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Dora Aldama: Drawn to multidimensional problems
has broadened her perspective during each of her projects. In a first semester engineering course, for ... Dreamliner plane, headed from Los Angeles to Shanghai. To a typical passenger, the twin-engine jet airliner ... engineering and an exciting glimpse into her immediate future. The 787 was the same model she would be working ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dora-aldama-drawn-multidimensional-problems2.S01: Special subject invites first-year students to get their feet wet working with underwater vehicles
a second-year student in mechanical engineering, hold the UAV they constructed in course 2.S01. Credit: Tony ... Bryne, a second-year mechanical engineering student, took the course last year as a member of the first ... involving mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, control theory, computer science and ocean ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2s01-special-subject-invites-first-year-students-get-their-feet-wet-working-underwaterDana Yoerger
and abilities. I like going to sea and solving problems at sea by producing engineering and scientific ... 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 Joint Program ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dana-yoergerBurning things to make things
of mechanical engineering, is driving research into sustainable and efficient combustion ... Utilization and associate professor of mechanical engineering, is leading research to drive the transition from ... Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Burning things to make things ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/burning-things-make-thingsA shape-changing antenna for more versatile sensing and communication
— engineered materials whose mechanical properties, such as stiffness and strength, depend on the geometric ... sensing for interaction design,” says lead author Marwa AlAlawi, a mechanical engineering graduate student ... in MIT’s departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/shape-changing-antenna-more-versatile-sensing-and-communicationMaking 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-mitDesigning 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-worldA leg up for STEM majors
mechanical engineering because I really enjoy the hands-on aspects of the field.” In parallel to her design ... and manufacturing, and mechanics and materials courses, Hovendon also immersed herself in energy and ... going on.” With one year to go, Hovendon is contemplating graduate school in mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leg-stem-majorsFaculty 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-sapsisBuilding 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-wheelchairsMIT 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-competition3 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-equipmentStudents 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-superpowersQ&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-mitMechE 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-722.75: 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-designMIT 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-leadersUsing 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-safer