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Linda Griffith and Douglas Lauffenburger honored for contributions to biological engineering education
gone on to found innovative startups, such as Gingko Bioworks. “The award is really in recognition of ... Gynepathology Research and has championed novel approaches in tissue engineering. She is also responsible for ... Research, Center for Biomedical Engineering, and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. He ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/linda-griffith-and-douglas-lauffenburger-honored-contributions-biological-engineeringRunning on Waste Heat
1950s, as companies and research labs started funding projects to bring the technology to real-world ... leading to a low efficiency. The field remained stagnant for decades. Then, in the 1990s, researchers ... restructure thermoelectric materials for greater efficiency. Chen arrived at MIT in 2001 after researching ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/running-waste-heatMISTI pilots conversations in energy
gearing up to facilitate international summer internship and research experiences for MIT students, this ... options to the MIT community, including internships and research, faculty research, and teaching programs. ... Many of these provide the opportunity to collaborate with industry or research institutions on energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/misti-pilots-conversations-energyDesigning cleaner vehicles
translated the skills he learned from SEVT to a summer internship in Ghana with the startup Moving Health, ... former, he has taken the helm of the MIT Electric Vehicle Team, a student-led research team that is ... thesis research, Mehrotra is building a new mechatronics curriculum, an interdisciplinary course at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehiclesManufacturing a cleaner future
Govindan shared a pragmatism and penchant for action. They both worked on desalination research – Bajpayee ... a course on 3D printing, broadly known as additive manufacturing (AM). While it wasn’t his main research ... Hart’s research group full time. There, they bonded over their shared interest in AM. They saw an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/manufacturing-cleaner-futureA New Era in 3D Printing
Researchers are inventing game-changing technologies and developing novel applications in 3D ... research. These technologies have the potential to transform the way countless products are designed and ... a vast array of research areas. Whether it’s printing metal parts for airplanes, printing objects on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-3d-printingRemoving carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust
topic.” This research was supported by startup funding from the MIT Department of Mechanical ... component of any climate change mitigation plan. Many research efforts focus on developing and deploying ... 2 batteries. Research into lithium-CO 2 batteries is in its very early stages, according to Gallant, but ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/removing-carbon-dioxide-power-plant-exhaustFaculty Spotlight: Professor Ioannis V. Yannas
research that Yanni has conducted over the past three decades in developing a collagen-based regeneration ... ‘translational research.’” Yannas’s regeneration principles and the collagen scaffolding he invented have spawned ... at least four start-ups founded by prior students, postdoctoral fellows, and residents, with products ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlight-professor-ioannis-v-yannasIoannis Yannas to be Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
achievement, the research that Professor Yannas has conducted over the past three decades in developing ... development and what is now termed ‘translational research.’" Yannas’ regeneration principles and the ... collagen scaffolding he invented have generated at least three start-ups founded by prior students, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ioannis-yannas-be-inducted-national-inventors-hall-fameVijay Vaitheeswaran ’90: Engineer, economist, editor
brilliant at their own research, read widely outside of their field. They’re well-traveled and know the ... in very technical fields, and it can even be necessary for advancing blue-sky research, but the ... friends from Course 2 have with start-up companies, or working at national labs, or designing engines for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vijay-vaitheeswaran-%E2%80%9990-engineer-economist-editorDecarbonizing the Diesel Engine
country and the world and exposed to leading research and coursework,” she says. For example, one of her ... “That was incredible,” she recalls. After graduation, Rumsey worked at a Cambridge fuel cell startup for ... organization. In 2015, she became CTO, overseeing research and engineering; she was named president of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/decarbonizing-diesel-engineJennifer Rumsey
to leading research and coursework,” she says. For example, one of her classes was taught by the ... recalls. After graduation, Rumsey worked at a Cambridge fuel cell startup for a couple of years but soon ... overseeing research and engineering; she was named president of the components business in 2019 and president ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jennifer-rumseyMechE Department News
students from both MIT and Harvard. An international organization designed to advance robotics research ... collective aim with MEDRC is to serve as a focal point for large business, venture-funded startups, and the ... instrumentation, and data communication. While theirs isn’t the only medical device research being conducted, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-department-newsSchool of Engineering welcomes new faculty
at MIT or will start their new roles within the next year, conduct research across a diverse range of ... drive solutions for many of the challenges our world faces. Their contributions as researchers and ... settle into their new roles.” A number of these new faculty members conduct research at the intersection ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-welcomes-new-faculty-4From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate
grand-scale change. IMG_8338_1024.JPG A startup showcase at the 2025 Nano Summit featured companies that are ... new frontiers in medicine. Ana Jaklenec, principal research scientist at the Koch Institute for ... Integrative Cancer Research, spoke about single-injection vaccines, and how her team looked to the techniques ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nanoscale-global-scale-advancing-mit%E2%80%99s-special-initiatives-manufacturing-health-and3 Questions: Energy studies at MIT and the next generation of energy leaders
well as skills required of tomorrow’s energy professionals, leaders, and innovators in research ... in applied mathematics, is now pursuing a PhD in economics at MIT, where she is conducting research ... conducted two years of research into health economics with Amy Finkelstein, the John and Jennie S. MacDonald ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-energy-studies-mit-and-next-generation-energy-leadersFrom Naval Architecture to Big Tech to MIT’s Corporation Chair
After two formative years at MIT, including time spent with a group of early AI researchers, she put her ... startup which she co-founded in 1995 and became CEO of, was video streaming software company, VXtreme. She ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/naval-architecture-big-tech-mit%E2%80%99s-corporation-chairRichard Li
seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever. MIT has ... research, the founders stood outside the bathroom of a local bowling alley with an installed unit, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/richard-liAlumni Spotlight: Associate Professor Hugh Herr (SM ’93)
a researcher whose work and personal history are so entwined, and not just because Herr, himself a double ... development of the prosthesis Herr uses today, sold as the BiOM T2 by his startup company BiOM (formerly ... easy. Bob Emerson, a prosthetist at A Step Ahead Prosthetics who helps connect patients to research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-associate-professor-hugh-herr-sm-%E2%80%9993Sophia Chen: It’s our duty to make the world better through empathy, patience, and respect
desiccants. They focused on early research and development for the desiccant technology by running tests for ... accident. The previous summer, Sophia had interned with a startup targeting the spread of cholera in ... water sources. From there, she joined Professor Amos Winter’s Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sophia-chen-it%E2%80%99s-our-duty-make-world-better-through-empathy-patience-and-respect