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Four 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-switchSix MIT students named 2023 Schwarzman Scholars
mechanical engineering and electrical engineering and computer science. She has conducted research to elevate ... arriving at MIT. He is studying physics and electrical engineering with a minor in political science. After ... a BS in aerospace engineering. Passionate about emerging technologies in space, Kuhl co-authored ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-students-named-2023-schwarzman-scholarsAdhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater
mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an associate member of ... research was funded, in part, by the Gates Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham ... The mechanical system could be used to deliver drugs in the GI tract or monitor aquatic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-inspired-hitchhiking-sucker-fish-sticks-soft-surfaces-underwaterMaintaining the equipment that powers our world
undergraduates, they took a few of the same courses, with Vega-Brown double majoring in mechanical engineering and ... — who recently completed his PhD program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and will be ... Enterprises course. Still, the founders didn’t think about starting a company until 2015, after Garrity had ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maintaining-equipment-powers-our-worldMechE student named a Rhodes Scholar
majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in management science. As a Rhodes Scholar, Chun seeks to ... Matthew Chun will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall. Mechanical ... engineering senior Matthew Chun and biology and literature double major Mary Clare Beytagh were selected this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-student-named-rhodes-scholarSand, Sand Everywhere
mechanics course taught by the assistant professor of mechanical engineering. His work in the lab involves ... with a laugh. “It was already in all of my clothes, and now it’s in my backpack.” Motley, a mechanical ... engineering major, is captain of MIT’s men’s track and field team — and when he isn’t launching himself into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sand-sand-everywhere2.009 gets “Wild!”
Presentations. The popular Mechanical Engineering course, known on campus as “two-double-oh-nine,” is designed to ... theme for this year’s 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) senior capstone course, and it’s also ... December 13, 2023 Anne Wilson | Mechanical Engineering Education Entrepreneurship Horizontal Six teams of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2009-gets-%E2%80%9Cwild%E2%80%9DRobotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
Mechanical Engineering, describe their soft robotic design today in the journal Science Robotics. The paper’s ... MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide ... survival rates could increase significantly,” says Xuanhe Zhao, associate professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsBuilding 31 powers back up
a full-scale car in,” says Amos Winter, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Laboratories for Aircraft and Automotive Engines, originally opened in 1928 as a single-story home for MIT’s ... internal combustion engine research, funded by General Motors CEO Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Class of 1895. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-31-powers-back3-D Printing 101
As MIT course challenges students to reinvent 3-D printing, professor aims to share approach with ... however, 3-D printing is a small-scale fabrication tool, used by engineers and designers to quickly print ... the Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor in Contemporary Technology and Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-101Search-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden “traps” in ocean waters
mechanical engineering at MIT. “This method uses data in a way that it hasn’t been used before, so it ... mechanical engineering at MIT, who oversaw the project, and their colleagues report their results in a study ... in the ocean. They found that over the course of a few hours, the objects migrated to the regions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/search-and-rescue-algorithm-identifies-hidden-%E2%80%9Ctraps%E2%80%9D-ocean-waters-0Magnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and ... of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, says the group’s design can enable a range of fast, ... MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-3-d-printed-structures-crawl-roll-jump-and-play-catchMIT gears up to transform manufacturing
says John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and faculty co-director of ... “Manufacturing is the engine of society, and it is the backbone of robust, resilient economies,” ... economic and national security, and to daily lives.” John Hart is head of the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-gears-transform-manufacturingIngestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month
Xuanhe Zhao, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Zhao and senior collaborator Giovanni ... says Hanqing Jiang, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Arizona State University, ... MIT engineers have designed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the stomach, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-expanding-pill-monitors-stomach-monthPitching transformative design
majoring in mechanical engineering, said that, according to the team's research, if implemented ... class 22.033 (Nuclear Science and Engineering Design), “We’re pretty nervous,” said Jared Wilson, a senior ... majoring in Course 22. With four classmates and a mockup of a fast fission nuclear reactor, Wilson was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pitching-transformative-designMaterials Research Laboratory: Driving interdisciplinary materials research at MIT
around medical implants (departments of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering ... (Department of Materials Science and Engineering); the discovery of unexpected magnetism in atomically thin ... Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering who became MRL director in April. “Our goal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/materials-research-laboratory-driving-interdisciplinary-materials-research-mitMIT’s “Yo-Yo Class”
Video In class 2.008, Design and Manufacturing II, mechanical engineering students at MIT learn ... Manufacturing Innovation Environment Culture Home Undergraduate Graduate Course 2-A Prospective Student Home ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cyo-yo-class%E2%80%9DImagine it, Build it
‘imagine it, build it,’” says Tonio Buonassisi, professor of mechanical engineering. “Between those two is ... In 2.679 (Electronics for Mechanical Systems II), a hands-on approach teaches problem solving ... 2.679 (Electronics for Mechanical Systems II) takes students through the process of design, fabrication, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imagine-it-build-itNew approach makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their targets
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Dan Soto, graduate student Henri-Louis Girard, and ... spraying fuel into engines or water into cooling towers, and printing with fine droplets of ink. The new ... course even in breezy conditions. Then, as the drops reach the plants, they would be broken up by the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-makes-sprayed-droplets-hit-and-stick-their-targets