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Students present mechanical engineering projects that have global impact
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 ... the Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE), which was held on Oct. 11 in MIT’s student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-mechanical-engineering-projects-have-global-impactClass opens the door to a new world of mechanical engineering
When Peter Williams was taking 2.002 (Mechanics and Materials II) this past semester, he won ... short-changed over his minuscule prize, the senior in mechanical engineering considered it a fitting award for ... mechanical properties of materials. While 2.002 traditionally includes classical lab experiments, Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-opens-door-new-world-mechanical-engineeringUntangling the Mechanics of Knots
University in Paris have analyzed the mechanical forces underpinning simple knots, and come up with a theory ... that describes how a knot’s topology determines its mechanical forces. The researchers carried out ... and theory have been tied together to untangle the influence of topology on the mechanics of knots,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-mechanics-knotsEvelyn Wang named head of Department of Mechanical Engineering
Laboratory, has been named head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, effective July 1. ... Mechanical Engineers Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer in 2012, and she was honored ... named head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, effective July 1, 2018. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-named-head-department-mechanical-engineeringGuided discovery in teaching structural mechanics
Over the course of their education at MIT, mechanical engineering undergraduate students have many ... mechanics. Class 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials I) provides mechanical engineering students the foundation ... in mechanical engineering,” explains Simona Socrate, senior lecturer. “We are trying to form a basis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guided-discovery-teaching-structural-mechanicsProfessor Emeritus Ali Argon, pioneer in the mechanics of materials, dies at 89
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 ... under Professor Egon Orowan. Argon received his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-ali-argon-pioneer-mechanics-materials-dies-89Heather Theberge, mechanical engineering staff member, dies at 42
Heather Theberge, an administrative assistant in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering’s ... incredible kindness and was beloved by her colleagues,” says Evelyn Wang, professor of mechanical engineering ... instrumental in ensuring that the mechanical engineering undergraduate program ran smoothly. Her caring nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/heather-theberge-mechanical-engineering-staff-member-dies-42Course 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems
Mechanical Engineering curriculum, you’d be hard-pressed to choose anything other than “hands-on.” The ... but there are others that are focusing on the interface between mechanical engineering and other ... engineering fields. One of them is Professor Derek Rowell’s 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems, which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/course-2678-electronics-mechanical-systemsHow 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-everythingGiving early-career women in mechanical engineering the tools to succeed in academia
For two days in late October, 34 of the brightest minds in mechanical engineering convened on ... Mechanical Engineering Workshop hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program, which is ... Kendall Professor and department head for mechanical engineering. “Providing these talented young women ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-early-career-women-mechanical-engineering-tools-succeed-academiaMIT mechanical engineering course invites students to “build with biology”
role that mechanics plays in biology, with a focus on biomechanics and mechanobiology: “Two words that ... Professor of Tissue Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Biomechanics, Raman ... explains, conveys the mechanical properties of biological materials, where mechanobiology teaches students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-mechanical-engineering-course-invites-students-%E2%80%9Cbuild-biology%E2%80%9DJohn Hart named head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
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 ... manufacturing ecosystem over the past decade. He is also tremendously dedicated to the mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/john-hart-named-head-department-mechanical-engineeringProfessor Emeritus Peter Griffith, a pioneer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, dies at 94
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 ... Army, Griffith earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from New York University in 1950 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-peter-griffith-pioneer-heat-transfer-and-fluid-mechanics-dies-94Ernesto 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
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 ... Lyon joined the faculty at MIT, first as lecturer in 1963 and then as professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/richard-dick-lyon-acoustics-expert-and-professor-emeritus-mechanical-engineering-dies-89Mechanical engineering with a twist: Pursuing a passion for robotics with customized major
Shah ’23 to the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), but a desire to make the world a better ... I thought I wanted to study mechanical engineering, but there wasn’t much of a concrete basis behind that ... MechE’s 2-A/6. “Course 2-A/6 is a major in the mechanical engineering department,” Shah explains. “You ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mechanical-engineering-twist-pursuing-passion-robotics-customized-majorDepartment 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-teamQS World University Rankings Rates MIT MechE No. 1 for Mechanical Engineering, Along with 11 Other Subjects
Mechanical/Aeronautical/Manufacturing Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Statistics and Operational Research. Additional ... QS World University Rankings rates MIT MechE No. 1 for mechanical engineering. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-world-university-rankings-rates-mit-meche-no-1-mechanical-engineering-along-11-otherCourse 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design
Mechanical Design isn’t a typical course, even for mechanical engineering. One of the last undergraduate ... courses mechanical engineering students can opt to take at MIT, “this class integrates all the other ... other mechanical engineering courses that I have previously taken at MIT and showed me how to apply the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/course-272-elements-mechanical-designProfessor Emeritus Ronald Probstein, world-renowned expert in fluid mechanics, dies at 93
Ronald Probstein, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed away at the age of 93 on ... Sept. 19. Probstein, who joined MIT’s faculty in 1962, was a leading expert in fluid mechanics. His ... of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he would spend the remainder of his career. ...
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