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Climbing the ‘power ascension’ market
as more line wraps around a cylinder and more weight is added. A mechanical engineering alumnus, Ball ... control switches (up or down) and a trigger. An innovative rope-feeding, capstan-based mechanism ensures ... featuring advanced manufacturing and testing equipment. Popular Mechanics, NPR, “MythBusters,” and other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climbing-%E2%80%98power-ascension%E2%80%99-marketBose Grants for 2017 reward bold and unconventional research visions
engines or propellers. “The aircraft would pull itself through the air by ionizing air over its surface ... could, and to dream big,” he says. Seeking light from an unexpected source Engineer Michael Strano and ... a lot of cases where people engineer the vote that they receive by drawing the lines in a particular ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bose-grants-2017-reward-bold-and-unconventional-research-visions%C2%A0Stamp-sized graphene sheets riddled with holes could be boon for molecular separation
Kidambi’s MIT co-authors are Rohit Karnik, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Jing Kong, ... MIT engineers have found a way to directly “pinprick” microscopic holes into graphene as the ... professor of electrical engineering and computer science, along with researchers from Oxford University, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stamp-sized-graphene-sheets-riddled-holes-could-be-boon-molecular-separationArtificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
Department of Mechanical Engineering, says that biologically inspired sensors, modeled after the harbor ... is due in part to its antennae-like whiskers. Now engineers at MIT have fabricated and tested ... a large-scale model of a harbor seal’s whisker, and identified a mechanism that may explain how seals sense ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-whisker-reveals-source-harbor-seal%E2%80%99s-uncanny-prey-sensing-ability-0Fifteen MIT faculty honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2021-23
Mechanical Engineering Devin Bunten, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Esther Duflo, Department of ... Environmental Engineering); Neha Sunil (Department of Mechanical Engineering); Paula do Vale Pereira (Department ... Economics Michael Birnbaum, Department of Biological Engineering Irmgard Bischofberger, Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fifteen-mit-faculty-honored-%E2%80%9Ccommitted-caring%E2%80%9D-2021-23“Body on a chip” could improve drug evaluation
Innovation, a professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering, and one of the senior authors of ... MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect ... engineered tissues from up to 10 organs, the researchers can accurately replicate human organ interactions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cbody-chip%E2%80%9D-could-improve-drug-evaluation“Nanofiber yarn” makes for stretchy, protective artificial tissue
assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “With this nanofiber yarn, the hope is, you won’t have ... The human body is held together by an intricate cable system of tendons and muscles, engineered by ... heal. Now MIT engineers have come up with a tissue engineering design that may enable flexible range of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cnanofiber-yarn%E2%80%9D-makes-stretchy-protective-artificial-tissueCrystan McLymore
mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... Credit: Tony Pulsone In the lab of Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... opportunity to attend graduate school through the Navy. She chose mechanical engineering, hoping to study ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/crystan-mclymore-0J-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT
of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Benedetto Marelli of CEE also launched a new ... mechanical engineering Alex Slocum to a challenge presented by its research affiliate company, Xylem: how to ... soft materials to water purification. “Both the funding and the J-WAFS community led me to be deeply ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-supporting-food-and-water-research-across-mitThe Wonders of Thin Structures
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Pedro Reis, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and ... Pedro Reis' work focuses on the mechanics of large deformations of thin structures. <iframe ... Civil & Environmental Engineering, describes the research activity in his Elasticity, Geometry, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wonders-thin-structuresMIT researchers and collaborators work to prepare manufacturers for future crises
Hart, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and ... engineering and manufacturing. We can look at how people operate in a network of information like this.” ... received federal funding. A new, online agile manufacturing course is being designed and taught by Hart, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-and-collaborators-work-prepare-manufacturers-future-crisesJ-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering. John H. Lienhard V, director of J-WAFS and the ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, and co-PI Amy Smith, senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical ... Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-solutions-program-awards-750000-commercialization-grantsResearchers design moisture-responsive workout suit
Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a co-author on the ... genetic engineering tools available today, cells can be prepared quickly and in vast quantities, to ... researchers engineered moisture-sensitive cells to not only pull flaps open but also light up in response to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-moisture-responsive-workout-suitStudent teams design in the face of danger
mechanical engineering David Wallace, by presenting him with a pair of Eames-style chairs (one of them ... L. Chandler | MIT News Office Education Entrepreneurship Horizontal Teams of mechanical engineering ... conceived, designed, built, and tested by students in MIT’s iconic product design class known by its course ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-teams-design-face-dangerInnovations in water accessibility
different in every part of the world,” says Klise, currently a senior studying mechanical engineering ... in the flexibility a mechanical engineering degree provides. “Mechanical engineering is an area where ... quickly found an opportunity in the lab of John Lienhard, professor of mechanical engineering. Her project ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovations-water-accessibilityFour researchers earn interdisciplinary Schmidt Science Fellowships
Photo courtesy of MIT News. Álvaro Fernández Galiana is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering. As ... to me,” she says. “Having studied environmental engineering, women’s and gender studies, and ... the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, or computing, and places them in a postdoctoral ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-researchers-earn-interdisciplinary-schmidt-science-fellowshipsUltrasound has potential to damage coronaviruses, study finds
iStockphoto A new study by researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering suggests that ... imaging. Through computer simulations, the team has modeled the virus’ mechanical response to vibrations ... invisible damage to the RNA inside,” says Tomasz Wierzbicki, professor of applied mechanics at MIT. “The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-has-potential-damage-coronaviruses-study-findsHealing with hydrogels
to develop a bioadhesive tape for repairing damaged tissue. In November, mechanical engineering PhD ... promote healing and minimize complications after surgery. 1024_Hyunwoo Yuk_04.jpg Mechanical engineering ... in rehabilitation. Shortly after being accepted into MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, ...
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