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Inventing soft things to solve hard problems
stars of the Zhao lab Hyunwoo Yuk, SM ’16, PhD ’21, a research scientist in Xuanhe Zhao’s lab at MIT, is ... smaller hospitals or in rural areas. What’s more, working with x-rays is dangerous for doctors. ... Hospital neurosurgeon who works with Zhao, says the system has performed well in early tests on a synthetic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inventing-soft-things-solve-hard-problemsInnovation and Entrepreneurship: The MechE Way
and Nikolai Begg, who each won the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Award, Karina Pikhart and Kevin Cedrone, ... who each won the MIT IDEAS Challenge; and the Varanasi Lab team, which was awarded the Audience Choice ... According to a 2011 report by the MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, “if the active companies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovation-and-entrepreneurship-meche-wayFive MIT PhD students awarded 2022 J-WAFS fellowships for water and food solutions
and family. Aditya Ghodgaonkar is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... Devashish Gokhale is a PhD candidate advised by Professor Patrick Doyle in the Department of Chemical ... bringing his passion for the topic to the lab. Gokhale’s research won an award for potential scalability in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-phd-students-awarded-2022-j-wafs-fellowships-water-and-food-solutionsMIT community members honored with 2024 Franklin Institute Awards
president of the MIT Alumni Association. Mary Boyce SM ’84, PhD ’87 won the Benjamin Franklin Medal in ... Mary Boyce SM ’84, PhD ’87 is recognized with the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering for ... earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical physics from Brown University in 2003 followed by a PhD in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-community-members-honored-2024-franklin-institute-awardsDepartment News
University College Dublin, and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. His PhD research is ... undergraduate degree from Tsinghua University in the People’s Republic of China and a PhD in electrical ... engineering and computer science at MIT, is internationally recognized for his work with MechE Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-3The poster session goes virtual
mechanical engineering and faculty advisor for MERE. Among the award winners were the following First Place ... won a First Place Presenter award for his work on epitaxy — a process vital to the fabrication of ... improve what is known as the “critical heat flux.” In his research with Professor Evelyn Wang, Youngsup ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/poster-session-goes-virtualSchool of Engineering welcomes new faculty
University of Campinas in Brazil, and MS and PhD degrees in materials science and engineering from the ... computer science from MIT; her MS in biomedical engineering from Oxford University; and two BS degrees, in ... awarded MIT’s 2018 Seth J. Teller Award for Excellence, Inclusion and Diversity. She also is on the Senior ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-welcomes-new-faculty-2Thirteen from MIT awarded 2022 Fulbright Fellowships
degree in integrated product design. He is currently an instructor for MIT’s class 2.00b (Toy Product ... MIT. For her Fulbright year in Paris, France, she will be hosted by the École Normale Supérieure, where ... to pursue projects overseas in the 2022-23 grant year. Another MIT affiliate was offered an award but ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/thirteen-mit-awarded-2022-fulbright-fellowshipsFive MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2023
Stephanopoulos graduated from the National Technical University of Athens in 1973 with the a bachelor’s degree in ... is one of five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2023 in recognition of his ... Technology in China and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He worked at Duke University and UCLA before joining the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-faculty-elected-national-academy-sciences-2023MIT’s solar car team wins 2022 American Solar Challenge for the second year in a row
for the second year in a row in the Single Occupant Vehicle category. Team with car.jpg The MIT Solar ... Many feel a lift when the sun comes out, but most won’t break out in song and dance — unless, of ... predictability of the track, teams must deal with changes in elevation, road conditions, and driving laws. In ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-solar-car-team-wins-2022-american-solar-challenge-second-year-rowTwelve from MIT awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowships
at two national labs. At MIT, she was president of the Society for Physics Students, a member of the ... engineering workshops in Israel with MIT';s Global Teaching Labs. For her Fulbright, Stein will conduct ... of creative artificial intelligence. With a lifelong passion for painting and the arts, Eggers is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/twelve-mit-awarded-2021-fulbright-fellowshipsEngineering and matters of the heart
solidified my plans to pursue graduate study in the U.S.,” she says. She chose as PhD advisors David Mooney, ... “Curiosity Unbounded” podcast with MIT President Sally Kornbluth. The 3D-printed heart, and other medical ... Mentoring Award in 2020, which each year goes to a person who “through the warmth of their personality, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-and-matters-heartEleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships
carbon storage in the Venice lagoon at the University of Padua. Schug is excited to build upon her research with the Terrer Lab at MIT, where she is currently investigating the ... McTigue will begin a PhD in physics at Princeton University. Keith Murray ’22 graduated from MIT with a BS ... projects overseas in the 2024-25 grant cycle. Two other students were offered awards but declined them to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eleven-mit-awarded-2024-fulbright-fellowshipsDepartment News
PhD Student Wins First Place for 3D Modeling Tools This past March at the South by Southwest ... hosted by the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP), was held this past October 27 and 28, in ... Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE, see page 11 for more) and MIT Professor Olivier de Weck, and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-4Faculty Spotlight: Professor Ioannis V. Yannas
University, and a PhD in physical chemistry from Princeton, Yannas was a good choice to help Burke with his ... Burke approached him with a request for help in treating burns A Lifetime of Biomaterials Engineering ... him with a request for help. A surgeon, Burke had made significant strides in burn treatment but was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlight-professor-ioannis-v-yannasKripa Varanasi named faculty director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
Mechanical Engineering The MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation is an interdepartmental center ... that empowers MIT students and faculty to make a difference in the world by helping them bring their ... Journal ’s 40 Under 40, and MIT’s Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising. Varanasi ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-named-faculty-director-deshpande-center-technological-innovationFour from MIT awarded National Medals of Technology, Science
The White House honored four MIT affiliates today with the nation’s highest awards for scientists ... Medal of Science was established in 1959 and is administered for the White House by the National Science ... and Innovation along with Eric Swanson SM ’84, a research affiliate at RLE and mentor for the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-awarded-national-medals-technology-scienceThree from MIT awarded 2022 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Torre is a PhD student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. With ... engineering degree in 2020. Her Soros award will support her graduate studies at Harvard University in the ... a PhD in engineering at Stanford University, with the goal of creating new biomedical devices that can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-awarded-2022-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americansSchool of Engineering second quarter 2018 awards
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, won the Louis D. Smullin ('39) Award for Excellence in ... Engineering and Computer Science, won the Jerome H. Saltzer Award for Excellence in Teaching on May 18. ... was presented with an honorary degree from The Catholic University of America on May 12; she also won ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-second-quarter-2018-awardsThe answer may be blowing in the wind
electricity by 2035 and a net-zero emissions economy by 2050. The White House is aiming for 30 gigawatts of ... with thousands of tons of wind force. Sclavounos described systems used in the oil industry for ... research scientist at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, is developing software that ...
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