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A robot dives into search for Malaysian Airlines flight
got its start at MIT. Bluefin Robotics, founded in 1997 by a core group of engineers from the MIT ... Discover how, in the spirit of the late MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton, Boston-area ... teenagers will design and build an AUV at MIT this summer. Thursday, April 17, 2014 Nicole Estvanik Taylor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-dives-search-malaysian-airlines-flight“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Vision can be noisy, slightly inaccurate, and ... MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered ... blind. The 90-pound mechanical beast — about the size of a full-grown Labrador — is intentionally ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cblind%E2%80%9D-cheetah-3-robot-can-climb-stairs-littered-obstaclesStudent product ideas range from lifesaving to just plain fun
The theme for this year’s student projects in the mechanical engineering class called Product ... Engineering Processes was “rough, tough, and messy,” but the student teams’ product ideas were much more ... and music-filled set of final class presentations in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, were designed to assist ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-product-ideas-range-lifesaving-just-plain-funGraduate Admissions FAQ
a degree in Mechanical Engineering or some related branch of engineering. The department's admission ... engineering or in science may apply. How do I apply? Applicants to the MIT MechE graduate program should apply ... using the MechE online admissions site: https://apply.mit.edu/apply/ Are there separate admission ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/prospective-students/graduate/graduate-admissions-faqMethod rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions
Toyota Professor of EECS, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the ... 1024-Planning-01_0-1.jpg MIT researchers have developed a rapid safety check technique which can ensure a robot will avoid ... that can avoid false positives are typically too slow for robots in the real world. Now, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-rapidly-verifies-robot-will-avoid-collisionsMobilizing across borders to address global challenges
Roche, the W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering at MIT, had a similar ... essential for global collaboration to be unencumbered by distance. The MIT International Science and ... fund recipient and MIT professor of architectural history and theory Mark Jarzombek. “The insights and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mobilizing-across-borders-address-global-challengesAlumni Spotlight: Thomas Ober, SM ‘10, PhD ‘13
a computational fluid dynamics engineer at Haas Formula 1 during his job search, it quickly rose to the top of his ... in North Carolina. As a computational fluid dynamics engineer on a racing team, Ober combines his ... mechanics concepts I learned throughout my master’s and PhD coursework relates very well to what I’m doing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-thomas-ober-sm-%E2%80%9810-phd-%E2%80%9813John Lewandowski
properties. As a mechanical engineer, Lewandowski, who had originally wanted to be a medical doctor and ... cost and sensitivity were going in the same direction,” says Lewandowski. “Engineers would design ... studied biology as an undergraduate at CWRU, envisioned a solution that took advantage of these mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/john-lewandowskiThe Art of Measuring a Material Function as it Flows
Mechanics Micro and Nanotechnology Innovation Graduate Post-Doc Prospective Grad Home ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/art-measuring-material-function-it-flowsBig data dreams for tiny technologies
small-molecule partners will form nanoparticles among the millions of possible pairings. MIT researchers have ... nanoformulation,” says Giovanni Traverso, the Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering, and senior corresponding author of the study. Their findings point to a strategy for that solves ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-data-dreams-tiny-technologiesDriving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit
in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, Field took a job at Ford in 1987. The big Detroit ... software platforms central to all Ford models. “So many things I was lucky to be exposed to at MIT,” Doug ... anyone can pull it off, it’s likely to be Field. Ever since his time in MIT’s Leaders for Global ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-innovation-silicon-valley-detroitThree graduate students honored for hydrofoil research
Stefano Brizzolara, a research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... of Mechanical Engineering ... Engineering students — Vasileios Georgiadis SM '14, Kyle Miller SM '14, and Leon Faison SM '14 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-graduate-students-honored-hydrofoil-researchA brave new ocean world
research engineer at MIT, says to describe the ceiling-to-floor map of the world ocean and continents that ... covers the walls outside his office in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary ... of the MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm), a very widely used ocean modeling tool. Development of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/brave-new-ocean-worldCheetah III robot preps for a role as a first responder
there’s a good chance they would name the robotic cheetah. Developed by the MIT Department of Mechanical ... Engineering's Biomimetic Robotics Lab under the direction of Associate Professor Sangbae Kim, the quadruped MIT ... If you were to ask someone to name a new technology that emerged from MIT in the 21st century, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cheetah-iii-robot-preps-role-first-responderTargeting Product Design for the Developing World
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, combed through the ... microentrepreneurs’ needs can increase a company’s chances of succeeding in an emerging market In a new MIT study, ... a strong impact in emerging markets.” Saturday, December 13, 2014 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office green ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/targeting-product-design-developing-worldHarnessing the speed of light
associate professor of mechanical engineering. These tricks have led to findings that allow for generating ... group at MIT might have found a solution. “In my group we play tricks with optics,” says Fang, an ... less painful for the patients,” he says. Tuesday, July 8, 2014 Steve Calechman | MIT Industrial Liaison ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harnessing-speed-lightA flexible way to grab items with feeling
Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). In a recent project, Adelson and Sandra Liu — a mechanical engineering PhD ... Professor Edward Adelson and his Perceptual Science Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ... Conference on Soft Robotics. Courtesy of MIT CSAIL The fin ray has become a popular item in soft robotics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-way-grab-items-feelingAlumni Spotlight: Meg O’Neill (SB ’93, SM ’94)
I’m not ready for. Saying ‘yes’ keeps doors open.” Having started at ExxonMobil as an engineer in ... After a few years, she transferred within the company to work as a reservoir engineer, producing models ... fields. Her next move to New Orleans as a reservoir engineering supervisor placed her much closer to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-meg-o%E2%80%99neill-sb-%E2%80%9993-sm-%E2%80%9994Meg O’Neill
Meg O'Neill 1024.jpg Having started at ExxonMobil as an engineer in 1994, O’Neill is currently ... transferred within the company to work as a reservoir engineer, producing models about how oil and gas flow ... Orleans as a reservoir engineering supervisor placed her much closer to the business side of the company, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/meg-o%E2%80%99neillAlumni Spotlight: 6dot Innovations
the fall 2008 offering of Professor David Wallace’s popular course 2.009: Product Engineering ... the only remaining member to work on the project. While earning a master’s degree in mechanical ... engineering from Stanford University, she decided to make her work on the Braille Labeler official and started ...
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