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3Q: Leon Glicksman and John Lienhard on how to teach the unteachable
In August, Leon Glicksman, an MIT professor of architecture and mechanical engineering, and John ... structure of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering’s doctoral qualifying exams, which focus primarily ... Galts | School of Engineering Collaboration Culture Horizontal MIT professors take on problem ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-leon-glicksman-and-john-lienhard-how-teach-unteachableSolving a Rubik's Cube in record time
Rubik’s Cube the fastest by hand. Engineers then started building robots programmed to solve the cube at ... engineering graduate student Ben Katz and third-year electrical engineering and computer science major Jared ... better with improved motors and controls.” The pair met through the MIT Electronics Research Society, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-rubiks-cube-record-timeNew T Shirt Designs Showcase MechE Creativity, Spirit
area—and therefore each person—supports the Mechanical Engineering department, and MIT as a whole,” Romero ... 1874.” Mechanical engineering classes have been offered at MIT since the Institute was founded in 1861 ... show their MechE pride. Ten designs were submitted, with two emerging as the winners. MechE Program ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-t-shirt-designs-showcase-meche-creativity-spiritMonthly birth control pill could replace daily doses
a daily dose. Langer and Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... Entrepreneurship International Horizontal MIT engineers including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso have ... pregnant each year. MIT-Monthly-Contraceptive-1024.jpg After being swallowed, the capsule unfolds and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-dosesCooling homes without warming the planet
’07, who is also a lecturer at MIT D-Lab, and CTO Matt Dorson, a mechanical engineer who worked with ... neutral ACs as part of a mechanical engineering class at MIT. When Covid-19 began sweeping through ... the impact on the climate when compared to traditional ACs. MIT-Transaera-01_1024.jpg The startup ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-homes-without-warming-planetNylon fibers made to flex like muscles
many applications, from robotics to components in the automobile and aviation industries. Now, MIT ... key ingredient, cheap and ubiquitous, is ordinary nylon fiber. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg This ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Previously, researchers had come up with the basic principle ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nylon-fibers-made-flex-musclesBursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air
ubiquitous, indoors and out. A new MIT study shows how bubbles contaminated with bacteria can act as tiny ... can emit hundreds of droplets. MIT-Bacteria-Bubbles-1024.jpg MIT researchers have found that ... assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Fluid Dynamics of Disease ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bursting-bubbles-launch-bacteria-water-airFrom nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate
Collaborative (MIT HEALS) and the Charles W. and Jennifer C. Johnson Professor of Biological Engineering, opened ... in mechanical engineering at MIT. To keep new ideas flowing from the classroom to the factory floor, ... engineering at MIT. “If we’re going to have a tangible impact on the trajectory of climate change in the next ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nanoscale-global-scale-advancing-mit%E2%80%99s-special-initiatives-manufacturing-health-andAugmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring
Council of Canada), and the MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Tuesday, March 24, 2026 Lily ... MIT Sea Grant works with the Woodwell Climate Research Center and other collaborators to ... counting and volunteer-based programs. Monitoring fish movement and understanding population dynamics are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/augmenting-citizen-science-computer-vision-fish-monitoring-0Evelyn Wang appointed as director of US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
engineering from MIT in 2000. After receiving her master’s degree and PhD from Stanford University, she ... as co-chair of the inaugural Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering program to encourage women ... a faculty member at MIT while she serves in this role. MIT School of Engineering Dean Anantha Chandrakasan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-appointed-director-us-department-energy%E2%80%99s-advanced-research-projects-agencyFlora Klise
Through Xylem’s two-year Engineering Leadership Development Program, Klise will rotate between three ... her junior year, Klise traveled to Tanzania alongside a team of MIT D-Lab students to work on the Okoa ... thinking about water accessibility from an engineer’s perspective, and how the way people get water is so ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/flora-kliseMichelle Kornberg
Tony Pulsone During MIT’s First-Year Pre-Orientation Program, Kornberg got a sense of which major would ... working with the MIT Sea Grant College Program as an undergraduate researcher working alongside Thomas ... Engineering). Later that year, Kornberg declared 2-OE. “I think ocean engineering as a field is really ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/michelle-kornberg-0Hyunwoo Yuk
accepted into MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, Yuk received an email from a new faculty ... Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation and MIT Venture Mentoring Service. These programs helped Yuk ... In November, mechanical engineering PhD candidate Hyunwoo Yuk earned the top prize at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hyunwoo-yukSolar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The ... Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center at MIT. “Being able to make drinking water with renewables, ... climate change,” says Jonathan Bessette, MIT PhD student in mechanical engineering. “This technology could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteriesHow light can vaporize water without the need for heat
In a series of painstakingly precise experiments, a team of researchers at MIT has demonstrated that ... any source of heat. MIT-Evaporation-Light-01-press_0-1.jpg Researchers at MIT have discovered a new ... Professor of Power Engineering Gang Chen, postdocs Guangxin Lv and Yaodong Tu, and graduate student James ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-light-can-vaporize-water-without-need-heatNew model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together
predict until now,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s ... they can interfere with each other and should not be prescribed together. Researchers at MIT, Brigham ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-identifies-drugs-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-taken-togetherAbe Schneider
entrepreneurship that permeated the campus. Gia came to MIT in 1995 and majored in chemical engineering while Abe ... to MIT was a major culture shock, but they loved the atmosphere of problem solving and ... followed three years later and majored in mechanical engineering for both his bachelor’s and master’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/abe-schneiderStartup’s tablets deliver cancer drugs more evenly over time
Blaesi came to MIT, he knew he wanted his mechanical engineering PhD work to form the basis of a company. ... dissolve in the stomach, delivering a burst of chemicals into the bloodstream all at once. That can cause ... quantities. MIT-Enzian-01-press_1024.jpg Aron Blaesi PhD ’14 holds two gastroretentive fibrous dosage forms, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-tablets-deliver-cancer-drugs-more-evenly-over-timeTalking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V
problems. How does MIT’s School of Engineering, and MechE in particular, fit in to solving them? Great ... Engineering Education International LIENHARD@MIT.EDU Horizontal Professor John Lienhard talks shop about the ... irrigation. Amazing things are being done at MIT in all of these areas, and the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-h-lienhard-vTwo projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions
Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, aims to produce hydrogen without CO 2 emissions while creating ... center with T. Alan Hatton, the Ralph Landau Professor of Chemical Engineering. “The two projects funded ... The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Center, one of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)’s ...
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