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“Robot, make me a chair”
in homes to fabricate furniture or other objects locally, without the need to have bulky products ... Gupta, an MIT architecture graduate student; Faez Ahmed, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... with words. Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Crobot-make-me-chair%E2%80%9DHow MIT built its own Covid-19 testing trailer
fit-out.” Culpepper met with Tasker Smith, technical instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... perform a nasal swab without either party coming in physical contact. The trailer is also equipped with an ... safer.” The trailer began operating in early July, with the capacity to test up to 1,500 people per day. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit-built-its-own-covid-19-testing-trailerNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... fabricated a new elastic material coated with microscopic, hairlike structures that tilt in response to ... manipulate rain or sunlight,” says Yangying Zhu, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairDavid Larson
was most interested in mechanical engineering and ocean engineering classes. As a sophomore, he took ... bachelor’s degree in 2016, Larson enrolled in MIT’s graduate program for mechanical engineering and ocean ... high school. In his free time, he designs and tinkers with boats and is a member of the MIT Nautical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-larsonA Nanophotonic Comeback for Incandescent Bulbs?
explains, you can get very efficient tuning of how the material interacts with light. In their system, the ... Researchers combine the warm look of traditional light bulbs with 21st-century energy efficiency. ... survives virtually unchanged in homes around the world. That is changing fast, however, as regulations ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nanophotonic-comeback-incandescent-bulbsGuardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions
was a key selling point to me when I was touring mechanical engineering labs as a junior in high ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he taught a section of Course 2.007 that tasked students with ... 30 minutes before they want to spray, they mix the product, path plan the field in our app, and it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guardian-ag%E2%80%99s-crop-spraying-drone-replacing-dangerous-pilot-missionsExpanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again
Originally from Zimbabwe, Phuthi, who majored in physics and minored in mechanical engineering, was looking ... a physics alumnus, works on a visualization with Mike Fabrikant, a UNICEF software developer, and Kumba ... Musa, a data scientist at DSTI in Sierra Leone with MISTI-Africa. Photo: Vickie Remoe/VR&C Marketing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/expanding-education-africa-cambridge-and-back-againThree MIT students named 2026 Schwarzman Scholars
Brandon Man, from Canada and Hong Kong, is a master’s student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... with a bachelor of science and a master of engineering degree in computer science and cognitive ... from the distinguished fellowships team in Career Advising and Professional Development and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-students-named-2026-schwarzman-scholarsMapping the future of metamaterials
Development Professor and assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Promising directions in the design, ... in nature. With engineered three-dimensional (3D) geometries at the micro- and nanoscale, these ... and James Surjadi, a postdoctoral associate in mechanical engineering, discuss key hurdles, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mapping-future-metamaterialsGeorge Hatsopoulos, senior lecturer emeritus and MIT Corporation life member emeritus, dies at 91
engineering degree, and doctorate of science degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. His doctoral thesis, ... 1956, Hatsopoulos joined the faculty in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. That same year, ... His daughter Marina received her master’s degree in mechanical engineering (MechE) at MIT in 1993, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/george-hatsopoulos-senior-lecturer-emeritus-and-mit-corporation-life-member-emeritus-diesLegena Henry
Henry and McKenzie set out to test the potential in the lab. After mixing rum distillery wastewater with ... Lab of Future Barbados, is working to scale up production in advance of its first pilot program, ... In 2019, Legena Henry SM ’10 and the students in her renewable energy course at the University ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/legena-henryMini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip
developer Benjamin Katz, a technical associate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The ... in the lab of Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering. Kim says loaning mini ... recovering with little damage, even if a backflip ends in a spill. In the event that a limb or motor does ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mini-cheetah-first-four-legged-robot-do-backflip-0Reimagining an iconic design class
students are starting their mechanical engineering journey with a literal toolbox full of tools they will ... For the past 50 years, mechanical engineering students at MIT have convened on campus for ... mechanical engineering. “For me, 2.007 was the class I’ve been most looking forward to at MIT. It serves as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reimagining-iconic-design-classLights, camera, inspiration
Mechanical Engineering Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73, and Edgerton Center Director J. Kim ... Vandiver, a professor of mechanical engineering. Students from the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics ... a career in engineering; it helped me pay for college; it brought me to MIT today; it sent me on the right ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lights-camera-inspirationMIT Hyperloop Team Unveils its Pod
The MIT Hyperloop team unveiled its pod on Friday, May 13, to a large crowd at the MIT Museum in ... Hyperloop design competition in March of this year, the team of 30 MIT graduate students, 14 of which are in ... comprised of students from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Electrical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-hyperloop-team-unveils-its-podFrom 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars
; and Jaya Narain, PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at the Fluid Interfaces Group in the MIT ... braking mechanisms for walkers — have been built in hackathons, but “with 3D printers and Arduinos and ... and Professor of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering J. Kim Vandiver, panelists included Robert Bond, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-limbs-semi-autonomous-race-carsMIT robot may accelerate trials for stroke medications
says Hermano Igo Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... The development of drugs to treat acute stroke or aid in stroke recovery is a multibillion-dollar ... drug development, letting pharmaceutical companies know much earlier in the process whether a drug will ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-may-accelerate-trials-stroke-medicationsAlumni Spotlight: Danielle Zurovcik (SM ’07, PhD ‘11)
degree research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to ... timeframe, that comes to more than $4,000. But how could a device with such simple mechanics be so expensive? ... Zurovcik (SM ‘07, PhD ‘11) conducted her doctoral research on a high-tech medical device, but in her free ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-danielle-zurovcik-sm-%E2%80%9907-phd-%E2%80%9811Danielle Zurovcik
$4,000. But how could a device with such simple mechanics be so expensive? “If you look at it from ... MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ... but in her free time, she followed her passion for a low-tech wound therapy device that led her to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/danielle-zurovcikDepartment News
rotordynamics, and a leader in transforming mechanics into an engineering science, passed away Oct. 29, in ... mechanical engineering in 1947, associate professor in 1951, then to professor in 1958. He was named Ford ... Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random vibrations and ...
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