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Designing for a more equitable world
others. A senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Smith recently sat down with the ... mechanical engineering, to introduce a low-cost filter that will be affordable to the poorest households. The ... School of Engineering to discuss her love of teaching MIT students about international development work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-more-equitable-worldMaking her way through MIT
crash course, she served as one of three graduate instructors for the mechanical engineering curriculum, ... When Du finished her master’s in mechanical engineering in 2016, she was ready to experience something ... a master’s student, she served as an instructor for the Women’s Technology Program in Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-her-way-through-mitFaculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak
mechanical engineering Alexie M. Kolpak. Yet studies at the atomic scale — for example, at the interface ... first year on the MIT faculty in 2013, Kolpak worked with MIT mechanical engineering principal research ... scientist Simona Socrate to put a half-semester intro mechanics course, 2.01x (Elements of Structures) onto ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-alexie-kolpakTalking Shop: Professor Themis Sapsis
marine engineering in 2005. He began his graduate studies at MIT in 2006, earning his PhD in mechanical engineering ... engineering, including uncertainty quantification of turbulent fluid flows, passive protection configurations ... these events? The mechanism we have discovered is related to a critical length-scale associated with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-themis-sapsisMechE announces three new appointments
and has taken a strong lead as the Department of Mechanical Engineering revamped its innovative Course ... Mechanical Engineering, and Professor John Leonard has been appointed associate head for research, both ... provide oversight of its machine shops. Hosoi joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2002 as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-announces-three-new-appointmentsFormer MIT president Charles M. Vest dies at 72
through a period of striking change and growth. A mechanical engineer by training, Vest was president of ... Engineering and Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering. Vest fostered MIT’s international engagement ... earned a BS in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University in 1963, and MS and PhD degrees in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/former-mit-president-charles-m-vest-dies-72MIT Hyperloop team competes in SpaceX global competition
The MIT team includes students concentrating in aeronautics, mechanical engineering, electrical ... Freidah/Department of Mechanical Engineering | 3 min, 7 sec Tuesday, January 24, 2017 MIT News Office Collaboration ... engineering, and business management. It’s one of 30 teams that have been invited to build a Hyperloop pod and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-hyperloop-team-competes-spacex-global-competitionBuilding the mountain bike of wheelchairs
started EC.721 (Wheelchair Design in Developing Countries) an Edgerton Center and D-Lab course that ... studied the operating environments of developing countries, and then applied scientific and engineering ... village, says Tish Scolnik ’10, who took the course as a first-year student and also conducted research in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-mountain-bike-wheelchairs3 Questions: The risks of using 3D printing to make personal protective equipment
Covid-19-related medical devices. Martin Culpepper is a professor of mechanical engineering, director of Project ... efforts. Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture ... discusses the risks associated with using 3D printing for PPE and what designers, researchers, and engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-risks-using-3d-printing-make-personal-protective-equipmentQ&A: How MITHIC is fostering a culture of collaboration at MIT
Leonhard (1940) Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-chair of MITHIC’s SHASS+ ... and Maria Yang, interim dean of the MIT School of Engineering, discuss the value of MITHIC and the ... Yang: MITHIC is very important to MIT, and I think of this from the point of view as an engineer, which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-how-mithic-fostering-culture-collaboration-mit2.75: Precision Machine Design
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and recipient of the 2000 Massachusetts Professor of the Year Award. ... part of a mechanical engineer’s education? Isn’t the science enough? “At MIT, we teach really great ... Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue Collaboration Education Maker slocum@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/275-precision-machine-designStudents launch products that help users harness their superpowers
lasso of truth. Batman has his suit. On Monday evening, teams of mechanical engineering students ... professor of mechanical engineering David Wallace has been at the helm of the class, which serves as ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Education Maker Horizontal In the final ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-launch-products-help-users-harness-their-superpowersMIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders
the discipline. The Department of Mechanical Engineering first offered a program in marine engineering ... Gillespy says. “We’ve had students working in electrical engineering on power systems, in mechanical ... hydrodynamics, electrical and structural engineering, materials science, and more. That’s why the Navy works so ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-graduate-programs-empower-next-generation-naval-leaders2.007 Robots Battle it Out, Revolutionary-Style
mechanical engineering. This year, instructors modeled the competition’s obstacle course after major ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering, dressed as a British redcoat and ringing a bell, called to ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, dressed as a Revolutionary soldier and brandishing a wrench, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-robots-battle-it-out-revolutionary-styleFundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites
marine robots are our scouts, braving the rough seas to collect data for us,” says mechanical engineering ... Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering at MIT, have laid out their ... from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Quest for the most informative data To validate their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fundamental-equations-guide-marine-robots-optimal-sampling-sites-0Using sensors and social networks to make slopes safer
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... Connects. Friday, July 7, 2017 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ... charged with designing a product that solves a real-life problem for course 2.739 (Product Design and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-sensors-and-social-networks-make-slopes-saferAlum Ronan McGovern Brings Innovative Beer Filtration System to Market
Ronan McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been working on an ... Photo by: Lillie Paquette/School of Engineering The secret of the approach, according to McGovern, is ... Mentoring Service at MIT. During the course of their program, the TFP postdocs engage in a series of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-ronan-mcgovern-brings-innovative-beer-filtration-system-marketMoving perovskite advancements from the lab to the manufacturing floor
industry into closer partnership,” says MIT professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who will ... Prize. “Throughout the course of this center, Verde will do everything in our power to help this ... Rand, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-perovskite-advancements-lab-manufacturing-floorFour from MIT awarded National Medals of Technology, Science
physical sciences. After earning his doctorate from MIT in mechanical engineering, Suresh joined the ... SM ’81, PhD ’84, the Elihu Thomson Professor in Electrical Engineering and principal investigator in ... Emeritus and former dean of the MIT School of Engineering, was awarded the National Medal of Science. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-awarded-national-medals-technology-scienceStudy finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch
Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical and biological engineering at MIT. “The consequence is that ... Lite-Brite pattern. But MIT engineers have found that the picture has many more shades. ... — either fully activated or fully repressed. But MIT engineers have found that a cell’s memory is set not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cell-memory-can-be-more-dimmer-dial-onoff-switch