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A Message from New MechE Department Head John Hart SM ’02, PhD ’06
Suh Professor of Mechanical Engineering, led our department since 2018 and through an especially ... success. My predecessor as Department Head, Evelyn Wang, the Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering ... Department Head, especially at this time. MechE counts some of the greatest engineers and problem solvers of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/message-new-meche-department-head-john-hart-sm-%E2%80%9902-phd-%E2%80%9906Advocating for science funding on Capitol Hill
Marie Floryan and Andrew Fishberg, two PhD students in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and ... Julian Ufert, a doctoral student in chemical engineering, says, “CVD was a remarkable opportunity to ... and computer engineering. Dina Sharon, a PhD student in chemistry, adds, “The offices where we met ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advocating-science-funding-capitol-hillJacob Rothman
product design and entrepreneurship,” says Rothman, who majored in mechanical engineering. “I loved ... Carolina, Rothman originally came to MIT to study aerospace engineering, but his plan changed after he ... watched the 2.009 Product Engineering Process presentations during his freshman year. “I fell in love with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jacob-rothmanStartup Powers Up for Better Strength Training
entrepreneurship,” says Rothman, who majored in mechanical engineering. “I loved identifying a problem, coming up ... came to MIT to study aerospace engineering, but his plan changed after he watched the 2.009 Product ... Engineering Process presentations during his freshman year. “I fell in love with product design and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-powers-better-strength-trainingThe physics of curly hair
Department of Mechanical Engineering; Basile Audoly and Arnaud Lazarus, of the Université Pierre et Marie ... industry, but it also could be used by engineers to predict the curve that long steel pipes, tubing, and ... like a stubborn garden hose whose intrinsic curves make it behave in unpredictable ways. In engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-curly-hairTackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time
alone. A new study by MIT researchers, presented at the recent American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... GEAR, and Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ... 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-energy-revolution-one-sector-timeStudy shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable
a doctorate in mechanical engineering. “This work highlights aluminum’s potential as a clean energy source and ... systems.” The study’s MIT co-authors are Brooke Bao, Enoch Ellis, and professor of mechanical engineering ... engineers could significantly shrink the carbon footprint associated with making hydrogen. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-shows-making-hydrogen-soda-cans-and-seawater-scalable-and-sustainableMIT announces 2025 Bose Grants
Mechanical Engineering Professor Kripa Varanasi, Civil & Environmental Engineering Associate Professor ... Thomas A. Frank Professor of Physics Peter Fisher. Mechanical Engineering Professor Kripa Varanasi is ... Engineering Jacob White, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Elfar Adalsteinsson, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-2025-bose-grantsA quick stretch switches this polymer’s capacity to transport heat
research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Now that we’ve seen this thermal ... Fellowship, MathWorks MechE Graduate Fellowship, and the MIT-SUSTech Centers for Mechanical Engineering ... a material’s thermal conductivity cannot be changed without re-manufacturing it. But MIT engineers have now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-stretch-switches-polymer%E2%80%99s-capacity-transport-heatTwo MIT PhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for their research on water
the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at ... consumption for treating brackish water. Highlighting Bessette’s capacity for engineering insight, his advisor ... noted the “simple and elegant solution” that Bessette and a staff engineer, Shane Pratt, devised that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-phd-students-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-their-research-waterMIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows
Fellows includes 471 scientists, engineers, and innovators, spanning all 24 of AAAS disciplinary sections, ... PhD in biochemical engineering at MIT in 1987 and was a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of ... Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and AAAS. Robert ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-affiliates-named-2024-aaas-fellows-0MIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows
SM ’01, ScD ’03 (Mechanical Engineering; and Fei Xu PhD ’95 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences). ... scientists, engineers, and innovators, spanning all 24 of AAAS disciplinary sections, who are being recognized ... Covid-19 vaccine. Afeyan earned his PhD in biochemical engineering at MIT in 1987 and was a senior lecturer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-affiliates-named-2024-aaas-fellowsWhen muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “Maybe if we stimulate the ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Vincent Butty of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ... can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-muscles-work-out-they-help-neurons-grow-new-study-showsSix from MIT awarded 2023 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
mechanical engineering at MIT with Professor Asegun Henry, where he is working on energy storage to make ... clean energy. While studying mechanical engineering at Duke University, he helped lead the Duke Electric ... ’22 Desmond Edwards graduated from MIT in 2022 with a double major in biological engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-awarded-2023-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americansColoring outside the lines
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other ... engineered to generate colors without chemicals. | Right: Mathias Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. “MIT struck me as exciting,” Kolle says. “MIT’s gung-ho attitude of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coloring-outside-linesPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ... Intelligence Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS); Tomas ... Lozano-Perez, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Excellence; Leslie P. Kaelbling, the Panasonic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationResearchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), a senior ... challenge in modern ultrasound imaging. Now, MIT engineers have come up with an alternative to conventional ... pulse. The resulting mechanical vibrations generate sound waves that travel back up, where they can be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-produce-first-laser-ultrasound-images-humansMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
more toward mechanical engineering, as it intersects with so many other fields,” says Yang. Yang went ... on to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering at MIT, where he worked on improving an ultrasound ... to cell mechanics. “My curiosity drove me to study a lot of things. Over time, I started to drift ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionPhysicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow
study co-author Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is designing ... one were to observe the Unruh effect, “one would have observed a mechanism that is common to both ... stimulate the conventional, or resonant, effects, but we show that by engineering the trajectory of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-embark-hunt-long-sought-quantum-glow