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Ernesto E. Blanco, P.E.

Adjunct Professor and Consulting Engineer

MIT Room 3-461C
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-6236
erblan@mit.edu*

Teaching Interests: Design Education; Aids for the Handicapped; Engineering Design
Education: B.M.E. 1956 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., Concentration in Engineering Design, Applied Kinematics, and Manufacturing Systems.
Honors and Awards: Elected Member of Pi Tau Sigma, the Honor Mechanical Engineering Society (1991);; Jacob Pieter Den Hartog Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Engineering. Mechanical Engineering Department of MIT, December 1985;; Freedoms Foundations Award (1969);; Elected Member. Tau Beta Pi Honorary Engineering Society (1967);; Elected Member. Sigma Xi Honorary Research Society (1964);; Palmer C. Ricketts Award in Mechanical Engineering (1956);; Lincoln Arc Welding Design Awards for 1952, and again in 1955;; MacFarlane Award in Engineering Graphics (1951).
Professional and Industrial Memberships: Massachusetts Society of Professional Engineers;; National Society of Professional Engineers;; American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Professional and Industrial Memberships (Past): American Society for Engineering Education.; Member of the Rules Committee. The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundations Design Contest.; Judge of the National Design Awards Competition of the Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation.; Chairman of the Scholarship Committee of the Massachusetts Society of Professional Engineers, Metropolitan Chapter.; Associate Editor. Journal of Engineering Graphics and Design of the American Society for Engineering Education.; President and Chairman of the Board. Universal Textile Machine Corporation.; Member of the Board. Solar Holdings S.A.; Member of the Board. The Executive Form Inc.

* Please send emails to Prof. Blanco via kmelvin@mit.edu.