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Associate Professor Martin L. Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then became ... Precision Engineering, and the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology. Why is ... the engineering and science that enable these new technologies. How important is it to understand the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlightNew ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ... Alex d’Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design. So far, the researchers ... at MIT and LLNL have tested the process using three engineering materials — metal, ceramic, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedHow cormorants emerge dry after deep dives
Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “By putting our ... Engineering. The depth-dependence of this phenomenon had not previously been known. But even after the collapse ... Loth, a professor of engineering at the University of Virginia who was not involved in this work, says, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cormorants-emerge-dry-after-deep-divesWeighing particles at the attogram scale
MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... biological and mechanical engineering, to weigh larger particles, such as cells. This system, known as ... small viruses, extracellular vesicles, and most of the engineered nanoparticles that are being used for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scaleJohn Lewandowski
cost and sensitivity were going in the same direction,” says Lewandowski. “Engineers would design ... properties. As a mechanical engineer, Lewandowski, who had originally wanted to be a medical doctor and ... magnetic confounding effects.” It was Lewandowski’s engineering frame of mind brought to bear on his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/john-lewandowskiHow to Succeed at MIT
her class. She recently accepted an offer from Apple to work as an iPad product design engineer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-succeed-mitQuick Test for Ebola
Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the technical staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. “We ... Engineering and Science (IMES), are the senior authors of a paper describing the new device in the journal Lab ... University of Toronto Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, says he is impressed with the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-test-ebola2.12: Introduction to Robotics at MIT
competition, pushing the boundaries of their mathematics, physics, and mechanical engineering know-how. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/212-introduction-robotics-mitHarvesting Fresh Water from Fog
Engineering, working with colleagues at the Pontificial University of Chile in Santiago, are harvesting potable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harvesting-fresh-water-fog-0The Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ... skin of pumpkins. Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The work began with a classification of patterns into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasingGiving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity. Most robots on ... robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: ... mechanical engineering, and graduate student Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, has developed a model that predicts the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-more-nimble-graspThe Birth of a Hands-On Education
2.007 was at the forefront of a revolution in engineering education, becoming one of the first hands-on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/birth-hands-educationStudents Unveil “Magical” Product Designs
Final presentations in mechanical engineering class show devices for climbers, patients, and ... others. In the 20 years that David Wallace has been teaching the mechanical engineering course “product ... engineering processes,” known by its course number 2.009, he has spiced up the class by donning costumes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-unveil-%E2%80%9Cmagical%E2%80%9D-product-designsHow Crispy is Your Bonbon?
smooth, even chocolaty shell. Now, a theory and a simple fabrication technique derived by MIT engineers ... engineers could predict the mechanical response of many other types of shells, from small pharmaceutical ... as a recipe,” says Pedro Reis, the Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-crispy-your-bonbonTaking a break and making connections
engineering. “I would start off each semester doing really well academically, then I’d lose momentum and become ... what I can accomplish as an engineer and as a person.” Her internship at Tesla Motors also gave her ... a newfound interest in sustainable design. “I changed my mechanical engineering concentration to sustainable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-break-and-making-connectionsMIT undertakes Grand Challenge for innovation in global vaccine manufacturing
proteins using a combination of engineered microbial cell factories and flexible approaches for ... Christopher Love, an MIT associate professor of chemical engineering, a member of the Koch Institute for ... Engineering; and Kripa Varanasi, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Additional ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-undertakes-grand-challenge-innovation-global-vaccine-manufacturingScientists make microscopes from droplets
Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can create complex geometries that form lenses, ... postdoc Julia Kalow, research affiliate Vishnu Sresht, professor of chemical engineering Daniel ... Blankschtein, professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis, and John D. MacArthur Professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-make-microscopes-dropletsJahnavi Kalpathy
fix them,” says Jahnavi, now a senior majoring in mechanical engineering. “I would start off each ... engineer and as a person.” Her internship at Tesla Motors also gave her a newfound interest in sustainable ... design. “I changed my mechanical engineering concentration to sustainable development and energy because ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jahnavi-kalpathyFast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease
rather stiff. MIT-Cell-Moves 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a way to assess a cell’s mechanical ... microscopes and optical tweezers, which make direct, invasive contact with the cells. Now MIT engineers have ... Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This technique really opens a door so that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fast-noninvasive-technique-probing-cells-may-reveal-diseaseProfessor Harry Asada Awarded a $2 Million Grant to Develop Robotic Educational Tool, “Teach-Bot”
manufacturing workers on robotics. Founded by professor of mechanical engineering and Ford Professor of ... Engineering Harry Asada, Teach-Bot is a table top robot outfitted with actuators, sensors, and embedded ... conversations with Vice President for Open Learning and professor of mechanical engineering Sanjay Sarma. Sarma ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-harry-asada-awarded-2-million-grant-develop-robotic-educational-tool-%E2%80%9Cteach-bot