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Rapid rovers, speedy sands: fast-tracking terrain interaction modeling
arbitrarily shaped objects moving through granular media. 264105_web1024.jpg Engineers and physicists from MIT ... rovers," notes Ken Kamrin, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and the ... Shashank Agarwal (also of Mechanical Engineering at MIT) in collaboration with Daniel Goldman, Dunn Family ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rapid-rovers-speedy-sands-fast-tracking-terrain-interaction-modelingNew plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
plastics. Now, an MIT team has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with ... Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Thursday, February 10, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A new ... they never had before,” says A. John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering. “If we can replace some ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-plant-derived-composite-tough-bone-and-hard-aluminumBio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly
Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed ... of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT and one of the senior ... Nature Biomedical Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Hyunwoo Yuk and postdoc Jingjing Wu are the lead ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bio-inspired-blood-repelling-tissue-glue-could-seal-wounds-quicklyMechE student named a Rhodes Scholar
engineering senior Matthew Chun and biology and literature double major Mary Clare Beytagh were selected this ... MIT bring to 51 the total number of MIT winners honored since the scholarship was first awarded to ... Americans in 1904. The MIT students were supported by MIT’s Office of Distinguished Fellowships and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-student-named-rhodes-scholarWilhem Hector
Inspired by MIT’s hands-on approach to learning, Junior MechE student Wilhem Hector spent the ... experience motivated him to work on a project to foster hands-on education for aspiring young engineers back ... “Project Manus,” after MIT’s motto: Mens et Manus, Latin for mind and hand. “For the past 17 months, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/wilhem-hectorOutside-the-Box Thinker
a functional object. MIT-Nathan-Spielberg1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone As a mechanical engineering major at ... an aspiring mechanical engineer on a budget wants a top-of-the-line guitar, what does he do? He makes ... it himself, of course. At age 13, Nathan Spielberg — now an MIT senior — began building his first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/outside-box-thinkerPeeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales
a butterfly its color and shimmer, and help shield the insect from the elements. Now, MIT engineers have ... of mechanical engineering Mathias Kolle. MIT-Butterfly-Growth-1024.jpg Larger, overlapping scales in ... scales,” says lead author Anthony McDougal, a research assistant in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peeking-chrysalis-videos-reveal-growth-butterfly-wing-scalesAn all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment
the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... companies to further develop them. The research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers led by Giovanni Traverso are working on an app that identifies and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/all-one-approach-diabetes-treatmentMinimally invasive 3D-printable bioadhesive cardiac pacing lead may reduce complications, improve safety for cardiac patients
bioadhesive technologies,” said Hyunwoo Yuk SM ’16, PhD ’21, a former MIT research scientist who is now the ... engineering and of civil and environmental engineering, has introduced a 3D-printable bioadhesive pacing lead ... authors of the study, former MIT researcher Jue Deng is the paper’s first author. “This work introduces ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/minimally-invasive-3d-printable-bioadhesive-cardiac-pacing-lead-may-reduce-complicationsStudents Unveil “Magical” Product Designs
Final presentations in mechanical engineering class show devices for climbers, patients, and ... others. In the 20 years that David Wallace has been teaching the mechanical engineering course “product ... engineering processes,” known by its course number 2.009, he has spiced up the class by donning costumes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-unveil-%E2%80%9Cmagical%E2%80%9D-product-designsDesigning AR apps to close the skills gap
Every semester as Dr. John Liu walked through the machine shop in MIT Building 35, he heard his ... mechanical engineering, Digital Learning Lab scientist, and principal investigator of the LEAPGroup, felt ... augmented reality (AR) apps for 2.670 Mechanical Engineering Tools, 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-ar-apps-close-skills-gapMIT-Delft University of Technology team places third in Formula Student Germany driverless competition
Concept, and third for Engineering Design and Presentation. FSG-MIT-Delft-Driverless-Car-1024.jpg The ... Students from the MIT Driverless team, together with students from Delft University of Technology ... The intercontinental MIT-TU Delft team placed first in Cost and Manufacturing, second for Business ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-delft-university-technology-team-places-third-formula-student-germany-driverlessMIT launches MITx MicroMasters in Principles of Manufacturing
uncertainty,” says David Hardt, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “All too often, people fail to get ... control, manufacturing systems, engineering management, and supply chain planning and design. Each course ... MIT today announced the launch of the Institute’s third MITx MicroMasters program, in principles ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-launches-mitx-micromasters-principles-manufacturingA Letter from Department Head Gang Chen
is being conducted across a myriad of sports here in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. This ... exciting research is not done in a vacuum. Thanks to the newly minted MIT 3-Sigma Sports (formerly the ... Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and Department Head This article originally ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-gang-chenMIT Scientists Twist Apart More Than 1,000 Oreos in Search for Perfect Method
Owens, a Ph.D. candidate in MIT’s mechanical engineering department. She led a group of researchers on ... in MIT’s department of mechanical engineering and co-author of the study. Another was to attach both ... 1024 Crystal.jpg Crystal Owens in an MIT lab with a 3D-printed Oreo and equipment for her team’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-scientists-twist-apart-more-1000-oreos-search-perfect-methodSoft biorobotic heart, computational fluid models, aid in evaluation of surgical techniques for Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect
Development Professor and associate professor of mechanical engineering. The researchers developed a model of ... Engineering blue Collaboration Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-biorobotic-heart-computational-fluid-models-aid-evaluation-surgical-techniquesA Revolution in Higher Education
engineering. “And we’ve never forgotten our roots. MIT’s retained that deep interest in learning by doing,” ... the past. MIT Sanjay_1024.jpg Photo illustration: Len Rubenstein “As the volume of knowledge has ... a participatory learning approach,” says Sarma, director of MIT’s Office of Digital Learning. “Now there’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/revolution-higher-educationA 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence
production of specialized parts. Now Inkbit, a startup out of MIT, is working to bring all of the benefits of ... systems. The vision system comprehensively scans each layer of the object as it’s being printed to correct ... errors in real-time, while the machine-learning system uses that information to predict the warping ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printer-powered-machine-vision-and-artificial-intelligenceMorris Chang
left the country in the late 1940s, and earned his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from MIT. He ... long-term ascendancy in semiconductor manufacturing, while speaking to a large campus audience in an MIT ... includes a healthy supply of talent, in the form of engineers and other technical employees willing to work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/morris-changStatement on MechE qualifying exams
Engineering The faculty, students, and staff of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are committed to ... 49.6% of mechanical engineering undergraduates at MIT, compared to the national average of 14.8%,. Over ... The following statement was issued by the leadership team in MIT's Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/statement-meche-qualifying-exams