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New Faculty

  We are pleased to introduce two new faculty members, Mark Thomas and Amos Winter. Mechanical ... Manufacturing, Bioengineering, Ocean Engineering, and one search broadly across all mechanical engineering ... Winter earned a BS in mechanical engineering from Tufts University in 2003 and an MS and PhD in 2005 and ...

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Professor Emeritus Ernest Cravalho, an expert in thermodynamics and pioneer in thermal fluids education, dies at 82

Ernest “Ernie” Cravalho, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT, passed away on ... Tuesday, April 13, at the age of 82. Cravalho served as a member of MIT’s mechanical engineering faculty ... in mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. After receiving his doctoral ...

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Professor Emeritus Igor Paul, an expert in product design and safety, dies at 87

Professor Emeritus Igor Paul ’60, SM ’61, PhD ’64, an influential professor of mechanical ... (43).jpg: Igor Paul was a member of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty from 1964 to 2003. ... today.  Photo courtesy of the Paul family. Paul was a member of the MIT Department of Mechanical ...

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Mapping the future of metamaterials

architected materials achieve unique mechanical and physical properties with capabilities beyond those of ... where all other existing materials have lacked success. Architected materials exhibit unique mechanical ... revolutionize the mechanics and materials science disciplines, enabling smarter, more adaptive materials that ...

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Teaching first-year students fundamental principles through creation

senior year in some cases,” explains Daniel Frey, professor of mechanical engineering. “I want to give ... controls, and mechanics. By the third week of the semester, they are divided into teams that work together ... mechanical engineering who took 2.00a last spring. Each year, the item students are tasked with building ...

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3D-printed revolving devices can sense how they are moving

Integrating sensors into rotational mechanisms could make it possible for engineers to build smart ... hinges that know when a door has been opened, or gears inside a motor that tell a mechanic how fast they ... mechanisms, with 3D printing. Untitled design (28).jpg: The researchers built a plugin for the computer-aided ...

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Pedro Reis receives Early Career Award from National Science Foundation

Career Award from the NSF’s Structural Mechanics and Materials program for his project, “Smart Morphable ... Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Work in his research lab — the Elasticity, Geometry ... and Statistics Laboratory — focuses on understanding the mechanics of thin objects and structures, ...

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AI and machine learning for engineering design

Artificial intelligence optimization offers a host of benefits for mechanical engineers, including ... mechanical engineering, they're thinking about basic mechanical tools like hammers and … hardware like cars, robots, ... cranes, but mechanical engineering is very broad,” says Faez Ahmed, the Doherty Chair in Ocean Utilization ...

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Three graduate students honored for hydrofoil research

Stefano Brizzolara, a research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... of Mechanical Engineering ...

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Professor Alberto Rodriguez presents work on robotic extrinsic dexterity

Alberto Rodriguez, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and incoming graduate student ... robotic hands.   Friday, July 11, 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering blue ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU ...

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SAE honors MIT researchers for best paper

of Mechanical Engineering — C. Justin Kamp, Alex G. Sappok, and Victor W. Wong — with the 2014 Arch ... 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering orange ...

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MIT student teaches toy design at orphanage in Haiti

pandemic, mechanical engineering student Eli Brooks taught engineering product design to children at the ... an orphanage in Haiti. While taking a leave from MIT during the Covid-19 pandemic, mechanical ...

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