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Office of Sustainability names 2018 grant winners
This October, the MIT Office of Sustainability (MITOS) announced the winners of the 2018 Campus ... Sustainability Incubator Fund grants. With the Incubator Fund, MITOS supports research that utilizes MIT’s campus ... innovation on campus. “The MIT campus provides a unique opportunity for researchers to work with staff and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/office-sustainability-names-2018-grant-winnersStudent group helps blind boater sail independently
This fall, a team of four students in MIT’s course 6.811 (Principles and Practices of Assistive ... Technology, or PPAT) designed a device that will help Pauline Dowell, a legally blind MIT employee, sail more ... independently. PPAT-blind-sailor- Pauline-Dowell-1024.jpg MIT employee Pauline Dowell (center) and her seeing eye ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-group-helps-blind-boater-sail-independentlySensing the body at all scales
of MIT-launched startup companies, and current MIT graduate students. Held online earlier this ... symposium,” says Vladimir Bulović, founding faculty director of MIT.nano and Fariborz Maseeh Professor of ... Brian W. Anthony, associate director of MIT.nano and faculty lead for the Industry Immersion Program in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-body-all-scalesEngineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures
process throughout a building’s construction, from manufacturing to demolition. Now MIT engineers, ... from 3D-printed, recycled glass. Using a custom 3D glass printing technology provided by MIT spinoff ... material,” says Kaitlyn Becker, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We’re taking glass and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3d-print-sturdy-glass-bricks-building-structuresLifetime Achievement: Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram
courtesy of the MIT Museum He refers to himself as a seagoing Sherlock Holmes. Known for many things, not ... unrelenting seeker of the most precise ocean science and engineering truths. He was a member of the MIT team ... undergraduate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, adding naval architecture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-emeritus-jerome-milgramDepartment 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 ... A Life-Saving Discovery at MIT MechE,” the only winning film submitted by an institute of higher education. ... Yannas was studying the physics of collagen and the theory of viscoelasticity in polymers at MIT when he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-mechanical-engineering-wins-new-england-emmy-award-%E2%80%9Chope-regenerated%E2%80%9DA community of making
Schor, second from left, teaches students on the use of equipment in the MIT MakerWorkshop. Photo by John ... Freidah When Culpepper was named MIT’s maker czar in 2015, he started out by mapping out MIT’s own maker ... making life of MIT students. At the same time, Culpepper says, he went on a national listening tour and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/community-makingErnesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94
Ernesto E. Blanco, a renown inventor, mechanical designer, and beloved former professor in MIT ... climbing wheelchair, one of 150 inventions showcased in the museum. // MIT President Susan Hockfield and ... VIP's kick off the celebration of the institute's 150th anniversary with an event at the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ernesto-blanco-mechanical-design-professor-and-inventor-stair-climbing-wheelchair-dies-94Building 31 powers back up
A $52 million renovation of the 90-year-old Building 31 on MIT’s campus has transformed the space ... from MIT alumnus Kent Kresa. Professor Jonathan How from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics ... joint research and educational program with MIT Lincoln Laboratory. “It was the generosity and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-31-powers-backJani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Two MIT seniors, Jani Adcock and Drew Bent, will be part of this fall’s inaugural class of ... Natel Energy, she designed components for a novel hydropower system. At MIT, she has served as an ... adviser for the student-run MIT Fall Career Fair, and as vice president of career development for MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jani-adcock-and-drew-bent-named-knight-hennessy-scholarsProfessor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson, expert in human-powered transport and gas turbines, dies at 91
of 91. Wilson served on MIT’s faculty since 1966 and remained an active member of the mechanical ... Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to conduct research abroad at MIT and Harvard University. At the conclusion of his ... then the head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wilson joined MIT’s faculty in 1966. He ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilson-expert-human-powered-transport-and-gas-turbinesAdvocating for science funding on Capitol Hill
This spring, 26 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional ... spring, the MIT Science Policy Initiative (SPI) organizes the Congressional Visit Days (CVD). The trip ... members of the MIT Washington Office and learn about policy careers. group-picture.png Congressional Visit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advocating-science-funding-capitol-hillSMART researchers receive Intra-CREATE grant for personalized medicine and cell therapy
interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research ... Singapore, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of experts from MIT and Singapore, for new research ... materials science and engineering, and associate provost at MIT. Understanding glaucoma progression for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-researchers-receive-intra-create-grant-personalized-medicine-and-cell-therapyLife in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality
the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is designing and researching the activities humans will ... microgravity. This May, the SEI supported researchers from the Media Lab; MIT's departments of Aeronautics ... Engineering; MIT Kavli Institute; the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology; the MIT Computer Science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/life-space-preparing-increasingly-tangible-realityRohit Karnik named director of J-WAFS
Rohit Karnik, the Tata Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named ... impact around the world,” Waitz wrote. J-WAFS is the only program at MIT focused exclusively on water and ... at MIT, taking advantage of MIT’s strengths in so many disciplines that contribute to these most ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rohit-karnik-named-director-j-wafsClosing the gender gap in mechanical engineering
late MIT Professor Emerita Millie Dresselhaus, are revered just as much as celebrities and athletes. ... contrast to the undergraduate population in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), which as of ... starts before students set foot onto MIT’s campus. MIT’s Office of Admissions has employed a variety of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-gender-gap-mechanical-engineeringDroplets break a theoretical time barrier on bouncing
to bounce away from such a surface. But MIT researchers have now found a way to burst through that ... Engineering at MIT, along with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of ... mechanical engineering at Boston University, former MIT postdoc Rajeev Dhiman, and recent MIT PhD recipient ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-break-theoretical-time-barrier-bouncingA brave new ocean world
research engineer at MIT, says to describe the ceiling-to-floor map of the world ocean and continents that ... covers the walls outside his office in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary ... of the MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm), a very widely used ocean modeling tool. Development of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/brave-new-ocean-worldStick with me
has left an indelible mark on the MIT campus. Demas and Wang met as undergraduates at Yale University ... and arrived at MIT to study mechanical engineering. Wang studied the nanoscale physics of fluid, while ... stayed their entire time at MIT. “I feel truly lucky to have made such a terrific friend in Jerry,” says ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-meLearners today, leaders tomorrow
online event hosted by MIT Open Learning. With Vice President for Open Learning Professor Sanjay Sarma ... conjunction with departments, labs, and centers all over MIT: DEDP is offered jointly through the Department ... who completed the same program, was inspired to apply for MIT’s PhD program in civil engineering, and ...
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