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MIT MechE

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MIT MechE

@MITMechE

Latest news and research from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Cambridge, Mass.

Joined June 2011

MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Dec 20, 2018
Using a high-speed airgap flash imaging, postdoc Bavand Keshavarz, graduate student Michela Geri, and Professor Gareth H. McKinley captured two identical fast liquid jets colliding in minute detail. mitsha.re/jty330n1fmI #fluiddynamics
MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Jun 13, 2022
Members of the MIT GEAR Lab - including Collin Goldbach, Urvaksh Irani, Jon Bessette, Georgia Van de Zande and Fiona Grant - kicked off summer with a classic experiment to see how many rubber bands could fit around a watermelon before it exploded (850 in their case!) 🍉
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MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Jul 8, 2022
Associate Professor Ming Guo has been granted tenure. He is a recognized leader at the intersection of cell mechanics and soft matter physics. 📸: John Freidah
MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Apr 15, 2022
Assistant Professor @DrRituRaman and her team at The Raman Lab use biological materials and engineering tools to assemble cells into living neuromuscular tissues for applications ranging from medicine to machines. mitsha.re/9UHx50IE39y 📸:: Tony Pulsone
MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Nov 5, 2020
After a number of years at MIT MechE, administrative assistant Tony Pulsone has picked up a thing or two about design and engineering principles. He put those skills into practice when making his daughter Daphne’s AT-ST Walker costume for Halloween. Credit: Tony Pulsone
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MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Jun 15, 2021
Dr. Simona Socrate has been awarded a Mechanical Engineering Exceptional Educator Award for pioneering digital learning and pedagogical innovations, and extraordinarily effective and dedicated teaching of core undergraduate mechanics. 📸: MIT MechE
MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Apr 18, 2023
Assistant Professor @DrRituRaman was recently awarded the National Science Foundation @NSF CAREER Award. This grant supports the Raman Lab's research, pedagogy, and outreach focused on building with biology #biofabrication.
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MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Aug 3, 2022
A team led by Professor Mathias Kolle has developed a technique that gives materials “structural color." When stretched, colors can shift and change. This technique opens the door to manufacturing devices like pressure-monitoring bandages as seen below. mitsha.re/JA2L50K9RF3
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MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Aug 9, 2021
Last week, we were pleased to welcome @DrRituRaman as an assistant professor on our faculty! An expert in medical devices and soft robotics, her research focuses on building adaptive machines powered by living biological materials. mitsha.re/MNDS50FNeX9 📸: Tony Pulsone
MIT MechE
@MITMechE
May 26, 2021
Last week, department head Professor Evelyn Wang served as officiant for the wedding of MechE graduate student Yajing Zhao and recent EECS alum Shichao Yue. Shichao's advisor, Professor Dina Katabi, served as a witness and gave him his doctoral hood. 📸: Tony Pulsone
MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Dec 17, 2021
Congratulations to Professor @garethmckinley who has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 @SocEngScience G.I. Taylor Medal for his seminal contributions to the development of viscoelastic fluid mechanics through a unique combination of experiments and theory.
MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Dec 14, 2018
In November, alumna Shabnam Raayai Ardakani SM '13, PD '18, PhD '18 became the second woman ever to receive the Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics mitsha.re/vqjn30mYOGm @APSphysics Photo by Emani Rashad
MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Aug 12, 2022
In a recent groundbreaking @ScienceMagazine study, a team led by Professor Gang Chen determined that the material known as cubic boron arsenide overcomes the limitations of silicon and is the best semiconductor material ever found. Read more at mitsha.re/6sFV50Kg9lx
MIT MechE
@MITMechE
Dec 14, 2020
Wishing our students the very best of luck during finals week!