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MIT Robot Learns How to Play Jenga
hardware, Alberto Rodriguez, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and members of MIT's MCube ... machine-learning and sensory hardware, Alberto Rodriguez, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and members ... has developed a robot that is learning how to play the game Jenga®. Using machine-learning and sensory ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-learns-how-play-jengaMaking RNA vaccines easier to swallow
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In ... needles. Now, a team of MIT researchers has developed a way to deliver RNA in a capsule that can be ... Traverso’s labs have been developing novel ways to deliver drugs to the gastrointestinal tract. In 2019, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-rna-vaccines-easier-swallowLetter from the Department Head
Department Head Dear Friends, The Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT has been at the forefront of ... mechanical engineering into context and engaging students on a level that sparks true creativity and ... curriculum via the edX platform, starting with 2.01x: Elements of Mechanics and 2.03x: Dynamics. Digital ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-1Communications Requirements and Guidelines
formal reports on your work in many of your engineering classes. These reports will vary in content and ... reports in several of your classes. Often, you will do this in conjunction with visual media (such as ... turned in on scrap paper from the Athena printers. The Preparation of Engineering Problem Sets Sample ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/comm-guidelinesAlex Hattori
not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering ... Department of Mechanical Engineering would allow Hattori to pursue his two biggest passions: robotics and ... many yo-yo companies use to produce plastic yo-yos. He used the same design he developed in 2.008 when ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-hattoriA closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy
MIT’s Karl van Tassel Career Development Professorship, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... chemotherapy they receive. To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with an ... 1024-Closed-Loop-Chemo-01-press_0.jpg To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with a way to continuously ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closed-loop-drug-delivery-system-could-improve-chemotherapy2.03x Dynamics aims to improve learning on and off campus
course covers many key concepts in the first year curriculum for mechanical engineering (or Course 2) ... majors. “This course is a great way to discover what mechanical engineering is all about, and develop ... instructor and lecturer. Dynamics is fundamental to the mechanical engineering discipline, according to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/203x-dynamics-aims-improve-learning-and-campusNew microscope technique reveals details of droplet nucleation
high-resolution images of the nucleation process, along with mathematical models the team developed, make it ... physical processes, whether it’s natural or in engineered materials and systems. Because of that, I think ... Miljkovic, a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois who was not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microscope-technique-reveals-details-droplet-nucleationStudent Spotlight: Grace Young (SB ‘14)
Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major who was recently awarded ... summer, Young worked in Hawaii with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on an ... no-fishing zones.” After graduating in June, Young plans to go on to graduate study in ocean engineering and hopes to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-grace-young-sb-%E2%80%9814New materials improve oxygen catalysis
Shao-Horn, the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering ... structure with one distinct site for barium and another for the lanthanide. “There’s lots of flexibility in ... surface.” But with the methods that he, Shao-Horn and their colleagues have developed, “we can screen them ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-improve-oxygen-catalysisPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ... Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Phillip Isola, an assistant professor in EECS; and Alberto ... blocks,” Rodriguez says. Omnipush builds on a similar dataset built in the Manipulation and Mechanisms ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationChisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors
Prochlorococcus in 1988 and has since worked with other scientists to understand the organism’s biology, from the ... genomic level to its role in the global biosphere. Langer, a biomedical engineer who focuses on ... contributions to science and engineering. The National Medal of Technology and Innovation was established in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/chisholm-langer-receive-nation%E2%80%99s-highest-honors-scientists-and-inventorsThree MIT alumni graduate from NASA astronaut training
earned his master’s degree in mechanical engineering as well as a doctorate in aeronautics and ... stay in Houston, where he’ll be working in the human landing system program, including with private ... class 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I), which led him to study mechanical engineering at MIT. He ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-alumni-graduate-nasa-astronaut-trainingThree graduate students honored for hydrofoil research
Stefano Brizzolara, a research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... of Mechanical Engineering ... Engineering students — Vasileios Georgiadis SM '14, Kyle Miller SM '14, and Leon Faison SM '14 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-graduate-students-honored-hydrofoil-researchA protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy
protect cells’ DNA from radiation-induced damage. If developed for use in humans, this approach could ... mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Traverso and James ... the study, which appears today in Nature Biomedical Engineering. The paper’s lead authors are Ameya ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protein-tiny-tardigrades-may-help-cancer-patients-tolerate-radiation-therapyInternet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other
Engineering at MIT, “was to track everything in the supply chain.” Some companies knew they had too much ... lost in the supply chain. So, Sarma, along with research scientist David Brock of MIT and Kevin Ashton, ... Sarma. All of this comes from a network of objects embedded in intelligence that interact with the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/internet-things-let-avatars-talk-each-otherIzzy Lloyd
MIT senior Isabel “Izzy” Lloyd will graduate this spring with not only a degree in mechanical ... engineering, but with the pleasure of knowing she accomplished a goal she set for herself as a freshman: to ... human interactions and encounters as it is in discoveries in the realms of engineering and technology. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/izzy-lloyd-0