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Method rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions

Toyota Professor of EECS, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the ... engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and lead author of a paper on this technique. Amice ... mean mathematically, and can the computer give me an answer?” Amice says. In the end, like the name ...

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Letter from Department Head Mary C. Boyce

that they become advancements the public can utilize. In Mechanical Engineering, we integrate product ... development into a number of our core undergraduate courses, such as 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) and ... Thank you, as always, for your continued support of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Sincerely, ...

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Student Spotlight: Guangtao (Taotao) Zhang (Candidate SB ’14)

English. Now, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, she is preparing to graduate this winter ... small groups. But leading Course 2.013 is forcing me to learn how to live with some uncertainties and be ... and begin a new job at Apple as an iPad product design engineer. The path she took from A to B wasn’t ...

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Parks, David Moore Professor

Reimagining an iconic design class

mechanical engineering. “For me, 2.007 was the class I’ve been most looking forward to at MIT. It serves as ... For the past 50 years, mechanical engineering students at MIT have convened on campus for ... co-lead instructor, Sangbae Kim, professor of mechanical engineering, immediately started envisioning what ...

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Kamrin, Ken Visiting Professor

A community of making

Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Education Maker Horizontal Academics from around the country ... people,” wrote Culpepper and his co-organzier, Vincent Wilczynski, a deputy dean of engineering at Yale ... Yale, Georgia Tech, Case Western University, Olin College of Engineering, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon ...

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Two from MIT honored at World Technology Awards

Department of Mechanical Engineering and a fellow in the MIT Tata Center, was named the winner of the ... his advisor, associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, have demonstrated that they ...

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Hairy tongues help bats drink up

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 ... spoons to scoop and drag up the tasty sap. Now engineers at MIT have found that, for bats and other ...

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Temperature difference propels droplets

mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor David Quere at ESPCI in Paris, MIT postdoc Nada Bjelobrk, ... a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was not associated with this research. ...

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Nylon 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 ...

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Stretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body

Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If these ... Liu and Hyunwoo Yuk, specializes in tuning the mechanical properties of hydrogels. The researchers ... within the human body,” says Fiorenzo Omenetto, a professor of biological engineering at Tufts ...

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Spray tuning

specks. MIT-Elastic-Liquid-1.jpg Such droplet sizes may seem random, but now engineers at MIT can predict ... McKinley, who is the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT and the paper’s senior ...

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Guided Discovery at MIT

MIT Through emphasizing the process of discovery, instructors in course 2.001, Mechanics and Materials ... I, provide mechanical engineering students at MIT a foundation to build their careers on.  Mechanics ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEZBRx6-dQs&list=PLjcvg-IYUiT8fAb8STruJH1YM63lj38sk&index=11 Through emphasizing the process of discovery, instructors in course 2.001, Mechanics and Materials ...

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Motion-Induced Quicksand

mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ... MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... mechanical behavior of the sand itself has changed because something was moving far away,” Kamrin says. “How ...

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‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness

bunch of elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Mechanical Engineering, developed the Anklebot as an experimental and rehabilitation tool. Much like ... IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. The paper’s co-authors are Hyunglae ...

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Phillip Daniel

As a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts ... in engineering, and he went on to earn three mechanical engineering degrees at MIT. He felt at home ... “almost like a fingerprint,” that serve as a guide. His fascination with engineering started when he was ...

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Leonard, John J Professor; Associate Department Head

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