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T.K. Pillan
wellness. T.K. Pillan ’90, a mechanical engineering major while at MIT, now runs the largest ... restaurant company in the U.S. Although Pillan started his career in computer systems after graduating with ... a degree in mechanical engineering, he decided to start a business that helped to tackle health and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/tk-pillanRavi Patil ’93, SM ’95, IT Executive and Storyteller
mechanical engineering, and he stays actively connected to MIT through a variety of volunteer activities. ... During his six years at MIT, Ravi Patil ’93, SM ’95 kept a journal. The 120-page record chronicled ... where it sat for years, mostly forgotten. “Late one night during the pandemic, I cracked open my MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ravi-patil-%E2%80%9993-sm-%E2%80%9995-it-executive-and-storytellerHigh-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet
Giants. That’s the motivation behind a new study by engineers at MIT and the University of Twente in the ... such as vaccines through skin without using needles. MIT-Bubble-Jet-1024.jpg New study on water jets ... apple. Analysis could help tune needle-free injection systems. Image courtesy of researchers, and Tiny ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-camera-captures-water-jet%E2%80%99s-splashy-impact-it-pierces-dropletA droplet walks into an electric field …
student in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Physics. “With our equation, one can predict ... benefit to engineers working with, or trying to design, any system that involves liquids and electricity.” ... the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, BAE Systems, the Assistant Secretary of Defense ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplet-walks-electric-field-%E2%80%A6Eleven MIT faculty receive Presidential Early Career Awards
Eleven MIT faculty, including nine from the School of Engineering and two from the School of ... Science, were awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). More than ... 15 additional MIT alumni were also honored. Established in 1996 by President Bill Clinton, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eleven-mit-faculty-receive-presidential-early-career-awardsCreeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale
when salt begins to creep, engineers can better design protective coatings or drainage systems to ... Mooney’s Marie Curie Fellowship at MIT. “I was focused on improving desalination systems and quickly ran ... New research from the MIT Device Research Lab uncovers the hidden world of salt creeping Salt ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creeping-crystals-observing-salt-creep-single-crystal-scale“Electroadhesive” stamp picks up and puts down microscopic structures
similar to or smaller than grains of flour,” says Sanha Kim, a former MIT postdoc and research scientist ... who worked in the lab of mechanical engineering associate professor John Hart. “So a special ... systems.” Now Kim, Hart, and others have developed a miniature “electroadhesive” stamp that can pick up and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Celectroadhesive%E2%80%9D-stamp-picks-and-puts-down-microscopic-structuresArtificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
limited in the amount of motion and power they can produce. Now, MIT engineers are aiming to give bio-bots ... author Ritu Raman, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering (MechE) at MIT. “Such modularity ... bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate “biohybrid robots” made ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-tendons-give-muscle-powered-robots-boostA graphene roll-out
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ... who is now at Caltech; and Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... biological separation, and other applications. MIT-Graphene-Roll-1024.jpg A new manufacturing process ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outTwo from MIT named 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholars
engineering, researching medical devices used in pre-hospital trauma systems in low- and middle-income ... countries with the Cambridge Health Systems Design group. At MIT, Schipper was a member of MIT Emergency ... University in the U.K. MIT senior Markey Freudenburg-Puricelli and recent alumna Abigail (“Abbie”) Schipper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-named-2025-gates-cambridge-scholarsDexter Ang
change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical engineering degree, he returned to ... click a mouse to read an e-book, one of her favorite activities. The MIT startup Pison Technology, ... nonprofits like the ALS Association. “The implications of connecting the human body with digital systems and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dexter-ang-0Microfluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, MIT researchers describe a microfluidics-based system that ... A novel sensor designed by MIT researchers could dramatically accelerate the process of diagnosing ... MIT-BioChip-Sensor-01-1024.jpg Sepsis occurs when the body’s immune response to infection triggers an inflammation chain reaction ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-device-helps-diagnose-sepsis-minutesBreaking Through the Bacteria Barrier
developed by MIT engineers may help scientists quickly home in on the electric field “sweet spot” — the ... engineering. Genetically engineering any organism requires first getting its cells to take in foreign DNA. To ... the first step in genetic engineering. “We’re trying to reduce the amount of experimentation that’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-bacteria-barrierDepartment Head John Hart Announces New MechE Leadership
Engineering and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES). Her research focuses on the ... robotics, and other areas of biomedical engineering. Ellen has co-taught design classes (2.009 and 2.75) in ... MechE, and she recently received the 2023 MIT Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award. Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-head-john-hart-announces-new-meche-leadershipMaking her way through MIT
considerable time and energy over her years at MIT to helping others explore making and engineering. As ... projects in the MIT MakerWorkshop or inspiring other students to try their hands at engineering. “The best ... MIT), she has found ways to make building things and engineering more accessible to others — from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-her-way-through-mitMission TULiP: A robotic pursuit on the Charles River
engineering at MIT and graduate student Brooks Reed and colleagues, which was just accepted into the ... If you take a stroll past the MIT Sailing Pavilion on Memorial Drive, you may see, among the usual ... kayaks star in robotic control systems research led by Franz Hover, associate professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-tulip-robotic-pursuit-charles-riverCharlene Xia ’17, SM ’20
Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT ... announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ... Xia_1024.jpg Charlene Xia, pictured at the MIT Sailing Pavilion, tests her microbiome monitoring system in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/charlene-xia-%E2%80%9917-sm-%E2%80%9920MIT students Bhav Jain and Liberty Ladd named 2022 Truman Scholars
MIT students Bhav Jain and Liberty Ladd have been selected as 2022 Truman Scholars. Truman ... nonprofit sector, and academic excellence. 2022_Truman_Edited4-14-2022.png MIT students Bhav Jain (left) and ... Leadership Week, the Summer Institute, and other Truman Fellows events. Jain and Ladd were supported by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-bhav-jain-and-liberty-ladd-named-2022-truman-scholarsFIREFLI uses light to sense poor blood supply in body tissue, can provide earlier diagnosis for Acute Mesenteric Ischemia
that doctors face in addressing the condition is that systems are often vague and can mimic common ... costly, and invasive. A new approach introduced by researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, ... AMI, ultimately improving patient outcomes,” says Jack Chen, a doctoral student at MIT in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/firefli-uses-light-sense-poor-blood-supply-body-tissue-can-provide-earlier-diagnosisReducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy
But a team of MIT researchers aims to fix that. By using a clever combination of two inexpensive ... of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Maher Damak, research scientist Seyed Reza ... Mahmoudi, and former postdoc Md Nasim Hyder. MIT-Cutting-Herbicide-1_1024.jpg A team of researchers, ...
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