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2021-22 Takeda Fellows: Leaning on AI to advance medicine for humans
In fall 2020, MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited launched the ... MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration to support members of the MIT community working at the intersection of ... Mohapatra is also pursuing an MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management as part of the Leaders for Global ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2021-22-takeda-fellows-leaning-ai-advance-medicine-humansA pose-mapping technique could remotely evaluate patients with cerebral palsy
expensive, time-consuming, and emotionally taxing. MIT engineers hope to alleviate some of that stress with ... every evaluation,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist at MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... on Body Sensor Networks in October. The study’s MIT authors are first author Peijun Zhao, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pose-mapping-technique-could-remotely-evaluate-patients-cerebral-palsyPat McAtamney: Empowering student-led engineering teams
At the Open House for the Edgerton Center Clubs and team this past fall, MIT Technical Instructor ... (46).jpg McAtamney came to MIT in 2002, having worked as a research machinist on NASA's Hubble Space ... a good way. “Don't ever underestimate the MIT student. They're always capable of surprising the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pat-mcatamney-empowering-student-led-engineering-teamsPitching transformative design
Zachary Hartwig, the John C. Hardwick Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, three teams ... Michael Short, an assistant professor of nuclear science and engineering, took on the problem of reducing ... of climate change,” said team mentor Areg Danagoulian, the Norman C. Rasmussen Assistant Professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pitching-transformative-designPedro Reis receives Early Career Award from National Science Foundation
young researchers. Reis is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pedro-reis-receives-early-career-award-national-science-foundationOcean engineering students set stage for a smarter fleet
operating hours above 28 knots. In his Naval Engineer’s thesis (advised by Professor Franz Hover), Travis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-engineering-students-set-stage-smarter-fleetStudent Spotlight: Grace Young (SB ‘14)
Under the Sea By Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman A house by ... ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of aquanauts in living ... a high school junior — and was accepted at MIT. “Amazingly, MIT worked out,” Young says. Young joined the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-grace-young-sb-%E2%80%9814Alumni Spotlight: Kiva Systems
and Pete Wurman (SB ‘87) by Alissa Mallinson Courtesy of Kiva Systems When a handful of MIT ... undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity. Together with technical ... engineering fellow Pete Mansfield (PhD ‘90) joined the start-up. “Kiva Systems isn’t an MIT startup company ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-kiva-systemsSteam from the sun
A new material structure developed at MIT generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure ... highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... at MIT, report on the details of the new steam-generating structure in the journal Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunMick Mountz
When a handful of MIT graduates get together to solve a problem, amazing things can happen – in ... were roommates as MechE undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) ... Mick_Mountz 1024 copy.jpg “Kiva Systems isn’t an MIT startup company – we created the business about 15 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mick-mountzOcean currents play a role in predicting extent of Arctic sea ice
researchers at MIT have developed a new method for optimally combining models and observations to accurately ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “Until a few years ago, people ... and decline.” Heimbach and former MIT graduate student Ian Fenty, now a postdoc at NASA’s Jet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-currents-play-role-predicting-extent-arctic-sea-iceWomen’s Technology Program 2021: The sweet sound of success
Each year, a new cohort of high school students come to MIT’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus to ... MIT students, plus several recent MIT grads and a student from nearby Wellesley College) design ... which is honestly a newfound passion of mine. I’d like to thank all of the donors at MIT for making this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/women%E2%80%99s-technology-program-2021-sweet-sound-successPolymer Day 2023 showcases interdisciplinary innovation
fabrics and used as microphones or loudspeakers. Such was the varied innovation that crowded MIT’s Morss ... of space in Morss Hall,” says Eric Lee, a graduate student in the MIT’s Department of Materials ... packaging, for example, and the polyester in clothing. The MIT event included workshops, student seminars, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/polymer-day-2023-showcases-interdisciplinary-innovationStudent Spotlight: Paul Lazarescu
A Modern-Day Inventor by Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman As ... other. Lazarescu and current MechE undergraduate Rachel Dias Carlson had received funding from the MIT ... he says. Watch a video of his hand exerciser at http://youtu.be/AaaCkv8jgcI or read the original MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-paul-lazarescuAlumni Profile: Peter Lehner
Cotchett’s machine shop solidified his interest in mechanical engineering. A few years later, he came to MIT ... MIT Crew team. In ’48, his team beat everyone they rowed against and was asked by the Olympic ... but this time, they lost out by six inches. “That was definitely a highlight of my time at MIT,” he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-profile-peter-lehnerFast, furious, and soon to be electric
certified Formula One cars. To Sly and the rest of the MIT Formula SAE team, this is home. Seated ... unassumingly next to the MIT Museum, N51 houses multiple student teams working under the auspices of the ... MIT student — could be hurt if the car fails, this group, unlike most other student groups on campus, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fast-furious-and-soon-be-electricPeter Lehner
solidified his interest in mechanical engineering. A few years later, he came to MIT on the GI Bill and ... there were only two women in his class. In 1948 and 1949, Lehner was a member of the MIT Crew team. In ... lost out by six inches. “That was definitely a highlight of my time at MIT,” he recalls, “topped only ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/peter-lehnerDavid Hesslink: Taking his passion to the major leagues
in the lab and the MLB, he was achieving similar results on the pitcher’s mound for MIT’s baseball ... Hesslink broke the record to become the pitcher with the most wins in MIT history. “The best part of that ... in the MLB for senior David Hesslink, the winningest pitcher in MIT history. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/david-hesslink-taking-his-passion-major-leaguesGoing with the flow
“In my opinion, the answer is all of the above,” answers Ken Kamrin, an associate professor of ... Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Associate Professor Ken Kamrin’s model of granular material flow could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-flow-0Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
changes wrought by the virus. MIT researchers have now found that people who are asymptomatic may differ ... a factory, or a restaurant,” says co-author Brian Subirana, a research scientist in MIT’s Auto-ID Laboratory. ... Subirana’s co-authors are Jordi Laguarta and Ferran Hueto, of MIT’s Auto-ID Laboratory. New AI model ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-intelligence-model-detects-asymptomatic-covid-19-infections-through-cellphone