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Heather 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-0A 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-printingIntroducing the Innovation Mentors
The MIT innovation ecosystem spans a wide range of departments, centers, programs, and student ... MIT, is introducing the pilot program for the spring 2018 semester as a way of increasing access and ... all students at MIT, regardless of their major, year, or program. Innovation Mentors Alli Davanzo is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/introducing-innovation-mentorsTaking 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-forceStudent 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-innovationsStudy provides suggestions for keeping classroom air fresh
Opportunities Program with support from the MIT Energy Initiative; Nikhilesh Ghanta, a graduate student at MIT ... Technology Program at MIT and a fellow at MIT’s Tata Center; and Glicksman, the senior author and a professor ... of building technology and mechanical engineering at MIT who has been studying air circulation issues ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-provides-suggestions-keeping-classroom-air-freshNot stuck on silicon
light-emitting diodes, and other electronic and photonic devices. A new technique developed by MIT engineers may ... Cooperative Program and LG electronics R&D center. Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ... engineers worked out carefully controlled procedures to place single sheets of graphene onto an expensive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-stuck-siliconHistoric 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-workJulia Sokol
who works on a drip irrigation project at MIT’s Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab. “That’s ... master’s program, Sokol took the course 2.76, Global Engineering, which was taught by associate professor ... engineering, is hoping to improve sustainability and yield by focusing on one aspect of agriculture: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/julia-sokolLet 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-waterproofSolving 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-thermoelectricsHybrid drones carry heavier payloads for greater distances
late 2000s, when Phan was recalled to MIT twice to solve different engineering problems — both times ... Phan founded the startup in 2014, along with Sarma and other MIT engineers, and set up operations in ... MIT alumnus Long Phan SM ’99, PhD ’12 is a technology innovator and entrepreneur with several ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-drones-carry-heavier-payloads-greater-distances2.007 Robots Battle it Out, Revolutionary-Style
before nightfall, a revolution was afoot at MIT. The battleground was set, the munitions were stocked, ... annual competition for Course 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing), MIT’s popular undergraduate course in ... mechanical engineering. This year, instructors modeled the competition’s obstacle course after major ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-robots-battle-it-out-revolutionary-styleDrug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition
Mechanical Engineering. “Over the course of six years of research and development at MIT, we’ve overcome ... as part of his ongoing PhD in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Finally, the audience ... The winner of this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is helping advanced therapies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-injection-device-wins-mit-100k-competition