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Five with MIT Ties Tapped for Inventors Hall of Fame
Molecular Machines research group. Commiskey has relocated to Asia to work on bridging the digital divide ... display, using a light pen. Today, Sutherland leads research in asynchronous systems — computers with no ... global clock — at Portland State University’s Asynchronous Research Center, which he founded in 2008 with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-ties-tapped-inventors-hall-fameAccelerating 3-D printing
three-dimensional object is complete. The researchers have designed a novel printhead that can melt and extrude ... required by a typical desktop 3-D printer. The researchers have also demonstrated a room-temperature ... researchers needed to find a way to move the printhead fast enough to keep up. They designed a mechanism with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-3-d-printingMechE History and Timeline
application of current methodology to engineering problems. The education and research program of the new lab ... shift towards applied mechanical engineering as the focus of research moved away from military ... 1970s, continuing to the present (as of 1995), research was concentrated within four major programs: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/meche-history-and-timelineProfessor Emeritus Igor Paul, an expert in product design and safety, dies at 87
manufacturing curriculum, which continues to thrive today. His research interests included product and machine ... Orthopedic Research Award (Orthopedic Research Society); and the Carl Soderberg Distinguished Service Award ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-igor-paul-expert-product-design-and-safety-dies-87MechE Milestones
current research. Credit: Tony Pulsone “In the report, Whitaker details a big change in the curriculum and ... student projects to internships and collaborative research. The early faculty and students of MechE were ... welcomed guests from around the country, immersing them in research and education programs and – through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-milestonesMIT Portugal Program presents Marine Robotics Summer School
perspective on current research in marine robotics via lectures with MIT and Portuguese faculty and other ... biodiversity of the Azores and about tagging and research techniques developed and used by researchers at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-portugal-program-presents-marine-robotics-summer-schoolEngineering Defense, with the Help of Butterflies
research for the US Department of Defense that involves exploring the deepest oceans and the farthest ... students feel at home, Daniel mentors them through programs such as UROP, Summer Research Program, and ... a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts research for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-defense-help-butterfliesThe physics of curly hair
researchers at MIT and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris provide the first detailed model for the ... Curie; and former MIT graduate student James Miller, who is now a research associate at Schlumberger-Doll ... Research. Miller worked on this project as part of his doctoral thesis research and is lead author of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-curly-hairDesigning vehicles that drive, fly — and swim
the Marshall: to do underwater, flying, swimming robotics research,” Winston says. When Winston ... While the multifunctional car is her main research focus, she also did a robotics-related project ... through the undergraduate research opportunities program (UROP) in the Mechatronics Research Laboratory ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-vehicles-drive-fly-%E2%80%94-and-swimA scientific approach to education reform
based on the latest scientific research on how learning works. In a new book called “Grasp!” Sarma has ... including MITx and OpenCourseWare. With lessons from the use of these platforms and from ongoing research on cognitive science, he ... shifted toward online learning. Sarma recently published an essay on the lessons from the research on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientific-approach-education-reformForging ahead with care and compassion
their research groups in decision-making, including Associate Professor Gene-Wei Li, Professor Paola ... supplies. Vitally, Li notes, “acting early is important to ensure research continuity and reduce emotional ... prior to MIT’s ramping down of research, which enabled them to be intentional with their discussions of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/forging-ahead-care-and-compassionMIT students Bhav Jain and Liberty Ladd named 2022 Truman Scholars
computation and cognition, and has participated in scientific research at Massachusetts General Hospital ... Entrepreneurship at MIT. Starting in March of 2021, Jain began research at Harvard Medical School/Memorial Sloan ... explore public health through academic research, non-profit advocacy, the healthcare system, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-bhav-jain-and-liberty-ladd-named-2022-truman-scholarsInnovating for health equity
including research, innovation, and community service. As a student researcher, for example, she has worked ... research. Yet, as I’ve worked on these design challenges, I’m relentlessly confronted by policy problems — the ... the focus of Schipper’s undergraduate research project in the lab of Associate Professor Gio Traverso, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovating-health-equityPeer coaching helps graduate students thrive
When the pandemic delayed her research, she worried about falling even further behind. Then, in the ... ’05, who also works as a research engineer at MIT. Hendrickson draws a distinction between coaching and ... research labs, or beginning their work careers. “The students really build trust and start to get to know ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peer-coaching-helps-graduate-students-thriveHigh-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
pool, to track how the fluid evolves, frame by millisecond frame. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers ... the purposes of their study, the researchers considered a deep pool to be a body of water that is deep ... the rising crown. The researchers also captured especially tricky measurements, of the crown’s wall ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-videos-show-what-happens-when-droplet-splashes-poolStudy finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch
expression. The researchers carried out experiments in which they set the expression of a single gene at ... switch on or off, the researchers found that the gene’s original expression persisted: Cells whose gene ... functions.” To test their idea, the researchers ran experiments with hamster ovarian cells — a line of cells ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cell-memory-can-be-more-dimmer-dial-onoff-switchAbigail Schipper
including research, innovation, and community service. As a student researcher, for example, she has worked ... research. Yet, as I’ve worked on these design challenges, I’m relentlessly confronted by policy problems — the ... undergraduate research project in the lab of Associate Professor Gio Traverso, in which she helped create ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/abigail-schipperVine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
grasp. The researchers demonstrated that the vine robot can safely and stably lift a variety of heavy and ... fragile objects, like a watermelon. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers The researchers demonstrated that ... through the environment, and squeeze through tight and cluttered spaces. Researchers have mostly explored ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vine-inspired-robotic-gripper-gently-lifts-heavy-and-fragile-objectsSchool of Engineering awards for 2014
mentoring as a teaching or research assistant: Clarice Aiello, electrical engineering and computer science ... and the Research Laboratory for Electronics Dean of Engineering Ian A. Waitz and Clarice Aiello ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-awards-2014