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How slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... An MIT research team that has already conquered the problem of getting ketchup out of its bottle ... industries. Unlike other fluids such as water and oils, these materials will not start to flow on their own, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slideMIT Energy Initiative awards nine Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research
In spring 2018, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) awarded nine grants totaling $1,350,000 through ... Armstrong, the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering. “Every year the submissions we receive are ... of energy research areas, from fundamental physics and chemistry to engineering to policy and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-energy-initiative-awards-nine-seed-fund-grants-early-stage-energy-research-03 Questions: Martin Culpepper on Making the Future Makers
engineering and MIT’s “Maker Czar,” asked students what they build, where they work, what kinds of equipment ... MIT students want to make things. Meet the “Maker Czar” who’s helping them. During the summer of ... 2015, Martin Culpepper surveyed all undergraduate and graduate students at MIT about their activities ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-martin-culpepper-making-future-makersSix from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2025
Six MIT faculty members are among the nearly 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public ... culture, and education. MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering Gareth H. McKinley Credit: John Frediah ... Those elected from MIT in 2025 are: Lotte Bailyn, T. Wilson Professor of Management Emerita; Gareth ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences-2025Amrita Saigal
a diaper company that has created the first 100-percent cotton-lined disposable diaper. The MIT Course ... materials used and how they are manufactured—during an internship as a manufacturing engineer for Always at ... completely biodegradable sanitary pads for women and schoolgirls in India, while she was still at MIT. When ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/amrita-saigalDarya Guettler
MIT Energy Initiative program called Solar Spring Break, which had partnered with Homeboy Industries ... concentrations. She arrived at MIT with the goal of mitigating climate change through technological innovation, ... and soon joined the MIT Undergraduate Energy Club, where she says she met inspiring and equally ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/darya-guettlerUnderstanding combustion
degree in thermal engineering, she received her master’s and PhD from Princeton University. At Princeton, ... of mechanical engineering and the Brit (1961) & Alex (1949) d’Arbeloff Career Development ... dynamics.” Along with her team at the Deng Energy and Nanotechnology Group at MIT, she hopes that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-combustionDexter Ang
change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical engineering degree, he returned to ... click a mouse to read an e-book, one of her favorite activities. The MIT startup Pison Technology, ... MIT through the Advanced Study Program. Ang enrolled in classes at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dexter-ang-0Professor 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 ... biomedical engineering until 1995. While his roles and responsibilities at MIT continued to grow, Cravalho ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-ernest-cravalho-expert-thermodynamics-and-pioneer-thermal-fluidsSolar panels get a face-lift with custom designs
MIT Sloan in 2011, after several years in the solar-power industry, with hopes of starting his own ... to embed into existing solar panels? Recruiting MIT mechanical engineering student Jody Fu, Sistine ... Sistine recruited Anthony Occidentale, an MIT mechanical engineering student who has since helped further ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-panels-get-face-lift-custom-designsGiving robots better moves
That’s what MIT spinoff RightHand Robotics has incorporated into its robotic piece-picking systems, which ... efficiency. MIT-Righthand-robotics-1024.jpg Righthand Robotics combines machine vision with an intelligent ... a simpler, streamlined process.” Pushing the limit Odhner completed his PhD in the lab of Harry Asada, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-better-movesNylon fibers made to flex like muscles
many applications, from robotics to components in the automobile and aviation industries. Now, MIT ... key ingredient, cheap and ubiquitous, is ordinary nylon fiber. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg This ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Previously, researchers had come up with the basic principle ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nylon-fibers-made-flex-musclesSylas Horowitz
collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... were accepted to MIT on Pi Day 2018. Art, architecture, engineering — “it’s all kind of the same,” ... MIT senior Sylas Horowitz kneeled at the edge of a marsh, tinkering with a blue-and-black robot ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sylas-horowitzProjects make inroads on global food and water challenges
Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) program at MIT. John H. Lienhard V, the Abdul Latif ... the program has received and funded grant proposals from all five of MIT’s schools, provided 24 seed ... grants and nine “Solutions” commercialization grants, and attracted industrial partners including the $4 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/projects-make-inroads-global-food-and-water-challengesStartups take root in senior capstone class
market analysis and alpha-prototype production. MIT-2.009-Event-PRESS.jpg Mechanical engineering students ... from the ceiling. Eight teams of mechanical engineering students in class 2.009, Product Engineering ... pursuits,” says David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering and long-time instructor of 2.009. While ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startups-take-root-senior-capstone-classNew gels could help the medicine go down
Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ... easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ... pills, such as older people or people who have suffered a stroke. MIT-DrugGel-02-press.jpeg The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gels-could-help-medicine-go-down“Electroadhesive” stamp picks up and puts down microscopic structures
similar to or smaller than grains of flour,” says Sanha Kim, a former MIT postdoc and research scientist ... who worked in the lab of mechanical engineering associate professor John Hart. “So a special ... brush. MIT-Electro-Adhesion-1024.jpg Optical image of a pattern of silicon dioxide particles, each ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Celectroadhesive%E2%80%9D-stamp-picks-and-puts-down-microscopic-structuresMIT-Takeda Program heads into fourth year with crop of 10 new projects
In 2020, the School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company launched the MIT ... biopharmaceutical industry with MIT’s deep experience at the vanguard of artificial intelligence and machine ... at the MIT School of Engineering; Yaritza Peña, senior program manager of the Data Sciences Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-takeda-program-heads-fourth-year-crop-10-new-projects