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Untangling the Mechanics of Knots
experiments to test how much force is required to tighten knots with an increasing number of twists. They then ... number of twists in a braid: The more twists in a braid, the more elliptical the loop. The team then ... have this master curve, you can give me a bending stiffness and diameter of a strand, and the number of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-mechanics-knotsMaterials’ Key Role in Addressing Climate Change is Focus of Materials Day Symposium
emphasized that the consumer can also play a role by increasing the number of times they wear a piece before ... throwing it away (the typical garment is only worn about eight times). “If you double the number of uses, ... presumably you can halve the number of products you need to make each year.”--Transitioning from a linear to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/materials%E2%80%99-key-role-addressing-climate-change-focus-materials-day-symposiumMIT’s Buehler and Reis Elected to Society of Engineering Science Board of Directors
a member of MIT’s faculty since 2006, and has been involved with SES for more than a decade. With ... range of length scales. For example, Reis and his group have recently developed a new class of smart ... Manchester and joined the faculty of the School of Engineering at MIT in 2010. In 2013, Popular Science ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-buehler-and-reis-elected-society-engineering-science-board-directorsPhysics and the machine learning “black box”
class 2.C01. Bridging MechE and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Class 2.C01 is part of the MIT ... Schwarzman College of Computing’s Common Ground for Computing Education. The goal of these classes is to ... physics-based engineering and data science are. Physical laws present a number of ambiguities and unknowns, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-and-machine-learning-%E2%80%9Cblack-box%E2%80%9DA streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, who heads the department’s Quantum Matter Group — was ... states is simply the number of vibrational modes, or phonons, found within a given frequency or energy ... number of atoms in the crystal’s basic building block, which could require days of computing time on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/streamlined-approach-determining-thermal-properties-crystalline-solids-and-alloysInaugural MechE Rising Stars Workshop will introduce early-career women to the world of academia
early-career researchers interested in pursuing a career in academia This fall, MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... a number of career-building activities and attend a variety of panels about how to succeed in academia. ... O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal This fall, MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inaugural-meche-rising-stars-workshop-will-introduce-early-career-women-world-academiaMarcos Berríos
applicants. This aims to boost the total number of MIT astronaut alumni to 44, of the 360 NASA selected by ... a member of the newest astronaut class, NASA’s first in four years, during an event near NASA’s Johnson ... and joining the military. Berríos says that MIT first began preparing him for the rigors of being an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/marcos-berr%C3%ADosStudent robot competition honors the legacy of the late beloved professor, Woodie Flowers
future engineers as a professor at MIT, a co-founder of the global FIRST Robotics Competition, and host ... incorporated a spirited and boisterous competition as part of class 2.007 (then known as 2.70). “A testament to ... that he conceived of 50 years ago. His spirit and his vision live on in our class,” says Amos Winter, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-robot-competition-honors-legacy-late-beloved-professor-woodie-flowersPrintable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts
John Hart, the Class of 1922 Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... new work grew out of an MIT class that Taheri-Mousavi took in 2020, which was taught by Greg Olson, ... machine learning, which significantly pruned the number of possible combinations of materials to search ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/printable-aluminum-alloy-sets-strength-records-may-enable-lighter-aircraft-partsEight from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2018
culture, and education. Those elected from MIT this year are: Alexei Borodin, professor of mathematics; ... professor of earth, atmostpheric, and planetary sciences; Sara Seager, the Class of 1941 Professor in the ... Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering. “This class of 2018 is a testament to the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eight-mit-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences-2018Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip
MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made ... Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Imagine connecting a neuromorphic device to ... reliably capture the same number of ions, and therefore transmit the same signal, when stimulated with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-put-tens-thousands-artificial-brain-synapses-single-chip3 Questions: Inverting the problem of design
The Design Computation and Digital Engineering (DeCoDE) Lab at MIT instead explores the bounds of what ... with relatively small number of joints, you can get very close to those curves. Before this, we didn’t ... The process of computational design in mechanical engineering often begins with a problem or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-inverting-problem-designFaculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak
“The behavior is influenced, and often dominated by, the interfaces,” says MIT assistant professor of ... a number of different thrusts both through its own computational studies and through collaborations with ... completed his doctoral studies at MIT with Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics John D. Joannopoulos. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-alexie-kolpakMIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator
volunteer team of engineers, physicians, computer scientists, and others, centered at MIT, is working to ... MIT-Ventilator-Project-1024.jpg This shows the setup used for preliminary testing of an earlier version of the low-cost prototype ... courtesy of the researchers The team, called MIT E-Vent (for emergency ventilator), was formed on March ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-based-team-works-rapid-deployment-open-source-low-cost-ventilatorMIT-Delft University of Technology team places third in Formula Student Germany driverless competition
Students from the MIT Driverless team, together with students from Delft University of Technology ... MIT-TU Delft autonomous race car completed 9.9 laps with a minimum speed of 4 meters per second at the ... than 2,600 students among 86 teams. The MIT Driverless team, made up of 25 undergraduate and graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-delft-university-technology-team-places-third-formula-student-germany-driverless3Q: Felice Frankel on improving the visual side of science
several books, as well as in classes and workshops at MIT and around the country, and an online class on ... engineers, Frankel is also a consultant to the MIT News Office. She spoke with MIT News about some of the ... scientist at MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, has a new book that describes ways for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-felice-frankel-improving-visual-side-scienceFour from MIT awarded National Medals of Technology, Science
Emeritus and former dean of the MIT School of Engineering, was awarded the National Medal of Science. ... tomography represents one of the biggest engineering breakthroughs from MIT in the past few decades. The ... across the world is truly remarkable and embodies MIT’s mission to work for the betterment of humankind,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-awarded-national-medals-technology-scienceJosh Randolph: Taking care of others as an EMT and ROTC leader
experiences at MIT. He signed up for MIT EMS in his sophomore year as a way to push out of his comfort zone. ... “I always wanted to be in public service, serve my community, and serve my country,” says the MIT ... mechanical engineering major. In April, MIT senior Josh Randolph will race 26.2 miles across Concord, ...
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