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June 4, 2021

Congratulations to Ryan Poon for completing his SM!

June 4, 2021

Congratulations to Kristan Hilby for completing her SM!

June 4, 2021

Congratulations to Annie Chen for completing her SM!

May 25, 2021

MIT Mechanical Engineering awards Kristan Hilby the Meredith Kamm Memorial Award for Excellence in a Woman Graduate Student for her research in fuel cell pneumatic actuation

May 25, 2021

MIT Mechanical Engineering awards Ryan Poon the Wunsch Foundation Silent Hoist and Crane Award for Outstanding Graduate Research for his research in agricultural robotics

October 16, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Span Spanbauer for defending his PhD thesis, Computational Tools Towards Automating the Scientific Method

January 8, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Craig Cheney for defending his PhD thesis, Development of a Miniature, Low Power, Solid State, Continuously Sensitive, Diffusion Cloud Chamber

September 13, 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Gee Hoon Park for defending his PhD thesis, Determining Phosphate Levels in Natural Water Using a Novel Electrochemical Measurement Device

August 8, 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Ashley Raynal for defending her PhD thesis, Design, Development, and Testing of a Stochastically Modulated Raman Spectrometer

May 1, 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Mike Zervas for defending his PhD thesis, A Portable, Ultra-Low Cost NMR Device

April 23, 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Nick Demas for defending his PhD thesis, A Miniature, Broadband Acoustic Spectrometer: Design of a Unified Attenuation Model, Device Development, and Experimental Performance

September 4, 2018

Dr. Lynette Jones' book on Haptics that is part of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series has been published. It is an accessible, non-technical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat-screen displays.

June 7, 2018

Congratulations to Randall Briggs for earning his Masters Degree

May 4, 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Ashin Modak for defending his PhD thesis, Design and Development of a “Smart”, Self-contained, Portable Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Device

January 18, 2018

Congratulations to Dr. John Liu for defending his PhD thesis, Needle-free Injection Nozzle Geometry

May 17, 2017

Congratulations to Seyed Mirvakili for earning his PhD!

May 16, 2017

Congratulations to Seyed Mirvakili for earning second place in the 2017 de Florez competition for his project "Multidirectional Artificial Muscles from Nylon"!

July 7, 2016

Honorable mention in Best Student Paper in EuroHaptics 2016, London for the paper: Singhal, A., Jones, L.A., "Space-time dependencies and thermal perception.

June 3, 2016

Congratulations to Craig Cheney for completing his SM!

June 3, 2016

Congratulations to Anshul Singhal for completing his SM!

April 11, 2016

Congratulations to Anshul Singhal for taking 2nd place in Best Student Paper Presentation in 2016 IEEE Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS) for the paper: Singhal, A., Jones, L.A., "Space-time interactions and the perceived location of cold stimuli".

Sept 16, 2015

Congratulations to Nickolas Demas for completing his SM!

June 3, 2015

Congratulations to Geehoon Park for completing his SM!

May 12, 2015

Congratulations to Seyed M. Mirvakili for taking 3rd place in de Flores Graduate Design Division for his work on Torsional Artificial Muscles!

April 15, 2015

Congratulations to Anshul Singhal and teammates (Pranay Jain, Yongbin Sun) for winning the MIT Ideas Global Challenge for their work on an IOT based framework to connect Assistive Technology devices!

March 2015

Congratulations to John Liu for being awarded the Mustard Seed Foundation Harvey Fellowship!

December 1, 2014

Congratulations to Ellen Yi Chen for earning her Ph.D.!

November 3, 2014

Professor Ian Hunter visits Imperial College London's Bioengineering Department to evaluate their program.

April 29, 2014

Congratulations to Nickolas Demas and teammates (Anton Hunt, Tyler Hamer, and Zaid Zayyad) for taking First Place in the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies, Soldier Design Contest, for their THOR Tourniquet!

April 28, 2014

Congratulations to Ellen Yi Chen and Carrie Jiahui Liang for taking the First Prize, graduate level, in the 2014 De Florez Awards Competition for their Multi-link Robotic Endoscope System!

April 28, 2014

Congratulations to Ellen Yi Chen for selected chosen as a recipient of the 2014 NSF Student Travel Grant award to assist attending the 2014 IEEE ICRA conference in Hong Kong, China, June, 2014!

April 27-30, 2014

Dr. Lynette Jones visits Professors Rocco Rizzo and Antonino Musolino in the Department of Engineering for Energy and Systems at the University of Pisa, Italy to work on a collaborative research project involving the application of magneto-rheological fluids to haptic displays.

March 4, 2014

Congratulations to Ellen Yi Chen for being awarded the DeFlorez Travel Award in Design and Manufacturing toward travel to the 2014 IEEE ICRA conference in Hong Kong, China, June, 2014!

February 25, 2014

Congratulations to Eli Paster for earning his Ph.D.!