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Building the tools of the next manufacturing revolution
nanoscale to the scale of the global economy. Hart, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... and when he started in the master’s degree program in mechanical engineering at MIT, he thought he ... opened up. “Coming to MIT, I simply enjoyed the environment, the sense of challenge, learning, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-tools-next-manufacturing-revolutionA community approach to improving the health of the planet
Earlier this month, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) hosted a Health of the ... the mechanical engineering community at MIT can do to solve some of the biggest challenges the planet ... research. Untitled design (77).png Left photo: Hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/community-approach-improving-health-planetThe best semiconductor of them all?
computers. Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions has carried ... uniform. The researchers had to use special methods originally developed by former MIT postdoc Bai Song to ... a paper by MIT postdoc Jungwoo Shin and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen; Zhifeng Ren at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/best-semiconductor-them-allTackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time
alone. A new study by MIT researchers, presented at the recent American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... ZhiYi Liang, PhD student on the renewable hydrogen team at the MIT K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and ... GEAR, and Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-energy-revolution-one-sector-timeGetting the Salt Out
the surface. Now researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia say they have found an economical solution for ... a paper co-authored by MIT professor John Lienhard, postdoc Ronan McGovern, and four others. The method ... and Food as well as director of the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and King Fahd ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-salt-outThe Power of Salt
MIT study investigates power generation from the meeting of river water and seawater. Where the ... according to a team of mechanical engineers at MIT. The researchers evaluated an emerging method of power ... a pre-pressurized saltier side, creating a flow that can be sent through a turbine to recover power. The MIT team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-saltFaculty Research: Professor Rohit Karnik
Photo Credits: MIT News Office by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Cell rolling is a common mechanism ... slowing down to help in the healing of inflamed areas. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital ... – including MIT Professor Rohit Karnik, postdoc Sung Young Choi of MIT, and Jeffrey Karp, Associate Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-rohit-karnikA new way to harness waste heat
researchers at MIT and Stanford University have found a new alternative for low-temperature waste-heat ... published in the journal Nature Communications by postdoc Yuan Yang and professor Gang Chen at MIT, postdoc ... Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-harness-waste-heatPills of the future: nanoparticles
far. Now, researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have developed a new type of ... Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ... former MIT grad student Eric Pridgen and former BWH postdoc Frank Alexis, and the senior author is Omid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-future-nanoparticlesPhD student recognized by International Desalination Association
MIT doctoral candidate Ronan K. McGovern SM '12 has received the Best Presentation Award of ... engineering blue Education LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-student-recognized-international-desalination-association2.03x Dynamics aims to improve learning on and off campus
classic experiences of an MIT undergraduate, when edX releases 2.03x Dynamics on Oct. 28. Mechanical ... Engineering is the second largest engineering department at MIT, and this version of the popular Dynamics ... opportunity to give the outside world a taste of a genuine MIT education. “One of the reasons I accepted this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/203x-dynamics-aims-improve-learning-and-campus2.009: An Iconic Engineering Class
Video Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: 2.009: An Iconic Engineering Class at MIT Teaser Text: ... Mechanical Engineering program at MIT, bringing together everything students have learned along the way to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2009-iconic-engineering-classGreen Eelgrass, Blue Carbon
MIT Sea Grant is working with several partners to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in ... eelgrass meadows in temperate regions, like the Northeast. MIT Sea Grant is working with the Environmental ... for conservation. MIT Sea Grant and MassBays are working together to develop outreach materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/green-eelgrass-blue-carbonShih-Ying Lee, longtime mechanical engineering professor, inventor, and entrepreneur, dies at 100
Shih-Ying Lee, a longtime MIT mechanical engineering professor and expert in process control, ... personal achievements in his autobiography entitled, “From Tsinghua to MIT — My Journey from Education to ... first to India, then took a ship to the U.S. via South America. In 1942 he enrolled at MIT, where he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/shih-ying-lee-longtime-mechanical-engineering-professor-inventor-and-entrepreneur-diesNew material could make it easier to remove colon polyps
remove safely. However, this cushion doesn’t last long. MIT researchers have now devised an alternative ... a more stable and longer-lasting cushion. Injectable-Hydrogel-1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed ... using endoscopic tools,” says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-could-make-it-easier-remove-colon-polypsExpanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again
for a particular combination of purposes in his third experience with the MIT International Science ... countries,” he says of Sierra Leone, “and I wanted to be a part of that.” The mission of the MIT ... African countries, while advancing MIT scholarship and research. “We are always looking to build ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/expanding-education-africa-cambridge-and-back-againStents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract
structures, MIT engineers and their collaborators have designed a new type of stent that could be used to ... an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... Babaee, an MIT research scientist, is the lead author of the paper, which appears today in Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stents-inspired-paper-cutting-art-can-deliver-drugs-gi-tractOn a quest for a better football helmet
an MIT alumnus. For the last year, former MIT middle linebacker and mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ... lighter and safer. Kodiak Brush ’17 and MIT Football Head Coach Brian Bubna show off helmets designed by ... making sure everyone was in the right position. At MIT, he quickly realized his role would be different. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quest-better-football-helmetAlumni Spotlight: Megan Smith (SB ’86, SM ’88)
An MIT MechE engineer goes to the White House. Alumna Megan Smith, CTO of the United States. ... from MIT in 1986 and 1988, respectively. This year, she was appointed to the position of chief ... technology officer (CTO) of the United States of America. A past member of the MIT Corporation, Smith has had ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-megan-smith-sb-%E2%80%9986-sm-%E2%80%9988Letter from the Department Head: A Manufacturing Renaissance
the 1950s and ‘60s, through Nam Suh’s establishment of the MIT-Industry Polymer Processing Program in ... the spirit of MIT’s motto, mens et manus. Students are asked to fabricate tools and products in ... department. On the Institute level, MIT President Susan Hockfield has created an interdisciplinary commission ...
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