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MechE Spinoff Launches All-Terrain Wheelchair in US

the Department of Mechanical Engineering to create a wheelchair that fits the needs of people with ... Saturday, November 22, 2014 Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering green Collaboration ... off the established path and create an entirely mechanical wheelchair at a fraction of the cost. ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-spinoff-launches-all-terrain-wheelchair-us

I2P Example Project Areas

In 2019, the I 2 P Program offered graduate students in mechanical engineering project ... opportunities in research areas such as acoustics, wearable electronics, health, fluid sciences, mechanics ... , advanced manufacturing, design, bioengineering, nano-engineering, and more. Below are example project ...

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Folkers Rojas (SB ‘09, SM ‘11, PhD ‘14)

from unintentionally spilling into the ocean, a purposefully engineered blockage. But the mechanics behind each of them ... the 22 MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering wellbore cross-section. You also have to be able to ... are essentially the same. It is the specific mechanics behind this idea that for the past few ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/folkers-rojas-sb-%E2%80%9809-sm-%E2%80%9811-phd-%E2%80%9814

Cancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests

Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and an author of the study. MIT graduate ... author. Other MIT authors include Peter So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ... engineering, and Vijay Raj Singh, a research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.   Squeezing ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cancer-cells-soften-they-metastasize-study-suggests

MIT Faculty Founder Initiative announces finalists for second competition

Development Professor and associate professor of mechanical engineering, leads the Gallant Energy and Carbon ... d'Arbeloff Career Development Professor in Engineering Design and assistant professor of mechanical ... John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-faculty-founder-initiative-announces-finalists-second-competition

Researchers develop novel AI-based estimator for manufacturing medicine

Barbastathis, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and corresponding author of the study. The machine ... departments: Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. ... serious,” says Allan Myerson, a professor of practice in the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering and one ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-novel-ai-based-estimator-manufacturing-medicine

Flora Klise

different in every part of the world,” says Klise, currently a senior studying mechanical engineering ... in the flexibility a mechanical engineering degree provides. “Mechanical engineering is an area where ... quickly found an opportunity in the lab of John Lienhard, professor of mechanical engineering. Her project ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/flora-klise

Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2023

Professor of Power Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Chen is a pioneer in nanoscale ... MIT faculty in 2001. Chen served as department head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering from ... field of research. Together with the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine, ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-faculty-elected-national-academy-sciences-2023

What happens during the first moments of butterfly scale formation

happen as engineers,” says Mathias Kolle, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But in ... professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering Peter So, professor of mathematics Jörn ... likely a result of “buckling” — a general mechanism that describes how a smooth surface wrinkles as it ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-happens-during-first-moments-butterfly-scale-formation
Roche, Ellen Professor; Associate Department Head

Eighteen MIT faculty honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2025-27

Mechanical Engineering Loza Tadesse, Department of Mechanical Engineering Haruko Murakami Wainwright, ... Committed to Caring cohort: Iwnetim Abate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Abdullah ... Almaatouq, MIT Sloan School of Management Marc A. Baldo, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eighteen-mit-faculty-honored-%E2%80%9Ccommitted-caring%E2%80%9D-2025-27

Susan Su

a mechanical engineering major at MIT, Su had childhood dreams of being an artist, but she had never been ... openness and appreciation for new experiences led her to study mechanical engineering with a concentration ... [she] can use mechanical engineering for a biology or medicine application.” So far, she’s worked on ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/susan-su

New design principle could prevent catheter failure in brain shunts

associate professor in the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and ... Department of Mechanical Engineering; Nicholas Kwok, an MD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health ... Thomas Heldt, an associate professor of electrical and biomedical engineering in the Department of ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-design-principle-could-prevent-catheter-failure-brain-shunts

Fast, furious, and soon to be electric

and fun — a home for mechanical and electrical engineers exploring their love for design and ... engineering in a very exciting way. As team members examine a still-functioning car built for the 2011 ... competition, for instance, sophomore Connor McMahan remarks on the finesse of engineering the seat and firewall ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fast-furious-and-soon-be-electric

Rohit Karnik named director of J-WAFS

Rohit Karnik, the Tata Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named ... Lienhard V, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering. Rohit Karnik is the Tata ... Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the new director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water ...

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From 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars

and Professor of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering J. Kim Vandiver, panelists included Robert Bond, ... chief technology officer of MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Dan Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and ... MIT D-Lab faculty research director; Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-limbs-semi-autonomous-race-cars

Leslie's legacy

After forty-seven years in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Leslie Regan retired, ... you mention Leslie Regan’s name to any alum of MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, their ... thousands of mechanical engineering students. Regan joined MIT’s staff in September  1974. She started as an ...

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Vibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection

engineering, swung into action to see if the mechanical properties of the proteins played a role in their ... Study suggests mechanical properties of spike proteins can predict infectivity and lethality of ... involve biochemical mechanisms, but for this study the researchers took a different approach. Using ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vibrations-coronavirus-proteins-may-play-role-infection

3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design

Department of Mechanical Engineering introduces a computational design framework to support the creation of ... Development Professor and associate professor of mechanical engineering. In an open-access paper published ... makeup — have been redefining the engineering materials space for the last decade. To date, however, most ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-metamaterials-stretch-and-fail-design

MIT MechE DEI Vision Statement

a better place, the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department (MechE) aims to solve global challenges by ... training the next generation of mechanical engineering leaders. 1 We know inclusive diversity is central to ... fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment in the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department where ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/mit-meche-dei-vision-statement

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