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2.007 Robots Battle it Out, Revolutionary-Style
mechanical engineering. This year, instructors modeled the competition’s obstacle course after major ... designed their robots to deploy some ingenious and often complex mechanisms. A remote-controlled robot, for ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering, dressed as a British redcoat and ringing a bell, called to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-robots-battle-it-out-revolutionary-styleEngineers design “tree-on-a-chip”
pumping mechanism of trees and other plants. Now engineers at MIT and their collaborators have designed ... a microfluidic device they call a “tree-on-a-chip,” which mimics the pumping mechanism of trees and plants. Like ... head for operations in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the chip’s passive pumping may ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-%E2%80%9Ctree-chip%E2%80%9DClass Close-Up: 2.981 New England Coastal Ecology
a third-year mechanical engineering student. “We talked about the bad nor’easter earlier in January and ... mechanical engineering student, and biological engineering student Jenna Melanson (right) at a field trip in ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Instructors Juliet Simpson, Research Engineer at MIT Sea ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2981-new-england-coastal-ecologyAlumni Profile: Jacklyn (Holmes) Herbst ’10 MEngM ‘11, Isabella DiDio ‘16, and Ann McInroy ‘18
Microsoft as a Design for Assembly Mechanical Engineer in August of last year. “We have this shared ... with the mechanical design team to optimize the parts so they are easy to assemble,” explains DiDio. ... experiences studying mechanical engineering at MIT to help each other solve problems. “There’s a lot of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-profile-jacklyn-holmes-herbst-%E2%80%9910-mengm-%E2%80%9811-isabella-didio-%E2%80%9816-and-ann-mcinroy-%E2%80%9818Charlotte Minsky and Lyndie Mitchell Zollinger named 2020 Gates Cambridge Scholars
Zollinger will graduate from MIT with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, and then pursue ... wheel fell on top of her in one of her mechanical engineering classes, she realized the importance of ... a mechanical perspective on medical challenges. At Cambridge, she will develop mechanical models of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/charlotte-minsky-and-lyndie-mitchell-zollinger-named-2020-gates-cambridge-scholarsLaura Rosado
favorite class is math.” laura-rosado-bike1024.jpg Laura Rosado is double-majoring in mechanical ... sold me. I thought this just makes me very excited to be a mechanical engineer.” There have, of course, ... been other important formative experiences in the aspiring mechanical engineer’s life, which reinforced ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/laura-rosadoBreaking through the mucus barrier
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... a mechanism that can tunnel through mucus, just as tunnel boring machines drill into soil and rock. “I thought ... to 40 times more drug than a similar capsule without the tunneling mechanism. Once the drug is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-mucus-barrierA shape-changing antenna for more versatile sensing and communication
mechanism (top right). Credit: courtesy of the researchers. The word “antenna” may draw to mind metal rods ... — engineered materials whose mechanical properties, such as stiffness and strength, depend on the geometric ... sensing for interaction design,” says lead author Marwa AlAlawi, a mechanical engineering graduate student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/shape-changing-antenna-more-versatile-sensing-and-communicationHannah Gazdus
double-majoring in creative writing and mechanical engineering, Gazdus sees her childhood play as a harbinger of ... and mechanical engineering, Hannah Gazdus loves telling stories, and would create videos with her ... product/industrial design, but she shifted to machine design after taking 2.72 (Elements of Mechanical Design), in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hannah-gazdusHow light can vaporize water without the need for heat
be the only mechanism involved. One key indicator, which showed up consistently in four different ... least. Chen and his co-researchers have proposed a physical mechanism that can explain the angle and ... says Xiulin Ruan, professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, who was not involved in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-light-can-vaporize-water-without-need-heatDiagnosing cancer with a barcode-inspired test
collaborate with MIT faculty on research. Dana Al-Sulaiman 1[2].jpg Current widely used techniques for cancer ... develops her own research group this fall, as a faculty member at one of Saudi Arabia’s premier research ... community.” “It’s normal to see a female scientist” As one of only a handful of Saudi nationals with faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/diagnosing-cancer-barcode-inspired-testDepartment News
Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, earning a bachelor of science degree in micro-electron-mechanical ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. A native of Ireland, McGovern earned a bachelor’s degree from the ... University College Dublin, and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. His PhD research is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-3Orisa Coombs
she approached her own role in society. Orisa Coombs_1024.jpg Portrait of mechanical engineering ... make a difference in the world led her to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. “I didn’t ... I will be capable of working on almost any problem from a mechanical engineering perspective,” she adds. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/orisa-coombsYo-yos offer a first foray into manufacturing at scale
complete with rotating lightsabers. These yo-yos are the creation of mechanical engineering students in ... professor of mechanical engineering and an instructor of 2.008, yo-yos offer a perfect case study for ... The course builds upon mechanical engineering classes like 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I) in which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/yo-yos-offer-first-foray-manufacturing-scaleA creative desire, and the grit to get it done
favorite class is math.” laura-rosado-bike1024.jpg Laura Rosado is double-majoring in mechanical ... sold me. I thought this just makes me very excited to be a mechanical engineer.” There have, of course, ... been other important formative experiences in the aspiring mechanical engineer’s life, which reinforced ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creative-desire-and-grit-get-it-doneMIT engineering students crack egg dilemma, finding sideways is stronger
impact,” says Tal Cohen, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical ... compressed more under the same amount of force, meaning it was more compliant.” Using mechanical modeling and ... strength of an egg when subjected to impact. Even seasoned researchers in fracture mechanics initially ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineering-students-crack-egg-dilemma-finding-sideways-strongerAdhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater
The mechanical system could be used to deliver drugs in the GI tract or monitor aquatic ... other marine animals, researchers from MIT and other institutions have designed a mechanical adhesive ... physics and mechanics of how this part of the fish sticks to another organism helped us to establish the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-inspired-hitchhiking-sucker-fish-sticks-soft-surfaces-underwaterStudent Spotlight: Melinda Hale (PhD ’13) and Allison Yost (SM ’12)
couldn’t do it without the MIT entrepreneurial community, comprising an army of faculty, students, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-melinda-hale-phd-%E2%80%9913-and-allison-yost-sm-%E2%80%9912MIT-Delft University of Technology team places third in Formula Student Germany driverless competition
Delft team,” says the team’s faculty advisor, Luca Carlone, assistant professor of aeronautics and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-delft-university-technology-team-places-third-formula-student-germany-driverlessAlumni Spotlight: Professor David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ’06)
David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ‘06), a professor of mechanical engineering and biology at Georgia Institute of ... MechE, he got hooked on fluid mechanics after taking a course with Professor Gareth McKinley. “I always ... wanted ways to teach people fluid mechanics – and I think there is no better way to learn fluid mechanics ...
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