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Power Efficiency in the Violin
a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You’re cutting with a knife into thin wood and you ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team modeled the airflow through a simple round ... New study identifies key design features that boost violins’ acoustic power Some of the most ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-efficiency-violinFor developing designers, there’s magic in 2.737 (Mechatronics)
of mechanical systems, electronics, controls, and computer science. Mechatronics engineers work in ... a variety of industries — from space exploration to semiconductor manufacturing to product design — and ... mechanical engineering David Trumper, who has been teaching class 2.737 (Mechatronics) since he joined the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-designers-there%E2%80%99s-magic-2737-mechatronicsInternational development through dialogue, design, and dissemination
in mechanical engineering and co-director of MIT's D-Lab, which she founded, says the question ... way to teach people about mechanical engineering.” One of his former students, Tish Scolnik '10 ... asked, how could you design a product for Haiti if you’ve never been there? Smith, now a senior lecturer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/international-development-through-dialogue-design-and-disseminationSolar panels get a face-lift with custom designs
to embed into existing solar panels? Recruiting MIT mechanical engineering student Jody Fu, Sistine ... Sistine recruited Anthony Occidentale, an MIT mechanical engineering student who has since helped further ... manufactured shingles in a barkwood pattern,’ we have a matching design for that,” he says. Custom designs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-panels-get-face-lift-custom-designsA new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy
investigator at LEES and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. S. Isaac P. Tian, NUS graduate student and ... Researchers have discovered a novel way to perform “general inverse design” with reasonably high ... design. As the name suggests, the concept of inverse design reverses the conventional design process, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-perform-general-inverse-design-high-accuracyDesigning off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya
Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) is combining expertise in mechanical engineering ... and mechanical engineering in the Department of Architecture; Daniel Frey, a professor in the ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the faculty director for research at MIT D-Lab; and Eric Verploegen, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-grid-refrigeration-technologies-crop-storage-kenya3 Questions: The risks of using 3D printing to make personal protective equipment
Covid-19-related medical devices. Martin Culpepper is a professor of mechanical engineering, director of Project ... discusses the risks associated with using 3D printing for PPE and what designers, researchers, and engineers ... people from the spread of viruses like Covid-19. Q: How should designers and engineers utilize 3D ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-risks-using-3d-printing-make-personal-protective-equipmentEngineering Joy
Flowers became interested in mechanical engineering and design at a young age, thanks in large part to his ... 1970s, Flowers took over instruction of 2.70, now called class 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I). ... a revolution in engineering education, and it quickly helped solidify the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-joy-0Visual Thinking for Engineers
mechanical engineering faculty come bearing specific innovative artifacts, Maria Yang offers conceptual ... strong mathematically, but visual thinking is part and parcel of being a mechanical engineer. We need to ... of mechanical engineering and engineering systems who directs MIT's Ideation Lab, conducted ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/visual-thinking-engineersThe most interesting startup in America is in Massachusetts. You’ve probably never heard of it.
mechanical engineering at MIT and cofounder of the most interesting startup in America. It’s called ... VulcanForms eyes a radical transformation of manufacturing. DEVENS — About 40 miles northwest of ... cheap, workaday manufacturing that drifted overseas long ago. But it could help usher in something new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/most-interesting-startup-america-massachusetts-you%E2%80%99ve-probably-never-heard-itMatthew Cavuto: Getting a leg up on engineering
Matthew Cavuto, now a senior in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, embarked on his career ... an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Cavuto has developed a patent-pending artificial ... and from the inexpensive yet durable custom locking mechanism he designed. His work on that project, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/matthew-cavuto-getting-leg-engineeringToy-making offers seriously fun introduction to engineering
2.00b, Toy Product Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get ... In class 2.00b, Toy Product Design, first year students get hands-on engineering and product ... design experience. Most engineers first discover their affinity for engineering in childhood. Long before ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/toy-making-offers-seriously-fun-introduction-engineering-0Talking Shop: Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson
including inventing the progressive fee-plus-rebate policy in 1973 and designing jet engines. But wherever ... collaboration with the journal Engineering, for the best design in human-powered land transport. To my amazement ... Designer, Inventor, and Author of “The Bike Bible” Discusses His Lifelong Love of the Bicycle For ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilsonEngineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures
process throughout a building’s construction, from manufacturing to demolition. Now MIT engineers ... designed to interlock, much like LEGO bricks. In mechanical testing, a single glass brick withstood ... material,” says Kaitlyn Becker, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We’re taking glass and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3d-print-sturdy-glass-bricks-building-structuresErnst Frankel, shipping expert and professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 95
with a master’s of science in ocean engineering and a master’s of marine mechanical engineering. In his ... Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education Horizontal Ernst G. Frankel MME ’60, ... Ernst G. Frankel MME ’60, SM ‘60, professor emeritus of ocean engineering who served on MIT’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ernst-frankel-shipping-expert-and-professor-emeritus-ocean-engineering-dies-95-0MIT engineers introduce the Oreometer
before putting the second wafer on top,” says Crystal Owens, an MIT mechanical engineering PhD candidate ... difficult to access. In addition to Owens and Fan, co-authors are mechanical engineering professors Gareth ... stressed. MIT engineers have now subjected the sandwich cookie to rigorous materials tests to get to the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-introduce-oreometerEngineers identify key to albatross’ marathon flight
Bousquet, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The region is extremely ... professor of mechanical engineering and information sciences and of brain and cognitive sciences, and ... professor of mechanical and ocean engineering. Competitve soaring The team’s project was inspired, in part, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-identify-key-albatross%E2%80%99-marathon-flightBuilding an HMCo. Steam Engine: Introduction
Apprenticeship Shirley was one of approximately a dozen mechanical engineering students taking a course I teach ... projects that involve advanced CAD (computer aided design), CAM (computer aided manufacturing ... As a sailor and mechanical engineer with a proclivity for antique machinery, nautical-based projects ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-hmco-steam-engine-introductionMIT engineers build smart power outlet
scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the smart power outlet is able to connect to ... and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at ... detectors, according to a team of MIT engineers, is that they often err on the side of being overly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-build-smart-power-outletCollaborating for irrigation access solutions: Where policy and engineering meet
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and one in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning ... Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, are using an ... engineering and design approach. The goal is to design efficient drip-irrigation technologies to be used in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaborating-irrigation-access-solutions-where-policy-and-engineering-meet