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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 ...

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Alumni Profile: Jacklyn (Holmes) Herbst ’10 MEngM ‘11, Isabella DiDio ‘16, and Ann McInroy ‘18

Microsoft as a Design for Assembly Mechanical Engineer in August of last year. “We have this shared ... experiences studying mechanical engineering at MIT to help each other solve problems. “There’s a lot of ... January 2016. After earning her bachelor’s in mechanical engineering in 2010, she enrolled in the Master ...

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A Cleaner Burn

wood-burning cookstoves. A team of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are ... of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are helping a start-up in ...

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Flexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant

for a product at the back of a cluttered shelf, or snaking around a car’s engine parts to unscrew an ... oil cap. Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “After you open the engine roof, you have to be flexible enough to make sharp ...

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Folkers Rojas

oil wells. He is also a part-time instructor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. “In the ... engineering and nuclear science and engineering in 2009. The UROPs included an attempt to build a satellite ... things when I arrived at MIT,” recalls Rojas. “I thought that a mechanical engineer was the guy who fixed ...

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Polymer Day 2023 showcases interdisciplinary innovation

Science and Engineering and the Program for Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM), which hosted the event. Lee ... interdisciplinary. PPSM brings together chemical engineering, chemistry, materials science, mechanical engineering ... , and biological engineering. So five different departments.” PolymerDay2.jpg The poster session at ...

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Soft optical fibers block pain while moving and stretching with the body

Scientists have a new tool to precisely illuminate the roots of nerve pain. Engineers at MIT have ... 1024NoPainFibers-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have designed a soft hydrogel optical fiber (shown illuminated) that stimulates ... if pain is involved,” says Siyuan Rao, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the ...

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Twenty-three MIT faculty honored as "Committed to Caring" for 2023-25

Physics Mariya Grinberg, Department of Political Science Ming Guo, Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Engineering Erik Lin-Greenberg, Department of Political Science Michael McDonald, Department of Physics Emery ... Management Kenneth Oye, Department of Political Science Kristala Prather, Department of Chemical Engineering ...

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Bio-Inspired Robotics

students study simple, everyday movements before building biomimetic robots. MIT Mechanical Engineering ... building biomimetic robots. MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore ...

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Crystan McLymore

mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... engineering. “As someone who started her research career only two years ago, to reach this level is a testament ... Credit: Tony Pulsone In the lab of Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical engineering ...

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Susan Su

year, working with a biomedical engineering group at Tsinghua University. But the lab was relatively ... a mechanical engineering major at MIT, Su had childhood dreams of being an artist, but she had never been ... openness and appreciation for new experiences led her to study mechanical engineering with a concentration ...

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In Search of a Major She Loves

Senior Amna Magzoub finds her niche in mechanical engineering, plans to bring skills home to ... traditional or direct path to mechanical engineering at MIT — she switched majors twice, determined to find ... that kind of applied engineering because I was never exposed to it throughout high school or even ...

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Seeing solutions through, across continents

Sade Nabahe’s time at MIT has been defined by engineering projects that help people around the ... poverty. MIT-Nabahe-Sade-1_1024.jpg “I was lucky enough to discover MIT and my passion for engineering ... engineering. She has worked on projects for communities in Tanzania, India, Peru, and Lesotho, and has traveled ...

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Faculty Promotions

development of novel engineered structures that enable innovative solutions in thermal management, energy, and ... well as an understanding of the engineering performance of complex interfacial engineering ... flexible engineering degree within Mechanical Engineering (Course 2-A, now the sixth largest major at MIT) ...

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Two from MIT named to Popular Science's Brilliant 10 list

E. Edgerton Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering ... Engineering, an assistant professor in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, a member of the McGovern ... controlling gene expression with light, in which light-sensitive plant proteins are engineered to create an ...

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Megan Smith

Megan Smith received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT in ... and successful career as an engineer; leader; and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) ... of the company, during its transition to include more engineering service projects. Smith later ...

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Departmental News & Awards Spring/Summer 2017

Departmental and Research News The Department of Mechanical Engineering ranks number 1 in the US ... elected to the National Academy of Engineering.   Associate Professor Maria Yang has been named a 2017 ... by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for seminal contributions to the formulation of ...

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Five MIT faculty elected 2021 AAAS Fellows

Advancement of Science (AAAS). The 2021 class of AAAS Fellows includes 564 scientists, engineers, and ... Committee).   Ian Hunter is the Hatsopoulos Professor of Mechanical Engineering and runs the ... massively parallel chemical and biological assays.    Evelyn N. Wang is the Ford Professor of Engineering ...

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Three MIT students named 2026 Schwarzman Scholars

civil and environmental engineering with a focus on manufacturing and operations. Gong, who hails from ... Brandon Man, from Canada and Hong Kong, is a master’s student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... at MIT, where he studies generative artificial intelligence (genAI) for engineering design. ...

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Evan Brown

undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at MIT. Since graduating, his work as manager of design ... engineering has showed him the true power of MIT’s motto: “mind and hand.” At Milwaukee Tool, Brown now uses ... inner mechanics of things runs in the family. His grandfather owned a small-engine business, selling ...

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