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Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE, see page 11 for more) and MIT Professor Olivier de Weck, and the ... Festival’s Accelerator-Innovative Web Track competition, two MIT students—Tom Milnes, MechE PhD candidate ... working with Professor Douglas Hart, and Sloan School alum Ash Martin —won first place for one of their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-4From large labs to small teams, mentorship thrives
Each year, new MIT graduate students are tasked with the momentous decision of choosing a research ... Professors Cynthia Breazeal (center of left grouping) and Ming Guo (center of right grouping, seated) with ... their students Credit: Gretchen Ertl Professors Cynthia Breazeal, leading a group of over 30 students, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/large-labs-small-teams-mentorship-thrivesA robot dives into search for Malaysian Airlines flight
Discover how, in the spirit of the late MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton, Boston-area ... got its start at MIT. Bluefin Robotics, founded in 1997 by a core group of engineers from the MIT ... teenagers will design and build an AUV at MIT this summer. Thursday, April 17, 2014 Nicole Estvanik Taylor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-dives-search-malaysian-airlines-flightDan Frey Named D-Lab Faculty Director
design for the developing world. Professor J. Kim Vandiver, MIT dean for undergraduate research, has ... Professor of mechanical engineering brings a long association with D-Lab and a commitment to ... appointed Professor Daniel Frey of the Department of Mechanical Engineering the new faculty director of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dan-frey-named-d-lab-faculty-directorResearchers hope to make needle pricks for diabetics a thing of the past
such as skin, by shining near-infrared light on it. MIT scientists have now taken an important step ... a Raman-based sensor for continuous glucose monitoring could be feasible, says Peter So, a professor of ... biological and mechanical engineering at MIT. “Today, diabetes is a global epidemic,” says So, who is one of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-hope-make-needle-pricks-diabetics-thing-pastIdeaStream 2020 goes virtual
MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation hosted IdeaStream, an annual showcase of ... technologies being developed across MIT, online for the first time in the event’s 18-year history. Last month, ... researchers. Speakers from 19 MIT teams that received Deshpande grants presented their work, from learned ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ideastream-2020-goes-virtual3 Questions: From the bench to the battlefield
a quintessential part of the academic experience at MIT. The program, known as UROP, allows students to be ... “shoulder to shoulder” with faculty, graduate students, and affiliated researchers in MIT’s labs. Given the ... MIT, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and industry partners work together to develop technologies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-bench-battlefieldStudents present mechanical engineering projects that have global impact
participating in poster sessions for the first time, the events can be daunting. RS3592_2019 MERE 1024.jpg MIT ... Engineers (GAME) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are working to remove the intimidation ... the Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE), which was held on Oct. 11 in MIT’s student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-mechanical-engineering-projects-have-global-impactNoninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue
the resolution of captured images. Now, MIT researchers have developed a new technique that more than ... dynamics deep in living biosystems,” says Sixian You, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical ... EECS graduate student; Tong Qiu, an MIT postdoc; Honghao Cao, an EECS graduate student; Fan Wang, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-imaging-method-can-penetrate-deeper-living-tissueTwo MIT films nominated for New England Emmy Awards
Two films produced by MIT were honored with Emmy nominations by the National Academy of Television ... ” illustrate international conversations the MIT community is having about the environment and climate change. ... “We Are the Forest,” produced by MIT Video Productions (MVP) at MIT Open Learning, was one of six ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-films-nominated-new-england-emmy-awardsMIT Society of Women Engineers’ journey into virtual connection
appearance by MIT Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart and MIT SWE’s faculty advisor Professor Sangeeta Bhatia. “The ... When the student body was sent home last March in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, the MIT ... most MIT clubs and organizations were not in session — on ways to adapt and run all of their customary ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-society-women-engineers%E2%80%99-journey-virtual-connectionTapping the MIT talent pool for the future of fusion
MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... Sorensen.Fusion.1024.jpg MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen earned a master’s degree at MIT in a MechE lab but is based ... making a huge impact on the world. This is exactly the kind of project that I came to MIT hoping to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tapping-mit-talent-pool-future-fusionFirst-ever MIT Maker Faire attracts nearly 3,000 attendees to campus
attendees ascended upon the North Court of MIT campus for the first-ever MIT Mini Maker Faire. A celebration ... than half of these were MIT affiliates, while the rest were local makers. Known for its passion for ... and host this coming together of creators, technologists, scientists, engineers, and artists. “At MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-ever-mit-maker-faire-attracts-nearly-3000-attendees-campusYo-yo champion pursues his passions at MIT
professor of mechanical engineering and MIT’s Maker Czar. Culpepper helped Hattori find the makerspaces and ... Each spring, accepted MIT students trek to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Institute’s annual ... not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/yo-yo-champion-pursues-his-passions-mitMIT launches MITx MicroMasters in Principles of Manufacturing
uncertainty,” says David Hardt, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “All too often, people fail to get ... MIT today announced the launch of the Institute’s third MITx MicroMasters program, in principles ... Manufacturing and Design, originally established at MIT in 2001 through the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-launches-mitx-micromasters-principles-manufacturingBuilding the tools of the next manufacturing revolution
nanoscale to the scale of the global economy. Hart, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... copper. When he returned to MIT in 2013 as a new faculty member, after several years as a professor at the ... and when he started in the master’s degree program in mechanical engineering at MIT, he thought he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-tools-next-manufacturing-revolutionMIT Motorsports unveils their 2019 electric race car
Grown-Haeberli; J. Kim Vandiver, mechanical engineering professor and Forbes director of the MIT Edgerton Center; ... In an event attended by more than 100 members of the MIT community — friends, family, faculty, ... staff, students, and sponsors — the MIT Motorsports team unveiled their 2019 electric race car in Lobby ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-motorsports-unveils-their-2019-electric-race-carMIT robot may accelerate trials for stroke medications
says Hermano Igo Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. ... Krebs and his colleagues explored the robot MIT-Manus as a tool for evaluating patient improvement over ... time. The robot, developed by the team at MIT’s Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-may-accelerate-trials-stroke-medicationsPropelling Transportation Forward
dioxide mixtures. AhmedGhoniem_1024.jpg Professor Ahmed Ghoniem. Photo by Lillie Paquette/SoE MIT Biofuels ... Cheng_1024.jpg Professor Wai Cheng. Photo by Lillie Paquette/SoE MIT At the same time, he is also working on ... battery recharging. Professor Chathan Cooke, Principal Research Engineer at MIT Research Laboratory of ...
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