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Eleven 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-awardsArtificial 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-boost“Mens et manus” in Guatemala
Amy Smith (center), professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and founder of the MIT D-Lab, and ... engineering at MIT, believes some of these programs are already paying off, particularly a UVG venture ... excitement about the results, an energy and happiness that you could feel in the room.” Adopting an MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cmens-et-manus%E2%80%9D-guatemalaMaking 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-mitRavi 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-storytellerT.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-pillanA 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-outBreaking 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-barrierNew model of the GI tract could speed drug development
MIT engineers have devised a way to speed up the development of new drugs by rapidly testing how ... engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Many of the drugs that are being ... potentially identify better formulations much faster using this new system.” With their new method, based on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-gi-tract-could-speed-drug-developmentMicrofluidics 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-minutesCreeping 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-scaleFor Stronger, Lighter, Cheaper Materials, Scroll Up
paper originally grew out of an MIT class, 2.675 (Micro/Nano Engineering), taught by Rohit Karnik, ... severely limit graphene’s practical uses. Seeking an alternative, a team from MIT and Harvard University is ... a fraction of the cost, the researchers say. MIT-Nanoscrolls-1024.jpg An electron microscopy image shows many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stronger-lighter-cheaper-materials-scrollDepartment 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-leadershipReducing 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, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-runoff-pollution-making-spray-droplets-less-bouncyTwo 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-0Putting projects at the forefront
the potential to re-engineer engineering education. MIT-NEET-1024.jpg Second-year student Albert Go ... the development of NEET. MIT has a long history of innovative thinking in engineering education, he ... engineering at MIT and co-director of the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, speaks in an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/putting-projects-forefrontLamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
charge in relation to mass and volume, the patent promises to increase energy density by up to 100 ... Lamborghini-MIT-patent-intern-1024.jpg MIT and Lamborghini recently filed a joint patent for a material that will serve as the ... Lamborghini through MIT-Italy, is seen at work at Lamborghini Santa Agata Bolognese Labs. Photo courtesy of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lamborghini-and-mit-pave-way-electric-supercar-futureCharlene 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%9920New scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
experiments in MIT’s Robotic Mobility Group lab, where engineers have set up a rail and pulley system that ... engineers at MIT have come up with a similar scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ... MIT-Driving-Sand-1.JPG Engineers at MIT have come up with a scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ...
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