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3-D-printed structures shrink when heated

mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ... Spadaccini, who is the director of LLNL’s Center for Engineered Materials and Manufacturing. “It has ... expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ...

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Why have solar energy costs fallen?

materials and device development to manufacturing improvements and public policy design,” says Trancik. “I ... technologies improve and how engineering design and policy can support that process.” “The method we are ... (IDSS), along with co-principal investigators Tonio Buonassisi, associate professor in mechanical ...

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Jana Saadi

process behind product design. Now, she’s pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, researching how ... artificial intelligence can help mechanical engineers design products. Saadi’s path to engineering started ... mechanical engineering, with a concentration in product design. But she wasn’t always sure she would pursue ...

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Alumni Profile: Jacklyn (Holmes) Herbst ’10 MEngM ‘11, Isabella DiDio ‘16, and Ann McInroy ‘18

Microsoft as a Design for Assembly Mechanical Engineer in August of last year. “We have this shared ... with the mechanical design team to optimize the parts so they are easy to assemble,” explains DiDio. ... the team ensures every component of a product lends itself to manufacturability. “After the design is ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-profile-jacklyn-holmes-herbst-%E2%80%9910-mengm-%E2%80%9811-isabella-didio-%E2%80%9816-and-ann-mcinroy-%E2%80%9818

A factory for FrEDs at MIT

a job as a mechanical design engineer at Tesla, Li is working as a mechanical tool design engineer at ... Master of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing and Design students designed a low-cost desktop fiber ... in Advanced Manufacturing and Design. The team transformed the fiber (Fr) extrusion (E) device (D), ...

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How to assess new solar technologies

by MIT graduate student Sarah Sofia, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, ... companies in California. The study compared two basic varieties of solar cells: standard designs that use ... a single type of photovoltaic material, and advanced designs that combine two different types (called ...

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Artificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA-funded collaboration

mechanics analyses with cutting-edge generative AI design technologies to unlock the plastic reserve of ... sourcing and recycling of alloys in the design. “Currently, with standard manufacturing and design ... Department of Mechanical Engineering; Faez Ahmed, ABS Career Development Assistant Professor of mechanical ...

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Fast-tracking medical device development

engineer in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and his colleagues are overcoming that limitation, ... we can rapidly iterate on the design.” Mastering manufacturing In addition to his research and his ... role in MEDRC, Anthony is director of MIT’s Master of Manufacturing Engineering program, accelerating ...

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Ingestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly

Mechanical Engineering, where he will be joining the faculty in 2019. These devices could also be used to ... Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule ... MIT researchers have designed an ingestible sensor that can lodge in the stomach for a few weeks and ...

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Learning Machines and Physical Systems

Manufacturing II 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design 2.79[J] Biomaterials, Tissue Interactions 2.813 Energy, ... physical and artificial machines by combining mechanical design and modeling with artificial intelligence, ... Materials, and Manufacturing   Controls 2.14 Analysis and Design of Feedback Control Systems 2.184 ...

https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/learning-machines-and-physical-systems

3-D Printing 101

however, 3-D printing is a small-scale fabrication tool, used by engineers and designers to quickly print ... innovation in design and manufacturing.” When the students have familiarized themselves with the principles ... a one-week summer program for professionals, which has attracted executives, engineers, and designers from ...

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Talking Shop: Assistant Professor Alberto Rodriguez

Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering red Maker ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU Horizontal Alberto Rodriguez ... dexterous robots was the need for manufacturing automation. More recently, the economic incentive was less ... the focus of my research. I look at it from several perspectives. One is design: How do you develop ...

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A Nanoscale Competition

possibly the world’s smallest trophy. Mechanics Design and Manufacturing Micro and Nanotechnology ... design a compression-resistant nanoscale material — and win possibly the world’s smallest trophy. MIT ... MechE innovates the traditional Mechanics and Materials II class by exposing students to leading-edge ...

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Student Spotlight: David Larson ’16, SM ’18, PhD Candidate

manufacturing engineers for iterative design and optimization of the next generation of ships,” says Larson. ... design and engineering through the sailing route,” says Larson. “I wanted to understand the physics of ... Sclavounos, professor of mechanical engineering and naval architecture. The class would end up shaping the ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-david-larson-%E2%80%9916-sm-%E2%80%9918-phd-candidate

New kind of supercapacitor made without carbon

MOF material has advantages in the simplicity and potentially low cost of manufacturing, the materials ... now, “here is the breakthrough provided by Dinca et al.: They could design a MOF with high surface area ...

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