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A. Michael West
Black Engineers chapter, and at MIT, he has served as treasurer for the Black Graduate Student ... An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and ... into it,” the mechanical engineering PhD candidate says, adding that growing up in suburban California, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/michael-westBound for Robotic Glory
engineering at MIT, hypothesizes that this force-control approach to robotic running is similar, in principle, ... Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. These motors are controlled by amplifiers designed by David ... Otten, a principal research engineer in MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. The combination of such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bound-robotic-gloryNano flashlight enables new applications of light
scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Singh’s coauthors on the second paper are Agarwal; ... Materials Research Laboratory, the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and MIT.nano. Tuesday, May ... minuscule objects, MIT researchers have built a powerful nanoscale flashlight on a chip. Their approach to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nano-flashlight-enables-new-applications-lightHarnessing the speed of light
group at MIT might have found a solution. “In my group we play tricks with optics,” says Fang, an ... associate professor of mechanical engineering. These tricks have led to findings that allow for generating ... would produce intense ultrasonic energy. With the ability to focus and target light onto the nanoscale, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harnessing-speed-lightCan your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?
study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special ... accelerometer data,” says Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT Sensable City Laboratory and co-author of a new paper ... published in Communications Engineering. The authors are Thomas J. Matarazzo, an assistant professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-your-phone-tell-if-bridge-good-shapeA new way to prepare graduate students to lead in tech
Before coming to MIT, Benjamin Lienhard focused most of his energy exploring fragile quantum ... Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program (GEL). This led to the creation of a new interim MIT ... stabilize new technologies. Now that he’s a fifth-year graduate student in electrical engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-prepare-graduate-students-lead-techNew model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together
predict until now,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s ... they can interfere with each other and should not be prescribed together. Researchers at MIT, Brigham ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-identifies-drugs-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-taken-togetherFive with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025
Nicole Pham Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her ... Engineering; and a recipient of the ACM Computing Prize. Additional MIT alumni who were elected to the NAM for ... Engineering and Computer Science Education Horizontal Five with MIT ties elected to National Academy of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-ties-elected-national-academy-medicine-2025SMART researchers receive Intra-CREATE grant for personalized medicine and cell therapy
materials science and engineering, and associate provost at MIT. Understanding glaucoma progression for ... investigator at SMART CAMP and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and Aung Tin, executive director at ... investigators Nicholas Fang, also a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; Lisa Tucker-Kellogg, assistant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-researchers-receive-intra-create-grant-personalized-medicine-and-cell-therapySolid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We hope that, by simply looking at where the cells ... MIT_Cell-Fingerprints-01-PRESS_0.jpeg MIT researchers have developed a way to decode images of cells to determine whether a tissue is ... track various cancers. Photo credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute, edited by MIT News Now, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solid-liquid-or-gas-technique-quickly-identifies-physical-state-tissues-and-tumorsHow to prevent biofilms in space
that can clog hoses or filters in water processing systems, or potentially cause illness in people. In ... a paper in the journal Nature Microgravity, by Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Kripa Varanasi of MIT, Pamela ... Clogs in water recovery system hoses aboard the ISS have been so severe at times, the hoses had to be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-spaceProtecting machine learning datasets
to graduate school at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he joined Associate Professor ... ’22, then a student at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a former SpaceX engineer. The trio ... GAME – the Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers – and an active member of MIT’s Latin Graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-machine-learning-datasetsMaking agriculture more resilient to climate change
Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ... Engineering at MIT, is developing a microbial alternative to the Haber-Bosch process. Some farms have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeControlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact
demonstrated before,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of ... through the Center for Nanoscale systems, by the MIT and Masdar Institute Cooperative Program, and by the ... pair of liquid and solid materials, but now MIT researchers have developed a way of making even the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-how-%E2%80%9Codd-couple%E2%80%9D-surfaces-and-liquids-interactDrug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition
Mechanical Engineering. “Over the course of six years of research and development at MIT, we’ve overcome ... as part of his ongoing PhD in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Finally, the audience ... The winner of this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is helping advanced therapies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-injection-device-wins-mit-100k-competitionAncient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT
coming from a much rarer sight on MIT’s campus — or, in fact, anywhere outside West Africa: ... smelting-courtyard-mit-1024.png MIT students and volunteers take turns working the bellows on a mud-and-straw furnace in the style ... lecturer in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The first half of the class, taught by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ancient-african-smelting-technique-sparks-anew-mitThirteen from MIT win 2023 Fulbright fellowships
Photos courtesy of Fulbright winners. Lainie Beauchemin ’22 earned a BS in biological engineering at MIT ... plans to return to MIT to pursue a PhD in electrical engineering. Victor Damptey will graduate in June ... At MIT, Ludington's research ranged from building flexible solar panel deployment systems to the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/thirteen-mit-win-2023-fulbright-fellowshipsNew electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses
MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic ... easier to integrate,” Xinyuan Zhang, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and ... Engineering (DMSE). “For example, it could be directly worn on glasses.” The heat-sensing film could also have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9D-could-enable-lightweight-night-vision-glassesFrom triathlons to aerospace, Caitlin Braun MBA ’21, SM ’21 pursues passions for leadership and manufacturing
process can often take six months to a year.) While engineering is important, Braun is most excited about ... training in the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program — wherein she obtained both her MBA and SM ... in mechanical engineering — helped her balance diplomacy with technical discipline. So did a 2020 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/triathlons-aerospace-caitlin-braun-mba-%E2%80%9921-sm-%E2%80%9921-pursues-passions-leadership-andHands-on education goes remote
in their decision to study mechanical engineering. The hands-on aspect of MIT MechE’s education ... By its very nature, mechanical engineering is a “hands-on” field. While students studying ... mechanical engineering receive a solid foundation in fundamentals, at some point nearly every Course 2, ...
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