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The breadth of MechE
mechanical engineers capable of doing the design, manufacturing, and operation engineering, Slocum says, and ... are limiting and how to improve, and it’s intrinsic to mechanical engineering. “Design, manufacturing ... guide the engineering design of robotic swimmers, crawlers, burrowers and other mechanisms. Screenshot ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breadth-mecheUsing combustion to make better batteries
combustion. Now an assistant professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Class of 1954 ... task for Deng and her team — mechanical engineering postdoc Jianan Zhang, Valerie L. Muldoon ’20, SM ... of Mechanical Engineering. This article appears in the Winter 2023 issue of Energy Futures, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-combustion-make-better-batteriesVelcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination
MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array of silk microneedles, ... Horizontal MIT engineers, including Professor John Hart have designed a food sensor from an array of silk ... are designed to draw fluid into the back of the sensor, which is printed with two types of specialized ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/velcro-food-sensor-detects-spoilage-and-contaminationWorking out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle
of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But one with these four important properties has not been designed ... through a vigorous workout. MIT-Hydrogel-Muscles-1024.jpg A mechanically trained artificial muscle resists ... damage (crack) propagation using aligned nanofibrils, a similar fatigue-resistant mechanism as in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/working-out-makes-hydrogels-perform-more-muscleA simple diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal disorders
Department of Mechanical Engineering. Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration ... can sense contractions of the GI tract. MIT researchers have now designed a new device that could ... offer a cheaper and easier-to-manufacture alternative to existing diagnostics for GI dysmotility, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-diagnostic-tool-gastrointestinal-disordersFaculty highlight: A. John Hart
with the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity ... Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering A. John Hart hopes progress in the science and ... electronics, medical devices, and arts and crafts. "Being in mechanical engineering, in the area of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-john-hartLEGO Group COO discusses the production network that enables the builders of tomorrow
Thursday, March 27, 2025 Maeve Rich | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal The LEGO Group COO ... Speaking at MIT, the LEGO Group COO Carsten Rasmussen discussed the company’s manufacturing ... of building and mechanics while playing with the familiar plastic bricks. In just a few hours, a heap ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lego-group-coo-discusses-production-network-enables-builders-tomorrowDriving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit
in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, Field took a job at Ford in 1987. The big Detroit ... Field assembled an “amazing” team of engineers and designers who were as passionate as he was about ... Across a career’s worth of pioneering product designs, Doug Field’s work has shaped the experience ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-innovation-silicon-valley-detroitDoug Field
in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, Field took a job at Ford in 1987. The big Detroit ... Field assembled an “amazing” team of engineers and designers who were as passionate as he was about ... Across a career’s worth of pioneering product designs, Doug Field’s work has shaped the experience ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/doug-fieldAviation Week's 2014 Twenty20s Include Two with Ties to MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Mechanical Engineering for innovation in design. He and colleagues built a 3-D printer that produces glass ... degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. As a member of the Engineering Division, he has worked on ... for advanced degrees, Stern is working toward a master's degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aviation-weeks-2014-twenty20s-include-two-ties-mit-lincoln-laboratoryStudents demonstrate "calculated imagination" in robot competition
Maker Horizontal On May 10, mechanical engineering students taking class 2.007, Design and Manufacturing ... mushroom. The game board was designed to get students familiar with basic mechanical engineering principles. ... mechanical engineering. The students design robots of all shapes and sizes with a multitude of capabilities. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-demonstrate-calculated-imagination-robot-competitionMIT rates No. 1 in 12 subjects in 2017 QS World University Rankings
; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering; Chemistry; ... Linguistics; Computer Science and Information Systems; Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering ... include: Art and Design (No. 2), Biological Sciences (No. 2), Earth and Marine Sciences (No. 5), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-rates-no-1-12-subjects-2017-qs-world-university-rankingsMicro/Nano
research in micro- and nanoscience and technology; this research cuts across mechanical engineering ... Micro/Nano Engineering Micro and nanotechnology have had and will continue to have a tremendous ... impact on a wide range of mechanical systems. Examples are microelectromechanical devices and systems ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/micronanoA 3D printable tissue adhesive
a graduate student who works in the lab of Mechanical Engineering Professor Xuanhe Zhao. “ Our research takes ... design and manufacturing. “We demonstrate how 3D printing can be used to create patches with programmable ... design space in the manufacturing of more complex tissue adhesive technologies.” Models presented in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printable-tissue-adhesiveHairy tongues help bats drink up
with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT’s Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette “Peko” ... Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT. The researchers have ... spoons to scoop and drag up the tasty sap. Now engineers at MIT have found that, for bats and other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hairy-tongues-help-bats-drinkDavid Larson
and manufacturing engineers for iterative design and optimization of the next generation of ships,” ... Corban Swain “I think I got into design and engineering through the sailing route,” says Larson. “I ... was most interested in mechanical engineering and ocean engineering classes. As a sophomore, he took ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-larsonNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Materials. The paper’s co-authors are Evelyn Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, former ... Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... hair.jpg The new material designed by MIT researchers is a flexible polymer "skin" coated with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairThere’s Magic in Mechatronics
combines electrical and mechanical engineering, but above all else it’s about design. ... 2.737 (Mechatronics) combines electrical and mechanical engineering, but above all else it’s about ... of mechanical systems, electronics, controls, and computer science. Mechatronics engineers work in ...
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