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Retirements
conversion. He was Associate Dean of the MIT School of Engineering between 1975 and 1977, and the Associate ... Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology from 1977 to 1982. Ernie is a member ... 30 of those years, Bora and his wife Liba were housemasters at MIT, serving at Senior House from 1976 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/retirementsNews & Research
Air The Nature of Sand Water is Life Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale MIT Robot Learns How to Play ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-researchTeam Led by MechE Engineers Places Second at Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
KOMMIT Electric Vehicle Team (EVT), led by members of the MIT Electric Vehicle Team and professional ... Industries’ professional racing team), which posted a time of 10 minutes 17.813 seconds. MIT EVT recruited ... joined the challenge. MIT graduate student Mark Jeunnette, crew manager for the project, said, “We had ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-led-meche-engineers-places-second-pikes-peak-international-hill-climbDan Frey Named D-Lab Faculty Director
design for the developing world. Professor J. Kim Vandiver, MIT dean for undergraduate research, has ... MIT D-Lab. Vandiver has functioned in that role since its earliest days and says, “I am delighted to ... important organization — for the communities it serves, for students, for MIT,” Frey says. “When this role ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dan-frey-named-d-lab-faculty-directorSolving a Rubik's Cube in record time
better with improved motors and controls.” The pair met through the MIT Electronics Research Society, ... a motor actuating each face of a Rubik’s Cube," explains Katz, who conducts research at MIT ... by: Ben Katz/Jared Di Carlo | 0 min, 33 sec Thursday, March 15, 2018 MIT News Office Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-rubiks-cube-record-timeThe race to build the Navy’s next fleet of ships
A graduate of MIT’s naval architecture and marine engineering program, Goddard took the Alpino’s trip to ... Boston as an opportunity to reconnect with the MIT community. He invited faculty members Joe Harbour, ... engineering duty officer for the Navy. It was then he was given the opportunity to enroll in MIT’s naval ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/race-build-navy%E2%80%99s-next-fleet-ships-0Bridge to the future of engineering
School of Engineering faculty are embracing the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing ... fundamentally transforming their disciplines. Inspired by student interest in computing, MIT President L. Rafael ... stakeholders across the MIT community. Discussions were led by President Reif, Provost Martin A. Schmidt, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bridge-future-engineeringFinding love in the lab
regalia, crossed the stage at MIT’s doctoral hooding ceremony, and emerged on the other side with their ... MIT Commencement in June 2018, just after their wedding and honeymoon. “One of the best parts of being ... married to someone who has been through the MIT PhD program is you have an immense amount of understanding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-love-labGraduate students win first place in 2019 Patagonia Case Competition
and Ty Christoff-Tempesta. A group of six MIT PhD and MBA students collaborated to develop and hone ... 2019 competition marks the first time that an MIT team has won first place in the Patagonia Case ... Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering, as well as from the MIT Sloan Sustainability ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graduate-students-win-first-place-2019-patagonia-case-competitionScaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
met Amy Smith, founding director of MIT D-Lab, who introduced her to D-Lab’s method of manufacturing ... improve the drying process.” Gleason was one of several students who were connected to Ikalany through MIT ... D-Lab courses. While taking the cross-listed MIT D-Lab class 2.651/EC.711 (Introduction to Energy in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scaling-cleaner-burning-alternative-cookstovesResearchers hope to make needle pricks for diabetics a thing of the past
such as skin, by shining near-infrared light on it. MIT scientists have now taken an important step ... biological and mechanical engineering at MIT. “Today, diabetes is a global epidemic,” says So, who is one of ... the senior authors of the study and the director of MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center. “If there ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-hope-make-needle-pricks-diabetics-thing-pastIdeaStream 2020 goes virtual
MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation hosted IdeaStream, an annual showcase of ... technologies being developed across MIT, online for the first time in the event’s 18-year history. Last month, ... researchers. Speakers from 19 MIT teams that received Deshpande grants presented their work, from learned ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ideastream-2020-goes-virtualSupporting the Covid-19 vaccine rollout with extra-strength glass
never expected to be at the forefront of a pandemic — who does? — but his participation in the MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as an SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management. “I was really ... drawn to the MIT LGO program because it covered three main areas: engineering and technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/supporting-covid-19-vaccine-rollout-extra-strength-glassTackling social issues through engineering and theater
1024-Susan-Su-01-press_0.jpg Susan Su is an MIT senior majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in ... engineering major at MIT, Su had childhood dreams of being an artist, but she had never been exposed to ... were.” Su returned to MIT with a new appreciation for theater, not only as an art form but as a medium ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-social-issues-through-engineering-and-theaterThe tenured engineers of 2023
In 2023, MIT granted tenure to nine faculty members across the School of Engineering. This year’s ... and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing), Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical ... a tremendous impact at MIT and in the wider world. Their important research has applications in a diverse range ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tenured-engineers-20232022 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
McGee; and professor of chemistry Matthew Shoulders. For 30 years, the MIT provost has recognized ... exemplary and sustained contributions to undergraduate education at MIT. The MacVicar Faculty Fellows ... mechanical engineering says of becoming a MacVicar Fellow. Kamrin received his PhD from MIT in 2008 and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2022-macvicar-faculty-fellows-namedFaculty highlight: A. John Hart
microscope. Hart, who received his PhD at MIT in 2006, returned to MIT from the University of Michigan last ... July to join the MIT faculty. His Mechanosynthesis Group, which has straddled the two campuses during ... an 18-month transition, has already grown to 17 members at MIT. Recent projects, undertaken at both ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-john-hartNew heads of house join undergraduate and graduate communities to start the fall semester
A new group of MIT faculty, staff, and their families will live with, work with, and support ... undergraduate and graduate residential communities as part of MIT’s longstanding head-of-house tradition. And ... their areas of expertise encompass a wide range of matters important to MIT students, from condensed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-heads-house-join-undergraduate-and-graduate-communities-start-fall-semesterThree professors named 2017 MacVicar Fellows
Three MIT professors have been selected as 2017 MacVicar Faculty Fellows, awarded for exceptional ... honor the new MacVicar Fellows. The program and reception are open to the entire MIT community. Caspar ... from Stanford University in 1998. He began teaching at MIT in 2003 as a philosophy instructor and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-professors-named-2017-macvicar-fellowsMens et Manus Across the Universe
MechE Faculty guide cross-cultural interest in replicating MIT teaching and research. MechE ... two-year master’s degrees for which students spend one year at MIT and one year in Singapore: civil and ... environmental engineering, manufacturing, system design and management, and supply chain management. MIT ...
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