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New 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-quicklyOutside-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-scalesMIT researchers and collaborators work to prepare manufacturers for future crises
MIT faculty, students, staff, and alumni — helped local manufacturers produce more than 9 million ... director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future and the MIT Industrial Performance Center, John ... Hart, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-and-collaborators-work-prepare-manufacturers-future-crisesDouble-sided tape for tissues could replace surgical sutures
medical devices. Inspired by a sticky substance that spiders use to catch their prey, MIT engineers have ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study. ... MIT graduate student Xinyu Mao, MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering Ellen Roche, Mayo ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/double-sided-tape-tissues-could-replace-surgical-suturesMIT-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-driverlessNASA selects three MIT alumni for astronaut training
degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering as well as ... Engineering, gained skills in engineering and communication, and was active on the MIT cycling team. After ... earning a doctorate in biological engineering from MIT, she taught bioengineering at the University of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nasa-selects-three-mit-alumni-astronaut-trainingNew particle-sorting method breaks speed records
McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... such detections possible in real time, according to a team from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital ... times faster than any existing system Normally, fluid flowing through a narrow channel at such high ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-particle-sorting-method-breaks-speed-recordsTeaching robots how to move objects
engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The ... robotic systems they built were tasked with removing items from bins and placing them into boxes. For ... graduate student Maria Bauza, who served as task-planning lead for the MIT-Princeton Team, the moment was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsAlex Hattori
not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering ... professor of mechanical engineering and MIT’s Maker Czar. Culpepper helped Hattori find the makerspaces and ... Each spring, accepted MIT students trek to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Institute’s annual ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-hattoriLeslie's legacy
After forty-seven years in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Leslie Regan retired, ... you mention Leslie Regan’s name to any alum of MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, their ... thousands of mechanical engineering students. Regan joined MIT’s staff in September 1974. She started as an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leslies-legacyHistoric Inspirations
passion for design and engineering to one specific MechE course – a course that has also inspired ... generations before them. “Classes like 2.007 are how engineers are forged,” says Weizer, who took 2.007 ... MIT, having participated in high school FIRST Robotics competitions, a program co-founded by Flowers. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/historic-inspirationsTool Designer Puts “Mind and Hand” to Work
engineering at MIT. Since graduating, his work as manager of design engineering has showed him the true power ... Slice_09_04_25_Brown_credit Beth Cholst '16_1024.jpg Brown's work as a manager of design engineering at Milkwaukee ... Tool showed him the true power of MIT's motto: "mind and hand." Credit: Beth Cholst ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tool-designer-puts-%E2%80%9Cmind-and-hand%E2%80%9D-workA 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-educationRapid 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-modelingMechE 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-hectorMIT 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-manufacturingNew 3D printing method enables complex designs and creates less waste
waste. MIT engineers have found a way to bypass this last finishing step, in a way that could ... Professor A. John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Waste removal Conventional vat ... June 3, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal MIT engineers developed a technique for making ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-method-enables-complex-designs-and-creates-less-waste