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Sarah Tress
that, she was a mechanical engineering major who wanted to make an impact — and she happened to take ... project to other MIT students in the coming years. Wrestling with philosophy In addition to her mechanical ... art.” Tress has been an undergraduate apprentice in MIT's mechanical engineering shop, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sarah-tressMIT researchers win grants to develop and test 14 innovative ideas to improve education
years, grants have supported educational innovations across a rich variety of MIT fields: mechanical ... Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering Implicit knowledge is know-how that an ... learning and innovation" — Nevan Clancy Hanumara, research scientist in the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-win-grants-develop-and-test-14-innovative-ideas-improve-educationMIT Faculty Founder Initiative announces finalists for second competition
with Ellen Roche, Latham Family Career Development Professor, an associate professor of mechanical ... Development Professor and associate professor of mechanical engineering, leads the Gallant Energy and Carbon ... rechargeable and primary batteries. She is also developing insights into reaction mechanisms that underpin ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-faculty-founder-initiative-announces-finalists-second-competitionNeed a research hypothesis? Ask AI.
Ghafarollahi, a postdoc in the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM), and Markus Buehler, the ... Mechanical Engineering and director of LAMM. The framework, which the researchers call SciAgents, consists of ... the research, and a guess at the underlying mechanisms of action. A “Scientist 2” model expands on the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-research-hypothesis-ask-aiBioinspired robotics class offers intriguing surprises
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. The backflip is basic when compared to an enormous repertoire of ... a “systematic methodology for applying biological concepts to mechanical systems.” “Biomimetics isn’t just ... ‘out-there’ projects, such as a hula-hooping robot and a leg jumping on a trampoline. As a mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-robotics-class-offers-intriguing-surprisesMechE Connects Spring 2024: News and Awards
QS World University Rankings honored MIT with a number one ranking in the subject area of Mechanical ... graduate program and undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering for 2022–2023. Women’s Technology ... Program (WTP-ME) The Women’s Technology Program (WTPME) introduces high school students to mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-connects-spring-2024-news-and-awardsRemoving carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust
assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and her group at MIT have therefore been focusing on ... 2 to a stable, solid form.” A process of discovery In 2016, Gallant and mechanical engineering ... “We’re mechanical engineers, so what we’re really keen on doing is developing an industrial process where ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/removing-carbon-dioxide-power-plant-exhaustThe Power and Potential of Oceans Unknown
functional AUVs to become commercially successful. Several areas of mechanical engineering – such ... as mechanics, controls, design, optics,and robotics – play a large part in modern ocean engineering, and ... going to build a mechanical fish because it would likely be too heavy to get out of the water, but we can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-and-potential-oceans-unknownJim Magarian
the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The other half of his time is spent teaching Course 6.912 ... responses of over 1,100 seniors majoring in mechanical engineering, from nine universities across the ... What are the mechanisms at play that attract some engineering graduates to conventional engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-magarianJ-WAFS announces seven new seed grants
including the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical ... led by Daniel Frey, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and D-Lab faculty director, ... along with Leon Glicksman, professor of architecture and mechanical engineering, is a storage technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-announces-seven-new-seed-grantsJ-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT
professor, Des Marais’ ongoing project to further investigate the mechanisms and consequences of genomic and ... of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Benedetto Marelli of CEE also launched a new ... also introduced them to researchers in Professor Amos Winter’s lab in the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-supporting-food-and-water-research-across-mitA Bipedal Robot with Human Reflexes
Mechanical Engineering. “Instead, we’d like to use the human’s natural reflexes and coordination. An example ... Sangbae Kim, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Center Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical ... natural to humans, you can have the human do it.” Jonathan Hurst, associate professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bipedal-robot-human-reflexesModerating Extremes in Building Design
mechanical engineering says that both will be needed in the retrofitting of existing buildings and the ... warm or cool air will remain in a space, thereby lowering the need for mechanical systems. While the ... conditioning. The reliance on mechanical systems could then decrease by at least half, as has happened in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moderating-extremes-building-design3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ... its actuation mechanisms are at the micron scale.” Printing with light To print shape-memory ... as an actuation mechanism to tune the inclination angle of the solar cell,” Fang says. “So we think ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesDrive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ... PhD ’14; Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor in Mechanical ... mechanics at Columbia University, who was not involved in this work. “With the general trend to more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsIra Dyer, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 91
merged with the Department of Mechanical Engineering) for 10 years. He also served as president of the ... Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2005. At its helm, he led the department into new areas of ocean ... 24, 2016 Department of Mechanical Engineering Education Vertical Former head of MIT's Department ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ira-dyer-professor-emeritus-ocean-engineering-dies-91Student product ideas range from lifesaving to just plain fun
The theme for this year’s student projects in the mechanical engineering class called Product ... its 21st year, the class, known by its course number, 2.009, is led by professor of mechanical ... circuit in the chair’s mechanisms. To alleviate that and allow wheelchair users more freedom to spend time ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-product-ideas-range-lifesaving-just-plain-fun