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Lifetime Achievement: Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram
least of which is his expert understanding of hydrodynamics, fluid mechanics, and oceanography, ... taught fluid mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as signals and systems, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-emeritus-jerome-milgramTalking Shop with Professor David Gossard
Department of Mechanical Engineering since he earned his PhD here in 1975, having previously earned his ... bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He began his tenure in the ... computer science and its intersection with mechanical engineering. His research activities included solid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-david-gossardStudent Spotlight: Guangtao (Taotao) Zhang (Candidate SB ’14)
English. Now, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, she is preparing to graduate this winter ... – which now has almost 200 members; conducted high-level research, working on the mechanical aspects of ... Taotao is still interested in attending graduate school to earn a master’s degree in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-guangtao-taotao-zhang-candidate-sb-%E2%80%9914Student Spotlight: Nikolai Begg
invented a puncture access mechanism with a blade that retracts at the moment it passes completely through ... the tip withdraws within 1/100 of a second. The mechanism, which is purely mechanical in nature with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-nikolai-beggLetter from the Department Head: A Manufacturing Renaissance
Manufacturing has consistently been an integral part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. From the ... Mechanical Design (2.72), Engineering Systems Development (2.014), and Manufacturing Processes and Systems ... a hallmark of mechanical engineering education. Our commitment to improving manufacturing extends beyond the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-manufacturing-renaissanceInside the Innards of a Nuclear Reactor
Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... rudders, or any obvious mechanism on its surface to power the robot through an underwater environment. ... meters. The team is also working on an “eyeball” mechanism that would let the camera pan and tilt in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inside-innards-nuclear-reactorSupporting Saudi Arabian female scientists and engineers
for Saudi Arabian female scientists and engineers. CCWCE, located in the MIT Department of Mechanical ... the guidance of mechanical engineering professor Stephen Graves. Al-Nory, an assistant professor at ... as our personal lives.” Monday, February 10, 2014 Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/supporting-saudi-arabian-female-scientists-and-engineersDemystifying the Cretaceous hothouse
they created a model ice-free aquaplanet to look for a mechanism by which the ocean would transport ... heat from the tropics into the poles indirectly. They found that the mechanism involves water vapor. In ... mechanisms that will be used over and over again in many areas of future academic study. Certainly, few ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/demystifying-cretaceous-hothouseSun-powered car shines in American Solar Challenge
in line with challenge regulations. Included are electrical, dynamic, and mechanical tests. The team ... performed exceptionally well in electrical scrutineering. Mechanical scrutineering, however, brought bsome ... passed all mechanical and dynamic tests on the fourth and final day of Scrutineering. Jordan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-car-shines-american-solar-challengeSarah Tress wins 2019 Rhodes Scholarship
in mechanical engineering. As a Rhodes Scholar, Tress will pursue an MPhil in Development Studies at ... Tau Beta Pi engineering honors society and the Pi Tau Sigma mechanical engineering honors society. ... Horizontal Sarah Tress, a senior studying mechanical engineering, has been named a Rhodes Scholar. She will ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sarah-tress-wins-2019-rhodes-scholarshipFive MIT faculty elected 2021 AAAS Fellows
cellular, and circuitry mechanisms of these disorders, Feng hopes his work will eventually lead to the ... Committee). Ian Hunter is the Hatsopoulos Professor of Mechanical Engineering and runs the ... and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research program combines fundamental ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-faculty-elected-2021-aaas-fellowsA 3D printable tissue adhesive
a graduate student who works in the lab of Mechanical Engineering Professor Xuanhe Zhao. “ Our research takes ... mechanical behavior. Wu, who is one of the lead authors of the paper “ A 3D printable tissue adhesive,” ... mechanical behavior, as well as tissue-interfacing devices such as bioelectronic or drug delivery patches,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printable-tissue-adhesive2024 MAD Design Fellows announced
building. Charlotte Folinus, PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering: Folinus creates new ... uncertain environments, and long mechanical lifetimes. “I am really excited to be surrounded by people who ... accessibility. Lyle Regenwetter, PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering: Regenwetter develops ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2024-mad-design-fellows-announcedAccelerating particle size distribution estimation
Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. George ... Barbastathis, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is the article’s senior author. The paper, ... | Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Study accelerates particle size distribution estimation, improving on novel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-particle-size-distribution-estimationDOE selects MIT to establish a Center for the Exascale Simulation of Coupled High-Enthalpy Fluid–Solid Interactions
simulations of high-enthalpy gas flows with models of the chemical, thermal, and mechanical behavior of solid ... (1937) Professor of Mechanical Engineering and co-director of CCSE, who will serve as associate ... Mathematics, and Mechanical Engineering. Franklin Hadley will lead center operations, with administration and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/doe-selects-mit-establish-center-exascale-simulation-coupled-high-enthalpy-fluid%E2%80%93solidEvan Brown
a high-torque impact wrench made for iron workers and truck mechanics that was twice as powerful as anything his ... undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at MIT. Since graduating, his work as manager of design ... inner mechanics of things runs in the family. His grandfather owned a small-engine business, selling ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/evan-brownWith “MIT Fundamentos Electrónicos,” MechE Grad Student Brings Electronics Workshops to Students in Mexico
pursuits. Savannah Gordon SB ’24, now a graduate student in mechanical engineering, spent IAP 2025 in ... program. Courtesy of Savannah Gordon. As an undergraduate, Gordon studied mechanical engineering ... Systems Group under Professor Leeb. Tuesday, July 15, 2025 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cmit-fundamentos-electr%C3%B3nicos%E2%80%9D-meche-grad-student-brings-electronics-workshops-studentsEngineering Defense, with the Help of Butterflies
As a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts ... specializing in engineering, and he went on to earn three mechanical engineering degrees at MIT. He felt at ... a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts research for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-defense-help-butterfliesDepartment News
rotordynamics, and a leader in transforming mechanics into an engineering science, passed away Oct. 29, in ... transferred to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. There, he was appointed to assistant professor of ... mechanical engineering in 1947, associate professor in 1951, then to professor in 1958. He was named Ford ...
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