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Danielle Zurovcik
MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ... electricity. She invented a new dressing material – a new polymer mixture that eliminates the necessity of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/danielle-zurovcikPhD Candidate Albert Wang (SB ’10, SM ’12)
with powerful but lightweight electric motors and customized actuators, HERMES will be able to walk, ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering red Culture Education Maker SANGBAE@MIT.EDU Horizontal Albert Wang is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-candidate-albert-wang-sb-%E2%80%9910-sm-%E2%80%9912Stick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate
professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Jolet de Ruiter, and postdoc Dan Soto. ... imagine scenarios where thermal properties can be adjusted in real time through electric or magnetic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-peel-or-bounce-controlling-freezing-droplet%E2%80%99s-fateTalking Shop: Kripa Varanasi
Mentoring Services; Technology Licensing Office; and many more. The whole network at MIT is very electric in ... engineering, nanofabrication, solid-state physics, electromagnetism, et cetera. All of that was driven by the ... development of novel nano-engineered surfaces and coating technologies that can fundamentally alter ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-kripa-varanasiBuilding nursery 2.0
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. (Zolot later introduced the two students to Madden.) This class ... engineering graduate who splits the company’s “tinkering” duties with Lipoma — says this form of rapid, ... the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, the trio (now including Madden) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-nursery-20Gliding From Classroom to Market
co-founded ELLO with mechanical engineering classmates Nate Robert ’13, Tyler Wortman PhD ’16, and Chris ... a product for Course 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), where students design products with commercial ... hand trucks and the Clydesdale. The electrodes measured the electric activity of drivers’ back muscles ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gliding-classroom-market3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to ... Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ... and deform dramatically in response to environmental stimuli such as heat, light, and electricity ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesDrive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ... Engineering and vice president for open learning; and three others. “The way we measure street lighting is ... to significant savings on the costs of electricity and the maintenance needs for the lights. But, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsStudent entrepreneurs think inside the box
a mathematical economics sophomore; Eswar Anandapadmanaban, an electrical engineering and computer science ... junior; Jordan Harrod, a PhD candidate studying medical engineering and medical physics; Samuel Salomon, ... a chemistry, biology, and physics junior minoring in nuclear engineering; and Erica Yuen, a mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-entrepreneurs-think-inside-boxRobots shoot for the moon in MIT’s annual 2.007 competition
a moonshot,” says Amos Winter, course co-instructor and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... Engineering, who developed 2.007 as one of the first hands-on, project-based undergraduate courses. Each year, ... a recorder that he had rigged to maneuver his robot. Each note he played was converted to electrical signals ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robots-shoot-moon-mit%E2%80%99s-annual-2007-competitionGiving robots a faster grasp
Rachel Holladay, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science. Physics in a cone ... combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... Image courtesy of the researchers Alberto Rodriguez, associate professor of mechanical engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-faster-graspPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
Intelligence Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS); Tomas ... student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ... Lozano-Perez, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Excellence; Leslie P. Kaelbling, the Panasonic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationInteractive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions
researchers have now engineered “MouthIO,” a dental brace that can be fabricated with sensors and feedback ... Stefanie Mueller, the TIBCO Career Development Associate Professor in the MIT departments of Electrical ... Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and leader of the HCI Engineering Group at CSAIL. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/interactive-mouthpiece-opens-new-opportunities-health-data-assistive-technology-and-handsPing pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision
MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design ... the engineers threw 150 balls at the robot, one after the other, from across the ping pong table. The ... professor of mechanical engineering and head of the MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab. The researchers will ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ping-pong-bot-returns-shots-high-speed-precisionWindow-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water
engineers are tapping into an unconventional source: the air. The Earth’s atmosphere contains millions of ... origami-inspired hydrogel material, designed by MIT engineers, that swells to absorb water from the air. When water ... source, unlike other designs that require batteries, solar panels, or electricity from the grid. The team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-waterAdhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater
weeks. MIT_Underwater-Adhesives-01-press_0_1024x683.jpg MIT engineers have devised a novel adhesive ... underpinnings of how to engineer a synthetic adhesive system,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an associate member of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-inspired-hitchhiking-sucker-fish-sticks-soft-surfaces-underwaterTranslating MIT research into real-world results
H. Lienhard V. “But successful commercialization of MIT technology requires engineers to focus on ... big and small,” says Eric Verploegen PhD ’08, former research engineer in MIT’s D-Lab and founder of ... training to participants across New England. Trainings are open to researchers, engineers, scientists, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/translating-mit-research-real-world-resultsFaculty Promotions
informed engineering choices and used in an ensemble manner, offers key advantages over widely used ... fractional factorial design approaches, enabling engineers to effectively utilize engineering knowledge to ... nanoscale to develop new concepts, devices, and systems with improved engineering performance. His group has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-promotions-0Twelve from MIT awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowships
Berkeley. Abby Stein will graduate in June with a double major in physics and electrical engineering. At ... Tony Terrasa Bottom Row: Miki Hansen, Laura Huang. Jenny Chan is a senior studying mechanical engineering. Growing up ... majoring in mechanical engineering. As the winner of the Delft University of Technology’s Industrial Design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/twelve-mit-awarded-2021-fulbright-fellowshipsFrom nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate
used in fabrication of electrical engineering components to see how multiple pieces could be packaged ... Collaborative (MIT HEALS) and the Charles W. and Jennifer C. Johnson Professor of Biological Engineering, opened ... Traverso, the Karl Van Tassel Career Development Professor of Mechanical Engineering, who is also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nanoscale-global-scale-advancing-mit%E2%80%99s-special-initiatives-manufacturing-health-and