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MIT researchers collaborate with Lamborghini to develop an electric car of the future
standards and high-powered mechanical elements that make operating these luxurious sports cars so thrilling ... “emotion.” By incorporating research from Dinca and John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-collaborate-lamborghini-develop-electric-car-futureMore than 30 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists
illustrator and writer, in the category of Media Scott Tan SM ’18, MIT graduate student in mechanical ... engineering, in the category of Science Hyunwoo Yuk SM ’16, MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering, in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-30-mit-named-forbes-30-under-30-listsSix MIT faculty elected 2019 AAAS Fellows
a professor of mechanical, ocean and electrical engineering, the Ford Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and ... Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering and a leading expert in navigation and mapping for autonomous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-faculty-elected-2019-aaas-fellowsSENSE.nano awards seed grants in optoelectronics, interactive manufacturing
associate director of MIT.nano, and a principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical ... sensing and recognition Jeehwan Kim, associate professor with a dual appointment in mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensenano-awards-seed-grants-optoelectronics-interactive-manufacturingSand, Sand Everywhere
with a laugh. “It was already in all of my clothes, and now it’s in my backpack.” Motley, a mechanical ... mechanics course taught by the assistant professor of mechanical engineering. His work in the lab involves ... testing a model that’s based on linear superposition and designed to optimize the mechanics of tires ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sand-sand-everywhereLifetime Achievement: Professor John Heywood
Museum. Following in the footsteps of his father, a mechanical engineer, and his mother, a chemist and ... metallurgist, Professor Heywood began his career at Cambridge University, earning a BA in mechanical ... Cambridge, Mass., to attend MIT for a master’s degree, and then a PhD, in mechanical engineering. “I loved ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-john-heywoodNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
co-authored by Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet-Ming Chiang, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... greatly simplifying the mechanical assembly of the system, Chiang says. The components are simple enough ... fine-tuning both the liquid mixture and the design of the mechanical structures. The rate of flow can be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-concept-turns-battery-technology-upside-down“It’s Okay if it Breaks and Blows Up”
a rising senior majoring in mechanical engineering and computer science who worked with Li on The Dentist, ... said that in addition to the complex mechanical and electrical design challenges the team faced, he ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering who participated in “BattleBots” as an MIT student during the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-okay-if-it-breaks-and-blows-up%E2%80%9DNylon fibers made to flex like muscles
the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Previously, researchers had come up with the basic principle ... turn that linear shrinking motion into bending typically requires a mechanism such as a pulley and ... the motion without requiring extra mechanical parts. One of the limitations on linear actuators made ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nylon-fibers-made-flex-musclesHigh-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... archer fish’s initial momentum is zero,” says Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical ... come up with theories for how you might connect biology to mechanics.” Techet’s co-authors on the study ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchHairy tongues help bats drink up
MIT’s Department of Mathematics. “We hope that our theory explains what are the main trending mechanisms ... with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT’s Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette “Peko” ... Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT. The researchers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hairy-tongues-help-bats-drinkIngestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month
Xuanhe Zhao, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Zhao and senior collaborator Giovanni ... ping-pongs, and pufferfish The design for the new inflatable pill is inspired by the defense mechanisms of the ... yet surprisingly strong. To test the pill’s toughness, the researchers mechanically squeezed it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-expanding-pill-monitors-stomach-monthHow slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... pharmaceuticals, he says. The use of mechanical scrapers to propel drug materials through mixing tanks and pipes ... spaced pillars or walls on the surface, or mechanically grinding grooves or pits. The resulting texture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slideEngineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces
that it focuses on the mechanical properties and geometries required to support soft tissues,” says ... Gregory Dreifus, Christoph Meier, and Lei Liu, as well as Sun Jae Professor in Mechanical Engineering ... Neville Hogan and associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart. Riding collagen’s wave The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-flexible-mesh-ankle-and-knee-bracesFour MIT researchers elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2020
Professor of Engineering and professor of mechanical and ocean engineering, for contributions to ocean ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-researchers-elected-national-academy-engineering-2020MIT research on seawater surface tension becomes international guideline
Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering, and then-graduate student Kishor Nayar SM ’14, PhD ’19 ... professor of mechanical engineering, and then-graduate student Divya Panchanathan SM '15, PhD '18. ... Henry Keenan, professor and one-time department head of mechanical engineering at MIT. To join Keenan as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-research-seawater-surface-tension-becomes-international-guidelineSynthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly’s stretch and strength
Radovitzky; professor of chemistry Keith Nelson; mechanical engineering professor Xuanhe Zhao; and former ... Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who characterized the mechanical properties ... the lobster underbelly has high mechanical performance, which motivated us to see if we could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-gelatin-material-mimics-lobster-underbelly%E2%80%99s-stretch-and-strengthUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
and mechanical robustness. The team tested the material’s resilience by shooting it with ... says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ... Julia R. Greer, a professor of materials science, mechanics, and medical engineering at Caltech, whose ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsEngineers develop surgical “duct tape” as an alternative to sutures
scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Surgeons could use it as they use duct tape in the ... project supervisor and co-corresponding author Xuanhe Zhao, who is a professor of mechanical engineering ... settings. “We are studying a fundamental mechanics problem, adhesion, in an extremely challenging ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-surgical-%E2%80%9Cduct-tape%E2%80%9D-alternative-suturesTo design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays
National Academy of Sciences, the team characterizes the filter-feeding mechanism of the mobula ray ... Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. The engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled ... Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. A better trade-off The new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-better-water-filters-mit-engineers-look-manta-rays