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Helping underrepresented doctoral students of color thrive in the broader MIT community
Mechanical Engineering, and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science/Harvard-MIT Program in Health ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, remembers first encountering UCEM at an MIT event before he had ... underrepresented doctoral students of color in five areas within the School of Engineering: the departments of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/helping-underrepresented-doctoral-students-color-thrive-broader-mit-communityOrisa Coombs
she approached her own role in society. Orisa Coombs_1024.jpg Portrait of mechanical engineering ... make a difference in the world led her to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. “I didn’t ... I will be capable of working on almost any problem from a mechanical engineering perspective,” she adds. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/orisa-coombsHarvesting Fresh Water from Fog
Engineering, working with colleagues at the Pontificial University of Chile in Santiago, are harvesting potable ... westerly winds, local Chilean communities collect fog water for drinking and agricultural use. Mechanics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harvesting-fresh-water-fog-0Student Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14
Recover and reuse. Despite having two degrees in mechanical engineering, a passion for ... engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and his master’s degree in mechanical ... mills in India to stay in business. Saturday, July 23, 2016 Alissa Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-jaichander-swaminathan-sm-14The Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ... skin of pumpkins. Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The work began with a classification of patterns into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasingHow Crispy is Your Bonbon?
engineers could predict the mechanical response of many other types of shells, from small pharmaceutical ... as a recipe,” says Pedro Reis, the Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor of mechanical engineering ... smooth, even chocolaty shell. Now, a theory and a simple fabrication technique derived by MIT engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-crispy-your-bonbonHow to Hide Like an Octopus
their surroundings — a capability that engineers have long struggled to duplicate in synthetic ... Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and Duke University Professor of Chemistry Stephen ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, says the new material is essentially a layer of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-hide-octopusScientists make microscopes from droplets
Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can create complex geometries that form lenses, ... Blankschtein, professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis, and John D. MacArthur Professor of ... postdoc Julia Kalow, research affiliate Vishnu Sresht, professor of chemical engineering Daniel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-make-microscopes-dropletsHow cormorants emerge dry after deep dives
Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “By putting our ... Engineering. The depth-dependence of this phenomenon had not previously been known. But even after the collapse ... Loth, a professor of engineering at the University of Virginia who was not involved in this work, says, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cormorants-emerge-dry-after-deep-divesMIT undertakes Grand Challenge for innovation in global vaccine manufacturing
Engineering; and Kripa Varanasi, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Additional ... proteins using a combination of engineered microbial cell factories and flexible approaches for ... Christopher Love, an MIT associate professor of chemical engineering, a member of the Koch Institute for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-undertakes-grand-challenge-innovation-global-vaccine-manufacturingUsing light to propel water
Communications, was developed by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, School of ... A new system developed by engineers at MIT could make it possible to control the way water moves ... developed by MIT engineers could make it possible to control the way water moves over a surface, using only ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-light-propel-waterInventing future fabrics
is studying mechanical engineering with a minor in design, conceived a T-shirt that can change color. ... a rising MIT senior double majoring in materials science and engineering and physics; Melanie Wong of ... Chemical Engineering, commented, "It is exciting to see what happens when students from different ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inventing-future-fabricsNano flashlight enables new applications of light
scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Singh’s coauthors on the second paper are Agarwal; ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. How they did it Singh and colleagues created their overall ... departments that made this work possible are the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nano-flashlight-enables-new-applications-lightReal People, Real Solutions at D-Lab
work with environmental, mechanical, and civil engineers. Patel and his team helped a group in Colombia ... Heilshorn ’25 learned something she’ll never forget: what gets engineered in the controlled comforts of ... in a course called D-Lab: Development, creating two prototypes of the chamber, an iterative process ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/real-people-real-solutions-d-labMIT Hyperloop Team Unveils its Pod
comprised of students from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Electrical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-hyperloop-team-unveils-its-podLegena Henry SM ’10
In 2019, Legena Henry SM ’10 and the students in her renewable energy course at the University ... sargassum, they ran some experiments. “And the thing is, it worked!” says Henry, who has a mechanical ... engineering master’s from MIT and a PhD from the University of the West Indies (where she is a lecturer). They ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/legena-henry-sm-%E2%80%9910Legena Henry
In 2019, Legena Henry SM ’10 and the students in her renewable energy course at the University ... sargassum, they ran some experiments. “And the thing is, it worked!” says Henry, who has a mechanical ... engineering master’s from MIT and a PhD from the University of the West Indies (where she is a lecturer). They ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/legena-henryPaper-folding art inspires better bandages
kirigami. MIT-Kirigami-Film_1024.jpg Ruike Zhao, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says kirigami-patterned adhesives may enable a whole swath ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Adhesion from an art form In August 2016, Ruike and her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/paper-folding-art-inspires-better-bandagesLobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “If you could make armor out of these types of ... carapace that shields the rest of the crustacean. But engineers at MIT and elsewhere have found that this ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and another senior author of the paper. Flexible protection ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lobster%E2%80%99s-underbelly-tough-industrial-rubber