Search Results
Showing Results for: “mechanical engineering courses”
Shih-Ying Lee, longtime mechanical engineering professor, inventor, and entrepreneur, dies at 100
Shih-Ying Lee, a longtime MIT mechanical engineering professor and expert in process control, ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/shih-ying-lee-longtime-mechanical-engineering-professor-inventor-and-entrepreneur-diesCourse 2-A Requirements
starting with class of 2016): http://catalog.mit.edu/degree-charts/mechanical-engineering-course-2-a/ For ... Course 2-A Requirements Students who wish to pursue the Course 2-A degree must advise the ... enrollment form must be submitted by the start of the term following a student’s enrollment in Course 2-A. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/course-2a-requirementsDepartment 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 ... of mechanical engineering. He is recognized as a leader in the field of micro-and-nanofluidics and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-mechanical-engineering-announces-new-leadership-teamStudents 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-impactLearning challenges shape a mechanical engineer’s path
Hermus completed his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT. He has been an author on seven papers in ... won awards for his academics and for his mechanical engineering research and has served as a mentor ... Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition. Using this insight, Hermus and his colleagues implemented these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/learning-challenges-shape-mechanical-engineer%E2%80%99s-path3 questions with James H. Williams, Jr., professor of mechanical engineering
In two new textbooks, Professor of Mechanical Engineering James H. Williams, Jr. shares his ... engineers and scientists worldwide. As a mechanical engineering professor, Williams is the first to receive ... engineering mechanics, conventionally consisting of the terminology, disciplinary structure, and mathematics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-james-h-williams-jr-professor-mechanical-engineeringClosing the gender gap in mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering, for example, only 13.2 percent of bachelor’s degrees in 2015 were earned by women, ... contrast to the undergraduate population in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), which as of ... mechanical engineering Dawn Wendell ’04 SM ’06 PhD ’11, and lecturer in comparative media studies and writing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-gender-gap-mechanical-engineeringMIT.nano courses bring hands-on experimentation to virtual participants
Engineering to offer a three-module course on the basics of and resources for human subjects research, as well ... was one of five courses highlighting the breadth of MIT.nano’s capabilities, initiated during MIT’s ... Independent Activities Period (IAP). The courses, several of which will be offered again this semester, also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-courses-bring-hands-experimentation-virtual-participantsMens et Manus Across the Universe
faculty members are engineering for global change through their research, but that’s not the only way to ... (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia; Professor David Wallace works with faculty at the first women’s engineering ... environmental engineering, manufacturing, system design and management, and supply chain management. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mens-et-manus-across-universeNate Ball
rescue normally involves five to 10 rescuers over the course of hours, whereas a rescue conducted with an ... its battery (which is separable) and can lift up to 600 pounds. What kind of engineering challenges ... train as we pull power out of the battery and deliver it to the rope-climbing mechanism. We do a pretty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nate-ballDEI Initiatives
coachee to find creative solutions that foster continuous growth and development. As Mechanical Engineers ... more. Visit MechE Grad Coaching Website Current Initiatives Futures in Mechanical Engineering Launched ... by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Futures in Mechanical Engineering program seeks to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/dei/outreach-programsCommunity Excellence
fulfill our mission by training the next generation of mechanical engineering leaders. Our community is ... ENGAGE Website Futures in Mechanical Engineering Futures in Mechanical Engineering provides information ... student information page Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering The Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/communityTalking Shop with Professor David Gossard
Department of Mechanical Engineering since he earned his PhD here in 1975, having previously earned his ... bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He began his tenure in the ... computer science and its intersection with mechanical engineering. His research activities included solid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-david-gossardErnesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94
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 ... Havana to lead the University of Villanueva’s mechanical engineering department. In 1960, after the Cuban ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ernesto-blanco-mechanical-design-professor-and-inventor-stair-climbing-wheelchair-dies-94'Imagine it, build it' describes spirit of 2.679 (Electronics for Mechanical Systems II)
says Tonio Buonassisi, professor of mechanical engineering. "Between those two is a universe, and ... understanding of what they’re really capable of,” he says. Chen, a mechanical engineering major who is ... mechanical engineering with a minor in computer science, had built another similar system in a previous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imagine-it-build-it-describes-spirit-2679-electronics-mechanical-systems-iiGuided 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-mechanicsStudent Awards
Award (Outstanding Service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering) Jad El Khoury, Rohun Kulkarni, Jacqueline ... Lockheed Martin Prize (Outstanding Sophomore in Mechanical and Systems Engineering) Nicholas Kwok Louis ... Michael Stern Department Service Award (Outstanding Service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-awardsUsing mechanical forces to improve wound healing
Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Image courtesy of the Department of Mechanical Engineering In the early ... ’80s, Orgill earned his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT through the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and ... Technology (HST) program. Orgill’s particular course of study within HST was the Medical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-mechanical-forces-improve-wound-healingProfessor 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 ... Army, Griffith earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from New York University in 1950 ... and his master’s in mechanical engineering in 1952 from the University of Michigan, where he worked as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-peter-griffith-pioneer-heat-transfer-and-fluid-mechanics-dies-94Clarence Chui
Mechanical Engineering), I picked up a habit of always trying to redefine complex mechanical or materials ... Chui_Clarence.jpg Photo by Ken Hansen How did the team come up with the idea to simulate the mechanism for ... iridescent color in butterfly wings? The mechanism responsible for the iridescent color in butterfly wings ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/clarence-chui