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January 28, 2024 Benchtop test quickly identifies extremely impact-resistant materials

Carlos Portela reports a new way to quickly test an array of metamaterial architectures and their resilience to supersonic impacts. The results at a microscopic level can be extended to comparable macroscale impacts.

January 25, 2024 School of Engineering fourth quarter 2023 awards

Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive awards all year long. Ritu Raman received a 2024 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research on Oct. 10.

January 23, 2024 New model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance

A model developed by postdoc Sarah Fay & Peko Hosoi, predicts the optimal running shoe design for a given runner. Researchers measure the stiffness of midsole designs using an Instron machine to mimic footsteps.

January 23, 2024 MIT Faculty Founder Initiative announces finalists for second competition

Professors Betar Gallant and Ritu Raman are among twelve researchers selected as finalists for 2023-24 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition to support female entrepreneurs in biotech.

January 18, 2024 Baran Mensah: Savoring college life in a new country

From robotics to dance, MechE senior Baran Mensah has made it his mission to explore as many new experiences as possible at the Institute.

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Designing Toys

In class 2.00b, Toy Product Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get hands-on engineering and product design experience while developing a prototype for a new toy.

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Next Generation Electronics

Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is using his background in materials science to build a physical neural network and produce cheap semiconductor wafers – technologies that could help bring the artificial intelligence power of super computers to handheld devices.

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A Cleaner Burn

Millions of people die each year as a result of soot or smoke inhalation from these wood-burning cookstoves. A team of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are helping a start-up in Uganda manufacture charcoal briquettes that produce a cleaner burn, minimizing these health risks.

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