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Teaching mechanical engineering in a pandemic
nature of many mechanical engineering classes posed a unique challenge for faculty and staff in MIT’s ... Steve Banzaert and the team of faculty and instructors in class 2.678 (Electronics for Mechanical ... Faculty and teaching staff at MIT are piloting new methods of teaching hands-on, project-based mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-mechanical-engineering-pandemicErnesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94
Ernesto E. Blanco, a renown inventor, mechanical designer, and beloved former professor in MIT’s ... Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), passed away on March 21, in Murrieta, California. He was 94 ... a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Blanco briefly returned to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ernesto-blanco-mechanical-design-professor-and-inventor-stair-climbing-wheelchair-dies-94Richard "Dick" Lyon, acoustics expert and professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, dies at 89
Lyon joined the faculty at MIT, first as lecturer in 1963 and then as professor of mechanical ... Richard H. "Dick" Lyon PhD ’55, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed ... Department of Mechanical Engineering for 32 years, made many contributions to the field of acoustics both in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/richard-dick-lyon-acoustics-expert-and-professor-emeritus-mechanical-engineering-dies-89Shih-Ying Lee, longtime mechanical engineering professor, inventor, and entrepreneur, dies at 100
faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1952. Throughout his tenure as a professor, Lee ... 1974, Lee retired after 22 years on the mechanical engineering faculty at MIT. For the next three ... Mechanical Engineering's faculty from 1952 until 1974. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/shih-ying-lee-longtime-mechanical-engineering-professor-inventor-and-entrepreneur-diesDepartment of Mechanical Engineering announces new leadership team
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) on July 1, has announced that Pierre Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical ... engineering and ocean science and engineering, and Rohit Karnik, associate professor of mechanical ... strategic plan over the past several years. In 2015, with Evelyn Wang, he was co-chair of the mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-mechanical-engineering-announces-new-leadership-teamProfessor Emeritus Ali Argon, pioneer in the mechanics of materials, dies at 89
years of military service, Argon returned to MIT, having accepted a faculty position in mechanical ... Ali S. Argon SM '53, ScD '56, the Quentin Berg Emeritus Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering, passed away on Dec. 21, 2019, at the age of 89. A world-leading expert in the mechanics of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-ali-argon-pioneer-mechanics-materials-dies-89John Hart named head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
in mechanical engineering in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Prior to joining the MIT faculty in 2013, ... John Hart, MIT professor of mechanical engineering, has been named the new head of the Department ... of Mechanical Engineering, effective July 1. “John has played a vital role shaping MIT’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/john-hart-named-head-department-mechanical-engineeringMechanical engineer-led startups offer healthcare solutions
Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Startups founded by mechanical engineering faculty and alumni solve ... Traverso, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Traverso is no stranger to startups. He has ... a variety of drugs, including an oral memantine for Alzheimer’s MedTech Research Focus: Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mechanical-engineer-led-startups-offer-healthcare-solutionsProfessor Emeritus Peter Griffith, a pioneer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, dies at 94
joined the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and would spend the remainder of his ... Peter "Pete" Griffith ScD ’56, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... a pioneer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, passed away at age 94 on Saturday, March 5. Griffith was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-peter-griffith-pioneer-heat-transfer-and-fluid-mechanics-dies-94A Mechanical Engineering Rite of Passage at MIT
Since the 1970s, Department of Mechanical Engineering course 2.007 has introduced undergraduate ... Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) — it’s been this way since 1865. It was around that time that ... can be superstars.” The first challenges were purely mechanical traps and contraptions, using ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mechanical-engineering-rite-passage-mitStudents present mechanical engineering projects that have global impact
will always be a crucial skill.” Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering and GAME faculty ... Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition. Photo by Tony Pulsone The Graduate Association of Mechanical ... Engineers (GAME) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are working to remove the intimidation ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-mechanical-engineering-projects-have-global-impactUsing mechanics for cleaner membranes
Xuanhe Zhao, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and George N. Hatsopoulos Faculty Fellow. Lienhard is an ... soon be in sight. A team of researchers from the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, supported by ... well as structure dynamics. The team has developed a novel system that can mechanically clean membranes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-mechanics-cleaner-membranesHow cell mechanics influences everything
cell. A student in China’s Tsinghua University, Guo was studying the mechanical properties of plant ... This realization motivated him to study cell mechanics, in plant and eventually animal cells, to see ... But really, not much is known about this process.” His work in cell mechanics led him to MIT, where he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cell-mechanics-influences-everythingFaculty Advising
Faculty Advising When students enter the Department of Mechanical Engineering, they are assigned ... a faculty academic advisor. The principal role of the academic advisor is to help individual students plan ... objectives. The faculty academic advisor is only one of many advising resources. Advising Resources Faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/faculty-advisingThe tenured engineers of 2021
faculty in the departments of Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Materials ... Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Nuclear Science and Engineering. “This year’s newly ... tenured faculty are truly inspiring,” says Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the School of Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tenured-engineers-2021The tenured engineers of 2023
Career Development Professor, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and a core faculty of ... In 2023, MIT granted tenure to nine faculty members across the School of Engineering. This year’s ... and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing), Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tenured-engineers-2023The tenured engineers of 2024
In 2024, MIT granted tenure to 12 faculty members across the School of Engineering. This year’s ... reports jointly to the School of Engineering and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing), Mechanical ... Engineering, and Nuclear Science and Engineering. “My heartfelt congratulations to the 12 engineering faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tenured-engineers-2024School of Engineering welcomes new faculty in 2024-25
The MIT School of Engineering welcomes new faculty members across six of its academic units. This ... new cohort of faculty members, who have recently started their roles at MIT, conduct research across ... a diverse range of disciplines. 4x4 2025 New Engineering Faculty_1024.jpg Top row, left to right: Masha ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-welcomes-new-faculty-2024-25School of Engineering welcomes new faculty
joined the core faculty of IMES. Previously, she served as an assistant professor in mechanical and ... The School of Engineering is welcoming 11 new members of its faculty across six of its academic ... departments and institutes. This new cohort of faculty members, who have either recently started their roles ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-welcomes-new-faculty-4Computing for the health of the planet
multiple new faculty in computing for climate and the environment, as part of MIT’s plan to recruit 20 ... climate-focused faculty under its climate action plan. This year the college undertook searches with several ... departments in the schools of Engineering and Science for shared faculty in computing for health of the ...
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