Apprenticeship”, adopting the name of our lab’s long-time benefactor Neil Pappalardo, and to acknowledge MIT ... warming weeks of their four years at MIT. The Gauntlet By fall 2016, the apprenticeship had been through ... approached, I wanted to strengthen students’ connection to MIT’s maritime and industrial forebears. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-hmco-steam-engine-introductionAbout The MIT MechE Summer Knowledge Exchange — or MechE Summer X — offers students, recent graduates, ... led and organized by members of the MIT MechE community. Activities can be academic and non-academic. ... any member of the MIT MechE community can share expertise in a particular subject, skill, hobby, or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/meche-summer-xbetter,” says MIT senior Nick Schwartz. Image: Ian MacLellan “I came up with [the idea] my sophomore year ... makes a lot of people smile,” he says proudly of his annual tradition, which is funded by the MIT ... and outside of MIT. Meaningful engineering When Schwartz first arrived at the Institute, he wasn’t ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nick-schwartzstudying … because by then you’d usually have electricity.” “The best thing about being at MIT is that ... engineering, and upon coming to MIT as an undergraduate, he majored in mechanical engineering. He discovered ... energy studies. Now as a graduate student and fellow in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/prosper-nyovanie-1including pen and ink, colored pencil, and watercolor. In her time at MIT, she has expanded her horizon ... tunnels beneath MIT’s campus through the Borderline Tunnel Project. Later on, she collaborated with UA ... between things and trying to draw inspiration from just about anywhere,” Xu says. Upon coming to MIT, Xu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jessica-xuMIT’s RoboTuna, for example, was composed of about 3,000 different parts and took about two years to ... design and build. Now, researchers at MIT and their colleagues — including one from the original RoboTuna ... different example configurations, one like an eel, pictured here in the MIT tow tank. | Rigiht Top: The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-devise-modular-system-produce-efficient-scalable-aquabotsthe ideal bacteria for use in a microbial fuel cell (MFC), MIT Associate Professor Cullen Buie ... use in a microbial fuel cell (MFC), MIT Associate Professor Cullen Buie researches a novel method to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bacteria-good-and-badboats and is a member of the MIT Nautical Association Executive Committee. As a PhD student in MIT ... near the water in San Diego, to MIT. On a trip as a freshman in high school, he stayed at a hotel on ... Memorial Drive and watched sailboats dart along the Charles River. Four years later, he enrolled at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-david-larson-%E2%80%9916-sm-%E2%80%9918-phd-candidateregalia, crossed the stage at MIT’s doctoral hooding ceremony, and emerged on the other side with their ... life-changing ceremony: their wedding. Scott Nill and Larissa Nietner at MIT Commencement in June 2018, just ... through the MIT PhD program is you have an immense amount of understanding and empathy for what the other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/lariessa-nietner-scott-nillhigh school. In his free time, he designs and tinkers with boats and is a member of the MIT Nautical ... Association Executive Committee. As a PhD student in MIT’s Laboratory for Ship and Platform Flows, he works on ... first drew Larson, who grew up near the water in San Diego, to MIT. On a trip as a freshman in high ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-larsona driving force in Godart’s academic career. As a mechanical engineering undergraduate at MIT, he took the ... in class 2.013, went back to the East Coast, and enrolled in graduate school. “I came back to MIT and ... age of six, he has played the piano and written music. As an Emerson Fellow at MIT since his freshman ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-peter-godart-15-sm-19-phd-candidateMIT, are racing to understand the environmental impact of deep-sea mining. Energy Science and ... Researchers including Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, are racing to understand the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mining-deep-seaIn 2004, a few days into his first semester at MIT, Folkers Rojas ’09, SM ’11, PhD ’14 stopped by ... oil wells. He is also a part-time instructor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. “In the ... that could harvest solar energy, designing a camera for MIT’s Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/folkers-rojas-0Robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers developed at MIT CSAIL can handle cables with ... a group of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) pursued ... like cable manipulation, cloth folding, and string knotting,” says Yu She, MIT postdoc and lead author ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letting-robots-manipulate-cablesThe following statement was issued by the leadership team in MIT's Department of Mechanical ... Engineering The faculty, students, and staff of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are committed to ... the data in depth, and had many discussions with MIT community leaders including the MIT ICEO Officer, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/statement-meche-qualifying-examsMIT and SLAC have mapped what is happening at the atomic level behind a particularly promising ... fossil fuels.” Yang Shao-Horn, the JR East Professor of Engineering in MIT’s Department of Materials ... Science and Engineering (DMSE) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is a leader of the current ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-creates-map-production-eco-friendly-metalsand Theater Arts (MTA) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA seek ... have expertise applying engineering principles to music research, and who embrace MIT's “mens et ... make discoveries that would not be possible without a deep understanding of both disciplines. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/faculty-positions-mtAfter forty-seven years in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Leslie Regan retired, ... you mention Leslie Regan’s name to any alum of MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, their ... thousands of mechanical engineering students. Regan joined MIT’s staff in September 1974. She started as an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leslies-legacystudents study simple, everyday movements before building biomimetic robots. MIT Mechanical Engineering ... building biomimetic robots. MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bio-inspired-roboticsaccommodate the educational needs brought by new technologies and scientific advances, MIT packed up its ... this photo is a reminder of what MIT stands for – the soul and DNA of MIT, mind and hand, this is ... what MIT’s mission, “mens et manus,” mind and hand, is all about. It’s not about creating teams where ...
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