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Talking Shop: Professor Sanjay E. Sarma
Professor Sanjay Sarma has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 1996, after ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-sanjay-e-sarmaUndergraduate Spotlight: Katy Olesnavage
strictly within the bounds of mechanical engineering, where I am most comfortable.” Indeed, locating SGD, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/undergraduate-spotlight-katy-olesnavageFaculty Spotlight
Associate Professor Martin L. Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then became ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlightGetting a grip on robotic grasp
Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You do not need to command the robot, but simply move your fingers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspHarnessing the speed of light
associate professor of mechanical engineering. These tricks have led to findings that allow for generating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harnessing-speed-lightA new way to harness waste heat
Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-harness-waste-heatExcitons observed in action for the first time
a basic mechanism underlying photosynthesis: Plants absorb energy from photons, and this energy is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/excitons-observed-action-first-timeLemelson-MIT announces National Collegiate Student Prize Competition winners
wearable, mechanical interfaces that improve comfort and mobility for amputees. His approach, which uses ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lemelson-mit-announces-national-collegiate-student-prize-competition-winnersOrienteering for robots
Intelligence Laboratory, and John Leonard, a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering, as well as Oren ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/orienteering-robotsLe Morte d’Arthur and the engineer
student came to put laser to wood, and what craft she achieved Meeker, who majored in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/le-morte-d%E2%80%99arthur-and-engineerCells get ready for their close-up
professor of mechanical engineering and biological engineering who is senior author of the new paper. “We ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cells-get-ready-their-closeHow to create selective holes in graphene
led by graduate student Sean O’Hern and associate professor of mechanical engineering Rohit Karnik, is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-create-selective-holes-grapheneWeighing particles at the attogram scale
biological and mechanical engineering, to weigh larger particles, such as cells. This system, known as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scaleMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and 11 others. Silicon, which forms the basis of most ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-lightPills of the future: nanoparticles
mechanical engineering; and Richard Blumberg, co-director of BWH’s Biomedical Research Institute. No more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-future-nanoparticlesSeparating the good from the bad in bacteria
Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteriaUnder the sea
oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major, will take charge of marine ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/under-seaWater-shedding surfaces can be made to last
Yagüe. “Over the last several decades,” says Varanasi, the Doherty Associate Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-shedding-surfaces-can-be-made-lastWatching tumors burst through a blood vessel
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We could take circulating tumor cells from a patient and subject those cells ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watching-tumors-burst-through-blood-vesselNew materials improve oxygen catalysis
Shao-Horn, the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-improve-oxygen-catalysis