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Creating “big, beautiful things”
perspective.” Robotic spectaculars Parrish also loves building physical objects, and his mechanical engineering ... way. So I am studying music, studying creative design, studying drawing, studying mechanical ... engineering, computers, mechanical stuff, everything someone needs to know in order to be able to do that,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-%E2%80%9Cbig-beautiful-things%E2%80%9DRogue Wave Ahead
developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Themis Sapsis, the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rogue-wave-aheadMIT Portugal Program presents Marine Robotics Summer School
elasmobranchs and cetaceans. Marianna Rogers, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT, says it was ... students, the experience introduced completely new worlds. “I come from a mechanical design background and ... undergraduate in mechanical engineering. This exposure, says Douglas Hart, professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-portugal-program-presents-marine-robotics-summer-schoolEnergy storage from a chemistry perspective
storage from a chemistry perspective. Co-founders Ian Hunter of MIT's Department of Mechanical ... Engineering and Tim Swager of the Department of Chemistry are longstanding MIT professors considered ... allowed the company to pinpoint a chemical cell design based on 10,000 trials. The result is a battery ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-chemistry-perspectiveAsegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun
MIT-Asegun-Henry-01-press.jpg MIT mechanical engineering professor Asegun Henry. Photo Credit: Adam Glanzman Henry says this ... tenure position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and is funneling much of his energy into ... conduction, and received his master’s and PhD in mechanical engineering in 2009. He then accepted a faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asegun-henry-has-big-idea-tackling-climate-change-store-sunA champion of renewable energy
for mechanical engineering, 2.s009 (Explorations in Product Design). The class — which this year ... to combine her mechanical engineering major with a degree in political science and has gravitated to ... Combining interests in mechanical engineering and political science, MIT MechE senior Darya Guettler ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/champion-renewable-energyPushing through sand
mechanical engineering at MIT, says scientists have regarded granular RFT as “somewhat like magic,” unsure of ... For those of you who take sandcastle building very seriously, listen up: MIT engineers now say you ... they have identified a mechanical explanation for why the equation works so well for granular ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-through-sandStudent robot competition honors the legacy of the late beloved professor, Woodie Flowers
reflected in the gameboards where robots designed and built by mechanical engineering students compete for ... a sophomore studying mechanical engineering, explains the design decisions he made in the construction of his ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and co-instructor of 2.007. “We think 2.007 plays such an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-robot-competition-honors-legacy-late-beloved-professor-woodie-flowersKen Kamrin seeks fundamental behaviors in sand
member in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Kamrin-02-PRESS-1024.jpg Associate Professor ... faculty position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2011, where he has continued his work in ... blockages in grain silos, improving wheel designs over rocky terrain, and predicting the impact of potential ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ken-kamrin-seeks-fundamental-behaviors-sandHairy tongues help bats drink up
with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT’s Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette “Peko” ... Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT. The researchers have ... spoons to scoop and drag up the tasty sap. Now engineers at MIT have found that, for bats and other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hairy-tongues-help-bats-drinkBose Grants for 2017 reward bold and unconventional research visions
engines or propellers. “The aircraft would pull itself through the air by ionizing air over its surface ... could, and to dream big,” he says. Seeking light from an unexpected source Engineer Michael Strano and ... architecture and urban design in such an unprecedented way, Strano and Kennedy looked to Bose. “The Bose is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bose-grants-2017-reward-bold-and-unconventional-research-visions%C2%A0Sylas Horowitz
“Of course, something must always go wrong,” Horowitz, a mechanical engineering major with minors in ... collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... and the ecosystems we exist within. “I want to relate mechanical engineering to sustainability and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sylas-horowitzSangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature
biological systems as models for the design and engineering of robots. Professor Kim's current project-- ... the study of biological systems as models for the design and engineering of robots. Associate ... biological systems as models for the design and engineering of robots. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sangbae-kim-inspired-natureHow artificial intelligence can help achieve a clean energy future
Annaswamy, a senior research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of MIT’s ... helping to optimize the design and siting of new wind and solar installations and energy storage ... also helping researchers discover or design novel materials for nuclear reactors, batteries, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-artificial-intelligence-can-help-achieve-clean-energy-futureSustainable solutions at home and abroad
initially drawn to mechanical engineering because he wanted to keep his options open. “I felt like ... mechanical engineering is that perfect niche where there’s so much exposure to so many different fields. It ... decision I ever made,” says Patel, now a senior studying mechanical engineering. RS4590_Arnav ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sustainable-solutions-home-and-abroadThe environmental toll of disposable masks
professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior ... Program, the National Institutes of Health, and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors ... sterilized after use. The masks are designed so they can be sterilized with heat or bleach and reused many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/environmental-toll-disposable-masksOobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable
into an added shield against sudden impacts. With the team’s new oobleck model, designers and engineers ... — a material that appears thicker or thinner depending on how it is physically manipulated. Now MIT engineers ... store, buy cornstarch, then turn on your faucet,” says Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oobleck%E2%80%99s-weird-behavior-now-predictable