Search Results
Showing Results for: “energy system engineering MIT”
Student group helps blind boater sail independently
for children with autism. Xi is a mechanical engineering student and member of MIT’s sailing team. ... Frederick | School of Engineering Collaboration Culture Maker Horizontal A group of MIT students, including ... This fall, a team of four students in MIT’s course 6.811 (Principles and Practices of Assistive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-group-helps-blind-boater-sail-independentlyWhat STEM Requires, Dance Provides
her experiences as an MIT student, Toussaint Beach saw the need to increase the representation of ... other young women of color in engineering and related fields. First, she wanted to understand what ... these. Dancing was something Toussaint Beach says she did as soon as she could walk, and at MIT, dance ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-stem-requires-dance-providesSolving a Rubik's Cube in record time
Rubik’s Cube the fastest by hand. Engineers then started building robots programmed to solve the cube at ... engineering graduate student Ben Katz and third-year electrical engineering and computer science major Jared ... better with improved motors and controls.” The pair met through the MIT Electronics Research Society, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-rubiks-cube-record-timeA 3D printable tissue adhesive
MIT researchers introduce a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive that can be used to ... a graduate student who works in the lab of Mechanical Engineering Professor Xuanhe Zhao. “ Our research takes ... diverse applications.” MIT researchers have introduced a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printable-tissue-adhesiveMotion-Induced Quicksand
mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ... MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... replicating the Couette cell geometry. MIT-Quicksand.jpg Photo: Martin Van Hecke/Leiden Modeling spin and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/motion-induced-quicksandTo make mini-organs grow faster, give them a squeeze
into more specialized cells. Ming Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says that ... like ideas, information, and even infection. Now researchers at MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital have ... would. MIT-Cell-Crowding-01-Press-1024.jpg the cell division marker Ki67 shows that the number of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/make-mini-organs-grow-faster-give-them-squeezeDavid Hesslink
mechanical engineering major. “The only thing I knew for sure was I loved playing baseball.” That started to ... achieving similar results on the pitcher’s mound for MIT’s baseball team. At a game against the United ... pitcher with the most wins in MIT history. “The best part of that day for me was emerging from the dugout ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-hesslinkStepping on stage with Beyoncé
working for—a celebration of everyone involved.” MIT-Joe-Brown-Beyonce-Coachella-2018_1024.jpg Joe Brown ... in Course 2 [mechanical engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own ... continued to build his skills as step master of his fraternity while at MIT. But it wasn’t until after ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stepping-stage-beyonc%C3%A9-0Aspiring to sustainable development
a rising junior in mechanical engineering at MIT, collaborated with UVG researchers and Indigenous farmers ... MIT students made a major contribution to both the engineering and marketing sides by emphasizing that ... In a first for both universities, MIT undergraduates are engaged in research projects at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aspiring-sustainable-developmentAdhesive coatings can prevent scarring around medical implants
that kind of device failure, MIT engineers have found a simple and general way to eliminate fibrosis by ... MIT engineers found a way to eliminate the buildup of scar tissue around implantable devices, by ... immune system from attacking it. “The dream of many research groups and companies is to implant something ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-coatings-can-prevent-scarring-around-medical-implantsThis flat structure morphs into shape of a human face when temperature changes
lenses in telescopes. Wim van Rees, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, also sees ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have designed 3-D printed mesh-like structures that morph from ... and structures can achieve. MIT-Shape-Shifters-1024.jpg A lattice structure, originally printed flat, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flat-structure-morphs-shape-human-face-when-temperature-changesAmrita Saigal '10
a diaper company that has created the first 100-percent cotton-lined disposable diaper. The MIT Course ... materials used and how they are manufactured—during an internship as a manufacturing engineer for Always at ... completely biodegradable sanitary pads for women and schoolgirls in India, while she was still at MIT. When ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/amrita-saigal-10Randall Briggs
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/people/randall-briggsJoe Brown
engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own theme park.” Brown’s passion for ... as step master of his fraternity while at MIT. But it wasn’t until after graduation that dance became ... a bigger part of Brown’s life. “I joined [MIT’s competitive hip hop team] Ridonkulous post-graduation and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/joe-brownStrong mentorship through great decision-making
Chemical Engineering and the David H. Koch (1962) Professor in Engineering at MIT. The Hammond Research ... “the single most-defining influence in my MIT experience to date.” This sentiment is far from an ... focuses on the planning, implementation, and administration of infrastructure systems in vulnerable urban ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/strong-mentorship-through-great-decision-makingAmrita Saigal
a diaper company that has created the first 100-percent cotton-lined disposable diaper. The MIT Course ... materials used and how they are manufactured—during an internship as a manufacturing engineer for Always at ... completely biodegradable sanitary pads for women and schoolgirls in India, while she was still at MIT. When ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/amrita-saigalBridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices
cutting-edge MIT payloads: a depth-mapping camera and a mini-rover called “AstroAnt.” Also on that craft were ... etched on a 2-inch silicon wafer computationally designed by Professor Craig Carter of the MIT Department ... of Materials Science and Engineering and mounted on the mission’s Lunar Outpost MAPP Rover. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bridging-earth-and-space-and-art-and-science-global-voicesFarmers use $60 billion of pesticides each year. 2 MIT scientists have developed a new technology that could cut that number in half
of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 when he went to ... prizes such as runner-up awards at the MIT $100K and Rice Business Plan competitions. Over-spraying ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/farmers-use-60-billion-pesticides-each-year-2-mit-scientists-have-developed-new2.03x Dynamics aims to improve learning on and off campus
Engineering is the second largest engineering department at MIT, and this version of the popular Dynamics ... analyze and predict dynamic movement in engineering systems is what enables one to understand the inner ... classic experiences of an MIT undergraduate, when edX releases 2.03x Dynamics on Oct. 28. Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/203x-dynamics-aims-improve-learning-and-campus