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Once abroad is not enough
programs are now a growing sector in MIT’s global education offerings. The multi-week courses are attractive to ... a mechanical engineering major, has integrated three study abroad experiences into his MIT education. “I first ... authors in London, or taking summer courses in Scandinavia are just some of the ways that MIT students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/once-abroad-not-enoughBasic training
campus,” says Culpepper, who is also a professor of mechanical engineering, and runs the MakerLodge program ... A sign above the door says it all: MakerLodge. Here MIT students build things: a four-legged ... build the makerspace itself this summer. MakerLodge_01_1024.jpg MIT has over 40 design/build/project ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basic-trainingAlumni Spotlight: VADM (ret) Paul Sullivan (SM ’80)
program in naval architecture and marine engineering, the crafts of naval architecture and ship design ... the average sophomore undergraduate at MIT knew more engineering calculus than I did, even as a math ... engineering program, and my first year was awful. But by the second year I had caught up, and in the third year I was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-vadm-ret-paul-sullivan-sm-%E2%80%9980An origami-inspired medical patch for sealing internal injuries
from origami, MIT engineers have now designed a medical patch that can be folded around minimally ... injured site. MIT_Robo-Patch-Frankel_1024.jpg MIT engineers have design paper-like medical tapes (shown ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “This patch technology spans many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/origami-inspired-medical-patch-sealing-internal-injuriesSweat-proof “smart skin” takes reliable vitals, even during workouts and spicy meals
MIT engineers and researchers in South Korea have developed a sweat-proof “electronic skin” ... sensors. MIT-E-Skin-01-1024.jpg Engineers have developed a sweat-proof “electronic skin” — a conformable, ... Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We can provide wearable sensors that can do ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sweat-proof-%E2%80%9Csmart-skin%E2%80%9D-takes-reliable-vitals-even-during-workouts-and-spicy-mealsCocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs
An MIT mathematician and a celebrity chef have combined talents to create two culinary novelties ... tension that propels it forward. This approach mimics one used by some insects, which release a chemical ... time,” Bush says. “Engineers often take it to the next step by asking, ‘How can we apply this?’ In this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cocktail-novelties-inspired-nature%E2%80%99s-designsAn implantable sensor could reverse opioid overdoses
high-risk population,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Engineering. Tuesday, August 13, 2024 Anne Trafton | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal Professor Giovanni ... can’t always reach the person who has overdosed in time. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/implantable-sensor-could-reverse-opioid-overdosesBioinspired robotics class offers intriguing surprises
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. The backflip is basic when compared to an enormous repertoire of ... meche.mit.edu/magazine. Thursday, June 8, 2023 Michaela Jarvis | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education ... When MIT’s mini cheetah perfectly executed a backflip on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-robotics-class-offers-intriguing-surprisesMIT Maritime Consortium sets sail
Conor McArdle | School of Engineering A new consortium, formalized in a signing ceremony at MIT last ... director of MIT’s Center for Ocean Engineering. “It aims to bring the best from MIT in key areas for ... housed in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing; the departments of Nuclear Science and Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-maritime-consortium-sets-sail-0Robotic “SuperLimbs” could help moonwalkers recover from falls
MIT engineers, the lunar bloopers also highlight an opportunity to innovate. “Astronauts are ... constrict their movements,” says Harry Asada, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We want to ... a system of wearable robotic limbs built by MIT engineers, is designed to physically support an astronaut ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-%E2%80%9Csuperlimbs%E2%80%9D-could-help-moonwalkers-recover-fallsProfessor Emeritus Ernest Cravalho, an expert in thermodynamics and pioneer in thermal fluids education, dies at 82
Ernest “Ernie” Cravalho, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT, passed away on ... Tuesday, April 13, at the age of 82. Cravalho served as a member of MIT’s mechanical engineering faculty ... Massachusetts General Hospital from 1986 to 1993. He then served as co-director of the MIT’s program in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-ernest-cravalho-expert-thermodynamics-and-pioneer-thermal-fluidsInnovating for health equity
works as a crew chief for MIT EMS and leads the Stop the Bleed program, an emergency-care training ... a team of bioengineers, mechanical engineers, and social scientists from MIT EMS and Harvard’s Crimson ... Throughout her time at MIT, senior Abigail Schipper has volunteered as an EMT with MIT EMS, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovating-health-equityMIT announces 2023 Bose Grants for daring new research
professor of electrical engineering and computer science. Photos: Gretchen Ertl; Jimmy Day/MIT Media Lab ... projects and ideas.” The program was named for the visionary founder of the Bose Corp. and MIT alumnus, ... and founded the Bose Corp. in 1964. MIT launched the program 11 years ago to provide funding over ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-2023-bose-grants-daring-new-researchMIT researchers remotely map crops, field by field
the resources to maintain. MIT-mapping-crops-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed a method to ... fraction of an acre to the next. Image: Courtesy of the researchers; Google Street View Now, MIT engineers ... the d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-remotely-map-crops-field-fieldReimagining an iconic design class
For the past 50 years, mechanical engineering students at MIT have convened on campus for ... mechanical engineering. “For me, 2.007 was the class I’ve been most looking forward to at MIT. It serves as ... from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, including hiring Antoni Soledad ’21, who participated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reimagining-iconic-design-classJ-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture
MIT is known for its thriving innovation ecosystem: Numerous programs and funding mechanisms have ... and food systems to MIT’s innovation ecosystem through the J-WAFS Solutions grant program. The program ... provides one-year, renewable, commercialization grants aimed to support MIT principal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-grants-advance-sustainable-agriculture