students, and affiliated researchers in MIT’s labs. Given the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-bench-battlefieldBianca Champenois SM ’22 Helps Model the Future for Coastal Industries
Mechanical engineering PhD student looks at geophysical systems of land, air, and water to track ... Program, which applies MIT research and engineering to ocean-related challenges, Champenois is developing ... in mechanical engineering, uses these data points to model conditions affecting acidity, a growing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bianca-champenois-sm-%E2%80%9922-helps-model-future-coastal-industriesFeatured video: Engineering joy
MIT senior Isabel “Izzy” Lloyd will graduate this spring with not only a degree in mechanical ... engineering, but with the pleasure of knowing she accomplished a goal she set for herself as a freshman: to ... impact those around her in a truly positive way. Lloyd has worn many hats during her MIT career — from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-engineering-joySensing the world around us
“Sensing is all around you,” said MIT.nano Associate Director Brian W. Anthony at Ambient Sensing, ... a half-day symposium presented in May by the MIT.nano Immersion Lab. Featuring MIT faculty and researchers ... magnificent.” Minchew’s group is working with other researchers at MIT to build a drone capable of flying for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-usDesigning vehicles that drive, fly — and swim
mechanical engineering. She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, ... her first year at MIT, Winston has been involved with the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), ... community excited about engineering. Winston is also a member of MIT’s Black Students’ Union and recently ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-vehicles-drive-fly-%E2%80%94-and-swimStartup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
MIT BioInstrumentation Laboratory. This system constantly monitors the injection trajectory and ... system was published in 2012 in the journal Medical Engineering and Physics. The device can also ... anxiety associated with needles, some patients stop adhering to these treatments. MIT spinout Portal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-needle-free-drug-injector-gets-commercialization-deal