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Cultivating confidence and craft across disciplines
Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he leads the Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Research Group ... for their exploration within mechanical engineering and beyond. One student reflected on the manner in ... a non-engineering field joined the mechanical engineering graduate program, Karnik never viewed their background as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cultivating-confidence-and-craft-across-disciplinesVine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
automatically clamped in place and mechanically wound back up to gently lift the object in a soft, sling-like ... says Kentaro Barhydt, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This kind of ... mechanical lift, which then can gently hoist the patient out of bed, similar to suspending a hammock or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vine-inspired-robotic-gripper-gently-lifts-heavy-and-fragile-objectsTonio Buonassisi Seeks to Make Solar Cells Competitive
Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world. One ... tenure at MIT as an associate professor of mechanical engineering — has taken a few different turns in ... Mechanical Engineering in 2007, where he established the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “It’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tonio-buonassisi-seeks-make-solar-cells-competitiveAviation Week's 2014 Twenty20s Include Two with Ties to MIT Lincoln Laboratory
degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. As a member of the Engineering Division, he has worked on ... for advanced degrees, Stern is working toward a master's degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. ... Mechanical Engineering for innovation in design. He and colleagues built a 3-D printer that produces glass ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aviation-weeks-2014-twenty20s-include-two-ties-mit-lincoln-laboratoryUnderwater Robot for Port Security
and unique propulsion mechanism — which leaves no visible wake — the robots could, in theory, be ... a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who designed the robot together with her advisor, Ford ... order, but in ongoing work, Bhattacharyya and Asada are exploring mechanical systems that would create ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/underwater-robot-port-securityStudent Spotlight: John Lewandowski (PhD Candidate)
digest – which then becomes polymerized and magnetic, with unique optical properties. As a mechanical ... undergraduate at CWRU, envisioned a solution that took advantage of these mechanical properties of the disease. ... website. Saturday, December 13, 2014 Alissa Mariello Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering green ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-john-lewandowski-phd-candidateDepartment News
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Winter and his co-developer, Professor Anette Hosoi, investigated how ... techniques to the RoboClam. To develop this low-energy anchoring system, the researchers built a mechanical ... including mechanical engineering (which tied with Stanford). Other top-ranked engineering programs at MIT this year are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-0Department News
Mechatronics 2.737 Gets a Makeover Courtesy of Course 2.737 Mechanical engineering exists at the ... that. Course 2.737: Mechatronics, which teaches aspects of mechanical engineering, electrical ... version of 2.01, the introductory-level solid mechanics class in our new flexible 2A program. Beginning on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-2Faculty Research: Professor Rohit Karnik
Photo Credits: MIT News Office by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Cell rolling is a common mechanism ... mechanism. The device takes in mixtures of cells, which flow through tiny channels coated with sticky ... Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “You could potentially buy a $5 or $10 kit and get the cells sorted without ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-rohit-karnikFaculty Research: Printing in Reverse
utmost importance, requiring specific electrochemical and mechanical properties to allow the etching to ... select the stamp materials based on particular electrochemical and mechanical properties, since we want ... chemical-mechanical polishing, which does not work well for copper in particular,” he says. “So we have reduced ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-printing-reverseRefrigerator magnets
Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can envision wireless cooling where you apply a magnetic field to ... Mechanical Engineering head Gang Chen, have published a paper detailing the magnon cooling theory in Physical ... motivate new experiments.” Li Shi, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/refrigerator-magnetsNew particle-sorting method breaks speed records
McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... says. And it turns out that at great speed, the focusing mechanism grows even more effective. “We didn’t ... Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University who was not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-particle-sorting-method-breaks-speed-recordsA New Way to Make Sheets of Graphene
says Hart, the Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. “To make it ... understanding of graphene growth in concert with the mechanics of the nickel film,” he says. “We’ve shown this ... mechanism can work. Now it’s a matter of improving the attributes needed to produce a high-performance ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-sheets-grapheneMIT robot may accelerate trials for stroke medications
says Hermano Igo Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. ... insight into the mechanisms of the treatments, so that we can target those mechanisms and improve the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-may-accelerate-trials-stroke-medicationsA microchip for metastasis
mechanical engineering. “We only waited until day five, but if we had gone longer, [the size of the clusters] ... Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... importance of mechanics and identify novel pathways for treatment.” The team plans to explore cancer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-metastasisIlluminating a complex disease
mechanical engineering departments, and a senior author of the paper. “Endometriosis patients report symptoms ... mechanisms known,” she says. Keith Isaacson, director of the Newton-Wellesley Hospital Center for Minimally ... infertility. Aside from this basic mechanism, not much is known about how the disease arises and progresses. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/illuminating-complex-diseaseLights, camera, inspiration
Mechanical Engineering Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73, and Edgerton Center Director J. Kim ... Vandiver, a professor of mechanical engineering. Students from the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics ... that the mechanical housing of their robot was leaking. One of the teenage boys from the Carl Hayden ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lights-camera-inspirationEngineering students demonstrate product prototypes
yoga or sell some veggies, organize your workshop or calm an elderly relative, MIT’s mechanical ... on Monday night, eight teams of students in the capstone course for mechanical engineering majors ... a giant thank-you card to David Wallace, the professor of mechanical engineering and engineering systems ...
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