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Robotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
do,” says mechanical engineering graduate student Sandra Liu, co-lead author of a research paper on the ... robotic finger. Liu wrote the paper with co-lead author and mechanical engineering undergraduate student ... fingertips to be identified, which can take multiple grasps. Other designs use lower-resolution sensors ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-hand-can-identify-objects-just-one-graspBen Katz
work. As an undergraduate at MIT, Katz studied mechanical engineering, opting for the flexible Course 2A ... Katz’s abilities an engineer and designer. “Ben is an extremely versatile engineer who can cover ... structure and mechanism design, electric motor dynamics, power electronics, and classical control, a range ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/ben-katzMIT launches MITx MicroMasters in Principles of Manufacturing
graduate-level program enables engineers, product designers, and technology developers to advance their careers ... in a broad array of engineering capacities, including manufacturing, supply chain management, design ... uncertainty,” says David Hardt, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “All too often, people fail to get ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-launches-mitx-micromasters-principles-manufacturingMotion-Induced Quicksand
mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ... MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... mechanical behavior of the sand itself has changed because something was moving far away,” Kamrin says. “How ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/motion-induced-quicksandA New Quantum Approach to Big Data
Mechanical Engineering, explains that algebraic topology is key to the new method. This approach, he says, ... computationally very expensive,” Lloyd says. “This is where quantum mechanics kicks in.” The new quantum-based ... big data with quantum mechanics. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-quantum-approach-big-dataA new approach to ultrafast light pulses
associate professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X. Fang, postdocs Qing Hu and Dafei Jin, and five ... deposited on a metal substrate. The molecules can quickly exchange energy with the metal below, a mechanism ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-ultrafast-light-pulsesStefanie Mueller changes everything: A hands-on class responds to Covid
Assistant professor adapts her laboratory class, Engineering Interactive Technologies, to the ... That’s because Mueller’s hands-on building and fabrication class, 6.810 (Engineering Interactive ... teaching,” says the assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stefanie-mueller-changes-everything-hands-class-responds-covidJoseph Ntaimo
converted to a sonic output. Today, as a graduate student in mechanical engineering (MechE), Ntaimo ... pushed me to become a better engineer,” says Ntaimo. In addition to that work, he designs digital ... engineering and music. “As a budding instrument designer, I have access to people who are really good at what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/joseph-ntaimoInspired by hands-on learning, MechE junior creates Haiti’s first of its kind open-use Makerspace
inaugurated in Haiti on August 19. Wednesday, August 23, 2023 Anne Wilson | Mechanical Engineering ... experience motivated him to work on a project to foster hands-on education for aspiring young engineers back ... months, I have worked on designing the space, gathering funding, and securing crucial partnerships to make ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inspired-hands-learning-meche-junior-creates-haiti%E2%80%99s-first-its-kind-open-use-makerspaceThe best semiconductor of them all?
a paper by MIT postdoc Jungwoo Shin and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen; Zhifeng Ren at ... arsenide were initially predicted based on quantum mechanical density function calculations made by Chen’s ... boron nitride. “And now, we predicted the electron and hole quantum mechanical behavior, also from first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/best-semiconductor-them-allA smarter way for large language models to think about hard problems
Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), a principal ... understand what they don’t know and building mechanisms for continual self-improvement. These capabilities ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smarter-way-large-language-models-think-about-hard-problemsNew theory describes intricacies of a splashing droplet
assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Fluid Dynamics of Disease ... or molecules,” says Jose Manuel Gordillo, professor of fluid mechanics at the University of Seville ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-describes-intricacies-splashing-dropletHow to prevent biofilms in space
Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering and founder of a company called LiquiGlide, which makes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-spaceJacob Rothman
product design and entrepreneurship,” says Rothman, who majored in mechanical engineering. “I loved ... Carolina, Rothman originally came to MIT to study aerospace engineering, but his plan changed after he ... watched the 2.009 Product Engineering Process presentations during his freshman year. “I fell in love with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jacob-rothmanStartup Powers Up for Better Strength Training
Engineering Process presentations during his freshman year. “I fell in love with product design and ... entrepreneurship,” says Rothman, who majored in mechanical engineering. “I loved identifying a problem, coming up ... came to MIT to study aerospace engineering, but his plan changed after he watched the 2.009 Product ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-powers-better-strength-trainingAffordable high-tech windows for comfort and energy savings
engineer, fabricates aerogels in the first step of the manufacturing process. Photo courtesy of AeroShield. ... Evelyn Wang, Ford Professor of Engineering, now on leave to serve as director of the Advanced Research ... Design in 2016. The work focused on aerogels, remarkable materials that are ultra-porous, lighter than ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/affordable-high-tech-windows-comfort-and-energy-savingsAutonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea
Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering at the WHOI; and Nicholas Roy, a professor in CSAIL and in the ... the space is effectively infinite, making planning extremely difficult. The researchers designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-system-improves-environmental-sampling-seaA nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
battery technology.” Alsym’s founding team began by trying to design a battery from scratch based on new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nonflammable-battery-power-safer-decarbonized-future