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From the Classroom to the Lab
discovery, working side by side with professors and research teams on projects in every field imaginable. ... components for a buck-boost converter for his lab assignment. 2.008 (Design and Manufacturing II), MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/classroom-labEvelyn Wang joins leadership team in MechE
Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor and the director of MIT’s Device Research ... (MechE). Evelyn N. Wang 1024.jpg Professor Evelyn Wang, the director of MIT’s Device Research Laboratory, ... Engineering Education Horizontal Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor and director of MIT’s Device ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-joins-leadership-team-mecheAlbert Wang
robotic vacuum punch, but, having been a member of Associate Professor Sangbae Kim’s Biomimetic Lab since ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/albert-wangDiscovering nature’s properties through nonlinear solid mechanics
professor of civil and mechanical engineering, was founded in 2016 in the Department of Civil and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/discovering-nature%E2%80%99s-properties-through-nonlinear-solid-mechanicsImagine it, Build it
‘imagine it, build it,’” says Tonio Buonassisi, professor of mechanical engineering. “Between those two is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imagine-it-build-itMIT alumnus to compete in Winter Olympics
at MIT and former competitive body builder, Edelman caught the Olympic bug while watching the Olympic ... playing sports after I left MIT,” Edelman says. “Skeleton is an eye-catching sport and seemed like the ... me of those late nights at MIT,” Edelman says. “If you had an assignment due the next morning, it was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-alumnus-compete-winter-olympicsEngineering fantasy into reality
MIT-Erik-Ballesteros-01-press_1024.jpg Erik Ballesteros is currently at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to refine the design of ... is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... Before coming to MIT, he interned on multiple projects at JSC, working in the training facility to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-fantasy-realityErik Ballesteros
MIT-Erik-Ballesteros-01-press_1024.jpg Erik Ballesteros is currently at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to refine the design of ... is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... Before coming to MIT, he interned on multiple projects at JSC, working in the training facility to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/erik-ballesterosA new way to irrigate crops year-round
Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT, for encouraging students to pursue ideas outside of ... lifestyles of farmers and minimizes risk for vulnerable communities. MIT-Khethworks-02-PRESS 1024.jpg The ... an MIT graduate student and Tata Fellow in 2013. At the time, she was working with smallholder ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-irrigate-crops-year-roundAbigail Schipper
Throughout her time at MIT, senior Abigail Schipper has volunteered as an EMT with MIT EMS, ... a student-run ambulance supporting the MIT community as well as Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Boston. As a first ... A longtime leader of MIT EMS, senior Abigail Schipper hopes to increase peoples’ access to medical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/abigail-schipperMaking a remarkable material even better
temperatures soar. Five years ago, researchers led by Evelyn Wang, a professor and head of the Department of ... Mechanical Engineering, and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering, set out to ... MITEI-evelyn-wang-elise-strobach_1024.jpg Professor Evelyn Wang (right), graduate student Elise Strobach (left), and their colleagues have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-remarkable-material-even-betterMIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
a paper by MIT professors Franz-Josef Ulm, Admir Masic, and Yang-Shao Horn, and four others at MIT and at ... alternative to batteries — that could provide storage of electrical energy. As an example, the MIT researchers ... travel over that road. MIT-Cement-Supercapacitors-02-press.jpg: Since the new “supercapacitor” concrete ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-create-energy-storing-supercapacitor-ancient-materialsHybrid drones carry heavier payloads for greater distances
MIT alumnus Long Phan SM ’99, PhD ’12 is a technology innovator and entrepreneur with several ... battery-powered counterparts. MIT-TopFlight-Press-Airborg5HR 1024.jpg New hybrid gas-to-electric drones from MIT ... modes. With the hiring of several MIT alumni, the startup is quietly developing a 100-kilowatt hybrid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-drones-carry-heavier-payloads-greater-distancesJim Magarian
becoming a graduate student at MIT, and many of the watershed moments in his engineering career were filled ... with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. Photo: Bryce Vickmark “I landed in aerospace ... leadership instructor with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program, Magarian has taken a new path ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-magarianWind Energy Reaches Greater Heights
Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT — is developing a novel system that adapts ... to the wind farm.” MIT-Keystone-1024.jpg Model of a turbine constructed with Keystone Tower ... electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, conceived of a tapered spiral-welding process while ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-energy-reaches-greater-heights2.009 lights up the stage
On Monday night, MIT’s Kresge Auditorium might as well have been a rock arena, for all the ... was technology. MIT-2.009-05-1024.jpg Members of each of the eight student teams take the stage for ... product designers attended one of MIT’s most anticipated annual events to cheer on the 139 students of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2009-lights-stageOrisa Coombs
senior Orisa Coombs outside the Stata Center at MIT. Photo Credit: John Freidah “At 15, the intense pain and sense of ... make a difference in the world led her to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. “I didn’t ... Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that improved the lives of others. Her work on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/orisa-coombsTraining STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential
In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ... she noticed something special about MIT’s community. “Everyone had this confidence that we could solve ... world to have that experience in their education as well.” Beem realized that part of MIT students’ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/training-stem-teachers-uncover-students%E2%80%99-full-potentialThe future of motorcycles could be hydrogen
MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team, which has a long record of building and racing innovative electric ... spearheading the project, is a graduate student working with mechanical engineering professor Alex Slocum, the ... build it.” I_102223-AG-MIT-Motorcycle-0027.jpg Using an on-board logging computer, Electric Vehicle Team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/future-motorcycles-could-be-hydrogenHeather Beem
In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ... she noticed something special about MIT’s community. “Everyone had this confidence that we could solve ... world to have that experience in their education as well.” Beem realized that part of MIT students’ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beem