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From 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars
and Professor of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering J. Kim Vandiver, panelists included Robert Bond, ... chief technology officer of MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Dan Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and ... MIT D-Lab faculty research director; Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-limbs-semi-autonomous-race-carsSaving Seaweed
Design and Manufacturing Ocean Science and Engineering Bioengineering Health Innovation Environment ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-seaweedResurrecting an MIT “learning by doing” tradition: NEET scholars install solar-powered charging station
team included students majoring in chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, mechanical ... the project, according to NEET CSS student Tyler Ea, a fifth-year mechanical engineering major who ... The project was designed and built with novel “bio-composite” materials developed by the student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/resurrecting-mit-%E2%80%9Clearning-doing%E2%80%9D-tradition-neet-scholars-install-solar-powered-chargingStudents launch products that help users harness their superpowers
lasso of truth. Batman has his suit. On Monday evening, teams of mechanical engineering students ... 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), have spent the semester developing and designing a product ... professor of mechanical engineering David Wallace has been at the helm of the class, which serves as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-launch-products-help-users-harness-their-superpowersBringing meaningful technologies to market
MIT-Student-Chun-01-1024.jpg After graduating from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in management ... feedback from users and published a paper about the device for a mechanical engineering conference. While ... a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in management science, Chun aims to earn a master’s degree ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-meaningful-technologies-marketRobots shoot for the moon in MIT’s annual 2.007 competition
Photo: Tony Pulsone On Thursday evening, students of MIT’s popular class 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing ... a moonshot,” says Amos Winter, course co-instructor and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... cannon. Among the enthusiastic crowd was Evelyn Wang, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robots-shoot-moon-mit%E2%80%99s-annual-2007-competitionGoing for the gold
light. It’s something fourth-year mechanical engineering major and lifelong skier Tyler Ashoff has had to ... Anette “Peko” Hosoi, associate dean of engineering and professor of mechanical engineering. Throughout ... light. The team — including Ashoff, second-year mechanical engineering major Charlotte Folinus, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-goldHybrid drones carry heavier payloads for greater distances
Fort Flowers Professor in Mechanical Engineering and vice president for open learning, asked him to ... a shot at the problem by conceptualizing and designing microscale hybrid electric-gas engines for drones. ... engineering “firsts” under his belt. In the mid-1990s, Phan helped build the Draper Small Autonomous Aerial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-drones-carry-heavier-payloads-greater-distancesMIT receives $15M USAID award to promote research and innovation at universities in Latin America
of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and from MIT D-Lab, Associate Director for Research ... partnership, and collaboration; and Victor Ayerdi, head of the Mechanical Engineering Department. At AGEXPORT, ... effort. guatemalan-woman-workshop-1024.jpg MIT D-Lab and the Department of Mechanical Engineering will ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-receives-15m-usaid-award-promote-research-and-innovation-universities-latin-americaMIT Students Win First Round of SpaceX Hyperloop Contest
a design and sub-scale, prototype pod for the competition. Pods must accommodate a mechanical pusher that ... mile-long run. With strengths in aeronautics, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering and ... MIT. Douglas P. Hart of Mechanical Engineering, is facilitating team members working on the project for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-win-first-round-spacex-hyperloop-contestFrom “cheetah-noids” to humanoids
designer. “Ben is an extremely versatile engineer who can cover structure and mechanism design, electric ... at MIT, Katz studied mechanical engineering, opting for the flexible Course 2A degree program with ... four-to-five engineers to cover,” says Kim. After deciding to pursue a master’s degree in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Ccheetah-noids%E2%80%9D-humanoidsMIT and Fashion Institute of Technology join forces to create innovative textiles
Nicholas Xuanlai Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. Participating FIT faculty were Preeti Arya, ... instructor, Accessories Design. To facilitate the intersection of design and engineering for products made ... designers and engineers, hopefully giving them an exciting window into the work of our brand.” By building ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-and-fashion-institute-technology-join-forces-create-innovative-textilesTaking a leap in bioinspired robotics
mechanical engineering graduate program. There, he experienced his first taste of design freedom. “That was ... in the next five to 10 years, says Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... principles from biomechanics, human decision-making, and mechanical design to build a service robot that Kim ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-leap-bioinspired-roboticsOutside-the-Box Thinker
Mechanical Engineering, to manufacture what’s known as a “lab on a chip.” Currently, when a doctor wants to ... an aspiring mechanical engineer on a budget wants a top-of-the-line guitar, what does he do? He makes ... a functional object. MIT-Nathan-Spielberg1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone As a mechanical engineering major at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/outside-box-thinkerNew general law governs fracture energy of networks across materials and length scales
Xuanhe Zhao, the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor and professor of mechanical engineering and civil and ... environmental engineering at MIT. “This discovery has significant implications for the design of new materials, ... significant implications in material design Materials like car tires, human tissues, and spider webs are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-general-law-governs-fracture-energy-networks-across-materials-and-length-scales“Mens et manus” in Guatemala
Amy Smith (center), professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and founder of the MIT D-Lab, and ... Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with UVG and the Guatemalan Export Association (AGEXPORT). Launched ... growers and mechanical engineers at UVG developed a prototype for a low-tech cart for collecting snow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cmens-et-manus%E2%80%9D-guatemalaAlumni-founded robotic kitchen cooks up tasty meals
and fellow Course 2 (mechanical engineering) graduates Braden Knight ’16, Luke Schlueter ’16, and ... come into play. “Because we were mechanical and electrical engineers and we loved robotics, we were ... of Spyce. With their minds set on reworking the process, their background in engineering started to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-founded-robotic-kitchen-cooks-tasty-mealsKrithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
Mechanical Engineering, who researches novel designs for drip irrigation emitters that operate at lower ... candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a past co-president of the MIT Water Club. The ... across its various funding mechanisms. From the development of a novel, environmentally sustainable, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/krithika-ramchander-and-andrea-beck-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutionsJ-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-grants