Search Results

Nominations open for Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization

associate provost; the dean for research; the dean of engineering; the dean of science; the chairman of the ... assistant professor of electrical engineering, in support of his project titled "Engineering Hybrid ... Biological-Electrical Systems for Ocean Engineering." This project focuses on engineering living cells using the ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nominations-open-doherty-professorship-ocean-utilization

Finding Joy in Making, and the Making of #HellaJuneteenth

suburb of Maywood, Illinois, Harris majored at MIT in mechanical engineering and architecture and minored ... frame, you have to trust in your understanding of the mechanics of the camera. Then you wait until it’s ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-joy-making-and-making-hellajuneteenth

There’s a symphony in the antibody protein the body makes to neutralize the coronavirus

Professor of Engineering at MIT, and also a composer of experimental music. “This is the beginning of ... mechanics of the life,” he says. Friday, May 21, 2021 Kim Martineau | MIT Quest for Intelligence ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/there%E2%80%99s-symphony-antibody-protein-body-makes-neutralize-coronavirus

3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint

help figure skaters improve. Credit: Bryce Vickmark, edited by MIT News; MIT Mechanical Engineering Q: ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-using-ai-help-olympic-skaters-land-quint

Startup with MIT roots wins R&D 100 Award

measures the amount, type, and distribution of contaminants on filters used to reduce engine and vehicle ... Bromberg had a number of DPFs in his lab, left over from plasma experiments focused on making auto engines ... the technology.  This allowed FST to build a rough prototype and conduct an engine test at Oak Ridge ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-mit-roots-wins-rd-100-award

News & Research

Air The Nature of Sand Water is Life Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale MIT Robot Learns How to Play ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-research

Multimillion-dollar grant to MIT funds research into acute and chronic Lyme disease

gift to the MIT School of Engineering to fund a two-year research project examining a physiomimetic ... analysis of acute and chronic Lyme disease. The project, led by Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering ... Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, will combine four ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multimillion-dollar-grant-mit-funds-research-acute-and-chronic-lyme-disease

Chisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors

genomic level to its role in the global biosphere. Langer, a biomedical engineer who focuses on ... engineering, where his discoveries led to the creation of new tissues such as artificial skin for burn victims. ... contributions to science and engineering. The National Medal of Technology and Innovation was established in ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/chisholm-langer-receive-nation%E2%80%99s-highest-honors-scientists-and-inventors

Eight from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2023

Engineering and Computer Science; Senthil Todadri, professor of physics; Evelyn N. Wang, the Ford Professor of ... Engineering (on leave) and director of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy; ... Research and Engineering Center; Yukiko Yamashita, professor of biology and core member of the Whitehead ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eight-mit-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences-2023

Three from MIT named Marine Microbiology Initiative investigators

Engineering (CEE) and Department of Biological Engineering; Michael Follows, a senior research scientist in ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-named-marine-microbiology-initiative-investigators

President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea visits MIT

Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the ... Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thomas Schwartz, the Boris ... Engineering and Science, discussed how he and colleagues are using AI tools to develop new medicines that ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/president-yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea-visits-mit

Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Dana Yoerger (SB ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’83)

producing engineering and scientific results.” Yoerger, in addition to being a major part of the team that ... proliferation of robotics in ocean science and engineering. As an educator, Dr. Yoerger also supervises the ... research and academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT/WHOI ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-dr-dana-yoerger-sb-%E2%80%9977-sm-%E2%80%9979-phd-%E2%80%9983

Demystifying the Cretaceous hothouse

they created a model ice-free aquaplanet to look for a mechanism by which the ocean would transport ... heat from the tropics into the poles indirectly. They found that the mechanism involves water vapor. In ... mechanisms that will be used over and over again in many areas of future academic study. Certainly, few ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/demystifying-cretaceous-hothouse

Alumni Spotlight

capability of computer simulations has reduced engineering and development expenses by enabling deep design ... in every aspect, starting with a fully integrated team of designers and engineers focused on common, ... improvements. The US launch vehicle utilizes a mid-engine layout, rear-wheel drive, and double wishbone ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight

Wilhem Hector

experience motivated him to work on a project to foster hands-on education for aspiring young engineers back ... and so that Haitian kids could learn basic engineering skills before going to college. “We are working ... small engineering projects.” He worked on purchasing equipment through the beginning of the summer, he ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/wilhem-hector