Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering professor David Wallace (right of center in top hat) was surprised with a tribute video for his 20 years of teaching the “product engineering processes” class, before course instructors shot streams of confetti over the audience.

Students unveil “magical” product designs

Final presentations in mechanical engineering class show devices for climbers, patients, and others.

December 8, 2015

A new stretchy hydrogel can be embedded with various electronics. Here, a sheet of hydrogel is bonded to a matrix of polymer islands (red) that can encapsulate electronic components such as semiconductor chips, LED lights, and temperature sensors.

Stretchable hydrogel electronics

Water-based “Band-Aid” senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin.

December 7, 2015

Grace Overlander accepts her award from Lisa Frantzis, senior vice president of strategy and corporate development at Advanced Energy Economy, at the C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium.

Grace Overlander SM '08, MBA '08 recognized for leadership and mentoring in clean energy

Tesla Motors manager honored at Women in Clean Energy Symposium hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative and U.S. Department of Energy.

December 4, 2015

Current and past recipients stand with President L. Rafael Reif and Vanu Bose, son of Amar Bose. (Left to right): Rajeev Ram, Janet Conrad, Jeffrey Grossman, Sangeeta Bhatia, Polina Anikeeva, Nicholas Makris, President Reif, Joel Voldman, Vanu Bose, Jacquin Niles, Joseph Checkelsky, Sara Seager, and Sylvia Ceyer.

Bose Grants fund bold and innovative visions

Four high-risk, high-reward projects launch with support from Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.

November 24, 2015

Water drops ejected from the surface of a Tibetan singing bowl.

MIT to host American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting

A record number of presenters from the international community will convene for the 68th annual Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Nov. 22-24.

November 19, 2015

Solar Electric Vehicle Team member Michelle Chao, an MIT junior, works on the solar array.

Sleeping under the stars in Australia

Solar Electric Vehicle Team completes the 2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.

November 19, 2015

Wheelchair user Serafin Kangad from Mindanao, Philippines. CITE plans to conduct a wheelchair evaluation in 2016 to understand technical performance, reliability, durability, maintenance, repair, and user experience.

MIT faculty and students to lead technology evaluations in developing countries

November 9, 2015

Engineered hydrogel being pulled away from a glass surface. The material shows a property called “tough wet adhesion” comparable to tendon and bone interface. The wavy edge instability at the interface is a hallmark of strongly adhered soft material on a rigid surface.

Hydrogel superglue is 90 percent water

New “water adhesive” is tougher than natural adhesives employed by mussels and barnacles.

November 9, 2015

Harvesting more energy from photons

Quantum process increases the number of electrons produced when light strikes a metal-dielectric interface.

November 5, 2015

Joseph Minervini is assistant director and head of the Fusion Technology and Engineering division at the PSFC and senior research engineer in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.

Joseph Minervini appointed as assistant director of Plasma Science and Fusion Center

International expert in fusion and magnet technology succeeds Peter Catto, who had served as assistant director since 2000.

November 4, 2015

New MIT School of Engineering faculty for 2015-2016

New engineering faculty for 2015-2016

The School of Engineering welcomes 18 new faces.

October 28, 2015

Researchers found that sections of metal can be made to either promote bubbling (the two rectangles at the edges) or to inhibit bubbling (center rectangles), simply by switching the polarity of voltages applied to the metal.

Bubble, bubble, at the flick of a switch

Researchers find a way to control the bubbles of boiling water using a small electric charge.

October 26, 2015

A "Working with Partners" panel discussed unique relationships that have formed between MIT Tata Center teams and on-the-ground partners in India.

Bringing MIT and India closer together

Tata Center Annual Symposium explores many pathways for MIT research to have an impact in India and the developing world.

October 21, 2015

MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Themistoklis Sapsis

To capture a wave

Themistoklis Sapsis seeks to understand, predict, and optimize complex engineering and environmental systems under extreme uncertainty.

October 16, 2015

Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability

Study finds a whisker’s “slaloming” motion helps seals track and chase prey.

October 15, 2015

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