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Shih-Ying Lee, longtime mechanical engineering professor, inventor, and entrepreneur, dies at 100
Shih-Ying Lee, a longtime MIT mechanical engineering professor and expert in process control, ... Architects, Lee returned to MIT as a research engineer in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Lab. He joined the ... 1974, Lee retired after 22 years on the mechanical engineering faculty at MIT. For the next three ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/shih-ying-lee-longtime-mechanical-engineering-professor-inventor-and-entrepreneur-diesNew model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance
a person’s particular running style. MIT engineers are hoping to change that with a new model that predicts ... _Sneaker-Design-01-PRESS_0.jpg A model developed by MIT engineers predicts the optimal running shoe design for a given runner. Pictured ... is authored by Fay and Anette “Peko” Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Running, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-predicts-how-shoe-properties-affect-runner%E2%80%99s-performanceInflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
that can be heavy and rigid. Now engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “There’s huge potential to make ... commercial neuroprosthetics — highly articulated bionic limbs, engineered to sense a user’s residual muscle ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-robotic-hand-gives-amputees-real-time-tactile-controlClass Close-Up: 2.981 New England Coastal Ecology
January 2018. The course is offered through the MIT Sea Grant College Program that is affiliated with ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Instructors Juliet Simpson, Research Engineer at MIT Sea ... station to close. Less than a week later in a dry classroom on MIT’s campus, a group of students discussed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2981-new-england-coastal-ecologyEngineers design sutures that can deliver drugs or sense inflammation
Inspired by sutures developed thousands of years ago, MIT engineers have designed “smart” sutures ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of ... 1024GioSmartSutures.jpg MIT engineers have designed tissue-derived “smart” sutures, pictured here, that can not only hold ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-sutures-can-deliver-drugs-or-sense-inflammationVisual Thinking for Engineers
of mechanical engineering and engineering systems who directs MIT's Ideation Lab, conducted ... Mariello Mallinson | Mechanical engineering yellow Culture Education MCYANG@MIT.EDU ... mechanical engineering faculty come bearing specific innovative artifacts, Maria Yang offers conceptual ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/visual-thinking-engineersResponsive design meets responsibility for the planet’s future
collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... engineering projects through D-Lab, where community partners from around the world work with MIT students on ... program. In February 2022, Horowitz took part in a sit-in in Building 3 as part of MIT Divest, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/responsive-design-meets-responsibility-planet%E2%80%99s-futureFundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites
Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering at MIT, have laid out their ... what to sample for the most informative data, and how to optimally reach sampling locations. MIT ... engineers have now developed systems of mathematical equations that forecast the most informative data to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fundamental-equations-guide-marine-robots-optimal-sampling-sites-0Asegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun
MIT-Asegun-Henry-01-press.jpg MIT mechanical engineering professor Asegun Henry. Photo Credit: Adam Glanzman Henry says this ... tenure position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and is funneling much of his energy into ... thankful.” Sunday, July 11, 2021 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal MIT mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asegun-henry-has-big-idea-tackling-climate-change-store-sunResearchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells
Marius Peters, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT, Wellesley ... researchers at MIT and elsewhere outlines a roadmap for how this promising technology could move from the ... laboratory to a significant place in the global solar market. MIT-Scaling-Perovskite-1024.jpg Perovskites, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-roadmap-growth-new-solar-cellsTurning emissions into fuel
chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. The new membrane-based system was developed by MIT ... MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power ... postdoc Xiao-Yu Wu and Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-emissions-fuelSolar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who is head of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. MIT ... by six current and former MIT researchers, including postdoc Ian Mathews and professor of mechanical ... -Battery-Reuse-1024.jpg An MIT study shows that electrical vehicle batteries could have a useful and profitable second life ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-energy-farms-could-offer-second-life-electric-vehicle-batteriesSearch-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden “traps” in ocean waters
mechanical engineering at MIT. “This method uses data in a way that it hasn’t been used before, so it ... mechanical engineering at MIT, who oversaw the project, and their colleagues report their results in a study ... can confound and delay critical search-and-rescue operations. Now researchers at MIT, the Swiss ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/search-and-rescue-algorithm-identifies-hidden-%E2%80%9Ctraps%E2%80%9D-ocean-waters-02022-23 Takeda Fellows: Leveraging AI to positively impact human health
The MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration between MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda ... the next generation of AI and system-level breakthroughs, the MIT-Takeda Program is also creating ... Gao Gao is a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering who aims to accelerate biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2022-23-takeda-fellows-leveraging-ai-positively-impact-human-healthFocusing on innovative solutions to the world’s energy challenges
by the Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Physics, and MIT Environmental Solutions ... engineering and MIT EnergyHack’s communications director. A total of 260 students comprising 64 teams ... countries, and degree programs. The EnergyHack organizing team was composed of 11 MIT undergraduate and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/focusing-innovative-solutions-world%E2%80%99s-energy-challengesPat McAtamney: Empowering student-led engineering teams
student-led engineering teams at MIT's Edgerton Center. ... At the Open House for the Edgerton Center Clubs and team this past fall, MIT Technical Instructor ... (46).jpg McAtamney came to MIT in 2002, having worked as a research machinist on NASA's Hubble Space ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pat-mcatamney-empowering-student-led-engineering-teamsEngineers design color-changing compression bandage
condition. Now engineers at MIT have developed pressure-sensing photonic fibers that they have woven into ... around a patient’s leg. color-changing compression_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT have developed ... of mechanical engineering at MIT. “These fibers can provide information about the pressure that the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-color-changing-compression-bandageEngineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask
funded, in part, by the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham ... Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed a new face mask that they ... much less N95 material than a traditional N95 mask. mask_1024.jpg Researchers at MIT and Brigham and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-reusable-silicone-rubber-face-maskQS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2021-22
Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering; Economics and Econometrics; Electrical and ... this year, QS World University Rankings ranked MIT number one in mechanical engineering. ... MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-ranks-mit-world%E2%80%99s-no-1-university-2021-22