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Engineering art
MIT-Stephanie-chou-kinetic-sculpture-Mess-of-Gold 1024_0.jpg Stephanie Chou ’19 stands with her kinetic art sculpture, "Mess of Gold." ... sculpture to encourage members of the MIT community to express themselves and find support in challenging ... Hunter, an MIT student, passed away after a brief illness in 2017. Dealing with her friend’s passing and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-artTo excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds
generating new content that resembles everything they’ve seen before. But as MIT engineers say in a new ... a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT. “The objective of these models is to mimic a dataset. But as ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “But in design, being different could be important if you want to innovate.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/excel-engineering-design-generative-ai-must-learn-innovate-study-findsEngineers develop surgical “duct tape” as an alternative to sutures
in many structural materials. MIT engineers have now developed a kind of surgical duct tape ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Surgeons could use it as they use duct tape in the ... and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT; and collaborators from the Mayo Clinic and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-surgical-%E2%80%9Cduct-tape%E2%80%9D-alternative-suturesEngineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”
MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing technique that uses a new kind of ink made from ... three-dimensional, interactive structures and devices. MIT-3D 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing ... Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Timothy Lu, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-%E2%80%9Cliving-tattoo%E2%80%9DEngineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces
printed from solid, relatively inflexible material. MIT-Printed-Meshes-02-1024.jpg 3-D meshes are designed ... to be lightweight and conformable, similar to fabric and textiles. Image: M. Scott Brauer Now MIT ... engineers have designed pliable, 3-D-printed mesh materials whose flexibility and toughness they can tune to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-flexible-mesh-ankle-and-knee-bracesEngineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
engineers at MIT have designed an artificial synapse in such a way that they can precisely control the ... departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and a principal investigator in ... MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics and Microsystems Technology Laboratories. His co-authors are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-artificial-synapse-%E2%80%9Cbrain-chip%E2%80%9D-hardwareEngineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors
Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “As some of these dyes are more strongly regulated, ... or dyes. MIT-Structural-Color-02-1024.jpg Seen from above, transparent droplets in a Petri dish, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-make-clear-droplets-produce-iridescent-colorsEngineering Defense, with the Help of Butterflies
As a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts ... specializing in engineering, and he went on to earn three mechanical engineering degrees at MIT. He felt at ... a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts research for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-defense-help-butterfliesClimate and sustainability classes expand at MIT
MIT. Success stories include 2.00A (Fundamentals of Engineering Design: Explore Space, Sea and Earth), ... In fall 2019, a new class, 6.S898/12.S992 (Climate Change Seminar), arrived at MIT. It was, at the ... time, the only course in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) to tackle ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climate-and-sustainability-classes-expand-mitMIT Mechanical Engineering 2020 Staff Awards
On July 1, 2020, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering celebrated the many talented staff ... July 9, 2020 MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal MechE ... members who have gone above and beyond in making sure MIT MechE continues to execute its educational and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-mechanical-engineering-2020-staff-awardsEngineering Medical Devices
Mechanical engineering students from MIT work with clinicians from Boston-area hospitals to design cheaper, ... https://youtu.be/s83WpLs0DiQ Mechanical engineering students from MIT work with clinicians from Boston-area hospitals to design ... cheaper, safer, and more efficient medical devices. Mechanical engineering students from MIT work with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-medical-devicesBuilding an HMCo. Steam Engine: Introduction
thoughts about MIT’s most famous naval architect and steam engineer, Captain Nathanael Herreshoff, were ... next apprentice class would fabricate a Herreshoff Mfg Co. steam engine using drawings from MIT ... would be our fourth attempt casting a particularly vexing part for our Herreshoff steam engine. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-hmco-steam-engine-introductionChanneling creativity through art and engineering
’22, who recently graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering. Raised in Lowell, ... do both,” she says. Upon enrolling in MIT, Satterfield set out to study electrical engineering at ... MIT. But she quickly found herself gravitating more toward mechanical engineering. For her, making ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/channeling-creativity-through-art-and-engineeringToy-making offers seriously fun introduction to engineering
2.00b, Toy Product Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get ... In class 2.00b, Toy Product Design, first year students get hands-on engineering and product ... design experience. Most engineers first discover their affinity for engineering in childhood. Long before ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/toy-making-offers-seriously-fun-introduction-engineering-0Retired mechanical engineer puts hundreds of parts to use in kinetic sculptures
After 31 years engineering medical solutions for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Seth ... many different disciplines,” explains Goldstein, who as chief of the mechanical engineering section ... first and all subsequent projects were fostered in his time at MIT and at the NIH, he says. “As it turns ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/retired-mechanical-engineer-puts-hundreds-parts-use-kinetic-sculpturesKripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical engineer Kripa ... phenomena occur at them, be it mass, momentum, energy, or charge transfer,” he says. “When I came to MIT in ... fundamentals in engineering and gave me the confidence to pursue my dreams,” he says. “Coming to MIT was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-innovating-interfacesDrinking Water From Thin Air
in the air, even in the most arid conditions. Mechanics Energy Science and Engineering Health ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drinking-water-thin-airCould we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?
adoption as a wearable textile. Now, MIT engineers have spun polyethylene into fibers and yarns designed to ... a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina and her colleagues have ... more quickly than common textiles such as cotton, nylon, and polyester. MIT-PE-Fabrics-1024.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-fabrics-futureUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ... MIT-Supersonic-Carbon-01-press1024.jpg Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely ... says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impacts3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ... include former MIT postdoc Qi Ge, along with lead author Qiming Wang of the University of Southern ...
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