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Closing the gender gap in mechanical engineering
individuals around the world responded to offhand comments about a female engineer with the hashtag ... technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The gender gap in these fields is pronounced, to be sure. In ... mechanical engineering, for example, only 13.2 percent of bachelor’s degrees in 2015 were earned by women, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-gender-gap-mechanical-engineeringMIT class journeys to fascinating places where mechanical engineering affects biology
physical forces within the world of living things is a source of wonder. “I did undergrad in engineering ... fall, Yang took class 2.788 (Mechanical Engineering and Design of Living Systems), which gave him ... Professor and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, co-teaches 2.788 with Mathias Kolle, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-class-journeys-fascinating-places-where-mechanical-engineering-affects-biologyA Mechanical Engineering Rite of Passage at MIT
Since the 1970s, Department of Mechanical Engineering course 2.007 has introduced undergraduate ... became wildly popular again, especially as STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) is ... Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) — it’s been this way since 1865. It was around that time that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mechanical-engineering-rite-passage-mitUsing Engineering Savvy to Improve Product Designs
Department of Mechanical Engineering where he works in the Ideation Lab making software tools to see what can ... be done better in the process of engineering design. Photo by M. Scott Brauer For Burnell, a master’s ... student in mechanical engineering, thinking about design is a way of life; whether he is creating a novel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-engineering-savvy-improve-product-designsTeam Led by MechE Engineers Places Second at Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
Motorcycles provided engineering and hardware support while race companies Komatti from the Isle of Man and ... design-build-race projects can have on engineering students. They attract a student that is not satisfied just ... unforgiving that there is no room for fluff or bad engineering decisions. Through these projects, students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-led-meche-engineers-places-second-pikes-peak-international-hill-climbDepartment of Mechanical Engineering announces new leadership team
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) on July 1, has announced that Pierre Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical ... engineering and ocean science and engineering, and Rohit Karnik, associate professor of mechanical ... engineering, will join her on the department’s leadership team. Lermusiaux will serve as associate department ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-mechanical-engineering-announces-new-leadership-teamMIT Mechanical Engineering 2020 Staff Awards
On July 1, 2020, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering celebrated the many talented staff ... members of the support staff for outstanding service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. • ... Josh Ramos, Lecturer • Norlan Sierra, IT Support Engineer • Tasker Smith, Technical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-mechanical-engineering-2020-staff-awardsNew 3D bioprinting technique may improve production of engineered tissue
The field of tissue engineering aims to replicate the structure and function of real biological ... tissues. This engineered tissue has potential applications in disease modeling, drug discovery, and ... Development Chair of Tissue Engineering and an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. She adds, “given ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-bioprinting-technique-may-improve-production-engineered-tissueDepartment snapshot: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Whittle, the head of MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). That history, dating ... over time, as reflected in its renaming 20 years ago, when environmental engineering was added to its ... name. That expansion is not so unusual: Many other civil engineering departments have added an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-snapshot-civil-and-environmental-engineeringFeatured video: Engineering joy
engineering, but with the pleasure of knowing she accomplished a goal she set for herself as a freshman: to ... human interactions and encounters as it is in discoveries in the realms of engineering and technology. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-engineering-joyEngineers develop a better way to deliver long-lasting drugs
MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less pain, by ... MIT_Injectable-Microcrystals 1024.png MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), an associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-better-way-deliver-long-lasting-drugsEngineering fantasy into reality
is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... an astronaut inspects or makes repairs. Ballesteros is collaborating with engineers at the NASA Jet ... in engineering that challenged students to build robots from kits, that they would then pit against ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-fantasy-realityClass opens the door to a new world of mechanical engineering
short-changed over his minuscule prize, the senior in mechanical engineering considered it a fitting award for ... Mechanical Engineering. “We were convinced that a design challenge — where students would invent new 3D ... “People are literally pushing the bounds of engineering right in front of you and right now.” King says ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-opens-door-new-world-mechanical-engineeringVijay Vaitheeswaran ’90: Engineer, economist, editor
engineering.” This kind of thinking is something MIT fosters extremely well, Vaitheeswaran says, by encouraging ... reduction act will probably do more to advance the engineering of climate tech solutions than anything ... 3 (materials science and engineering) and complete a minor in course 17 (political science). “We had a lot of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vijay-vaitheeswaran-%E2%80%9990-engineer-economist-editorLearning challenges shape a mechanical engineer’s path
MIT_Hermus,-James-01-PRESS_0.jpg “I observed assistive technologies — developed by scientists and engineers my friends and I never ... met — which liberated us. My dream has always been to be one of those engineers.” Hermus says. Credit: ... Hermus completed his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT. He has been an author on seven papers in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/learning-challenges-shape-mechanical-engineer%E2%80%99s-pathSupporting Saudi Arabian female scientists and engineers
for Saudi Arabian female scientists and engineers. CCWCE, located in the MIT Department of Mechanical ... Engineering, administers the Ibn Khaldun Fellowship program, which launched in 2012 in collaboration with other ... the guidance of mechanical engineering professor Stephen Graves. Al-Nory, an assistant professor at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/supporting-saudi-arabian-female-scientists-and-engineersDepartment of Mechanical Engineering Wins New England Emmy Award for “Hope Regenerated”
1970s. The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) multimedia team has been recognized with ... Engineering, says, “Professor Yannas’s inspiring story speaks to the best of MIT. I felt fortunate to capture ... was for me personally. The Department of Mechanical Engineering has consistently supported my work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-mechanical-engineering-wins-new-england-emmy-award-%E2%80%9Chope-regenerated%E2%80%9DWoodie Flowers, a pioneer of hands-on engineering education
mechanical engineering, most of his classes involved paper-and-pencil design exercises with predetermined ... and Woodie Flowers, right, working with students in 2.009, Product Engineering Processes. As he ... education: He developed a hands-on, project-centered mechanical engineering class, which has since been ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/woodie-flowers-pioneer-hands-engineering-educationMechanical engineer-led startups offer healthcare solutions
Traverso, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Traverso is no stranger to startups. He has ... engineer-led startups offer healthcare solutions disease treatment and once-a-month oral contraceptives. “Many ... first year on MIT’s faculty, Traverso introduced a new class called Translational Engineering (2.s988), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mechanical-engineer-led-startups-offer-healthcare-solutionsEngineers design “tree-on-a-chip”
MIT-Tree-on-Chip.jpg Engineers have designed a microfluidic device they call a “tree-on-a-chip,” which mimics the ... pumping mechanism of trees and other plants. Now engineers at MIT and their collaborators have designed ... head for operations in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the chip’s passive pumping may ...
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