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Turning 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 ...

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Hear 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 ...

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David 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 ...

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Magnetic 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 ...

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2.12: 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 ...

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Coloring 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 ...

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Faculty 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 ...

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Today'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 ...

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Method 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 ...

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Turning 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 ...

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Just 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 ...

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Forging ahead with care and compassion

a number of MIT professors are forging thoughtful ways to support students’ well-being and scholarly ... prior to MIT’s ramping down of research, which enabled them to be intentional with their discussions of ... engendered. Li also paid attention to the little things, inviting his students to help build a “system (and ...

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How strong is your knot?

what exactly makes one knot more stable than another has not been well-understood, until now.  MIT ... mathematicians and engineers have developed a mathematical model that predicts how stable a knot is, based on ... whether a knot is strong or not,” says Jörn Dunkel, associate professor of mathematics at MIT. “With this ...

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Graduate Admissions FAQ

engineering or in science may apply. How do I apply? Applicants to the MIT MechE graduate program should apply ... a degree in Mechanical Engineering or some related branch of engineering. The department's admission ... using the MechE online admissions site: https://apply.mit.edu/apply/ Are there separate admission ...

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Alumni team tops Collegiate Inventors Competition

On a Friday in mid-November, recent mechanical engineering alumna Elizabeth Bianchini ’18 found ... Inventors Competition last month for Rhino, a product first developed in 2.009 (Product Engineering ... class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). The team’s win at the CIC was the culmination of over ...

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Researchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles

bullet-train journey, significantly limiting graphene’s electrical performance. Now engineers at MIT have found ... Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ... Samuel Cruz, and Yunjo Kim from MIT, along with researchers from IBM, the University of California at Los ...

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MechE Spinoff Launches All-Terrain Wheelchair in US

designed for US and European markets. Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT), an MIT MechE ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering to create a wheelchair that fits the needs of people with ... drivetrain as needed, based on the environment. Some engineers may consider the restrictive parameters ...

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Talking Shop with Professor David Gossard

Department of Mechanical Engineering since he earned his PhD here in 1975, having previously earned his ... bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He began his tenure in the ... computer science and its intersection with mechanical engineering. His research activities included solid ...

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Cocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs

An MIT mathematician and a celebrity chef have combined talents to create two culinary novelties ... time,” Bush says. “Engineers often take it to the next step by asking, ‘How can we apply this?’ In this ... collaboration, scientists and engineers have combined with chefs, allowing us to follow the entire route from ...

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How Crispy is Your Bonbon?

smooth, even chocolaty shell. Now, a theory and a simple fabrication technique derived by MIT engineers ... and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “I’m sure chocolatiers have come up with techniques ... engineers could predict the mechanical response of many other types of shells, from small pharmaceutical ...

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