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Talking Shop: Kripa Varanasi

awarded the 2013 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer award by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers ... . Professor Varanasi is also noted for his teaching in the core undergraduate design, mechanics, and thermal ... engineering, nanofabrication, solid-state physics, electromagnetism, et cetera. All of that was driven by the ...

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Three MIT-led projects awarded MURI funding for 2023

University Research Initiative (MURI) awards for 2023. This year, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... design, and characterization. While additive manufacturing can create complex geometries from a wide ... modalities. Wednesday, May 17, 2023 Kimberly Tecce | Rachel Gordon | Department of Mechanical Engineering ...

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Interactive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions

Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and leader of the HCI Engineering Group at CSAIL. ... researchers have now engineered “MouthIO,” a dental brace that can be fabricated with sensors and feedback ... scan, where you can then 3D print your design in dental resin. This computer-aided design tool allows ...

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Student entrepreneurs think inside the box

a chemistry, biology, and physics junior minoring in nuclear engineering; and Erica Yuen, a mechanical ... engineering graduate student — designed a solution they think can help paramedics more accurately identify ... a mathematical economics sophomore; Eswar Anandapadmanaban, an electrical engineering and computer science ...

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Protecting maternal health in Rwanda

PhD '02, research scientist in mechanical engineering at MIT and technology lead for the team. ... Saturday, September 17, 2022 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ... and engineers. The mobile platform uses artificial intelligence and real-time computer vision to ...

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Energy storage from a chemistry perspective

storage from a chemistry perspective. Co-founders Ian Hunter of MIT's Department of Mechanical ... Engineering and Tim Swager of the Department of Chemistry are longstanding MIT professors considered ... chemists, manufacturing specialists, supply chain optimizers, and entrepreneurs, many of whom have called ...

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“Electroadhesive” stamp picks up and puts down microscopic structures

who worked in the lab of mechanical engineering associate professor John Hart. “So a special ... “chiplets,” some no wider than a human hair. These elements are often assembled with robotic grippers designed ... approaching a limit.   “Electronics manufacturing requires handling and assembling small components in a size ...

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2.009 makes its “Move!” onstage

mechanical engineering students and staff, the Mocha Moves dance troupe, and the a capella group Resonance. ... course co-instructors Ellen Roche, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and Josh ... of mechanical engineering David Wallace, who is on sabbatical this year and has taught 2.009 since ...

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When to get your head out of the game

classes like Course 2.008 (Design and Manufacturing II) and Course 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) ... taught valuable lessons in product design and manufacturing, and in applying engineering skills to ... just after.” Getting knocked around — for science Harvatine, who studied mechanical engineering at MIT, ...

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Changing the color of 3-D printed objects

Professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering. “By ... The technology has evolved from basic designs to a wide range of highly-customizable objects. Still, ... single colors and 2-D designs, for example. To move beyond single-color systems, the team developed ...

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3-D printing with cellulose

The paper is co-authored by associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart, the Mitsui ... important component in giving wood its mechanical properties. And because it’s so inexpensive, it’s ... of customization that additive manufacturing [3-D printing] enables.” Meanwhile, 3-D printing ...

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Batch desalination configuration bests standard reverse osmosis approach

mechanical engineers, PhD candidate Emily Tow and postdoc David Warsinger, and also includes MIT PhD student ... water is energy-intensive. A team of MIT researchers has responded by creating new designs for reverse ... water out of a more concentrated solution. “The commercially-available semi-batch design, called ...

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In the World: Remote Mexican Village Uses Solar Power to Purify Water

engineering at MIT, says the case study in La Mancalona demonstrates that with careful design and proper ... subsistence farmers, have operated and maintained a solar-powered water purification system engineered by ... operators in the village.  Photo by  Leah Kelly Steven Dubowsky, a professor emeritus of mechanical ...

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MIT students hack assistive technology solutions for local clients

Laboratory; Don Fredette of The Boston Home; Michael Buchman of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... technology itself is simple. The real challenge lies in understanding what the user needs and designing ... they decided to expand the remote's capabilities. They created a mechanical light switch that can ...

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Needles that hit the right mark

mechanical engineering and biological engineering. So and MIT research scientist Jeon Woong Kang designed and ...

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The power of play

Industry Immersion Projects and principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, says the collaboration will support projects ... founding industry partners, Anthony says. And the third-floor Immersion Lab — specifically designed to ...

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Building a framework for remote making

manus" — "mind and hand." For many students, making is more than designing, engineering, arts, ... MIT-sponsored purposes,” says Martin Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering and director of Project ... Durak. Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture ...

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Talking Shop: Professor Sanjay E. Sarma

Professor Sanjay Sarma has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 1996, after ... Sarma’s research focus is on efficient manufacturing and automatic identification, including barcodes and ... RFID,  supply chain management, transportation, and sensors. A member of the Laboratory for Manufacturing ...

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Cookstoves and Connections in the Himalaya

Lisa Tang, a master’s student in mechanical engineering, and Connie Ly and Luke Chapman, two ... undergraduate sophomores in mechanical engineering. Working with partner universities in India and Nepal, we ... Dehradun, and Akshansh Kataria and Rahul Kumar from Ecosense Appliances, a cookstove manufacturing company. ...

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Computing

Computing Mechanical Engineering aims to prepare students to tackle some of the world’s most ... Engineering 6.034 Artificial Intelligence 6.036 Introduction to Machine Learning 6.046J Design and Analysis of ... challenging engineering problems by leveraging computational tools and methods. This concentration allows ...

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