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Lobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber
carapace that shields the rest of the crustacean. But engineers at MIT and elsewhere have found that this ... Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “If you could make armor out of these types of ... Materials Engineering. Sunday, February 17, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration International ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lobster%E2%80%99s-underbelly-tough-industrial-rubberStudents present product prototypes inspired by kindness
of class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). For many MIT seniors, their entire undergraduate ... On the evening of Dec. 7, six teams of mechanical engineering students presented the product ... mechanical engineering. Thanks to the efforts of course instructor Professor David Wallace and a massive team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-product-prototypes-inspired-kindnessHow to get conductive gels to stick when wet
moisture from the body. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way of getting conductive polymer gels ... in a paper by MIT doctoral student Hyunwoo Yuk, former visiting scholar Akihisa Inoue, postdoc ... Baoyang Lu, and professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao. Most electrodes used for biomedical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-conductive-gels-stick-when-wetKnitted microtissue can accelerate healing
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Mechanical Engineering Group. "That's why if you stretch your ... from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering and the laboratory's Defense Fabric Discovery Center ... collaboration came while Gillmer and Guo were teaching a course at MIT. Guo had been researching how to grow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/knitted-microtissue-can-accelerate-healingAlumni Spotlight: Dr. Dana Yoerger (SB ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’83)
research and academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT ... determined which directions the currents were taking it. As an MIT student, Yoerger studied under Professor Tom ... producing engineering and scientific results.” Yoerger, in addition to being a major part of the team that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-dr-dana-yoerger-sb-%E2%80%9977-sm-%E2%80%9979-phd-%E2%80%9983Dana Yoerger
academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT/WHOI Joint Program ... chemical flux, as well as determined which directions the currents were taking it. As an MIT student, ... and abilities. I like going to sea and solving problems at sea by producing engineering and scientific ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dana-yoergerA new way to make microstructured surfaces
Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the ... engineering and applied mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in this research, ... says this approach “is quite novel because it allows for the engineering of complex 3-D microstructures ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-microstructured-surfacesProtecting maternal health in Rwanda
PhD '02, research scientist in mechanical engineering at MIT and technology lead for the team. ... MIT, Harvard University, and Partners in Health (PIH) in Rwanda have proposed a solution to address ... a new MIT student from Rwanda and would later join Fletcher’s team at MIT. With Fletcher’s mentorship, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-maternal-health-rwandaBuilding a better indoor herb garden
Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 didn’t set out to build indoor gardens when he arrived at MIT. The ... day. But in 2016, halfway through his studies for his master's degree in mechanical engineering ... bending. Briggs received his foundation in machining as an undergrad at the MIT Edgerton Center, where he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-better-indoor-herb-gardenIngestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month
MIT engineers have designed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the stomach, ... Xuanhe Zhao, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Zhao and senior collaborator Giovanni ... Traverso, a visiting scientist who will join the MIT faculty in 2019, along with lead authors Xinyue Liu, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-expanding-pill-monitors-stomach-monthModel quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread
MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the Covid-19 pandemic in ... studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical ... engineering, Dandekar has spent the past few months developing the model as part of the final project in class ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-quantifies-impact-quarantine-measures-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadInteractive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions
box, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Aarhus University ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/interactive-mouthpiece-opens-new-opportunities-health-data-assistive-technology-and-handsMethod rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions
1024-Planning-01_0-1.jpg MIT researchers have developed a rapid safety check technique which can ensure a robot will avoid ... that can avoid false positives are typically too slow for robots in the real world. Now, MIT ... engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and lead author of a paper on this technique. Amice ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-rapidly-verifies-robot-will-avoid-collisionsDragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds
out other activities that are assumed to be less mentally taxing. The new study, by researchers at MIT ... be influenced by lack of sleep,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist in MIT’s Department ... of Mechanical Engineering. “We also find that compensating for sleep could be an important strategy. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dragging-your-feet-lack-sleep-affects-your-walk-new-study-findsAlumni Spotlight: Thomas Ober, SM ‘10, PhD ‘13
a computational fluid dynamics engineer at Haas Formula 1 during his job search, it quickly rose to the top of his ... in North Carolina. As a computational fluid dynamics engineer on a racing team, Ober combines his ... experience here. I work in a fairly small group of eight or 10 engineers. We are all working on our own small ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-thomas-ober-sm-%E2%80%9810-phd-%E2%80%9813“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Vision can be noisy, slightly inaccurate, and ... MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered ... nimbly “feels” its way through its surroundings in a way that engineers describe as “blind locomotion,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cblind%E2%80%9D-cheetah-3-robot-can-climb-stairs-littered-obstaclesYo-yos offer a first foray into manufacturing at scale
Each semester, the machine shop in MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity churns out ... complete with rotating lightsabers. These yo-yos are the creation of mechanical engineering students in ... While a yo-yo might seem like an unusual choice for an engineering class, according to John Hart, ...
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