Search Results
Showing Results for: “mit chemical engineering program”
Tough New Hydrogel Hybrid Doesn’t Dry Out
Now engineers at MIT have found a way to prevent hydrogels from dehydrating, with a technique that ... Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, devised a method to robustly bind ... even artificial skin. The engineers, led by Xuanhe Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tough-new-hydrogel-hybrid-doesn%E2%80%99t-dry-outAdhesive coatings can prevent scarring around medical implants
that kind of device failure, MIT engineers have found a simple and general way to eliminate fibrosis by ... MIT engineers found a way to eliminate the buildup of scar tissue around implantable devices, by ... for a drug, no need for a special polymer,” says Xuanhe Zhao, an MIT professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-coatings-can-prevent-scarring-around-medical-implantsA Makerspace for Students, by Students
Initiated and led by students, MIT MakerWorks fosters making with a strong engineering focus. If ... the first makerspaces at MIT to offer prediction tools and the ability to plan the engineering process ... there is one word that embodies the spirit of MIT MakerWorks, the all-access Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/makerspace-students-studentsThe Graduate Journey
graduate experience. Recent doctoral graduates from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering reflect on ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering reflect on how they overcame challenges during their time as ... graduate students. Recent doctoral graduates from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering reflect on how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graduate-journeySensing the body at all scales
Brian W. Anthony, associate director of MIT.nano and faculty lead for the Industry Immersion Program in ... opportunities for commercial innovations. Elazer Edelman, director of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering ... Engineering and Science at MIT. “The most important thing, I think, is to realize that engineers like us, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-body-all-scalesFour MIT students named 2017 Marshall Scholars
from Skillman, New Jersey, is an MIT senior majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in ... engineering design course offered at MIT, and he is a prolific carpenter, designer, and artist. Matt ... for electrical engineering and computer science. Through the MIT International Science and Technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-students-named-2017-marshall-scholarsGoing with the flow
Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ... four-part series examines current MIT efforts to refine AUVs’ artificial intelligence, navigation, stability ... course when currents are pushing it in different directions. Now, MIT researchers have developed sensors ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-flowMIT student teaches toy design at orphanage in Haiti
Haiti orphanage and discovers a passion for teaching While taking a leave from MIT during the Covid-19 ... pandemic, mechanical engineering student Eli Brooks taught engineering product design to children at the ... an orphanage in Haiti. While taking a leave from MIT during the Covid-19 pandemic, mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-student-teaches-toy-design-orphanage-haitiNot quite a solid, not quite a liquid: Meet hydrogels
sustainable water purification and next-gen cooling technologies. Researchers at MIT are playing a leading ... Professor and professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering, and Evelyn Wang, ... vice president for energy and climate and professor of mechanical engineering, are among the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-quite-solid-not-quite-liquid-meet-hydrogelsProfessor Emeritus Peter Griffith, a pioneer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, dies at 94
Peter "Pete" Griffith ScD ’56, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... including mechanical, chemical, and nuclear engineering works. Griffith has approximately 100 publications ... Army, Griffith earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from New York University in 1950 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-peter-griffith-pioneer-heat-transfer-and-fluid-mechanics-dies-94Discovering the Micro/Nano World
classes to offer undergraduates a hands-on experience with cutting-edge micro/nano engineering. <iframe ... experience with cutting-edge micro/nano engineering, 2.674 incorporates the latest technology, inspiring ... micro/nano engineering. 2.674: One of the first classes to offer undergraduates a hands-on experience with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/discovering-micronano-worldArtificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting ... biomedical applications. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg The tiny coils in the fiber developed by MIT ... reported today in the journal Science. The new fibers were developed by MIT postdoc Mehmet Kanik and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-%E2%80%9Cmuscles%E2%80%9D-achieve-powerful-pulling-forceMIT Federal Credit Union presents 2018 scholarships, People Helping People Award
a senior at MIT studying mechanical engineering, was named as the 2018 winner. “Even after 12 years, I am ... Each year, the MIT Federal Credit Union (FCU) presents the People Helping People Award to a credit ... within the MIT community. At this year's annual business meeting on April 25, Nick Schwartz, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-federal-credit-union-presents-2018-scholarships-people-helping-people-awardSmart pill can track key biological markers in real-time
says Timothy Lu, an MIT associate professor of biological engineering and of electrical engineering and ... Postdoctoral Fellow in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Department of ... Miguel Jimenez, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE). Inda and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-pill-can-track-key-biological-markers-real-timeReducing inequality across the globe and on campus
of mechanical engineering senior Orisa Coombs outside the Stata Center at MIT. Photo Credit: John ... in mechanical engineering at MIT. “I didn’t want to limit myself to working on a single discipline. ... a mechanical engineering perspective,” she adds. Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-inequality-across-globe-and-campus