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NASA selects three MIT alumni for astronaut training
’06, who graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Christina Birch PhD ’15, who earned ... degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering as well as ... that that came my way.” “I went into mechanical engineering because I wanted to build things,” he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nasa-selects-three-mit-alumni-astronaut-trainingProfessor Emeritus Jerome Milgram, a leader in ship design and hydrodynamics, dies at 83
Mechanics) in mechanical engineering in addition to 6.003 (Signals and Systems) in electrical engineering for ... on legacy.com for details. Tuesday, January 4, 2022 Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal ... Jerome Milgram ’61, PhD ’65, professor emeritus of ocean engineering at MIT, passed away at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-jerome-milgram-leader-ship-design-and-hydrodynamics-dies-83First-year students take center stage on Killian Court
“PLAYsentations” — demonstrating the toys they created this semester in mechanical engineering class 2.00b (Toy ... courtesy of the 2.00b Team. David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering and instructor of 2.00b, saw ... and in-between could celebrate engineering design.” Throughout the PLAYsentations, attendees consumed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-year-students-take-center-stage-killian-courtThe Graduate Journey
graduate experience. Recent doctoral graduates from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering reflect on ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering reflect on how they overcame challenges during their time as ... graduate students. Recent doctoral graduates from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering reflect on how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graduate-journeyMIT alum receives Navy award
Mechanical engineering ... course of [his] career as an Acquisition Professional.” Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, ... make those key decisions to keep the Navy on course, exemplifies a good leader, and you have defined ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-alum-receives-navy-awardSophia Chen: It’s our duty to make the world better through empathy, patience, and respect
Sophia Chen, a fifth-year senior double majoring in mechanical engineering and art and design, ... developing areas by engineering a new type of rapid detection technology that would sample from users’ local ... water sources. From there, she joined Professor Amos Winter’s Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sophia-chen-it%E2%80%99s-our-duty-make-world-better-through-empathy-patience-and-respectSeparating the good from the bad in bacteria
Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ... engineering design and quantitative biology.” “On the engineering side, the team has pushed the envelope on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteriaWatching tumors burst through a blood vessel
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We could take circulating tumor cells from a patient and subject those cells ... previous platforms,” Chen says. Muhammad Zaman, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Boston ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watching-tumors-burst-through-blood-vesselMethod rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions
Toyota Professor of EECS, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the ... engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and lead author of a paper on this technique. Amice ... Electrical Engineering at the University of Oulu in Finland, and who was not involved with this work. This ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-rapidly-verifies-robot-will-avoid-collisionsBuilding the tools of the next manufacturing revolution
Manufacturing) and its equivalent as an open online course on edX. As the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... nanoscale to the scale of the global economy. Hart, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... and when he started in the master’s degree program in mechanical engineering at MIT, he thought he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-tools-next-manufacturing-revolutionFirst Annual MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Awards Presented
Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering for 3.032 ... (Mechanical Behavior of Materials); Max Goldman, lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and ... Lorna Gibson wins for 3.032 Mechanical Behavior of Materials This year marks the launch of the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-annual-mit-teaching-digital-technology-awards-presented3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles
Leonard is the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of ... Mechanical Engineering, a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and ... engineering roles could also be sources of good jobs if automated taxi fleets are deployed at scale, but will ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-john-leonard-future-autonomous-vehiclesBuilding bridges to Ukraine through language, art, and community
current graduate student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In one powerful and moving visit, ... In a new course that ran this Independent Activities Period (IAP), MIT students studied Ukrainian ... [courses], and my immediate response was that we would love to offer something.” Khotimsky worked with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-bridges-ukraine-through-language-art-and-communityNot quite a solid, not quite a liquid: Meet hydrogels
Professor and professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering, and Evelyn Wang, ... vice president for energy and climate and professor of mechanical engineering, are among the ... Thursday, September 4, 2025 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Horizontal Not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-quite-solid-not-quite-liquid-meet-hydrogelsProjects advance naval ship design and capabilities
construction and engineering being conducted at MIT. 2n Program 1024.jpg Students enrolled in the Course 2N ... presentations given by Course 2N (Naval Construction and Engineering) graduate students. These projects serve as ... For Course 2N student Charles Hasenbank, working on a conversion project for the engineering plant of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/projects-advance-naval-ship-design-and-capabilitiesUnderstanding the impact of climate change on the ocean
2-OE (Mechanical and Ocean Engineering). Later that year, Kornberg declared 2-OE. “I think ocean ... with solving all the technical challenges mechanical engineers face,” explains Kornberg, now a senior. ... Technology Initiatives. Alongside Nicholas Fritzinger-Pittman, a senior studying mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-climate-change-oceanManipulating the future
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Tedrake developed the course after robotic manipulation became the new focus ... course, 6.800 (Robotic Manipulation) to help engineering students broadly survey the latest advancements ... manipulation is coming fast and the Robotic Manipulation course will help train engineers to steady the field ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/manipulating-futureHow to float your coffee creamer
able to sustain,” says Michela Geri, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Mechanics, offer a detailed, mathematical understanding of drop coalescence, which can be observed in everday ... locations in a chip, at certain temperatures. With this new understanding, researchers could also engineer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-float-your-coffee-creamerStudent Profile: Julia Sokol, PhD Candidate
supply. Julia Sokol, a PhD student in mechanical engineering, is hoping to improve sustainability and ... bachelor’s in mechanical engineering at Harvard University, Sokol spent some time in industry, first as ... took the course 2.76, Global Engineering, which was taught by associate professor and principal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-profile-julia-sokol-phd-candidateThe race to build the Navy’s next fleet of ships
course taught by Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis, professor of mechanical engineering ocean engineering ... architecture and marine engineering program (then known as Course 13A). “When I showed up at MIT in June of ... June 27, 2018 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Vertical ...
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