Mit Mechanical Engineering News Today

A snapshot of MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering graduate students and their broad range of innovative research projects.

Igor Paul, MIT professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, died on Dec. 17, 2023, at age 87. Paul helped develop MechE's design and manufacturing curriculum and contributed to artificial joints as well as to NASA inertial guidance systems.

The MIT K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center, founded with a $28 million gift from Lisa Yang, aims to rethink how products and technologies for resource-constrained communities are conceived, designed, and commercialized.

MIT Mechanical Engineering Professor of the Practice Richard M. Wiesman died Sunday, Jan. 7. He was 69. Wiesman taught and supervised research in design, product development, robotics, controls, and manufacturing, and served as co-director of MIT’s Field and Space Robotics Laboratory.

Asia Allison, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and a graduate student in MIT's Naval Construction and Engineering program, is developing as a technical leader in the Daniel J. Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership Program.

MIT mechanical engineering graduate student and robotics engineer A. Michael West has grown as a researcher by participating in several programs within MIT's School of Engineering.

Professor John Hart has been named the new department head of MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering effective July 1, 2023.

Daniel Braunstein, an instructor in MIT’s Pappalardo Lab, uses creative approaches in hands-on classes that transform undergrads into mechanical engineers.

Recent mechanical engineering graduate Emily Satterfield ’22 found her own path at MIT by channeling her creativity and pursuing her passion for art and engineering.

Recent alumni of MIT's mechanical engineering graduate program reflect on the various challenges and triumphs during their doctoral studies.