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Alumni Spotlight: Associate Professor Hugh Herr (SM ’93)
A condensed version of a story by Courtney Humphries, MIT Technology Review Uncomfortable ... Biomechatronics Group in MIT’s Media Lab, Herr is building sophisticated devices that aid human movement by ... mimicking nature. Hugh Herr 1024.jpg Photo: Hugh Herr. Courtesy of MIT Media Lab. It’s unusual to find ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-associate-professor-hugh-herr-sm-%E2%80%9993“MIT Illuminations,” a colorful installation and introduction to creative computation, is now open in Kendall Square
Recently, MIT Admissions and MIT Open Space Programming jointly launched a new lighting ... MIT Open Space Programming teams, MIT staff envision partnering with others to further develop the ... Open Space Programming. However, the impact of the “MIT Illuminations” project isn't limited to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cmit-illuminations%E2%80%9D-colorful-installation-and-introduction-creative-computation-now-openAlex Kachkine
made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he drove up the East Coast and ... Kachkine, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to ... Mechanical Engineering, and the MIT Libraries. Communications Department Wednesday, October 22, 2025 Alumni ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-kachkineThe catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants
opportunity they provide for exploration. J-WAFS catalyzes research across all disciplines and programs at MIT ... '20 collaborated with Kolle throughout his PhD program in mechanical engineering, making the project ... Fadel Adib, an associate professor of media arts and sciences and of electrical engineering and computer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/catalyzing-potential-j-wafs-seed-grantsSetting a new standard for hormone health
MIT studying mechanical engineering and design. Mathur, who began waking up in the middle of the night ... environment during her MBA program. “Sloan was one of the only schools that says ‘One MIT’ rather than, ‘We’re ... than something they are dreading or feel is a burden.” The startup, which was conceived during the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/setting-new-standard-hormone-healthMaking RNA vaccines easier to swallow
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In ... needles. Now, a team of MIT researchers has developed a way to deliver RNA in a capsule that can be ... pigs. Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-rna-vaccines-easier-swallowHow to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
Energy Initiative, the MIT Martin Fellowship Program, and the National Science Foundation. Wednesday, ... MIT-Crystal-Droid-01-PRESS.jpg When the researchers began studying the way salts crystallize on ... processes and often requires expensive countermeasures such as water pretreatment. Now, findings from MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-salt-out-water-make-it-self-ejectDoug Field
software platforms central to all Ford models. “So many things I was lucky to be exposed to at MIT,” Doug ... anyone can pull it off, it’s likely to be Field. Ever since his time in MIT’s Leaders for Global ... Operations (then known as “Leaders in Manufacturing”) program studying organizational behavior and strategy, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/doug-fieldA smarter way for large language models to think about hard problems
MIT-Amazon Science Hub, the MIT-Google Program for Computing Innovation, and MathWorks. Wednesday, December ... intricate problems that require more reasoning. MIT-RewardModel-01-press_1024.jpg MIT researchers developed ... Credit: MIT News; iStock To address this, MIT researchers developed a smarter way to allocate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smarter-way-large-language-models-think-about-hard-problemsFinding Joy in Making, and the Making of #HellaJuneteenth
suburb of Maywood, Illinois, Harris majored at MIT in mechanical engineering and architecture and minored ... thinker and former MIT faculty member John Maeda ’89, SM ’89. On the eve of Juneteenth, Harris went on ... skin, and playing with the red and the infinity logo. Maeda: I know you’re into chemical photography—how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-joy-making-and-making-hellajuneteenthCan your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?
Computing Modernization Program. Wednesday, November 2, 2022 Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office Horizontal ... study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special ... accelerometer data,” says Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT Sensable City Laboratory and co-author of a new paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-your-phone-tell-if-bridge-good-shapeDepartmental News & Awards- Summer 2019
Departmental News- MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering has been named the number one ... Memoriam- Ernst G. Frankel MME ’60, SM ‘60, professor emeritus of ocean engineering who served on MIT ... expert in naval architecture and former department head of MIT’s Department of Ocean Engineering, passed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/departmental-news-awards-summer-2019Ta Corrales
she says. Back at MIT, Corrales switched her major to engineering. She was only a few classes shy of ... long housed the MIT Museum. The rooms look more like a handyperson’s workshop than a scientist’s lab. ... Costa Rica when she discovered this eclectic enclave within MIT, where 26 staff members support 15 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/ta-corralesMonitoring muscles to improve athletic training
the MIT Fuse program to conduct market research. “We realized we had very similar views on where we ... tailor workouts to their body’s needs. MIT-Humon-02-1024.jpg Humon’s first product, the Hex, straps onto ... working on a class project together at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Wiese was minoring in technology, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monitoring-muscles-improve-athletic-trainingThis flat structure morphs into shape of a human face when temperature changes
lenses in telescopes. Wim van Rees, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, also sees ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have designed 3-D printed mesh-like structures that morph from ... and structures can achieve. MIT-Shape-Shifters-1024.jpg A lattice structure, originally printed flat, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flat-structure-morphs-shape-human-face-when-temperature-changesFour MIT students named Schwarzman Scholars
Program and earned a bachelor’s degree from the Institute in mechanical engineering. She is passionate ... been part of the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program, and interned with ExxonMobil in Houston and ... She taught students in Oklahoma City and Boston, ran MIT’s Educational Studies Program (which annually ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-students-named-schwarzman-scholarsHow to prevent biofilms in space
a paper in the journal Nature Microgravity, by Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Kripa Varanasi of MIT, Pamela ... did on Earth at preventing microbial adhesion. MIT_Space-Biofilms-02-PRESS.jpg Preventing biofilms ... Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering and founder of a company called LiquiGlide, which makes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-spaceFaculty Promotions
informed engineering choices and used in an ensemble manner, offers key advantages over widely used ... fractional factorial design approaches, enabling engineers to effectively utilize engineering knowledge to ... developing the WGBH television program “Design Squad.” He worked with a team who helped to start a major ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-promotions-0Hugh Herr
sciences and leader of the Biomechatronics Group in MIT’s Media Lab, Herr is building sophisticated devices ... were amputated below the knees. Hugh Herr 1024.jpg Photo courtesy of MIT Media Lab. “It’s alarming to ... a crack. After graduating from Millersville University, Herr came to MIT, where he completed a master’s ...
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