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Departmental News & Awards Spring/Summer 2017
MIT-living-hydro_1024.jpg Professor Anette “Peko” Hosoi and collaborators designed a microfluidic device called ... Plants. MIT-Tree-on-Chip.jpg Seniors Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory launched a product, first conceived in ... MIT-Coffee-Cookie-1024.jpg A new system developed by Associate Professor Gareth McKinley and Professor Kripa Varanasi could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/departmental-news-awards-springsummer-2017Departmental News & Awards- Summer 2019
Departmental News- MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering has been named the number one ... commercialization. Their research was published in the journal Science. MIT-Perovskite-Efficiency-01-1024.jpg Credit: ... Assistant Professor Wim van Rees, and students.- USAID announced the a $30 million fund for MIT to develop ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/departmental-news-awards-summer-2019New laser setup probes metamaterial structures with ultrafast pulses
Courtesy of the researchers The technique, developed by MIT engineers, probes metamaterials with a system ... Engineering at MIT. “With this approach, we can accelerate the discovery of optimal materials, depending on ... LIRAS (for laser-induced resonant acoustic spectroscopy) in a paper appearing today in Nature. His MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-laser-setup-probes-metamaterial-structures-ultrafast-pulsesPesticide innovation takes top prize at Collegiate Inventors Competition
On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... and environmentally sustainable way to prevent pesticide overuse and waste.” MIT ... as CEO of the startup AgZen. Helping droplets stick Varanasi and his lab at MIT work on what is known ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pesticide-innovation-takes-top-prize-collegiate-inventors-competition3 Questions: Peko Hosoi on the data-driven reasoning behind MIT’s Covid-19 policies for the fall
As students, faculty, and staff prepare for a full return to the MIT campus in the weeks ahead, ... policies adopted by MIT to control the spread of Covid-19 have been informed by modeling efforts from ... a volunteer group of MIT faculty, students, and postdocs. The collaboration, dubbed Isolat, was co-founded by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-peko-hosoi-data-driven-reasoning-behind-mit%E2%80%99s-covid-19-policies-fall3 Questions: A new PhD program from the Center for Computational Science and Engineering
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, is introducing a new standalone PhD degree program that will ... are the co-directors of MIT's Center for Computational Science and Engineering. An academic unit ... of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, the center's new standalone PhD degree program will ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-new-phd-program-center-computational-science-and-engineeringInnovation in Education: MechE Goes Online
educational breakthroughs. From the very beginning, MIT was the natural outgrowth of a different state of ... mind, one that is inextricably linked to making, building, and doing. The MIT motto mens et manus (“mind ... a perfectly respectable one – by which to learn at any level. MIT’s founder William Barton Rogers had ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovation-education-meche-goes-onlineHow MIT’s rocket, electric car, and solar vehicle teams have adjusted to the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit all areas of the MIT communty. Those for which in-person hands-on ... experiences traditionally take center stage have had to pivot in unique ways. In this Q&A, the MIT ... international competitions. Here, juniors Max Kwon, president of the MIT Rocket Team; Jorge Nin, MIT Motorsports ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit%E2%80%99s-rocket-electric-car-and-solar-vehicle-teams-have-adjusted-pandemicMIT Electric Vehicle Team: An Electrifying Start
race of the event and MIT’s electric motorcycle had never been raced on the road before. Each Electric ... first qualifier is a big event,” says MIT EVT Leader and mechanical engineering PhD student Lennon ... race on the Internet while working in an MIT machine shop that prompted Rodgers and the rest of the EVT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-electric-vehicle-team-electrifying-startLicense plates of MIT
use them. It might not come as a surprise to learn that quite a few MIT community members have ... and MIT-related plates that color their rides. MIT-LicensePlates-01-press.jpg As an MIT graduate ... affiliate of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. A little piece of tech heaven One of the most ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/license-plates-mitCooling homes without warming the planet
the impact on the climate when compared to traditional ACs. MIT-Transaera-01_1024.jpg The startup ... works. Co-founder Mircea Dincă, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy in MIT’s Department of Chemistry, has ... ’07, who is also a lecturer at MIT D-Lab, and CTO Matt Dorson, a mechanical engineer who worked with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-homes-without-warming-planetAn origami-inspired medical patch for sealing internal injuries
from origami, MIT engineers have now designed a medical patch that can be folded around minimally ... injured site. MIT_Robo-Patch-Frankel_1024.jpg MIT engineers have design paper-like medical tapes (shown ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “This patch technology spans many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/origami-inspired-medical-patch-sealing-internal-injuriesSeeing solutions through, across continents
Sade Nabahe’s time at MIT has been defined by engineering projects that help people around the ... poverty. MIT-Nabahe-Sade-1_1024.jpg “I was lucky enough to discover MIT and my passion for engineering ... says senior Sade Nabahe. Photo by Ian MacLellan Originally drawn to MIT by an interest in prosthetics, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/seeing-solutions-through-across-continentsMIT researchers remotely map crops, field by field
the resources to maintain. MIT-mapping-crops-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed a method to ... fraction of an acre to the next. Image: Courtesy of the researchers; Google Street View Now, MIT engineers ... the d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-remotely-map-crops-field-fieldEngineers repurpose 19th-century photography technique to make stretchy, color-changing films
repurposed by MIT engineers. By applying a 19th-century color photography technique to modern holographic ... materials, an MIT team has printed large-scale images onto elastic materials that when stretched can ... a strawberry, a coin, and a fingerprint. MIT_StretchyOptics-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT researchers have developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-repurpose-19th-century-photography-technique-make-stretchy-color-changing-filmsA simple diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal disorders
can sense contractions of the GI tract. MIT researchers have now designed a new device that could ... communicate information. MIT-Quipu-Diagnostic-03.jpeg The quipu, an ancient Incan technology, is a set of ... MIT researchers and their collaborators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital showed that their simple ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-diagnostic-tool-gastrointestinal-disordersLearning 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 ... experiences and a desire to help people with physical disabilities propelled him to MIT. In September 2022, ... 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-pathCould carbon monoxide foam help fight inflammation?
A team of researchers led by MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the University of Iowa, and Beth Israel ... MIT-Carbon-Monoxide-01-PRESS_0-1.jpg: Researchers at MIT and several other institutions designed this foam that can deliver bubbles of ... Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-carbon-monoxide-foam-help-fight-inflammationAn implantable sensor could reverse opioid overdoses
can’t always reach the person who has overdosed in time. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s ... 1024MIT_Overdose-Response-02-PRESS.jpg The device, which is about the size of a stick of gum, can be implanted under the skin, where it ... high-risk population,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/implantable-sensor-could-reverse-opioid-overdosesPeer coaching helps graduate students thrive
for students. Her first reaction was, “What do I have to lose?” MIT-Grad-Coach-01-press_0-1.jpg Since ... reflect on what she really wanted out of her MIT experience, break her goals into small steps, and accept ... events open to every graduate student at MIT. “We’re creating a community through this approach of ...
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