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With campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT
11.S938 / 2.S999, Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT, co-taught by Professor Timothy Gutowski. ... In 2015, MIT set a goal to reduce its annual greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum of 32 percent ... MIT has reduced campus emissions by 24 percent over the past five years. Cumulative efforts to reduce ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/campus-test-bed-climate-action-starts-and-continues-mitStudent-led conference charts the future of micro- and nanoscale research, reinforces scientific community
New Hampshire on Jan. 24-25 for the first time since before the pandemic, MARC gathered over 240 MIT ... (MTL) and, since 2020, co-sponsored jointly with MIT.nano. 2023-01 MARC 316 edit.jpg Mechanical ... a letter to attendees, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-led-conference-charts-future-micro-and-nanoscale-research-reinforces-scientificSmart pill can track key biological markers in real-time
says Timothy Lu, an MIT associate professor of biological engineering and of electrical engineering and ... Researchers from MIT, Boston University, and elsewhere report a smart pill the size of a blueberry ... Liu of Boston University, Maria Eugenia Inda of MIT, and Miguel Jimenez of MIT pose with prototypes of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-pill-can-track-key-biological-markers-real-timeK. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center will prioritize innovations for resource-constrained communities
Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center at MIT, founded with a $28 million gift from philanthropist and ... conceived, designed, and commercialized. A collaboration between MIT’s School of Engineering and School of ... Science, the Yang GEAR Center will bring together a multidisciplinary team of MIT researchers to assess ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/k-lisa-yang-global-engineering-and-research-center-will-prioritize-innovations-resourceHow to create selective holes in graphene
Kong, the ITT Career Development Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; MIT graduate students ... researchers at MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and in Saudi Arabia succeeded in creating subnanoscale ... pores, as a filter in desalination has been proposed and analyzed by other MIT researchers. The new work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-create-selective-holes-grapheneTechnology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves
Rufer, and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. A recent study found that if farmers ... A team of researchers at MIT and a spinoff company they launched has developed a system to do just that. ... a paper by recent MIT alumni Vishnu Jayaprakash PhD ’22 and Sreedath Panat PhD ’23, graduate student Simon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technology-developed-mit-engineers-makes-pesticides-stick-plant-leavesMIT engineers build smart power outlet
detectors, according to a team of MIT engineers, is that they often err on the side of being overly ... a desktop computer. Trip Detection 1024.jpg Using a small microcomputer and a soundcard, Professor Sanjay ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the smart power outlet is able to connect to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-build-smart-power-outlet3 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-battlefieldDepartment News
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-virtualTwo 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-manufacturing