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Seal-whisker-inspired Sensing
other underwater information through their whiskers, Dr. Heather Beem (PhD ’15) has designed a sensor ... Science and Engineering Bioengineering Environment Security Impact Home Research Home Undergraduate ... https://youtu.be/FE9U0b2fjOA Dr. Heather Beem (PhD ’15) takes a biomimetic approach for designing an underwater sensor. Dr. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/seal-whisker-inspired-sensingJani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Adcock from Seattle, Washington, is a senior majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in computer ... Natel Energy, she designed components for a novel hydropower system. At MIT, she has served as an ... Society of Women Engineers. As a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Adcock will pursue a PhD in computational and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jani-adcock-and-drew-bent-named-knight-hennessy-scholarsTransforming boating, with solar power
water taxis. With warmth and humor, he drew parallels between the boat’s components and mechanics and ... them work.” He also explained the design considerations unique to boating applications, like refining ... how far I’ve come as an engineer with SEVT. James also explained the boat using solar car terms, as he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transforming-boating-solar-powerMIT spinoff takes top honor at MassChallenge Awards
Co-founders Kripa Varanasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and postdocs Maher Damak PhD ’18 ... and Design, and the prototype was supported, in part, by the Office of Sustainability and is currently ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinoff-takes-top-honor-masschallenge-awardsDriving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit
in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, Field took a job at Ford in 1987. The big Detroit ... Field assembled an “amazing” team of engineers and designers who were as passionate as he was about ... Across a career’s worth of pioneering product designs, Doug Field’s work has shaped the experience ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-innovation-silicon-valley-detroitDoug Field
in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, Field took a job at Ford in 1987. The big Detroit ... Field assembled an “amazing” team of engineers and designers who were as passionate as he was about ... Across a career’s worth of pioneering product designs, Doug Field’s work has shaped the experience ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/doug-fieldDavid Larson
Corban Swain “I think I got into design and engineering through the sailing route,” says Larson. “I ... was most interested in mechanical engineering and ocean engineering classes. As a sophomore, he took ... class 2.016, Hydrodynamics, taught by Paul Sclavounos, professor of mechanical engineering and naval ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-larsonThere’s Magic in Mechatronics
combines electrical and mechanical engineering, but above all else it’s about design. ... 2.737 (Mechatronics) combines electrical and mechanical engineering, but above all else it’s about ... of mechanical systems, electronics, controls, and computer science. Mechatronics engineers work in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/there%E2%80%99s-magic-mechatronicsTaking on the stormy seas
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and computational methods to try to predict ... the other. Today, Sapsis, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and ... and Marine Engineering, Themistoklis Sapsis had a very satisfying realization. “I realized that ships ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-stormy-seasA recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine
author Aly Kombargi, a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We also don’t have to ... hydrogen fuel; and Douglas Hart, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. Shields up The MIT team, led by ... A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/recipe-zero-emissions-fuel-soda-cans-seawater-and-caffeineTalking Shop with Professor David Gossard
Department of Mechanical Engineering since he earned his PhD here in 1975, having previously earned his ... bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He began his tenure in the ... computer science and its intersection with mechanical engineering. His research activities included solid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-david-gossardSensing the world around us
principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, spoke about his work on robotic ... vessels,” explained Benjamin. At the MIT Marine Autonomy Lab, researchers are designing underwater surface ... in Media Arts & Sciences and the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-usControl Instrumentation Robotics
who aim to combine mechanical engineering (design, control, dynamics) with course 6 disciplines such ... concentrations, there is a great deal of flexibility in designing your curriculum and most upper-level classes ... 6.008. Strongly Recommended Concentration Subjects 2.004 Dynamics and Control II 2.007 Design and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/control-instrumentation-roboticsNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, and four others at MIT and Caltech. Replacing the battery in ... level experimentally is the team’s next goal. Sevilla, a doctoral student in the mechanical engineering ... inactive material. But in the new design with the fluorinated catholyte material, the amount of dead weight ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesMIT Sea Grant students explore the intersection of technology and offshore aquaculture in Norway
intelligence and decision-making, and Tony Tang, a junior in mechanical engineering, first worked with MIT Sea ... MIT Sea Grant director Michael Triantafyllou and professor of mechanical engineering Themistoklis ... focusing on wave generator design and machine learning applications for analyzing oyster larvae health in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-sea-grant-students-explore-intersection-technology-and-offshore-aquaculture-norway-0Students prepare for real-world product development through hands-on collaboration
mechanical engineering. “This is their introduction to a much more structured approach to developing new ... from different backgrounds — engineering, business, and industrial design — represents the students’ ... a final presentation of the manufactured prototype. “The mechanical engineers work out feasibility and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-prepare-real-world-product-development-through-hands-collaborationA New Era in 3D Printing
mechanical engineering, invented a process known as binder jet printing. In binder jet printing, an inkjet ... Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT’s Ideation Laboratory. “It gives you ... Mechanical Engineering, many faculty members have been finding new ways to incorporate 3D printing across ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-3d-printingCan your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?
civil and mechanical engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point; Daniel Kondor, ... in Engineering and professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering at ... published in Communications Engineering. The authors are Thomas J. Matarazzo, an assistant professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-your-phone-tell-if-bridge-good-shapeFrom “cheetah-noids” to humanoids
designer. “Ben is an extremely versatile engineer who can cover structure and mechanism design, electric ... at MIT, Katz studied mechanical engineering, opting for the flexible Course 2A degree program with ... four-to-five engineers to cover,” says Kim. After deciding to pursue a master’s degree in mechanical ...
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