Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

60 faculty and 40 courses in Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Faculty

• Sang-Gook Kim, Professor h-index 115
  Notable: “Transcutaneous ultrasound energy harvesting using capacitive triboelectric technology” (2019) · 837 citations
• Ming Guo, Associate Professor h-index 95
  Notable: “Genome-wide association studies of 14 agronomic traits in rice landraces” (2010) · 2,289 citations
• Gang Chen, Professor h-index 94
  Notable: “Dopant-induced electron localization drives CO2 reduction to C2 hydrocarbons” (2018) · 1,163 citations
• Klaus-Jürgen Bathe, Professor Emeritus h-index 84
  Notable: “Numerical Methods in Finite Element Analysis.” (1977) · 2,048 citations
• A. John Hart, Professor; Department Head h-index 83
  Notable: “Carbon Nanotubes: Present and Future Commercial Applications” (2013) · 5,515 citations
• Tonio Buonassisi, Professor h-index 80
  Notable: “Promises and challenges of perovskite solar cells” (2017) · 2,148 citations
• John G Brisson II, Professor h-index 75
• Steven Dubowsky, Professor Emeritus h-index 64
  Notable: “Time-Optimal Control of Robotic Manipulators Along Specified Paths” (1985) · 1,303 citations
• John B Heywood, Professor Emeritus h-index 64
  Notable: “Experimental and Theoretical Study of Nitric Oxide Formation in Internal Combustion Engines” (1970) · 831 citations
• Ahmed F Ghoniem, Professor h-index 62
  Notable: “Oxy-fuel combustion of pulverized coal: Characterization, fundamentals, stabilization and CFD modeling” (2011) · 969 citations
• Harry Asada, Professor h-index 61
  Notable: “Mobile monitoring with wearable photoplethysmographic biosensors” (2003) · 462 citations
• Neville Hogan, Professor h-index 59
  Notable: “Impedance Control: An Approach to Manipulation: Part I—Theory” (1985) · 3,613 citations
• Anuradha M Annaswamy, Senior Research Scientist h-index 53
  Notable: “A new adaptive law for robust adaptation without persistent excitation” (1987) · 826 citations
• Jacopo Buongiorno, Professor h-index 52
  Notable: “Convective Transport in Nanofluids” (2005) · 6,866 citations
• George Barbastathis, Professor h-index 49
• Svetlana V Boriskina, Principal Research Scientist h-index 49
• Rohit N Karnik, Professor h-index 48
  Notable: “Critical flux concept for microfiltration fouling” (1995) · 1,409 citations
• Timothy G Gutowski, Professor Emeritus h-index 43
  Notable: “Material efficiency: A white paper” (2010) · 895 citations
• Lynette A Jones, Senior Research Scientist h-index 42
  Notable: “Tactile Displays: Guidance for Their Design and Application” (2008) · 547 citations
• Domitilla Del Vecchio, Professor h-index 40
  Notable: “Modular cell biology: retroactivity and insulation” (2008) · 538 citations
• Ian Hunter, Professor h-index 39
  Notable: “Artificial Muscles: Mechanisms, Applications, and Challenges” (2017) · 1,063 citations
• Rohan Abeyaratne, Professor h-index 38
• Betar Gallant, Associate Professor h-index 37
  Notable: “High-power lithium batteries from functionalized carbon-nanotube electrodes” (2010) · 1,109 citations
• Roger Dale Kamm, Professor h-index 35
  Notable: “Soft micromachines with programmable motility and morphology” (2016) · 638 citations
• Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou, Professor h-index 35
• Lydia Bourouiba, Professor h-index 31
• Wai K Cheng, Professor h-index 31
  Notable: “An Overview of Hydrocarbon Emissions Mechanisms in Spark-Ignition Engines” (1993) · 293 citations
• Triantaphyllos R Akylas, Professor h-index 29
• Jung-Hoon Chun, Professor h-index 27
  Notable: “The recoiling of liquid droplets upon collision with solid surfaces” (2001) · 206 citations
• Cullen Buie, Professor; Associate Department Head h-index 25
  Notable: “Bioaerosol generation by raindrops on soil” (2017) · 285 citations
• Daniel Frey, Professor h-index 23
  Notable: “Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning” (2005) · 2,751 citations
• Martin Culpepper, Professor h-index 23
  Notable: “Synthesis of multi-degree of freedom, parallel flexure system concepts via Freedom and Constraint Topology (FACT) – Part I: Principles” (2009) · 259 citations
• Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis, Professor Emeritus h-index 23
  Notable: “A robust and accurate outflow boundary condition for incompressible flow simulations on severely-truncated unbounded domains” (2014) · 207 citations
• Faez Ahmed, Associate Professor h-index 22
  Notable: “Deep generative modeling for mechanistic-based learning and design of metamaterial systems” (2020) · 351 citations
• Douglas Hart, Professor h-index 21
  Notable: “Ultrasound-mediated transdermal drug delivery: Mechanisms, scope, and emerging trends” (2011) · 439 citations
• Michael Richard Benjamin, Principal Research Scientist h-index 21
  Notable: “Duckietown: An open, inexpensive and flexible platform for autonomy education and research” (2017) · 239 citations
• David Barrett, Professor of the Practice h-index 19
  Notable: “Knee osteoarthritis and obesity” (2001) · 535 citations
• Irmgard Bischofberger, Associate Professor h-index 19
• David C Gossard, Professor Emeritus h-index 17
  Notable: “Quantitative analysis of cryo-EM density map segmentation by watershed and scale-space filtering, and fitting of structures by alignment to regions” (2010) · 422 citations
• David E Hardt, Professor h-index 17
  Notable: “Design and analysis of reconfigurable discrete dies for sheet metal forming” (1998) · 135 citations
• Kaitlyn Becker, Assistant Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Soft Robotic Grippers for Biological Sampling on Deep Reefs” (2016) · 827 citations
• Lallit Anand, Professor h-index 9
  Notable: “Machine Learning Algorithm for Soil Analysis and Classification of Micronutrients in IoT‐Enabled Automated Farms” (2022) · 62 citations
• Anette (Peko) Hosoi, Professor h-index 7
  Notable: “Design and Analysis of a Robust, Low-cost, Highly Articulated manipulator enabled by jamming of granular media” (2012) · 317 citations
• Elazer Edelman, Professor h-index 6
  Notable: “Antisense c-myb oligonucleotides inhibit intimal arterial smooth muscle cell accumulation in vivo” (1992) · 736 citations
• C. Forbes Dewey, Professor Emeritus h-index 2
  Notable: “Direction Concepts in Wayfinding Assistance Systems” (2004) · 32 citations
• Brian Anthony, Principal Research Scientist h-index 1
  Notable: “Learning 3-D Ultrasound Segmentation under Extreme Label Deficiency” (2026)
• Andrew Akerson, Assistant Professor
• Andrew Gillespy, Professor of the Practice
• Arthur B Baggeroer, Professor Emeritus
• Asegun Henry, Professor
• Fotini Christia, Professor
• Jeehwan Kim, Associate Professor
• Joseph Darcy, Professor of the Practice
• Linda G Griffith, Professor
• Mark Bathe, Professor
• Markus Buehler, Professor
• Mary Cunningham Boyce, Professor Emerita
• Navid Azizan, Assistant Professor
• Sili Deng, Associate Professor
• Tal Cohen, Associate Professor
  Notable: “A novel approach to measure needle insertion responses and the overlooked impact of insertion on injection outcomes” (2026)

Courses

• Designing for the Future: Earth, Sea, and Space 2.00A
• Toy Product Design 2.00B
• Design for Complex Environmental Issues 2.00C[J]
• Introduction to Manufacturing 2.00E
• Introduction to Design 2.00
• Explorations in Mechanical Engineering 2.000
• Mechanics and Materials I 2.001
• Mechanics and Materials II 2.002
• Dynamics and Control I 2.003[J]
• Dynamics and Control II 2.004
• Thermal-Fluids Engineering I 2.005
• Thermal-Fluids Engineering II 2.006
• Design and Manufacturing I 2.007
• Design and Manufacturing II 2.008
• The Product Engineering Process 2.009
• Engineering Systems Design 2.013
• Engineering Systems Development 2.014
• Hydrodynamics 2.016
• Design of Electromechanical Robotic Systems 2.017[J]
• Design of Ocean Systems 2.019
• Numerical Computation for Mechanical Engineers 2.086
• Engineering Mathematics: Linear Algebra and ODEs 2.087
• Dynamics 2.032
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Turbulence 2.033[J]
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Waves 2.034[J]
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos 2.036[J]
• Nonlinear Dynamics: Chaos 2.050[J]
• Structural Dynamics 2.060[J]
• Wave Propagation 2.062[J]
• Acoustics and Sensing 2.065
• Mechanics of Solid Materials 2.071
• Mechanics of Continuous Media 2.072
• Solid Mechanics: Plasticity and Inelastic Deformation 2.073
• Solid Mechanics: Elasticity 2.074
• Mechanics of Soft Materials 2.075
• Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials 2.076[J]
• Special Subject in Mechanical Engineering 2.S00
• + 3 more courses

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.