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2.75: Precision Machine Design
part of a mechanical engineer’s education? Isn’t the science enough? “At MIT, we teach really great ... Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue Collaboration Education Maker slocum@mit ... students through this process since 2004, when he founded the class on the famous MIT credo “mens et ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/275-precision-machine-designTough New Hydrogel Hybrid Doesn’t Dry Out
Now engineers at MIT have found a way to prevent hydrogels from dehydrating, with a technique that ... Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, devised a method to robustly bind ... even artificial skin. The engineers, led by Xuanhe Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tough-new-hydrogel-hybrid-doesn%E2%80%99t-dry-outRobotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide ... engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “If we could design a device to reverse blood ... hope.” Zhao and his team, including lead author Yoonho Kim, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsCelebrating a curious mind: Steven Keating 1988-2019
Pulsone Keating received his master’s degree and PhD in mechanical engineering and was a member of the MIT ... tinkering with and building devices. This predilection for making led to not only his love of engineering ... Canada, Keating pursued his twin passions — earning a dual degree in mechanical and materials engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/celebrating-curious-mind-steven-keating-1988-2019New parameters in graduate mentoring
than any other on-campus resource, according to the most recent MIT Enrolled Graduate Student Survey. ... for holistic graduate mentorship at MIT. Three of the most recent honorees, professors Cullen Buie, ... Engineering, “and I’m constantly trying to figure out how to be more available for the people I mentor.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-parameters-graduate-mentoringRacing into the future of autonomous driving
students. Zhang and her teammates from MIT Driverless — working under the auspices of the Edgerton Center ... white, the automobile named DUT18 wasn’t an ordinary race car. First, it was built by engineers at TU ... Delft; then, programmers at MIT wrote algorithms that would replace its human driver. Together, the two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/racing-future-autonomous-drivingSuper-strong surgical tape detaches on demand
Last year, MIT engineers developed a double-sided adhesive that could quickly and firmly stick ... organs,” says Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering ... at MIT. “You put the adhesive on, and if for any reason you want to take it off, you can do so ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/super-strong-surgical-tape-detaches-demandMembrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis
basement membrane, a material that itself has been tricky for scientists to characterize. Now MIT engineers ... Ming Guo, a lead author of the study and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Guo’s ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers led by Associate Professor Ming Guo have found that a biological membrane ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/membrane-around-tumors-may-be-key-preventing-metastasisMini 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 ... MIT’s new mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals ... identical, low-cost electric motors that the researchers engineered using off-the-shelf parts. Each motor can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mini-cheetah-first-four-legged-robot-do-backflip-0Turning a circle into a square is possible with this kirigami-inspired formula
mechanical engineering at MIT. “This could help us to make large, kirigami-like façades that can transform ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This could help us to make large, kirigami-like façades that ... structures in nature, architecture, and more. Scientists and engineers have also taken inspiration from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-circle-square-possible-kirigami-inspired-formulaHear from our Students
Burn Yo-Yo Champion Hacking for Lilly The Magic of Making Water is Life We Are MechE at MIT Designing ... Seal-whisker-inspired Sensing MIT Hyperloop A Makerspace for the Students, by the Students How to Succeed at MIT Living ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hear-our-studentsDavid Hesslink: Taking his passion to the major leagues
life,” says the mechanical engineering major. “The only thing I knew for sure was I loved playing ... in the lab and the MLB, he was achieving similar results on the pitcher’s mound for MIT’s baseball ... Hesslink broke the record to become the pitcher with the most wins in MIT history. “The best part of that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/david-hesslink-taking-his-passion-major-leaguesMagnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with ... Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and ... Environmental Engineering, says the group’s technique may be used to fabricate magnetically controlled ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-3-d-printed-structures-crawl-roll-jump-and-play-catch2.12: Introduction to Robotics
engineering student, it’s a fun hands-on convergence of design, manufacturing, kinematics, controls, ... engineering, but it’s particularly important in robotics – we wouldn’t have robotics without it.” An elective ... mathematical concepts and a chance to build on their foundation in mechanical engineering basics. Students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/212-introduction-roboticsColoring outside the lines
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other ... engineering at MIT, is inspired by butterfly wings and clams when making his color-changing fibers and ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “MIT struck me as exciting,” Kolle says. “MIT’s gung-ho attitude of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coloring-outside-linesFaculty Advising
Faculty Advising When students enter the Department of Mechanical Engineering, they are assigned ... http://adviseme.mit.edu UROP supervisors (research interests, grad school, career/networking advice) Instructors (class ... selection for restricted electives/engineering topics, research interests) The Undergraduate Office, Room ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/faculty-advisingToday's Annoyances, Tomorrow's Technology
engineering and civil and environmental engineering and recently named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant ... engineering problems. Pedro Miguel Reis 1024.jpg Photo: Len Rubenstein In the engineering world, material ... exploit apparent weaknesses in different realms. “In our lab we do science-enabled engineering coupled ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/todays-annoyances-tomorrows-technologyMethod may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies
co-authors include Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; Yichao ... blood could enable doctors to diagnose and track the progression of multiple myeloma. Now engineers at ... MIT have devised a microfluidic technique to capture and count circulating plasma cells from small ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-may-help-myeloma-patients-avoid-painful-biopsiesTurning any room into an operating room
Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty research director of MIT’s D-Lab. Frey had been ... MIT.” Sunday, January 7, 2018 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, where she also received her bachelors, Miller connected with Daniel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-any-room-operating-roomJust what the doctor ordered
Department of Mechanical Engineering, program manager at the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design, and ... engineering undergraduate, and a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and ... Device Design). The class brings clinicians from Boston-area hospitals and MIT students together to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/just-what-doctor-ordered