MIT MechE

The MIT Combat Robotics Club uses the tagline “build, battle, destroy, repeat,” which is a pretty spot-on description for a club that embraces learning opportunities through destruction! 📸s: CRC, John Freidah, Aditya Mehrotra. Learn more. Story/Video: meche.mit.edu/news-media/dre…

SanaHeal, founded by Hyunwoo Yuk SM ’16, PhD ’21, has developed a bioadhesive technology that can rapidly stick to wet, uneven surfaces and form air- and fluid-tight seals, simplifying surgical procedures & making stitching more like applying a sticky note meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit…

Engineers in Professor Giovanni Traverso's lab have designed a robotic enteroscope that can inch through the hard-to-reach small intestine, making biopsies and drug delivery easier. meche.mit.edu/news-media/sof…

Jason Chen, a graduate student in the DENG #Energy and #Nanotechnology Group, conducts research in scientific machine learning/deep learning using #digitaltwins to tackle complex multi-physics and coupled systems in combustion, geothermal and energy applications.

MechE Professors Giovanni Traverso and Ritu Raman were among the researchers from across MIT who presented projects at a recent MIT Aging Brain Initiative symposium. 📸: David Orenstein/Picower Institute tinyurl.com/brainagehealth

Engineers in Assistant Professor Kaitlyn Becker's lab have developed a flexible, shape-sensing sheet that digitally reconstructs its own form as it bends and twists. 📸: Courtesy of the researchers; edited by MIT News meche.mit.edu/news-media/sha…

Captain Joseph Darcy ENG ’09, SM ’09 (left) and Chris Wiernicki SM ’85, Retired Chairman and CEO of American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) have been appointed as Professors of the Practice in the Ocean Engineering area. meche.mit.edu/news-media/oce…

MIT researchers built a cloud-based platform to help Massachusetts coastal towns and the state manage shellfishing closures, giving thousands of permit holders a clearer view of where they can fish. 📸: Eastriverstudio / Getty Images meche.mit.edu/news-media/tur…

From soft robots for deep-sea exploration to 3-D printed glass masonry, researchers in Assistant Professor Kaitlyn Becker's Fabrication-Integrated Design Lab treat manufacturing as a central variable in the design and development process. Full video: meche.mit.edu/meche-colloqui…

Faez Ahmed, Navid Azizan, Gareth McKinley, Ritu Raman, Kripa Varanasi, and Loza Tadesse are among the School of Engineering faculty members recently recognized for awards celebrating scholarship, service, and overall excellence. 📸: Gretchen Ertl meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit…

A wristband device created by Encora Therapeutics, which started as a project in 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), has been cleared by the FDA has cleared to help adults with essential tremor. 📸: Courtesy of Encora Therapeutics meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit…

MIT researchers have developed a noninvasive way to detect biomarkers of senescence, a state in which cells stop dividing but do not die. 📸: iStock meche.mit.edu/news-media/unm…“zombie-cells”-aging-tissue-ai-powered-barcode

The Climate Grand Challenges “New World of Weather” project shows how modeling, planning tools, and infrastructure analysis are translating research into real-world resilience. 📸: iStock meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit…—-and-building-tools-act-them

On Friday, 2.009 teams participated in team-building exercises to move large puzzle pieces representing their team colors – and reflecting this year’s theme (Connect!) – across Killian Court. 📸: Tony Pulsone

Researchers in Professor Ritu Raman's lab have developed a soft robot that can flap through water in response to flashes of light. 📸: Melanie Gonick, MIT meche.mit.edu/news-media/pow…

Researchers in Professor Kripa Varanasi's group, working w/ colleagues at MIT & Johns Hopkins University, developed a handheld device capable of gently collecting living cells from specific locations to test for cancer 📸: Varanasi Lab, edited by MIT News meche.mit.edu/news-media/new…

Researchers at the Broad Institute and at MIT have invented a “cellular self-reporting” approach to make living cells share their own transcriptomes so that scientists can analyze them without killing the cells. 📸: Agnieszka Grosso, Broad Communications meche.mit.edu/news-media/new…

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

A new paper from MechE’s Newman Lab explores limiting factors in human force generation. 📸: Adobe Stock meche.mit.edu/news-media/exp…

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…