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Training STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential
partnered with a few other MIT students and applied for the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge program, in ... program, and the MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Business Plan Competition. During the 2017-2018 school year, PEN ... In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/training-stem-teachers-uncover-students%E2%80%99-full-potentialHeather Beem
partnered with a few other MIT students and applied for the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge program, in ... program, and the MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Business Plan Competition. During the 2017-2018 school year, PEN ... In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beemHeather Beem
partnered with a few other MIT students and applied for the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge program, in ... from MIT SOLVE, the MIT D-Lab Scale-Ups fellowship program, and the MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Business ... In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beem-0Turning history of science into a comic adventure
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IMES, and the MIT Libraries. “We wanted to use visual art ... author; John Durant, then-director of the MIT Museum and adjunct professor in the MIT Program in Science, ... that goal in mind, one MIT team recently transformed themselves into time-traveling comic book ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-history-science-comic-adventureCounting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads
can travel to other organs, seeding new tumors called metastases. MIT engineers have now developed ... David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical ... Engineering, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the senior author of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/counting-cells-may-shed-light-how-cancer-spreadsStudent Profile: Julia Sokol, PhD Candidate
a stronger technical foundation, she applied to MIT for graduate school. During her master’s program, Sokol ... her fellow team members at MIT’s Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab are working on making drip ... supply. Julia Sokol, a PhD student in mechanical engineering, is hoping to improve sustainability and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-profile-julia-sokol-phd-candidateWinners of 2020 Teaching With Digital Technology Award recognized for their innovations
Leadership Program Karthish Manthiram — Chemical Engineering Isadora Nicholas — Global Languages Phiala ... On July 30, faculty and instructors across MIT were honored for their outstanding achievements in ... Teaching with Digital Technology Awards, co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/winners-2020-teaching-digital-technology-award-recognized-their-innovationsLet it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof
Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering and associate provost at MIT. Credit for ... researchers can find safe substitutes. Now, a team at MIT has come up with a promising solution: a coating ... Materials, in a paper by MIT professors Kripa Varanasi and Karen Gleason, former MIT postdoc Dan Soto, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-it-rain-new-coatings-make-natural-fabrics-waterproofNew African and African diaspora studies major takes off at MIT
desire to create a social impact through engineering, led her to forge a new path at MIT ... Commencement 2022 marked a milestone in MIT’s history, as Stacy Godfreey-Igwe ’22 became the first ... mechanical engineering and is now a fellow at the Science Technology Policy Institute in Washington. She ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-african-and-african-diaspora-studies-major-takes-mitBringing meaningful technologies to market
MIT-Student-Chun-01-1024.jpg After graduating from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in management ... a lecturer in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society and the Department of Political Science. ... The MIT senior and Rhodes Scholar co-founded Need-A-Knee, LLC his sophomore year, after working on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-meaningful-technologies-marketA New Era in 3D Printing
Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT’s Ideation Laboratory. “It gives you ... professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, ... hundred years later, a new type of printing was invented in the labs of MIT. Emanuel Sachs, professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-3d-printingTaking a break and making connections
In spring of 2014, Jahnavi Kalpathy was weighing her options: She could remain at MIT and try to ... the possibility of a fresh start. jahnavi-kalpathy-mit-00_460.jpg “I was going through a lot of ... engineering. “I would start off each semester doing really well academically, then I’d lose momentum and become ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-break-and-making-connectionsBound for Robotic Glory
engineering at MIT, hypothesizes that this force-control approach to robotic running is similar, in principle, ... Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. These motors are controlled by amplifiers designed by David ... Otten, a principal research engineer in MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. The combination of such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bound-robotic-glorySoft robots that grip with the right amount of force
and Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a principal investigator at CSAIL. “Here we explore regulating ... scientist at Toyota Research Institute; Tao Pang, mechanical engineering PhD student at MIT and CSAIL ... more robustly, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robots-grip-right-amount-forceSolving a mystery of thermoelectrics
researchers at MIT and elsewhere say they have finally found a theoretical explanation for the differences, ... which could lead to the discovery of new, improved thermoelectric materials. The findings — by MIT ... graduate student Sangyeop Lee; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering; and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mystery-thermoelectricsHistoric Inspirations
MIT, having participated in high school FIRST Robotics competitions, a program co-founded by Flowers. ... passion for design and engineering to one specific MechE course – a course that has also inspired ... generations before them. “Classes like 2.007 are how engineers are forged,” says Weizer, who took 2.007 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/historic-inspirationsTool Designer Puts “Mind and Hand” to Work
engineering at MIT. Since graduating, his work as manager of design engineering has showed him the true power ... Slice_09_04_25_Brown_credit Beth Cholst '16_1024.jpg Brown's work as a manager of design engineering at Milkwaukee ... Tool showed him the true power of MIT's motto: "mind and hand." Credit: Beth Cholst ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tool-designer-puts-%E2%80%9Cmind-and-hand%E2%80%9D-workSmart laser cutter system detects different materials
MIT Mechanical Engineering MathWorks Seed Fund Program. Thursday, August 19, 2021 Rachel Gordon | MIT ... researchers Steven Acevedo Colon and Varnika Sinha in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and ... horrendous odors, or worse, spew out harmful chemicals. Addressing what might not be totally apparent to the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-laser-cutter-system-detects-different-materials