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Microbes chow down on latest fuel-cell tech

energy," says Buie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. "A lot of our applications are ... including microfluidics, electrokinetics, electrochemistry, and microscale surface engineering. In addition ... work toward practical devices, we need to understand things like fluid mechanics, materials, and ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microbes-chow-down-latest-fuel-cell-tech

A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions

complex robotics tasks,” says mechanical engineering doctoral student Antonia Delores Bronars SM ’22. ... August 8, 2024 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Horizontal SimPLE, an ... particular problem that they have, so a lot of engineering and not so much flexibility in terms of the ...

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Inventor Creates Hub for Innovation

mechanical engineering and zeroed in on product development. The classes 2.007, Design and Manufacturing and  ... 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, outlined everything Fienup wanted to do with his career. ... under Professor David Wallace SM ’91, PhD ’95. He also helped Wallace develop 2.00b, Toy Product Design ...

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Bill Fienup

mechanical engineering and zeroed in on product development. The classes 2.007, Design and Manufacturing and  ... 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, outlined everything Fienup wanted to do with his career. ... under Professor David Wallace SM ’91, PhD ’95. He also helped Wallace develop 2.00b, Toy Product Design ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/bill-fienup

Women’s Technology Program 2021: The sweet sound of success

demonstrating their newly acquired knowledge of a broad range of topics in mechanical engineering. The WTP-EECS ... now in its 19th year, brings high school students with little-to-no engineering and computer science ... experience to Cambridge every summer for an immersive, four-week exploration of all things engineering. But ...

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Bioinspired robotics class offers intriguing surprises

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. The backflip is basic when compared to an enormous repertoire of ... meche.mit.edu/magazine.    Thursday, June 8, 2023 Michaela Jarvis | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education ... a “systematic methodology for applying biological concepts to mechanical systems.” “Biomimetics isn’t just ...

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Benchtop test quickly identifies extremely impact-resistant materials

being more resilient to impacts than others. That’s what MIT engineers are finding in experiments with ... microscopic metamaterials — materials that are intentionally printed, assembled, or otherwise engineered with ... the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the engineers report on a new way to quickly test ...

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Peter Godart

a driving force in Godart’s academic career. As a mechanical engineering undergraduate at MIT, he took the ... class 2.013, Engineering Systems Design. During the class, he worked with aluminum fuel. “That ... Beth Gallagher Department of Mechanical Engineering Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Culture Prospective-Grad ...

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Where the wind blows

simply because the technology is mature," says Paul Sclavounos, an MIT professor of mechanical ... engineering and naval architecture. "There is no technological risk." Globally, 2 percent of ... been working on the design of wind turbines for installation far offshore, using floating platforms ...

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AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies

Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ... these decisions and come up with contact-rich plans,” says H.J. Terry Suh, an electrical engineering and ... specifically design a physics-based model using their knowledge of the system and the task they want the robot ...

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A new way to detect leaks in pipes

mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the research papers. “We’ve proved that the concept works.” ... pipes, and should be effective in gas, water, and oil pipes. MIT mechanical engineering professor Kamal ... pipes. Co-author Rached Ben-Mansour, a professor of mechanical engineering at KFUPM, says that current ...

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MIT MechE DEI Vision Statement

a better place, the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department (MechE) aims to solve global challenges by ... training the next generation of mechanical engineering leaders. 1 We know inclusive diversity is central to ... fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment in the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department where ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/mit-meche-dei-vision-statement

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely ... journal Joule, the team outlines the design for a new solar desalination system that takes in saltwater ... Engineering, along with Jintong Gao, Jinfang You, Zhanyu Ye, Ruzhu Wang, and Zhenyuan Xu of Shanghai Jiao Tong ...

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A Revolution in Higher Education

says Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Examples ... engineering. “And we’ve never forgotten our roots. MIT’s retained that deep interest in learning by doing,” ... Group, the Technology-Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) project, and the 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing) ...

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J-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT

of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Benedetto Marelli of CEE also launched a new ... Glicksman and Research Engineer Eric Verploegen’s team designed a low-cost cooling chamber to preserve ... mechanical engineering Alex Slocum to a challenge presented by its research affiliate company, Xylem: how to ...

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Strong mentorship through great decision-making

any way he can.” As professor of mechanical engineering, Trumper’s research investigates the design of ... Chemical Engineering and the David H. Koch (1962) Professor in Engineering at MIT. The Hammond Research ... electro-mechanical, and biological applications. In cancer research, for example, the Hammond lab works on the ...

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From Naval Architecture to Big Tech to MIT’s Corporation Chair

As Diane Greene SM ’78 approached the end of her undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering ... committees for biological engineering, mechanical engineering (serving as chair), materials science and ... degree to work as a naval architect designing ships, large ocean structures, and windsurfers. Then she ...

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MIT-led team receives funding to pursue new treatments for metabolic disease

and health care providers,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering ... Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-led-team-receives-funding-pursue-new-treatments-metabolic-disease

Stepping on stage with Beyoncé

in Course 2 [mechanical engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own ... dance, he’s still passionate about design and gets to experience it in a different way as a dancer. ...

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Joe Brown

engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own theme park.” Brown’s passion for ... “My goal was to be the next Walt Disney,” Brown explains. “I majored in Course 2 [mechanical ... dance, he’s still passionate about design and gets to experience it in a different way as a dancer. ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/joe-brown

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