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Coloring outside the lines
since built up a lab group and research program that reflects a colorful range of directions. He and his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coloring-outside-linesEngineering fantasy into reality
people in Imagineering — the research and development group that creates, designs, and builds rides, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-fantasy-realityThirteen from MIT win 2023 Fulbright fellowships
independent research, graduate study, and English teaching in over 140 countries. For the past four years, MIT ... where she researched the molecular underpinnings of schizophrenia and other neurological diseases at the ... engineering and computer science with a minor in mechanical engineering. Her Fulbright research fellowship ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/thirteen-mit-win-2023-fulbright-fellowshipsA Revolution in Higher Education
Sanjay Sarma is leading an educational revolution now underway in higher education. "Michelangelo didn’t attend a semester of lectures,” says Sanjay Sarma, “he learned in the studio with a master looking over his shoulder.” And the future of higher e ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/revolution-higher-educationAlumni Spotlight: Elliot Avila (SB ’14)
Driven by Service and Impact Elliot Avila (SB ’14) is a recent graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering who has a particular interest in the developing world. As an undergraduate student in D-Lab, he traveled to India and Tanzania, and his sen ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-elliot-avila-sb-14Course 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems
2.678 students present their final projects, autonomous robotics cars, which have to follow an obstacle course. Photo credit: Tony Pulsone If you had to pick one word to describe the Department of Mechanical Engineering curriculum, you’d be hard-pressed t ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/course-2678-electronics-mechanical-systemsStudent-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes
Simulated ski run challenges mechanical engineering students to produce a wide array of robots. This year’s arena for the annual robotics competition that caps the mechanical engineering class called 2.007 (Learning by Design) was based on a Winter Olympi ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-built-robots-compete-slopesLe Morte d’Arthur and the engineer
How the literary scholar proposed a maker-culture project In the fall of 2013, after having taught 21L.460 (Medieval Literature: Legends of Arthur) at MIT for six years, Arthur Bahr took a leap of faith. Instead of a final paper, he gave his students the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/le-morte-d%E2%80%99arthur-and-engineerStudents Unveil “Magical” Product Designs
Final presentations in mechanical engineering class show devices for climbers, patients, and others. In the 20 years that David Wallace has been teaching the mechanical engineering course “product engineering processes,” known by its course number 2.009, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-unveil-%E2%80%9Cmagical%E2%80%9D-product-designsA Mechanical Engineering Rite of Passage at MIT
Since the 1970s, Department of Mechanical Engineering course 2.007 has introduced undergraduate students to hands-on designing and building. It's hard to ignore the fact that a worldwide maker movement is well underway. Over the past 10 or so years, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mechanical-engineering-rite-passage-mitStudent Spotlight: Yamile Pariente
When You Wish Upon a Car Senior Yamile Pariente first arrived to her internship at Porsche the week of June 8, 2015. She walked into a building that was practically empty, and there was an almost eerie silence. Her supervisor wasn’t there to greet her, an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-yamile-parienteStudent product ideas range from lifesaving to just plain fun
The theme for this year’s student projects in the mechanical engineering class called Product Engineering Processes was “rough, tough, and messy,” but the student teams’ product ideas were much more pleasant and positive than that may sound: All eight wer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-product-ideas-range-lifesaving-just-plain-funTaking a break and making connections
In spring of 2014, Jahnavi Kalpathy was weighing her options: She could remain at MIT and try to shake the floundering feeling that had plagued her since she arrived at the Institute. Or she could take a year-long leave of absence, using the time to refle ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-break-and-making-connectionsErnesto 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’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), passed away on March 21, in Murrieta, California. He was 94 years old. Ernesto E. Blanco_1024.jpg Ernesto Blanco ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ernesto-blanco-mechanical-design-professor-and-inventor-stair-climbing-wheelchair-dies-94Using sensors and social networks to make slopes safer
The peace and quiet that envelope a lone hiker on a leaf-riddled trail or a rock climber perched on the top of a cliff seem a world away from the noise of a social media feed. But Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM ' ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-sensors-and-social-networks-make-slopes-saferTalking Shop: Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson
Designer, Inventor, and Author of “The Bike Bible” Discusses His Lifelong Love of the Bicycle For Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson, there is only one way to get to work – on his beloved bike. Cycling has been his preferred mode of transportation sin ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilsonConnecting through conversation
Last year, during a reception on campus, MIT senior Joshua Charles Woodard was introduced to Claire Conceison, the Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture and professor of theater arts. The two proceeded to have a conversation in Mandarin, Woodard’s minor, wh ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/connecting-through-conversationStudents launch products that help users harness their superpowers
Even superheroes need products to enhance their powers. Thor has a hammer. Wonder Woman has the lasso of truth. Batman has his suit. On Monday evening, teams of mechanical engineering students unveiled new products with their own power-extending capabilit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-launch-products-help-users-harness-their-superpowersOn the cutting edge
When Jordan Malone’s mother told him his passion for playing with LEGOs might translate into a passion for engineering, the young Denton, Texas, native made it a goal to study engineering at MIT. In the coming years, he committed himself to making that go ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cutting-edgeTackling poverty, one person at a time
When Staten Island-native Sarah Tress first arrived at MIT, she had never been outside of the United States. Now, almost four years later, she’s travelled across Asia, spending weeks at a time in India, Vietnam, and Indonesia. But the reason for all this ...
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