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MIT gears up to transform manufacturing
says John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and faculty co-director of ... the MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM). “With manufacturing a lively topic in today’s news, ... Hart says. INM is one of MIT’s strategic initiatives and builds on the successful three-year-old ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-gears-transform-manufacturingStaff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service
On Thursday, June 5, 11 individuals and four teams were awarded MIT Excellence Awards — the ... protecting and serving MIT. The medal recognizes an individual or group whose actions demonstrate the ... impact on the MIT community. The Gordon Y. Billard Award is given to staff or faculty members, or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/staff-members-honored-2025-excellence-awards-collier-medal-and-staff-award-distinctionInspired by hands-on learning, MechE junior creates Haiti’s first of its kind open-use Makerspace
Director Professor Kim Vandiver, the Edgerton Center, and MIT’s hands on approach in general. Hector spent ... Inspired by MIT’s hands-on approach to learning, Junior MechE student Wilhem Hector spent the ... makerspace “Project Manus,” after MIT’s motto: Mens et Manus, Latin for mind and hand. “For the past 17 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inspired-hands-learning-meche-junior-creates-haiti%E2%80%99s-first-its-kind-open-use-makerspaceWilhem Hector
Professor Kim Vandiver, the Edgerton Center, and MIT’s hands on approach in general. Hector spent a little ... Inspired by MIT’s hands-on approach to learning, Junior MechE student Wilhem Hector spent the ... “Project Manus,” after MIT’s motto: Mens et Manus, Latin for mind and hand. “For the past 17 months, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/wilhem-hectorLooking to space to cure osteoarthritis
teaching a basic course on semiconductor physics and circuits in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering ... London, founder of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Grodzinsky won a sabbatical ... I teach my course at MIT related to biomechanics,” Grodzinsky says, “I ask about ACL injuries, and just as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/looking-space-cure-osteoarthritisNew T Shirt Designs Showcase MechE Creativity, Spirit
after a community vote and final approval from our department head, Professor John Hart.” The winning ... Romero’s design features a likeness of MIT’s iconic Great Dome supported by seven pillars, each ... and nanotechnology. “Almost everyone is involved in research at MIT in some way, so I thought that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-t-shirt-designs-showcase-meche-creativity-spiritAlum Startup Gives Ski Style a Lift
stressful as it seems on TV, but we treated it like an MIT final or midterm and studied up for any and every ... as important as skiing,” McGee says. At MIT, McGee focused on mechanical engineering. His advisor, ... Professor Maria Yang ’91, emphasized the importance of creative problem-solving. He relished hands-on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-startup-gives-ski-style-liftA 3D printable tissue adhesive
MIT researchers introduce a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive that can be used to ... a graduate student who works in the lab of Mechanical Engineering Professor Xuanhe Zhao. “ Our research takes ... diverse applications.” MIT researchers have introduced a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printable-tissue-adhesiveAccelerating particle size distribution estimation
Barbastathis, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is the article’s senior author. The paper, ... increased waste, making the latter a more attractive option. In recent years, MIT engineers and researchers ... engineers, is generated from the MIT-Takeda program. Collaborators are affiliated with three MIT departments: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-particle-size-distribution-estimationAn assisted step forward: Max Burns talks about the process, and teamwork, of invention
assistive technology research. I joined the MIT Newman Laboratory for Human Rehabilitation, where I’ve been ... advised by graduate student Kaymie Shiozawa and Professor Neville Hogan. I was excited to work with the ... technology, correct–it’s another outgrowth of your primary research interest. Yes! I helped restart the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/assisted-step-forward-max-burns-talks-about-process-and-teamwork-inventionMIT team races to fill Covid-19-related ventilator shortage
units, professor of mechanical engineering Alex Slocum Sr. and other engineers at MIT swung into action, ... close collaboration with the MIT team. The consortium expects to quickly deliver hundreds of units to ... MIT_E_Vent_01-1024.jpg The latest version of the MIT E-Vent team's emergency ventilator design undergoes testing in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-team-races-fill-covid-19-related-ventilator-shortageCharles Stuard Woodard
Last year, during a reception on campus, MIT senior Joshua Charles Woodard was introduced to ... Claire Conceison, the Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture and professor of theater arts. The two ... countries, discussing Institute policies as a member of the eight-student advisory cabinet convened by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/charles-stuard-woodardBringing it all back home
manufacturing policy and MIT’s inaugural John M. Deutch Institute Professor, was in attendance on Thursday. As ... International Professor of Political Science and director of MIT’s Center for International Studies. “He put in ... speaking at MIT on Thursday, contending that if U.S. states pursue broad, long-term measures to improve the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-it-all-back-homeA. Michael West
An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and ... shaped by programs including the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), the MIT-Takeda Program, and the MIT ... to participate in the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP). The program identifies talented ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/michael-westEducating future naval leaders
Commander Douglas Jonart Eng ’14, SM ’14, PhD ’16, associate professor of the practice at MIT and Course 2N ... Since 1901, MIT has offered a graduate program unlike any other at the Institute. The Naval ... both from MIT’s perspective and the Navy’s perspective. We have access to the greatest engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/educating-future-naval-leadersNick Schwartz
Schwartz’s confidence to pursue his goals comes from the encouragement of MIT professors and staff, starting ... better,” says MIT senior Nick Schwartz. Image: Ian MacLellan “I came up with [the idea] my sophomore year ... makes a lot of people smile,” he says proudly of his annual tradition, which is funded by the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nick-schwartzJessica Xu
including pen and ink, colored pencil, and watercolor. In her time at MIT, she has expanded her horizon ... tunnels beneath MIT’s campus through the Borderline Tunnel Project. Later on, she collaborated with UA ... between things and trying to draw inspiration from just about anywhere,” Xu says. Upon coming to MIT, Xu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jessica-xuEngineers devise a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots
Robotics, in a paper by MIT research assistant Alfonso Parra Rubio, professors Michael Triantafyllou and ... MIT’s RoboTuna, for example, was composed of about 3,000 different parts and took about two years to ... design and build. Now, researchers at MIT and their colleagues — including one from the original RoboTuna ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-devise-modular-system-produce-efficient-scalable-aquabotsFaculty Feature: Gene Delivery Technique Combines Microfluidics With Electric Shock
The MIT Industrial Liasion Program (ILP) features Professor Cullen Buie, director of MIT ... ’s Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation (LEMI) As director of MIT’s Laboratory for Energy and ... Garcia, a former Research Scientist and past Translational Fellow at MIT. Cullen Buie, Director, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-feature-gene-delivery-technique-combines-microfluidics-electric-shockLessons from the Clean Air Car Race 50 Years Later
Agency by the end of the year. In the midst of this progress, a team of MIT students and faculty, with ... could make the 3,600 miles from MIT to Caltech in fast, rally-style race, while meeting new stringent ... race, participants of the Clean Air Car Race gathered on MIT’s Killian Court for a photo-op. Credit: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lessons-clean-air-car-race-50-years-later