News Archive
Assistant Professor Kripa Varanasi Receives 2011 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
Assistant Professor Kripa Varanasi receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
Boston City Officials to use Professor Sanjay Sarma's Infrared Scanning Technology
Assistant Professor Kripa Varanasi received the Best Paper Award at the 2010 IEEE-ASME ITherm Conference
(Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems) "Controlling the Nucleation and Growth of Water Using Hybrid Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Surfaces"
Associate Professor Sanjay Sarma Develops Robot to Detect Weaknesses in Water Systems
LMP Students Win de Florez Awards
Congrats to all the LMP student winners! Each winner received a cash reward and a copy of SolidWorks, Student Edition, compliments of SolidWorks. These awards are structured to recognize ingenuity and creativity in mechanical engineering.
Undergraduate Design Award:
4th Place
Josh Siegel, "Wearable Non-Contact AC Voltage Detector"
Raymond Ma and Edward Sung, "Flexure-Based Device for Measuring Ankle Torque and Power Output"
Graduate Science Awards:
1st Place
Jon Hopkins & Robert Panas
"Design of Multi-DOF Compliant Transmission Elements via FACT"
2nd Place
Michael Cullinan
"Carbon Nanotube-Based Piezoresistive MEMS Sensors"
Audience Email Competition
Samuel Weiss
LMP Students Awards
Maria Telleria, NSF Fellowship, "Design and Development of Cylindrical Compliant Mechanisms"
Adam Paxson, NSF Fellowship, "Enhanced Condensation Heat Transfer from Nanoengineered Surfaces"
Christopher Love, NSF Fellowship, "Durable Nanoengineered Surfaces for Applications in Energy, Water, and Agriculture"
Fernando Tubilla, Legatum Fellowship, Software Development and Consulting Company in Manufacturing Operations, Aimed at Small and Medium-Scale Factories in Mexico"
Sourabh Saha, Martin Fellow for 2010-2011, Adding energy considerations in the control/design of nanomanufacturing systems
Assistant Professor Kripa Varanasi featured in Spectrum
LMP Professor Wins CAREER award from NSF
Assistant Professor Kripa Varanasi wins grant from the National Science Foundation.
Read article.
LMP Graduate Students Win Innovation Award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology
Matthew Dirckx and Eehern Wong were part of the MIT team that won the Software in Design Innovation Award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology on November 25. Read more.
LMP Professor Alexander Slocum presents research to President Obama
In a recent visit to MIT, President Obama met with LMP Faculty member Professor Alexander Slocum, who demonstrated an Offshore Renewable Energy Systems (ORES). Read more.
Dr. Amar Gupta, a Visiting Professor from University of Arizona, featured in IEEE Computer Magazine
The 24-Hour Knowledge Factory: Can it Replace the Graveyard Shift?"
LMP UROP Student Wins Gates Scholarship
Orian Welling, a senior in mechanical engineering, has been awarded a full scholarship for graduate study at the University of Cambridge, England, by the Gates Cambridge Trust.
2009 Manufacturing Summit at MIT
The LMP held the 2009 Manufacturing Summit April 23 & 24.
Precision Engineering Consortium Launches New Website:
The Precision Engineering industry partnership program is now online. Learn more or visit the site.
LMP Support Staff Awarded SOE Infinite Mile Award:
Our support team was awarded an Infinite Mile Award for Excellence.
Read More!
Buonassisi Group Awarded DOE Grant:
The grant will fund Professor Buonassisi's low-cost crystalline silicon photovoltaics project.
Read More!
LMP's Timothy Gutowski featured on NPR's Science Friday:
Professor Gutowski talks about estimating carbon footprints on last week's Science Friday. Listen to the show!
MIT Data Center Releases OSMPS Tool:
A powerful new tool to calculate a master production schedule for situations relating to make-to-stock manufacturing.
LMP 30th Anniversary
To celebrate this landmark anniversary, the LMP hosted several special events during the second annual MIT Manufacturing Summit, held September 27-28th, 2007.
LMP Holiday Party
See photos from the LMP Holiday Brunch, December 14th in the Given Lounge.
LMP’s Prof. Sachs Awarded DOE Grant
Professor Emanuel Sachs was awarded a Future Generation Photovoltaic Devices and Processes grant. Read the article.
Students Launch New Seminar Series
LMP Graduate Students organize a new seminar series to showcase their work. Read the article.
Auto-ID Labs in RFID Journal
The Auto-ID Labs' work with Phillip Morris International's track-and-trace systems was featured in the RFID Journal this month. Read the article.
Registration Opens for the 2007 Manufacturing Summit
Registration is now open for the MIT Manufacturing Summit! Learn more about the Summit and the LMP's 30th Anniversary, see the preliminary schedule or register now!
Auto-ID Labs on eWEEK.com
The Auto-ID Labs SAP Electronic Product Code project was featured on eWEEK.com, the website of the technology-focused publication eWEEK. Read the article.
April 17
MIT Auto-ID Labs co-hosts the 5th RFID Academic Convocation with RFID Journal LIVE! 2007
