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School of Engineering second quarter 2021 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... highlighting the honors, prizes, and medals won by faculty working in our academic departments, labs, and ... centers. Spring_2019_1 1024.jpg Eighteen members of the MIT engineering faculty received awards in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-second-quarter-2021-awardsTurning any room into an operating room
doctors treating Ebola patients. The next step for the SurgiBox team is user testing. In addition to ... at partner hospitals in developing nations where the technology is most needed. As for Miller, after ... about when operating in the field or in hospitals located in developing nations. According to a 2015 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-any-room-operating-roomSchool of Engineering first quarter 2019 awards
Science, won the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras on Feb. 1. ... Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... achievements by highlighting the honors, prizes, and medals won by faculty working in our academic departments, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-first-quarter-2019-awardsUnderwater Robot for Port Security
a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who designed the robot together with her advisor, Ford ... printer in Asada’s lab. Half of the robot — the half with the flattened panel — is waterproof and houses ... stay in contact with it while traveling in a straight line, so the prototype is not yet equipped with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/underwater-robot-port-securityKarina Pikhart
later, she recruited Robert Liebert, a graduate from Duke University with degrees in engineering and ... Innovation Award at the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge in 2009, as well as several other awards along the way, ... theme was “products for the home.” Like all 2.009 teams, Pikhart’s was split into two groups that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/karina-pikhartIn Search of a Major She Loves
says. “MIT is a comforting environment in which you can try out different things with no real risk.” ... I'm grateful. OK, what am I going to do with that? And giving back to the community I was raised in ... and where I'm from” is the answer. In fact, after her first year, Magzoub decided to bring some ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/search-major-she-lovesMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
certified accuracy Yang is now a graduate student in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems ... solve. Yang says that his team’s algorithm, which won the Best Paper Award in Robot Vision at the ... road with. MIT-Heng-Yang-1024.jpg Safety concerns have clouded the future of fully autonomous vehicles. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionHelping older adults stay safe and independent
awarded more than $275,000 in prizes to student teams. Chamberlain was also involved in the 2015 MIT ... Chamberlain could have imagined when he was tinkering with a prototype for his family in MIT’s MakerWorkshop ... on campus in 2014, he met classmates who were starting the MIT Water Innovation Prize (WIP), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/helping-older-adults-stay-safe-and-independentPeter Chamberlain
prizes to student teams. Chamberlain was also involved in the 2015 MIT Hyperloop team, which won SpaceX’s ... imagined when he was tinkering with a prototype for his family in MIT’s MakerWorkshop as a graduate ... he met classmates who were starting the MIT Water Innovation Prize (WIP), a startup competition for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/peter-chamberlainAlumni Spotlight: 6dot Innovations
was split into two groups that competed with each other to develop the most promising prototype for ... degrees in engineering and management, to join her. The Braille Labeler – which won the Aleksander and ... Anna Anita Leyfell Health Innovation Award at the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge in 2009, as well as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-6dot-innovationsProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
information helps you know where to start with design.” This research was supported in part by the MIT ... microscopy, or DDM, by imaging individual particles in a simple solution. For this new study, the team applied ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsEvelyn Wang named head of Department of Mechanical Engineering
by the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award in 2012. Wang is also a 2016 ... bachelor’s degree in mechnical engineering from MIT in 2000, and MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University ... recipient of the ASME Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division Women Engineer Award; in 2017 she won the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-named-head-department-mechanical-engineeringDepartment snapshot: Civil and Environmental Engineering
the integration of the two disciplinary areas culminates for CEE’s undergraduates in their senior ... and is affected by it. CEE scientists are also examining the water cycle in its entirety: how water ... Master of Engineering degree, and a two-year Master of Science in Transportation, which is an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-snapshot-civil-and-environmental-engineeringA lasting — and valuable — legacy
earned three degrees at MIT (’08, SM ’10, and PhD ’13). Before joining the MIT faculty in 2016, she was ... very rich topic,” she says. Gallant has won awards including an MIT Bose Fellowship, the Army Research ... for calcium batteries with graduate student Aaron Melemed. It wasn’t until she was in her teenage ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lasting-%E2%80%94-and-valuable-%E2%80%94-legacyAudrey Chen
the team at MIT Sea Grant in 2022 along with a group of equally impassioned students who elected ... ’s makerspaces, documenting MIT student life with her camera (garnering the acclimation “The Eyes of MIT” by MIT ... explore her eclectic interests at MIT. When she wasn’t fulfilling the requirements for her mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/audrey-chenUsing combustion to make better batteries
batteries. Improving the lithium-ion battery by lowering costs The demand for lithium-ion batteries is ... cathode. The MIT researchers began their search for cost savings by considering the methods now used to ... A change in pH won’t cause lithium to precipitate, so it is added in the second stage. Solid lithium is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-combustion-make-better-batteriesMechanical engineer-led startups offer healthcare solutions
to spread,” says Dr. George Whitfield, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT ... mechanical engineering, is currently trying to determine the regulatory needs for her own startup. In May, ... she won the grand prize at the inaugural MIT Future Founders Initiative Prize Competition for her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mechanical-engineer-led-startups-offer-healthcare-solutions2.007 Robots Battle it Out, Revolutionary-Style
annual competition for Course 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing), MIT’s popular undergraduate course in ... soldier, lead the teams into battle. Photo by Tony Pulsone In head-to-head battles, robots sought to ... semifinals, as the robot received both cheers and jeers from the MIT crowd. In the end, a simple, persistent, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-robots-battle-it-out-revolutionary-styleFrom NASA to MIT to Formlabs
interests at MIT. When she wasn’t fulfilling the requirements for her mechanical engineering degree, she ... documenting MIT student life with her camera (garnering the acclimation “The Eyes of MIT” by MIT Admissions), ... MIT Sea Grant in 2022 along with a group of equally impassioned students who elected Chen as captain. ...
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