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MIT team races to second in electric car competition

Award at the Society of Automotive Engineers' Formula SAE Electric competition in Lincoln, ... 24 event, which is part of the SAE Collegiate Design Series. They placed second in the category of ... frame had a catastrophic mechanical failure during the braking test, so the team had to weld on ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-team-races-second-electric-car-competition

A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble

forward was essential for system adoption by emergency responders. In addition, the team had to design the ... tube to minimize friction while the robot grows and engineer the controls for steering. While ... Coad's expertise, together with the laboratory's experience in engineering, strong partnership with ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-robot-can-help-emergency-responders-search-through-rubble
Leeb, Steven B Professor

New heads of house join undergraduate and graduate communities to start the fall semester

Henry Gale (1929) Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering. He arrived at MIT in 2014 ... His research interests include robotic manipulation, mechanical design, and automation. Jane holds ... communication, and disability studies. Laurie is a jewelry designer and fabricator, and sells her work through ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-heads-house-join-undergraduate-and-graduate-communities-start-fall-semester

MIT alumnus Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel gives major gift to solve urgent challenges in world food and water security

of disciplines: urban planning and design, engineering and technology, climate and hydrology, and ... water supply, according to MIT professor of mechanical engineering John Lienhard, who will direct the ... science and engineering and then coordinate the efforts of MIT's faculty, labs, and centers to work ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-alumnus-mohammed-abdul-latif-jameel-gives-major-gift-solve-urgent-challenges-world
Socrate, Simona Senior Lecturer

LEGO Group COO discusses the production network that enables the builders of tomorrow

  Thursday, March 27, 2025 Maeve Rich | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal The LEGO Group COO ... of building and mechanics while playing with the familiar plastic bricks. In just a few hours, a heap ... engineering, and sales and operations planning. “The way we can inspire the builders of tomorrow is basically, ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lego-group-coo-discusses-production-network-enables-builders-tomorrow

Robotics in the 21st Century

fears? Faculty in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering believe there is more to it than that. ... the cheetah itself. Built with electric motors – as opposed to hydraulic motors – and self-designed ... actuators, in collaboration with Professor Jeff Lang in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotics-21st-century

Professor Emeritus Ernest Cravalho, an expert in thermodynamics and pioneer in thermal fluids education, dies at 82

Ernest “Ernie” Cravalho, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT, passed away on ... Tuesday, April 13, at the age of 82. Cravalho served as a member of MIT’s mechanical engineering faculty ... in mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. After receiving his doctoral ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-ernest-cravalho-expert-thermodynamics-and-pioneer-thermal-fluids

New electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses

Yanjie Shao, Xudong Zheng, Ne Myo Han, and Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic ... Engineering (DMSE). “For example, it could be directly worn on glasses.” The heat-sensing film could also have ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9D-could-enable-lightweight-night-vision-glasses

Technique rapidly measures cells’ density, reflecting health and developmental state

Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and ... Biomedical Engineering. The paper’s lead author is MIT Research Scientist Weida (Richard) Wu. Measuring ... future also guide design and control strategies to even further improve the yield of these complex ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-rapidly-measures-cells%E2%80%99-density-reflecting-health-and-developmental-state

Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI.

Mechanical Engineering and director of LAMM. The framework, which the researchers call SciAgents, consists of ... Ghafarollahi, a postdoc in the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM), and Markus Buehler, the ... Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering in MIT’s departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-research-hypothesis-ask-ai

SMART launches new Wearable Imaging for Transforming Elderly Care research group

principal investigators: Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and professor of civil and ... interim director of SMART, who is also an MIT professor of biological engineering and electrical ... engineering and computer science. Industry-leading precision equipment and capabilities To support this work, ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-launches-new-wearable-imaging-transforming-elderly-care-research-group

License plates of MIT

maintained the car and talking about engineering and mechanisms and the logistics of what’s good and bad,” ... plate, it’s an  art car — a vehicle that’s been custom-designed as a way to express an artistic idea or ... had  designed and decorated the car in Seattle but wanted to find a new owner. Klein was intrigued and ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/license-plates-mit

How AI could speed the development of RNA vaccines and other RNA therapies

mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of ... Tassel Career Development Professorship, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and ... Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-ai-could-speed-development-rna-vaccines-and-other-rna-therapies

Pills of the future: nanoparticles

mechanical engineering; and Richard Blumberg, co-director of BWH’s Biomedical Research Institute. No more ... researchers now hope to apply the same principles to designing nanoparticles that can cross other barriers, ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-future-nanoparticles

Alumni Spotlight: Helen Greiner (SB ’89, SM ’90)

Mariello Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering red Culture Entrepreneurship Maker Horizontal ... PackBots were designed to enter uncertain or dangerous environments when humans couldn’t – or shouldn’t ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-helen-greiner-sb-%E2%80%9989-sm-%E2%80%9990

Big Range of Behaviors for Tiny Graphene Pores

says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Karnik says graphene ... fundamental, and will surely guide current and future graphene membrane design principles in years to come.” ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-range-behaviors-tiny-graphene-pores

Setting a new standard for hormone health

MIT studying mechanical engineering and design. Mathur, who began waking up in the middle of the night ... Wong was studying electrical engineering at Hong Kong University, and Suzuki was an undergraduate at ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/setting-new-standard-hormone-health

Sixteen MIT grad students named Siebel Scholars for 2017

Moynihan, Department of Biological Engineering Hung Nguyen, Department of Mechanical Engineering Novalia Pishesha, ... schools, are: Brian Axelrod, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Alex Burns, MIT ... of Chemical Engineering Chen Gu, Department of Biological Engineering Karan Kashyap '16, ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sixteen-mit-grad-students-named-siebel-scholars-2017

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