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MIT engineers introduce the Oreometer
which turns out to be really hard,” says Max Fan, an undergraduate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... before putting the second wafer on top,” says Crystal Owens, an MIT mechanical engineering PhD candidate ... difficult to access. In addition to Owens and Fan, co-authors are mechanical engineering professors Gareth ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-introduce-oreometerA lasting — and valuable — legacy
Betar Gallant, MIT associate professor and Class of 1922 Career Development Chair in Mechanical ... a mechanical engineering department, or else I likely would not have been able to go down that road.” Gallant ... true, before the field even had the tools to prove all the mechanisms were actually occurring — yet even ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lasting-%E2%80%94-and-valuable-%E2%80%94-legacyEllen Roche and Justin Solomon named Edgerton Award winners
MIT associate professors Ellen Roche of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and ... service. Ellen Roche, the Latham Family Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and ... intersection of mechanical and biological assist devices and therapy delivery and made pioneering contributions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ellen-roche-and-justin-solomon-named-edgerton-award-winnersMIT 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 ... a vacuum using mechanical pumps, though the pumps are too energy-intensive and costly for large-scale ... oxygen from the hotter inner train, without the need for energy-consuming mechanical pumps. These outer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-design-would-harness-40-percent-sun%E2%80%99s-heat-produce-clean-hydrogen-fuelTo excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds
a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT. “The objective of these models is to mimic a dataset. But as ... colleagues make the case that if mechanical engineers want help from AI to generate novel ideas and designs, ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “But in design, being different could be important if you want to innovate.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/excel-engineering-design-generative-ai-must-learn-innovate-study-findsInnovating for health equity
access to medical advancements. As a mechanical engineering major with a concentration in biomedicine and ... something I was provided and thought, ‘I’m a mechanical engineer. I think I can do better,’” she says. With ... a team of bioengineers, mechanical engineers, and social scientists from MIT EMS and Harvard’s Crimson ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovating-health-equityK. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center will prioritize innovations for resource-constrained communities
professor of mechanical engineering. Photo: Todd Zimmermann “As she has shown over and over through her ... associate professor of mechanical engineering, whose lab focuses on creating technologies that marry ... real-world solutions, and by providing mechanisms for commercial dissemination. I am extremely grateful to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/k-lisa-yang-global-engineering-and-research-center-will-prioritize-innovations-resourceEntrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship in Engineering: The Founder’s Journey 2.Thu Undergraduate Thesis in Mechanical Engineering 2.723A ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/entrepreneurshipAn implantable sensor could reverse opioid overdoses
high-risk population,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ... students at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Jack Chen, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering at ... innovative micropumping mechanism.” The device also includes a small reservoir that can carry up to 10 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/implantable-sensor-could-reverse-opioid-overdosesWhen muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “Maybe if we stimulate the ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Vincent Butty of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ... forth, mimicking the mechanical forces (of exercise), and could that have an impact on growth as well?” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-muscles-work-out-they-help-neurons-grow-new-study-showsA leg up for STEM majors
Senior Kevin Guo, a computer science major, and junior Erin Hovendon, studying mechanical ... mechanical engineering because I really enjoy the hands-on aspects of the field.” In parallel to her design ... and manufacturing, and mechanics and materials courses, Hovendon also immersed herself in energy and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leg-stem-majorsSix from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2025
culture, and education. MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering Gareth H. McKinley Credit: John Frediah ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences-2025Evelyn 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-mitAbigail Schipper
access to medical advancements. As a mechanical engineering major with a concentration in biomedicine and ... provided and thought, ‘I’m a mechanical engineer. I think I can do better,’” she says. With a team of ... bioengineers, mechanical engineers, and social scientists from MIT EMS and Harvard’s Crimson EMS, Schipper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/abigail-schipperCultivating confidence and craft across disciplines
Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he leads the Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Research Group ... for their exploration within mechanical engineering and beyond. One student reflected on the manner in ... a non-engineering field joined the mechanical engineering graduate program, Karnik never viewed their background as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cultivating-confidence-and-craft-across-disciplinesVine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
automatically clamped in place and mechanically wound back up to gently lift the object in a soft, sling-like ... says Kentaro Barhydt, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This kind of ... mechanical lift, which then can gently hoist the patient out of bed, similar to suspending a hammock or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vine-inspired-robotic-gripper-gently-lifts-heavy-and-fragile-objectsExploring the promise of regenerative aquaculture at an Arkansas fish farm
a second-year mechanical engineering student at MIT, and her work through MIT D-Lab with Keo Fish Farms, ... studying mechanical engineering at MIT. That ambition paid off. Shortly after arriving in Cambridge, Hayano ... and mechanical: Aquaculture species like hybrid striped bass and triploid grass carp require ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-promise-regenerative-aquaculture-arkansas-fish-farmTonio Buonassisi Seeks to Make Solar Cells Competitive
Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world. One ... tenure at MIT as an associate professor of mechanical engineering — has taken a few different turns in ... Mechanical Engineering in 2007, where he established the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “It’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tonio-buonassisi-seeks-make-solar-cells-competitive