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Four from MIT awarded 2018 Schwarzman Scholarships
Henry Aspegren, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, is an MIT master’s student in engineering. He received his BS ... in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT earlier this year. Aspegren aspires to ... a robotics workshop in which students programmed a Roomba vaccum cleaner to drive around an obstacle course ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-awarded-2018-schwarzman-scholarshipsSuperUROP: Showcasing students' research work in progress
of SuperUROP experience extends well beyond the course, says Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the School ... of Engineering and Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “We expect ... Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). “We are also thrilled to see our former SuperUROP scholars moving on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/superurop-showcasing-students-research-work-progressOutside-the-Box Thinker
an aspiring mechanical engineer on a budget wants a top-of-the-line guitar, what does he do? He makes ... a functional object. MIT-Nathan-Spielberg1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone As a mechanical engineering major at ... Mechanical Engineering, to manufacture what’s known as a “lab on a chip.” Currently, when a doctor wants to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/outside-box-thinkerNew model of the GI tract could speed drug development
MIT engineers have devised a way to speed up the development of new drugs by rapidly testing how ... diseases, tuberculosis, and malaria, says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical ... engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Many of the drugs that are being ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-gi-tract-could-speed-drug-developmentA simple diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal disorders
Department of Mechanical Engineering. Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration ... says Giovanni Traverso, who is the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-diagnostic-tool-gastrointestinal-disordersMIT and Fashion Institute of Technology join forces to create innovative textiles
Nicholas Xuanlai Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. Participating FIT faculty were Preeti Arya, ... in Chemical Engineering. “Today, new fiber-based solutions can have a significant and timely impact ... Engineering), rising senior Kedi Hu (Chemical Engineering/Architecture), Nga Yi "Amy" Lam (FIT, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-and-fashion-institute-technology-join-forces-create-innovative-textilesProfessor Koichi Masubuchi, Leading Expert in Welding Science and Fabrication Technology, Passes Away at 92.
of Ocean Engineering, which later became the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He retired from ... honor of Dr. Masubuchi. Thursday, April 7, 2016 Department of Mechanical Engineering gray Horizontal ... Koichi Masubuchi, Professor Emeritus of Ocean Engineering, passed away on April 1, 2016, at the age of 92 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-koichi-masubuchi-leading-expert-welding-science-and-fabrication-technologyMechE Film "Water Is Life" Wins New England Emmy Award
for MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), attended the black tie affair where he ... Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Education International Maker Vertical The film "Water Is ... Interested in highlighting the important work done in Professor Amos Winter’s Global Engineering and Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-film-water-life-wins-new-england-emmy-awardMIT researchers demonstrate ship hull modifications to cut fuel use
of Mechanical Engineering, along with Alfonso Parra Rubio and Neil Gershenfeld of the Center for Bits ... hull,” explains Michael Triantafyllou, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT Sea ... presented at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 2025 Maritime Convention in Norfolk, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-demonstrate-ship-hull-modifications-cut-fuel-use-0New Solar Absorber Could Improve Efficiency of Solar Thermal Technology
research and development capabilities in Abu Dhabi. Nicholas X. Fang, professor of mechanical engineering ... also maintaining low emission levels,” says TieJun Zhang, assistant professor of mechanical and ... materials engineering at the Masdar Institute, a graduate-level engineering university in the United Arab ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-solar-absorber-could-improve-efficiency-solar-thermal-technologyENDLab develops and demonstrates new abyssal ocean sensor to inform deep-sea mining
Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and one of the authors of the ... Wednesday, October 16, 2024 Anne Wilson | Mechanical Engineering green Collaboration Horizontal Researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/endlab-develops-and-demonstrates-new-abyssal-ocean-sensor-inform-deep-sea-miningEvelyn Wang: A new energy source at MIT
Glanzman Wang, a mechanical engineering professor by trade, began work this spring as MIT’s first vice ... decades at the Institute. Wang earned her undergraduate degree from MIT in mechanical engineering, and her ... MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. She has held several chaired faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-new-energy-source-mitMIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel
Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We’re trying to achieve ... scale up hydrogen production.” This work was supported by the Centers for Mechanical Engineering ... MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-design-would-harness-40-percent-sun%E2%80%99s-heat-produce-clean-hydrogen-fuelBuilding a framework for remote making
MIT-sponsored purposes,” says Martin Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering and director of Project ... Durak. Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture ... manus" — "mind and hand." For many students, making is more than designing, engineering, arts, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-framework-remote-makingAlbatross robot takes flight
professor of mechanical engineering and information sciences and of brain sciences; and Michael ... MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the ... MIT-Albatross-Robot-1024.jpg An albatross glider, designed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Photo: Gabriel Bousquet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightAsegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun
MIT-Asegun-Henry-01-press.jpg MIT mechanical engineering professor Asegun Henry. Photo Credit: Adam Glanzman Henry says this ... tenure position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and is funneling much of his energy into ... conduction, and received his master’s and PhD in mechanical engineering in 2009. He then accepted a faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asegun-henry-has-big-idea-tackling-climate-change-store-sunA lasting — and valuable — legacy
a mechanical engineering department, or else I likely would not have been able to go down that road.” Gallant ... are the fun ones.” Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Michaela Jarvis | Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Betar Gallant, MIT associate professor and Class of 1922 Career Development Chair in Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lasting-%E2%80%94-and-valuable-%E2%80%94-legacySeaPerch, a robot with a mission
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Anne Wilson, Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Education Horizontal SeaPerch II, ... interested in ocean science and engineering The SeaPerch underwater robot is a popular educational tool for ... has had a tremendous impact on the fields of ocean science and engineering,” says Andrew Bennett, ‘85 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/seaperch-robot-mission