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“It’s all about the process,” says MIT professor Warren Seering.
He’s referring to his spring design class, Course 2.739 (Product Design and Development) — but he could easily be talking about...
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Karina Pikhart (SB ’09)
by Alissa Mallinson
Courtesy of ProxTalker
The beginnings of 6dot Innovations, an assistive technology company started by MechE alumna Karina Pikhart (SB ’09), take us...
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Nate Ball (SB ’05, SM ’07) and Bryan Schmid (SB ’03, SM ’05)
Nate Ball
Bryan Schmid
by Alissa Mallinson
MechE alumni Nate Ball (SB ’05, SM ’07) and Bryan Schmid (SB ’03, SM ’05)...
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by Alissa Mallinson
Photo credit: Ted Perkins
Recent MechE graduate Kevin Rustagi (SB ’11) is a serial entrepreneur. Well, perhaps not quite yet, but he will be. His eyes light up when he talks...
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Benge Ambrogi (SM ‘87), Pete Mansfield (PhD ’90), Mick Mountz (SB ‘87), Matt Verminski (SM ‘98), and Pete Wurman (SB ‘87)
by Alissa Mallinson
Courtesy of Kiva Systems
When a handful of MIT...
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Dave Smith (SM ’11)
Courtesy of LiquiGlide
Everyone has probably heard of LiquiGlide by now. Almost every media channel has reported on the company’s star product or published the now...
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Efficiency Innovation for Water Purification
From left to right: Karim Chehayeb, Gregory Thiel, Steven Lam, Prakash Narayan Govindan, Max St. John, Ronan McGovern,and Professor John Lienhard...
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by Alissa Mallinson
Innovation and creativity are concepts that imbue everything we do in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. They’re woven into every lab, every experiment, every faculty...
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STE@M students gather around Professors Hosoi and Slocum, and Patagonia’s O’Hara, as well as Francisco Goya (holding MIT penant) at Goya Windsurfing.
Courtesy of STE@M
by Alissa...
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Melinda Hale
Allison Yost
by Alissa Mallinson
Entrepreneurs abound in MechE, but they couldn’t do it without the MIT entrepreneurial community, comprising an army of faculty, students...
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2013 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner
by Stephanie Martinovich, Lemelson-MIT Program
Photo credit: Tony Pulsone
PhD candidate Nikolai Begg (SM ‘11) grew up in a box of LEGO® bricks and hasn’t...
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A Modern-Day Inventor
by Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office
Photo credit: Allegra Boverman
As a child, Paul Lazarescu (SB ‘13) dreamed of becoming an inventor.
“I always loved building things,”...
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Thinking Outside the Box Leads to Surface Innovations
By Alissa Mallinson
Photo credit: Tony Pulsone
Associate Professor Kripa Varanasi’s research lab became a sudden media sensation this...
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The 2-A Flexible Degree Program Offers In-Depth Undergraduate Study
Professor Youcef-Toumi directs students in one of MechE’s robotics courses, Course 2.12 Introduction to Robotics.
Photo...
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CEO and Founder, WiCare
by Alissa Mallinson
Photo courtesy of Danielle Zurovcik
Danielle Zurovcik (SM ‘07, PhD ‘11) conducted her doctoral research on a high-tech medical device, but in her...
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Assistant Professor Sangbae Kim works on his lab’s current bioinspired project, the robotic cheetah.
Photo Credit: M. Scott Brauer
by Alissa Mallinson
MIT’s Department of Mechanical...
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Engineering Light-Activated Muscles
by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office
Many robotic designs take nature as their muse: sticking to walls like geckos, swimming through water like tuna, sprinting...
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In a New Microchip, Cells Separate by Rolling Away
Associate Professor Rohit Karnik in his lab.
Karnik’s new microfluidic device isolates target cells (in pink) from the rest of the flow...
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A Lifetime of Bioengineering Achievement
by Alissa Mallinson
Photo credit: Tony Pulsone
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering C. Forbes Dewey Jr. first came to MIT’s...
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A Lifetime of Biomaterials Engineering Achievement
by Alissa Mallinson
Professor Ioannis V. YannasPhoto courtesy of Professor Yannas
In 1969, Professor Ioannis V. Yannas was an expert on...