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Soft materials hold onto “memories” of their past, for longer than previously thought

to do with the goop’s “mechanical memory.” Soft gels and lotions are made by mixing ingredients until ... and slide back into its former, premixed state. Mechanical memory is, in part, why hand lotion ... cream have longer mechanical memories, holding onto residual stresses for longer periods of time than ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-materials-hold-%E2%80%9Cmemories%E2%80%9D-their-past-longer-previously-thought

Study finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch

Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical and biological engineering at MIT. “The consequence is that ... mechanism. They then monitored the cells over five months to see whether the modification would lock the ... analog memory mechanism, invented by evolution, in the field of synthetic biology, where it could help ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cell-memory-can-be-more-dimmer-dial-onoff-switch

Palladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrogen fuel

MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Kim and his colleagues report details of the new membrane in ... graduate student Chun Man Chow PhD ’23; Rohit Karnik, the Jameel Professor in the Department of Mechanical ... Persad, a former MIT research scientist in mechanical engineering who is now an assistant professor at the ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/palladium-filters-could-enable-cheaper-more-efficient-generation-hydrogen-fuel

Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to physically apply ... project. In 2021, as Kachkine made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he ... Mechanical Engineering, and the MIT Libraries. Tuesday, June 10, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/have-damaged-painting-restore-it-just-hours-ai-generated-%E2%80%9Cmask%E2%80%9D

Alex Kachkine

Kachkine, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to ... made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he drove up the East Coast and ... Mechanical Engineering, and the MIT Libraries. Communications Department Wednesday, October 22, 2025 Alumni ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-kachkine

A. Michael West

into it,” the mechanical engineering PhD candidate says, adding that growing up in suburban California, ... and later on, his major in mechanical engineering at Yale University agreed with him. “I definitely ... Sun Jae Professor in Mechanical Engineering, in the Eric P. and Evelyn E. Newton Laboratory for ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/michael-west

Abe Schneider

a mechanical windmill on the north side of the house. “We grew up hanging clothes on a line, and it wasn’t ... followed three years later and majored in mechanical engineering for both his bachelor’s and master’s ... before starting a company. After graduation, Abe worked as a mechanical engineer and did some consulting ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/abe-schneider

Josh Randolph: Taking care of others as an EMT and ROTC leader

mechanical engineering major. In April, MIT senior Josh Randolph will race 26.2 miles across Concord, ... Randolph says. A mechanical engineering major, he shares his grandfather’s interest in the scientific and ... Michael Short and professor of biological and mechanical engineering Domatilla Del Vecchio. Randolph has ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/josh-randolph-taking-care-others-emt-and-rotc-leader

Jennifer Lewis ScD ’91: “Can we make tissues that are made from you, for you?”

Assistant Professor of Tissue Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo: Jared ... different tissue types, but also building in mechanisms by which we can build multi-scale vasculature,” said ... Professor of Tissue Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, for a question-and-answer ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jennifer-lewis-scd-%E2%80%9991-%E2%80%9Ccan-we-make-tissues-are-made-you-you%E2%80%9D

New sensor sniffs out pneumonia on a patient’s breath

Tadesse and Aditya Garg stand next to the Raman microscope. Credit: Tony Pulsone, MIT Mechanical ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Our new PlasmoSniff technology would enable detection of these exhaled ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Tadesse’s group builds diagnostic devices that can be used ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-sensor-sniffs-out-pneumonia-patient%E2%80%99s-breath

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact

Ahmed, associate professor of mechanical engineering. “They [IBM] are able to translate some of these ... development of machine-learning methods to accelerate discovery and design within complex mechanical systems. ... solvable, but could benefit from increased speed or efficiency; however, challenges — like mechanical ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-ibm-watson-ai-lab-seed-signal-amplifying-early-career-faculty-impact

CSAIL, MechE marine experts win international self-driving boat competition

Mechanical Engineering. “Each day saw huge hurdles, from equipment and software failures, to working outside ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/csail-meche-marine-experts-win-international-self-driving-boat-competition

Professor Slocum Awarded 2014 Department of Energy Grant

of high-fidelity multi-physics computational tools. Finally, the Department of Mechanical ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-slocum-awarded-2014-department-energy-grant

Exploring Surfaces of Nanomaterials

sustainable energy conversion and storage,” says the Gail E. Kendall Associate Professor of Mechanical ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-surfaces-nanomaterials

U.S. News ranks MIT’s graduate program in Engineering No. 1; Sloan is No. 5 business school

with Stanford and Berkeley); mechanical engineering (tied with Stanford); and nuclear engineering (tied ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/us-news-ranks-mit%E2%80%99s-graduate-program-engineering-no-1-sloan-no-5-business-school

Ocean engineering students set stage for a smarter fleet

Wednesday, August 14, 2013 Mechanical engineering blue ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-engineering-students-set-stage-smarter-fleet

Making waves

Lermusiaux, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You have fronts and eddies, ... to decide on a path after graduating with an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, his group carries out research in mechanics, computations and control. ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-waves

Three from MIT Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering, for contributions and commercialization in photovoltaics and ...

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