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First-year students take center stage on Killian Court
“PLAYsentations” — demonstrating the toys they created this semester in mechanical engineering class 2.00b (Toy ... courtesy of the 2.00b Team. David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering and instructor of 2.00b, saw ... and in-between could celebrate engineering design.” Throughout the PLAYsentations, attendees consumed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-year-students-take-center-stage-killian-courtQS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2023
Science; Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Manufacturing Engineering; Mathematics; Physics and Astronomy; and ... and Manufacturing Engineering subject area for 2023. ... Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering; Computer Science and Information Systems; Data ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-world-university-rankings-rates-mit-no-1-11-subjects-2023Overcoming obstacles with an electric hovercraft
says Nick Dowmon, software engineering lead and a System Design and Management (SDM) graduate student. ... a graduate student in mechanical engineering. “There was no choice.” “We had to drop everything to rebuild ... Maker Horizontal The MIT team, which includes a number of mechanical engineering students, placed first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overcoming-obstacles-electric-hovercraftSeeing solutions through, across continents
Design for Scale) and is working on redesigning the manufacturing process for photovoltaic frames for ... Sade Nabahe’s time at MIT has been defined by engineering projects that help people around the ... poverty. MIT-Nabahe-Sade-1_1024.jpg “I was lucky enough to discover MIT and my passion for engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/seeing-solutions-through-across-continentsWearable system helps visually impaired users navigate
a graduate student in mechanical engineering; and Laura Giarré, a professor of electrical engineering at the ... a couple of different tests with blind users,” says Robert Katzschmann, a graduate student in mechanical ... engineering at MIT and one of the paper’s two first authors. “Having something that didn’t infringe on their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wearable-system-helps-visually-impaired-users-navigateBiomechanics and Biomedical Devices
subjects with a strong mechanical engineering disciplinary background. Major areas covered in this ... concentration include biomechanics, biomaterials, bioinstrumentation, and bio-inspired manufacturing. The ... mission of the concentration is to prepare future leaders in biomedicine, medical device design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/biomechanics-and-biomedical-devicesMini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip
developer Benjamin Katz, a technical associate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The ... in the lab of Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering. Kim says loaning mini ... a standing position. Researchers claim the mini cheetah is designed to be “virtually indestructible,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mini-cheetah-first-four-legged-robot-do-backflip-0Giving robots a faster grasp
combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... Image courtesy of the researchers Alberto Rodriguez, associate professor of mechanical engineering at ... Rodriguez’ co-authors are lead author Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-faster-graspMIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator
moving fast are when we have an a design engineer, sitting next to a controls engineer, sitting next to ... Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of ... volunteer team of engineers, physicians, computer scientists, and others, centered at MIT, is working to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-based-team-works-rapid-deployment-open-source-low-cost-ventilatorStudents present product prototypes inspired by kindness
On the evening of Dec. 7, six teams of mechanical engineering students presented the product ... mechanical engineering. Thanks to the efforts of course instructor Professor David Wallace and a massive team ... Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Entrepreneurship Horizontal Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-product-prototypes-inspired-kindnessAlumni Spotlight: Elliot Avila (SB ’14)
Mechanical Engineering who has a particular interest in the developing world. As an undergraduate student in ... a product designer and engineer for the company Global Cycle Solutions, working on a multi-crop thresher. ... a product designer and engineer for Global Cycle Solutions in Arusha, Tanzania. I’m working under a grant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-elliot-avila-sb-14Students strive for “Balance!” in a lively product showcase
design, build, and draft a business plan for a product, in a process meant to emulate what engineers ... colorful celebration of student product designs, as part of the final presentations for MIT’s popular class ... 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). With “Balance!” as its theme, the vibrant show attracted hundreds ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-strive-%E2%80%9Cbalance%E2%80%9D-lively-product-showcaseLamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
of Mechanical Engineering, pursues new design principles for high-performance battery materials that ... Dincă and Hart, Sferza also recruited mechanical engineering student Patricia Das ’17 and chemical ... engineering and chemistry student Angela Cai ’19, whose research at Santa Agata Bolognese cemented and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lamborghini-and-mit-pave-way-electric-supercar-futureTeaching robots how to move objects
| Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal PhD candidate Maria Bauza is developing ... engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The ... undergraduate career. She studied mathematics and engineering physics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsAccelerating 3-D printing
manufacturing by enabling the rapid design and production of customized and complex objects. The key to 3-D ... 3-D printing, says A. John Hart, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the ... down current 3-D printers, Hart teamed up with Jamison Go SM ’15, who now a mechanical engineer at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-3-d-printingStartup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
system was published in 2012 in the journal Medical Engineering and Physics. The device can also ... exactly consumer friendly, Anquetil says, “but it worked and was developed under design control, so we did ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-needle-free-drug-injector-gets-commercialization-dealMADMEC winners develop spray-on coating to protect power lines from ice
experimentation. Since 2007, MADMEC (the Making and Designing Materials Engineering Contest), funded by Dow and ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, stressed the parameters of the contest — working within a $1,000 ... mechanical engineering, echoed Tarkanian’s comments, emphasizing the space set aside for innovative thinking. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/madmec-winners-develop-spray-coating-protect-power-lines-iceQS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2020
Engineering; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering ... , Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering. ... Environment; Chemistry; Computer Science and Information Systems; Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-world-university-rankings-rates-mit-no-1-12-subjects-2020QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2021
and Econometrics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing ... Rankings rates MIT number one in Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering for 2021. ... Computer Science and Information Systems; Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering; Economics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-world-university-rankings-rates-mit-no-1-12-subjects-2021Pushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ... Rodriguez recently co-designed. “The robot is performing a complex task, but the core of the mechanics ... a millimeter. Image courtesy of the researchers To capture the data, the researchers designed an automated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulation