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Eleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships
’22 completed her undergraduate education at MIT with degrees in both electrical engineering and ... a microplastic survey system. While at MIT, Prasad joined the varsity sailing team with no prior experience. Her ... and Sustainability track within the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. During her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eleven-mit-awarded-2024-fulbright-fellowships3 Questions: How to control biofilms in space
sick. MIT News asked professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi and doctoral student Samantha ... Researchers from MIT will be collaborating with colleagues at the University of Colorado at ... collaboration with Luis Zea at UC Boulder, we are looking at biofilm growth on engineered substrates in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-how-control-biofilms-spaceMechE Research Ramp-up Guidelines
commonly necessary to ensure a buddy system and for safety. If working alone is needed or the only option, ... please follow the MIT policy for working alone. For shared MechE lab spaces, the shared lab space ... as well). Health and safety: Please check and follow the MIT Campus guidance and updated MIT EHS PPE ...
https://meche.mit.edu/meche-research-ramp-up-guidelinesFostering forward momentum
Engineering as well as the director of the Device Research Laboratory at MIT. Her research interests include ... management, solar thermal energy conversion, and water harvesting systems. Being present for her advisees ... Management, a professor of work and employment research, and the co-director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fostering-forward-momentumCheetah III robot preps for a role as a first responder
Engineering's Biomimetic Robotics Lab under the direction of Associate Professor Sangbae Kim, the quadruped MIT ... If you were to ask someone to name a new technology that emerged from MIT in the 21st century, ... there’s a good chance they would name the robotic cheetah. Developed by the MIT Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cheetah-iii-robot-preps-role-first-responderTwo MechE Faculty Win Prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards
engineers. On Thursday, United States President Barack Obama named four MIT faculty among 105 recipients of ... the 2016 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor ... bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-meche-faculty-win-prestigious-presidential-early-career-awardsProfessor Emeritus Justin “Jake” Kerwin, an expert in propeller design and ship hydrodynamics, dies at 90
at the age of 90 on May 23. Kerwin, who served on MIT’s ocean engineering faculty for four decades, ... Kerwin and his wife Marilyn played jazz alongside fellow retired MIT ocean engineering faculty in a band ... Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Kerwin, who served on MIT’s ocean ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-justin-%E2%80%9Cjake%E2%80%9D-kerwin-expert-propeller-design-and-ship-hydrodynamicsMIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing
of a new MIT spinout — Xibus Systems — that is aiming to make a splash in the food industry with ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and recipient of a separate 2017 J-WAFS seed grant, is an expert ... pathogen sensor, but when Xibus Systems approached Hartshorn with an invitation to join as CEO, he saw ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testingA community of making
Schor, second from left, teaches students on the use of equipment in the MIT MakerWorkshop. Photo by John ... Freidah When Culpepper was named MIT’s maker czar in 2015, he started out by mapping out MIT’s own maker ... system, and, with help from a range of internal partners, launched several new programs to improve the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/community-makingWeighing particles at the attogram scale
MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... function. The system builds on a technology previously developed by Scott Manalis, an MIT professor of ... biological and mechanical engineering, to weigh larger particles, such as cells. This system, known as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scaleRetirements
conversion. He was Associate Dean of the MIT School of Engineering between 1975 and 1977, and the Associate ... authority in the fields of thermodynamics, heat transfer, cryopreservation of biomaterials, and energy ... Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology from 1977 to 1982. Ernie is a member ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/retirementsJ-WEL names spring 2018 grant recipients
engineering. This project will leverage MIT BLOSSOMS, a resource library where educators can find teaching ... The Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) at MIT has selected 10 projects to receive ... impact MIT education, with the broad potential for impact in global settings. They are awarded ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wel-names-spring-2018-grant-recipientsProfessor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson, expert in human-powered transport and gas turbines, dies at 91
then the head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wilson joined MIT’s faculty in 1966. He ... David Gordon Wilson, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed away on May 2 at the age ... of 91. Wilson served on MIT’s faculty since 1966 and remained an active member of the mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilson-expert-human-powered-transport-and-gas-turbinesTraining manufacturing technologists to be future shop floor leaders
director of MIT’s Learning Engineering and Practice Group. "By integrating MIT's mind-and-hand ... of MIT’s Learning Engineering and Practice Group. Photo: Jeff Dieffenbach After talking to large and ... chains, and management of manufacturing. Dave Hardt, MIT professor of mechanical engineering and the Ralph ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/training-manufacturing-technologists-be-future-shop-floor-leadersArtificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting ... biomedical applications. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg The tiny coils in the fiber developed by MIT ... including hydraulic systems, servo motors, shape-memory metals, and polymers that respond to stimuli, they ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-%E2%80%9Cmuscles%E2%80%9D-achieve-powerful-pulling-forceDesigning Toys
Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get hands-on ... engineering and In class 2.00b, Toy Product Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get hands-on engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-toysSensing the body at all scales
opportunities for commercial innovations. Elazer Edelman, director of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering ... Engineering and Science at MIT. “The most important thing, I think, is to realize that engineers like us, ... Medical Engineering and Science, and the MIT Clinical Research Center. Monday, November 30, 2020 Becky Ham ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-body-all-scalesA scientific approach to education reform
drawn on his years of experience directing MIT’s many online learning systems ... new book points a way. The Covid-19 pandemic has upended educational systems around the world, from ... normal be? Sanjay Sarma, MIT’s vice president for open learning, sees this unprecedented upheaval as ...
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