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Measuring Students' Passion
typically taken during mechanical engineering students’ Junior Year, arms students with the knowledge and ... mechanical properties of gummy bears? These are just a few of the questions students have explored during ... audiences. “Perhaps the most important skill to have as an engineer is the ability to communicate what you’ve ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measuring-students-passionHydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water
Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... Felice Frankel Now engineers at MIT have developed a method to make synthetic, sticky hydrogel that is ... Hyunwoo Yuk, a graduate student in mechanical engineering and the lead author of a paper on the work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hydrogel-superglue-90-percent-waterFive 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 ... 2025 are: Christopher S. Chen SM ’93, PhD ’97, an alumnus of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-ties-elected-national-academy-medicine-2025Alumni Spotlight: Prakash Govindan PhD '12
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT ... Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Entrepreneurship LIENHARD@MIT.EDU Horizontal Alum Prakash ... the global water crisis that inspired Govindan – who received a master’s degree in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-prakash-govindan-phd-12Gliding From Classroom to Market
co-founded ELLO with mechanical engineering classmates Nate Robert ’13, Tyler Wortman PhD ’16, and Chris ... aid of MIT classes such as Course 6.933 (The Founder’s Journey), Course ESD.051 (Engineering ... numerous mentors at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the Gordon Engineering Leadership ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gliding-classroom-marketWindow-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water
Whitaker Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. “It’s a test ... origami-inspired hydrogel material, designed by MIT engineers, that swells to absorb water from the air. When water ... such as rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. To improve access to safe and affordable drinking water, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-waterSuper-strong surgical tape detaches on demand
Last year, MIT engineers developed a double-sided adhesive that could quickly and firmly stick ... organs,” says Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering ... at MIT. “You put the adhesive on, and if for any reason you want to take it off, you can do so ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/super-strong-surgical-tape-detaches-demandOur gut-brain connection
engineering and mechanical engineering, and Rudolf Jaenisch, an MIT professor of biology and a member of MIT ... different from humans’. To help researchers better understand the gut-brain axis, MIT researchers have ... MIT-GutBrain-Axis-1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed an “organs-on-a-chip” system that replicates interactions between ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-gut-brain-connectionStudent entrepreneurs think inside the box
a chemistry, biology, and physics junior minoring in nuclear engineering; and Erica Yuen, a mechanical ... a misdiagnosis. Challenged to reimagine the ambulance of the future, five MIT students — Paolo Adajar, ... a mathematical economics sophomore; Eswar Anandapadmanaban, an electrical engineering and computer science ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-entrepreneurs-think-inside-boxAlumni Spotlight: Associate Professor Hugh Herr (SM ’93)
degree in mechanical engineering in 1993. He also received a PhD in biophysics at Harvard, and worked at ... the next few years. Wednesday, June 10, 2015 Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering ... A condensed version of a story by Courtney Humphries, MIT Technology Review Uncomfortable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-associate-professor-hugh-herr-sm-%E2%80%9993Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision
professor of mechanical engineering and head of the MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab. The researchers will ... MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design ... the engineers threw 150 balls at the robot, one after the other, from across the ping pong table. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ping-pong-bot-returns-shots-high-speed-precisionTechnique rapidly measures cells’ density, reflecting health and developmental state
Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and ... Biomedical Engineering. The paper’s lead author is MIT Research Scientist Weida (Richard) Wu. Measuring ... a large scale, especially with single-cell resolution, but a team of MIT researchers has now found a way ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-rapidly-measures-cells%E2%80%99-density-reflecting-health-and-developmental-stateStaff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service
Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering John E. Fernández, professor, Department of Architecture, ... On Thursday, June 5, 11 individuals and four teams were awarded MIT Excellence Awards — the ... protecting and serving MIT. The medal recognizes an individual or group whose actions demonstrate the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/staff-members-honored-2025-excellence-awards-collier-medal-and-staff-award-distinctionUltrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air
“atmospheric water harvesting.” MIT-Water-Shaker01-press_460.jpg MIT engineers designed an ultrasonic system to ... days. Now, MIT engineers have come up with a way to quickly recover water from an atmospheric water ... Mechanical Engineering. “Now we have a way to recover water quickly and efficiently.” Boriskina and her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasonic-device-dramatically-speeds-harvesting-water-airAlex Kachkine
Kachkine, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to ... made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he drove up the East Coast and ... Mechanical Engineering, and the MIT Libraries. Communications Department Wednesday, October 22, 2025 Alumni ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-kachkineDarya Guettler
process as equitable as possible.” Guettler decided to combine her mechanical engineering major with ... most looking forward to now is her capstone for mechanical engineering, 2.s009 (Explorations in Product ... equitable as possible.” Guettler decided to combine her mechanical engineering major with a degree in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/darya-guettlerAbe Schneider
entrepreneurship that permeated the campus. Gia came to MIT in 1995 and majored in chemical engineering while Abe ... followed three years later and majored in mechanical engineering for both his bachelor’s and master’s ... before starting a company. After graduation, Abe worked as a mechanical engineer and did some consulting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/abe-schneiderAlum Startup Gives Ski Style a Lift
as important as skiing,” McGee says. At MIT, McGee focused on mechanical engineering. His advisor, ... stressful as it seems on TV, but we treated it like an MIT final or midterm and studied up for any and every ... question they might ask.” McGee started his career as a product design engineer for Apple, where he learned ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-startup-gives-ski-style-liftDavid Hesslink
mechanical engineering major. “The only thing I knew for sure was I loved playing baseball.” That started to ... achieving similar results on the pitcher’s mound for MIT’s baseball team. At a game against the United ... pitcher with the most wins in MIT history. “The best part of that day for me was emerging from the dugout ...
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