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Engineers devise a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots
MIT’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-aquabotsBacteria: The Good and the Bad
the 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-badStudent Spotlight: David Larson ’16, SM ’18, PhD Candidate
boats 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-candidateLariessa Nietner & Scott Nill
regalia, 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-nillDavid Larson
high 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-larsonStudent Spotlight: Peter Godart '15, SM '19, PhD Candidate
a 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-candidateMining the Deep Sea
MIT, 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-seaFolkers Rojas
In 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-0Letting robots manipulate cables
Robotic 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-cablesStatement on MechE qualifying exams
The 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-examsTeam creates map for production of eco-friendly metals
MIT 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-metalsFaculty Opening in Music Technology
and 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-mtLeslie's legacy
After 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-legacyInspiring Hands-On Learning
accommodate 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inspiring-hands-learningBio-Inspired Robotics
students 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-roboticsLate Summer Listening
Podcasts and audio stories offer a great way to learn about big ideas from MIT Members of the ... from the Pappalardo Lab, aka “the most wicked lab on campus,” but did you know that MIT is also home to ... thought-provoking content straight from the heart of MIT that’s engaging, insightful, and inspiring. Here are a few ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/late-summer-listeningDigital Instruments for Musical Togetherness
proficiently in little time. Digital-Instruments_for_Musical_Togetherness_1024.jpg At MIT, Joseph Ntaimo took ... music classes, played in the MIT Symphony Orchestra, and became a respected DJ on campus, routinely ... to make a new kind of sound engaged him, and he stuck with it. Arriving at MIT as an undergraduate, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/digital-instruments-musical-togethernessNew 3D bioprinting technique may improve production of engineered tissue
with Dr. Tolga Durak at MIT's Safety, Health, Environmental Discovery Lab (The SHED) and to seek ... Polimi. Colosimo recently completed a sabbatical at MIT, which was hosted by John Hart, Class of 1922 ... Professor, co-director of MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing, director of the Center for Advanced ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-bioprinting-technique-may-improve-production-engineered-tissueNature Electronics Commentary: The potential of miniaturized ingestible electronics
Officer for Texas Instruments; Robert Langer, MIT Institute Professor; and Anantha Chandrakasan, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nature-electronics-commentary-potential-miniaturized-ingestible-electronicsWhat STEM Requires, Dance Provides
her experiences as an MIT student, Toussaint Beach saw the need to increase the representation of ... these. Dancing was something Toussaint Beach says she did as soon as she could walk, and at MIT, dance ... year, as a host for the MIT Alumni Association’s Student/Alumni Externship Program, she even recruited ...
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