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 Cambridge, Mass.
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Joined June 2011
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MechE's annual Welcome Back Block Party is a department-wide celebration that kicks off the fall semester with lawn games, food trucks, and more. Here are are few scenes from this year's Block Party, which was held in mid-September. 📸: Tony Pulsone
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A new paper from MechE’s Newman Lab explores limiting factors in human force generation. 📸: Adobe Stock meche.mit.edu/news-media/exp…
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The “HardFlow” algorithm, developed by researchers in Associate Professor Navid Azizan's lab, could help generative AI models produce high-quality outputs that obey strict requirements in safety-critical situations 📸: MIT News; iStock meche.mit.edu/news-media/new…
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MIT researchers have created tiny batteries that could be used to power ingestible electronic devices. The entire battery is bioresorbable, meaning that it can be fully broken down and absorbed by the body. meche.mit.edu/news-media/bat…
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Developed in MIT’s Design Computation and Digital Engineering (DeCoDE) Lab, CADFit, an AI-guided optimization tool, turns meshes and images into editable CAD and makes product design faster and more accessible. meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-…
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Atlas Building Composites, which emerged from a research effort in MechE, uses waterless plastic recycling and large-scale composite additive manufacturing technology to make parts like home foundations, decks, and trusses. 📸s: Atlas meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit…
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Senior capstone course 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) emulates what engineers experience while working as part of a design team at a product development firm. Students design, build, and present novel products inspired by an annual theme. This year’s theme is: CONNECT!
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MechE junior Wyatt Vick, a 2A-6 major, spent the summer working with Centrus Energy as a mechanical engineering intern. As a member of the Design Engineering team, he gained experience in project management, procurement, and nuclear engineering.
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MIT Sea Grant resident artist & acclaimed underwater photographer Keith Ellenbogen captures an intimate look at courtship and communication in a hidden spawning spectacle off Cape Cod. 📸s: Keith Ellenbogen/MIT Sea Grant. meche.mit.edu/news-media/sec…
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An MIT-created system for building shape-changing smart devices, dubbed “bifur-circuits,” could be used to develop reconfigurable robotic grippers or customized assistive devices. MechE Grad Student Marwa AlAlawi is lead author of a new paper. meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit…
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And we're back... happy first day of classes, MechE! 2.008 (Design & Manufacturing 2) students started the semester with a hands-on project disassembling hair-dryers to begin learning about manufacturing at scale. #MIT #FDOC 📸: Tony Pulsone
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A new algorithm learns to anticipate the unprecedented scenarios that critical infrastructure and global supply chains are least prepared for. The approach can be applied to weather events or in fields such as robotic navigation and financial markets. meche.mit.edu/news-media/gen…
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"As soon as a person experiences cardiac arrest, the clock is ticking," explains Kalin Le, one of the co-creators of HeartBridge, an automated CPR device designed for bystanders. She demonstrated the device at MExpo 2026.
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Courtney Craig (Class of 2029) spent the summer in Norfolk, Virginia, working at Nauticus, a children’s museum with a focus on maritime science.
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Researchers explore importance of indoor airflow patterns in spreading airborne disease and how a key factor can mitigate or promote tuberculosis transmission. meche.mit.edu/news-media/imp…
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A new mathematical framework developed by MIT researchers in MechE, CEE and IDSS translates the components of a natural object into building blocks that can be mixed and matched to design new adaptive materials that behave like those in biological systems meche.mit.edu/news-media/mat…
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Graduate Student Mariia Smyk is a Research Assistant at the MIT Precision Engineering Research Group (PERG), led by Professor Alexander Slocum. Her research focuses on rapid swap battery technology. #MechanicalEngineering #ElectricVehicles
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MechE Engineers have designed a more intuitive controller for operating construction diggers, which could speed up the training process for excavator operators. 📸: Courtesy of the researchers meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit…
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MechE Senior Kayode Dada has a passion for designing games, and a penchant for building community. He designed a trading card game, “Campus Trade,” as an ice-breaker for incoming students at MIT Orientation. 📸: Gretchen Ertl tinyurl.com/mitgamething
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A new book coauthored by Prof. Amos Winter asserts that, to solve major challenges and deliver products of value to consumers in developed and emerging markets, innovators must think and act globally 📸: Hugh Brooks (left) and Harvard Business Review Press meche.mit.edu/news-media/glo…
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