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Aging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, is launching an investigation of possible disruption of intercellular ... associate professor of electrical and biomedical engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and ... Computer Science (EECS) and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, proposes to use artificial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aging-brain-initiative-awards-fund-five-new-ideas-study-fight-neurodegenerationStrengthening America’s manufacturing base
U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu serves as the Department ... Engineering, and Professor Chris Voigt’s lab in the Department of Biological Engineering — all of whom ... Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu (center) visited the Beaver Works space in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/strengthening-america%E2%80%99s-manufacturing-baseTeam uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications
Mechanical Engineering. Co-first authors of the paper are Emre Tekoğlu, an MIT postdoc in the Department of ... a team of MIT-led engineers reports a simple, inexpensive way to strengthen one of the key materials used ... says Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Engineering and a professor in MIT’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-uses-3d-printing-strengthen-key-material-aerospace-energy-generation-applicationsSylas Horowitz
“Of course, something must always go wrong,” Horowitz, a mechanical engineering major with minors in ... collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... and the ecosystems we exist within. “I want to relate mechanical engineering to sustainability and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sylas-horowitzNew ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
printing technology that can be implemented now. Martin Wegener, a professor of mechanical engineering at ... those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ... as light and sparse as aerogel [a kind of glass foam], we see a mechanical stiffness that’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedJohn Lewandowski
properties. As a mechanical engineer, Lewandowski, who had originally wanted to be a medical doctor and ... cost and sensitivity were going in the same direction,” says Lewandowski. “Engineers would design ... studied biology as an undergraduate at CWRU, envisioned a solution that took advantage of these mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/john-lewandowskiProfessor Harry Asada Awarded a $2 Million Grant to Develop Robotic Educational Tool, “Teach-Bot”
manufacturing workers on robotics. Founded by professor of mechanical engineering and Ford Professor of ... conversations with Vice President for Open Learning and professor of mechanical engineering Sanjay Sarma. Sarma ... Engineering Harry Asada, Teach-Bot is a table top robot outfitted with actuators, sensors, and embedded ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-harry-asada-awarded-2-million-grant-develop-robotic-educational-tool-%E2%80%9Cteach-botLamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
of Mechanical Engineering, pursues new design principles for high-performance battery materials that ... Dincă and Hart, Sferza also recruited mechanical engineering student Patricia Das ’17 and chemical ... engineering and chemistry student Angela Cai ’19, whose research at Santa Agata Bolognese cemented and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lamborghini-and-mit-pave-way-electric-supercar-futureModel quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread
studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical ... 15, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education International Horizontal ... MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the Covid-19 pandemic in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-quantifies-impact-quarantine-measures-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadSynthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion
Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham ... National Institutes of Health, and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Tuesday, August 25, 2020 ... By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-coating-gi-tract-could-deliver-drugs-or-aid-digestionThe (robotic) doctor will see you now
fronts,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist ... Tassel (1925) Career Development Professorship, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the ... “Often as engineers, we think about different solutions, but sometimes they may not be adopted because ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-doctor-will-see-you-nowAn all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment
the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... companies to further develop them. The research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... implementation of new engineering solutions, it will make it easier for patients to receive that therapy.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/all-one-approach-diabetes-treatmentNew plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
they never had before,” says A. John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering. “If we can replace some ... plastics. Now, an MIT team has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with ... creating composites with CNCs at high loading, we can give polymer-based materials mechanical properties ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-plant-derived-composite-tough-bone-and-hard-aluminumMIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards third annual seed grants
is also principal research scientist in mechanical engineering and the Institute for Medical ... are gaze and motion tracking. However, according to associate professor of mechanical engineering ... Engineering and Science. “These projects are just a few examples of the ways MIT researchers are exploring how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-third-annual-seed-grantsMorris Chang ’52, SM ’53 describes the secrets of semiconductor success
in 1931, left the country in the late 1940s, and earned his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Political Science, Leaders for Global Operations, ... includes a healthy supply of talent, in the form of engineers and other technical employees willing to work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morris-chang-%E2%80%9952-sm-%E2%80%9953-describes-secrets-semiconductor-successClosing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices
of Hong Kong; and her advisor, Peter T. So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ... technique could help scientists and engineers create more accurate and efficient optical devices for ... coordinate the software and hardware to build a high-fidelity dataset,” says Cheng Zheng, a mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-design-manufacturing-gap-optical-devicesCreeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale
2025 Anne Wilson | Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Creeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the ... even art conservation, where salt damage is a major threat to heritage materials. In civil engineering ... when salt begins to creep, engineers can better design protective coatings or drainage systems to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creeping-crystals-observing-salt-creep-single-crystal-scaleAmber Velez
be different and better. After assembling an engine by hand in an introductory mechanical ... engineering (MechE) course, she declared her first major and forged a career path. She explains, “I love ... engineering.” Her research focuses on clean energy and decarbonization. Velez built her second major by hand, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/amber-velezMorris Chang
left the country in the late 1940s, and earned his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from MIT. He ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Political Science, Leaders for Global Operations, ... includes a healthy supply of talent, in the form of engineers and other technical employees willing to work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/morris-chang