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A graphene roll-out
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ... route to ultrathin membranes,” says John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... who is now at Caltech; and Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outLow-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking
foot in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, with graduate student Victor Prost and research engineer ... predict a user’s biomechanical performance, or walking behavior, based on the mechanical design of the ... Winter, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now we can do that. And that’s super ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-prosthetic-foot-mimics-natural-walkingInnovation in Education: MechE Goes Online
topics in mechanical engineering: product design for developing markets, taught by Professor Amos Winter, ... graduate Course 2.739: Product Design and Development, which teams mechanical engineering students up with ... Mechanical Engineering – nor the Institute as a whole for that matter – has been at the forefront of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovation-education-meche-goes-onlineTeam uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications
Mechanical Engineering. Co-first authors of the paper are Emre Tekoğlu, an MIT postdoc in the Department of ... a team of MIT-led engineers reports a simple, inexpensive way to strengthen one of the key materials used ... says Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Engineering and a professor in MIT’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-uses-3d-printing-strengthen-key-material-aerospace-energy-generation-applicationsCombined energy and water system could provide for millions
Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. "There was not the extreme ... engineering project. The researchers, who have shared their findings in a paper published in Sustainable ... the University of Hawaii — developed a detailed engineering, geographic, and economic model to explore ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/combined-energy-and-water-system-could-provide-millionsMicrofluidics from LEGO bricks
mechanical engineering at MIT. Indeed, LEGO bricks are manufactured so consistently that no matter where in ... Owens, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We hope in the future, others ... the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department Ascher H. Shapiro Fellowship, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-lego-bricksDora Aldama: Drawn to multidimensional problems
aerospace engineer for Pratt and Whitney, an American aerospace manufacturer. Now, she seeks to understand ... can take a lot of time and money, and can zap an engineer’s satisfaction in seeing their design come ... Dreamliner plane, headed from Los Angeles to Shanghai. To a typical passenger, the twin-engine jet airliner ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dora-aldama-drawn-multidimensional-problems“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%9D“Body on a chip” could improve drug evaluation
MIT-Organs-Chip-01-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed a microfluidic platform that connects engineered tissue from up to 10 ... Innovation, a professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering, and one of the senior authors of ... are designed to interact with the human immune system. David Trumper, an MIT professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cbody-chip%E2%80%9D-could-improve-drug-evaluationJ-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-grantsA cool new way to study gravity
Shin, a PhD candidate in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE). “The key to answering ... 08_1024x768.jpg Dongchel Shin, a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering and the lead author of a new paper that ... Department of Mechanical Engineering include Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cool-new-way-study-gravitySlowing the Spread
is transmitted and manufacturing PPE, mechanical engineers have been a driving force in many research ... As Covid-19 cases increased worldwide, mechanical engineers developed solutions to help slow and ... projects that seek to slow Covid-19’s spread and save lives. “Mechanical engineers are used to developing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/slowing-spreadGEARing technology for developing markets
GEAR Lab,” says Winter, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “One ... resulted in the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), developed at the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) ... a single-speed, variable mechanical advantage drivetrain. Grasping high on the lever increases torque, while ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gearing-technology-developing-marketsStudent Profile: Julia Sokol, PhD Candidate
supply. Julia Sokol, a PhD student in mechanical engineering, is hoping to improve sustainability and ... bachelor’s in mechanical engineering at Harvard University, Sokol spent some time in industry, first as ... sustainability with my interest in fundamental research in fluid mechanics and system design.” Rather than flood ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-profile-julia-sokol-phd-candidate