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From the Classroom to the Lab
mechanically bond rigid and soft components. Expanding on research already underway in the ... 2.678 (Electronics for Mechanical Systems) lab, students get plenty of hands-on time working with ... power modern electro-mechanical systems. Here, MechE undergrad Carter Tucker solders a wire as part of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/classroom-labManufacturing
management. Recommended Course 2 Subjects 2.002 Mechanics and Materials II 2.004 Dynamics and Control II 2.008 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/manufacturing3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design
Department of Mechanical Engineering introduces a computational design framework to support the creation of ... Development Professor and associate professor of mechanical engineering. In an open-access paper published ... study. Carton, a former postdoc in Portela’s lab, is now an assistant research professor in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-metamaterials-stretch-and-fail-designMaria Yang named vice provost for faculty
Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed vice provost for faculty at MIT, a role in which she will oversee ... International and the Axim Collaborative. Yang, who attended MIT as an undergraduate in mechanical engineering ... the mechanical engineering department at Stanford University, returned to MIT in 2007 as an assistant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maria-yang-named-vice-provost-facultyMIT School of Engineering faculty receive awards in fall 2025
Doherty Career Development Professor in Ocean Utilization in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, ... Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was elected to ... the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as an honorary member. The prestigious recognition is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-school-engineering-faculty-receive-awards-fall-2025Faculty highlight: A. John Hart
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering A. John Hart hopes progress in the science and ... electronics, medical devices, and arts and crafts. "Being in mechanical engineering, in the area of ... the role of chemical and mechanical coupling in carbon nanotube forest growth (see related article on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-john-hartTaking a leap in bioinspired robotics
in the next five to 10 years, says Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... principles from biomechanics, human decision-making, and mechanical design to build a service robot that Kim ... University in the city, where he studied mechanical engineering. In his second year, as has been mandatory in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-leap-bioinspired-roboticsThree professors named 2017 MacVicar Fellows
mechanical engineering. Now in its 25th year, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program was created to honor the ... was teaching.” Maria Yang Yang attended MIT as an undergraduate, completing her BS in mechanical ... engineering in 1991. She went on to earn a MS in 1994 and PhD in 2000 in the mechanical engineering design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-professors-named-2017-macvicar-fellowsWoodie Flowers, a pioneer of hands-on engineering education
learning the art of mechanical design. When Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73 was an MIT student in ... mechanical engineering, most of his classes involved paper-and-pencil design exercises with predetermined ... education: He developed a hands-on, project-centered mechanical engineering class, which has since been ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/woodie-flowers-pioneer-hands-engineering-education2026 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
teaching. Two outstanding MIT educators have been named MacVicar Faculty Fellows: professor of mechanical ... Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE). He joined the faculty in 2012 and is best known for teaching ... has fundamentally shaped my path as a mechanical engineer.” Especially notable is Winter’s energetic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2026-macvicar-faculty-fellows-namedFaculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak
mechanical engineering Alexie M. Kolpak. Yet studies at the atomic scale — for example, at the interface ... experimentalists. Kolpak, who is the Rockwell International Career Development Assistant Professor, and mechanical ... underlying phenomenon in this highly efficient catalyst is a newly understood mechanism, “lattice ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-alexie-kolpakOutside-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-thinkerSenior Larissa Senatus Learns About the World by Doing
Senatus, a mechanical engineering major, has found many opportunities to explore new subjects during her ... Although she ultimately decided to pursue mechanical engineering, this experience got her hooked on doing ... mechanical engineering research during a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/senior-larissa-senatus-learns-about-world-doingUsing Engineering Savvy to Improve Product Designs
Department of Mechanical Engineering where he works in the Ideation Lab making software tools to see what can ... student in mechanical engineering, thinking about design is a way of life; whether he is creating a novel ... a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT, didn’t expect to attend such a large university, but during ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-engineering-savvy-improve-product-designsEdward Burnell
a graduate student in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering where he works in the Ideation Lab ... Scott Brauer For Burnell, a master’s student in mechanical engineering, thinking about design is a way ... his place at MIT Burnell, who also has a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT, didn’t expect to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/edward-burnellChanging lives with heart, humor, and engineering
of each fall semester, the mechanical engineering senior and nuclear fusion enthusiast dons a Santa ... arrived at the Institute, he wasn’t committed to engineering until he took 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials ... I), with Rohan Abeyaratne, the Quentin Berg Professor of Mechanics, during his freshman spring ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/changing-lives-heart-humor-and-engineeringStudents build assistive technologies at MIT’s annual ATHack
and a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. The event was founded in 2014 by a group of ... undergraduate in mechanical engineering. “Even if we don’t have a successful project, someone else will learn ... are kept at a distance. Amanda Fike, a co-organizer and a mechanical engineering undergraduate student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-build-assistive-technologies-mit%E2%80%99s-annual-athackOn the cutting edge
Malone says. The MIT senior studies mechanical engineering and hopes to draw from both his education and ... Mechanical Engineering) with professor of mechanical engineering Martin Culpepper. With Culpepper’s guidance ... Malone met with Anette “Peko” Hosoi, the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cutting-edgeAlumni team tops Collegiate Inventors Competition
On a Friday in mid-November, recent mechanical engineering alumna Elizabeth Bianchini ’18 found ... pose in Killian Court. This group of mechanical engineering seniors designed and developed a working ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and one of the 2.009 lab instructors assigned to the Rhino team. “It ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-team-tops-collegiate-inventors-competitionDesigning vehicles that drive, fly — and swim
I don’t know if inventor is a job,’” she laughs. “‘But maybe you could do mechanical engineering.’” Now, ... mechanical engineering. She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, ... was while working on this project, she says, that she knew she wanted to be a mechanical engineer. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-vehicles-drive-fly-%E2%80%94-and-swim