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The breadth of MechE
Mechanical Engineering. MIT Sports Lab researchers test athletes’ visual and vestibular systems using a VR ... with MIT/WHOI Joint Program PhD student Tyler Paine, prepare the MIT autonomous sailboat for operations ... to 10 percent. “I get asked a lot, ‘why are you in mechanical engineering, why not chemical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breadth-mecheCenter to advance predictive simulation research established at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE) within the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing — will ... advanced programming languages, compiler technologies, and software performance engineering tools, ... associate professor of chemical engineering; Charles Leiserson, co-PI, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/center-advance-predictive-simulation-research-established-mit-schwarzman-collegeThree MIT faculty elected 2018 AAAS Fellows
Prather is the Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering and a co-director of the MIT Energy ... engineer bacteria to synthesize useful chemical compounds such as drugs and biofuels. She has been ... Three current MIT faculty members have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-faculty-elected-2018-aaas-fellowsSchool of Engineering awards for 2014
The MIT School of Engineering recently honored outstanding faculty, and graduate and undergraduate ... high quality engineering education at MIT.” A fourth award rotates among the School of Engineering ... Environmental Engineering, and/or the MIT Sloan School of Management, who inspires students in pursuing and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-awards-2014Advancing the energy transition amidst global crises
(MITEI) director and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, introducing MITEI’s 15th Annual ... Political Science and director of the MIT Security Studies Program. John E. Parsons, deputy director for ... a problem to where it’s safer. Kripa K. Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering, described ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-energy-transition-amidst-global-crisesVishnu Jayaprakash
On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... while he was a student in the lab of Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering. Currently, ... startup AgZen. Helping droplets stick Varanasi and his lab at MIT work on what is known as interfacial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/vishnu-jayaprakashBourouiba wins $2.2M NIH Grant
transmission MIT Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba is part of a multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary ... organism. “Knowledge of the detailed physical, chemical, and biological conditions promoting Mtb’s ... Bourouiba who joins a team of investigators from Weill Cornell Medicine on this Program Project Grant. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bourouiba-wins-22m-nih-grantThree MIT-led projects awarded MURI funding for 2023
University Research Initiative (MURI) awards for 2023. This year, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... (MechE) professors George Barbasthasis and John Hart, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and ... Computer Science (EECS) Assistant Professor Pulkit Agrawal, and MIT Department of Materials Science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-led-projects-awarded-muri-funding-2023MIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows
Covid-19 vaccine. Afeyan earned his PhD in biochemical engineering at MIT in 1987 and was a senior lecturer ... Electronics Engineers, and AAAS. Robert B. Millard '73, life member and chairman emeritus of the MIT ... (Chemical Engineering); Yong Chen SM '99 (Mathematics); Roger Nelson Clark PhD '80 (EAPS); Mark ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-affiliates-named-2024-aaas-fellowsInnovation in Education: MechE Goes Online
a different idea. He founded MIT to think and to do – to teach craftsmen and farmers, as well as engineers and ... The Department of Mechanical Engineering, the second course of study to be offered at MIT, was ... Professor Dick Yue’s idea for the OpenCourseWare program of offering free MIT course materials online, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovation-education-meche-goes-onlineErnst Frankel, shipping expert and professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 95
Ernst G. Frankel MME ’60, SM ‘60, professor emeritus of ocean engineering who served on MIT ... Israel, before moving to America and enrolling in MIT to study ocean engineering. He graduated MIT in 1960 ... SM ‘60, professor emeritus of ocean engineering who served on MIT’s faculty for 36 years, passed away ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ernst-frankel-shipping-expert-and-professor-emeritus-ocean-engineering-dies-95-0Processing waste biomass to reduce airborne emissions
Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Biomass fuels, including wood, peat, ... product. It was 2011, and Kung was at MIT as a biological engineering grad student focused on cancer ... MIT spinoff Takachar converts agricultural waste into clean-burning fuel, and wins Earthshot ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/processing-waste-biomass-reduce-airborne-emissionsA Lifelong Relationship with the Institute
Evelyn Wang (SB '00), an associate professor of mechanical engineering, attended MIT as an ... Newly tenured Evelyn Wang — whose parents met at MIT — studies heat transfer in materials. While ... as graduate students from Taiwan, and married, in the MIT Chapel. MIT-evelyn-wang_460.jpg Photo by: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifelong-relationship-instituteAdvanced silicon solar cells
today. At the MIT Photovoltaics Research Laboratory (PVLab), teams are working both to define what’s ... Buonassisi, associate professor of mechanical engineering and lab director. ... morishige-buonassisi-jensen-mit-meche-00_2.jpg Left to right: Ashley Morishige, Tonio Buonassisi, and Mallory Jensen of the MIT Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advanced-silicon-solar-cellsWith Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch
With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They ... will satisfy a coffee drinker's desire. MIT-Coffee-Cookie-1024.jpg MIT seniors Victoria Gregory ... to 90 degrees Celsius. Both fourth-year mechanical engineering students, Alba and Gregory conceived ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coffee-cookie-meche-duo-takes-product-idea-launchMIT Energy Initiative conference spotlights research priorities amidst a changing energy landscape
MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at Energizing@MIT: the MIT Energy Initiative’s ... in the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering, who has spun out a company, Addis Energy, ... rocks. Among his funders: ARPA-E and MIT’s own The Engine Ventures. The panel also highlighted the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-energy-initiative-conference-spotlights-research-priorities-amidst-changing-energyKirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale
journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X Fang and five ... Now, researchers at MIT and in China have for the first time applied this approach to the creation of ... creation of new light-based communications, detection, or computational devices. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kirigami-inspired-technique-manipulates-light-nanoscalePowering Desalination with the Sun
graduate student Natasha Wright began her PhD program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to ... MIT-natasha-wright_1024.jpg Photo by: Bryce Vickmark Wright joined the lab of Amos Winter, an assistant professor of ... mechanical engineering, in 2012. The lab was just getting established, and the aim of Wright’s project was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powering-desalination-sunTwo MIT PhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for their research on water
her whole lab. Before coming to MIT, Ball obtained a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the ... Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Jadavpur ... the J-WAFS Graduate Student Fellowship. These fellowships provide support to outstanding MIT graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-phd-students-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-their-research-water