Search Results
Showing Results for: “mechanical engineering 2A mit”
Big 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-6dot-innovationsKarina Pikhart
to work on the project. While earning a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes. Karina Pikhart 1024.jpg Pikhart was on a 15-member team ... later, she recruited Robert Liebert, a graduate from Duke University with degrees in engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/karina-pikhartPedro Reis receives Early Career Award from National Science Foundation
Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Work in his research lab — the Elasticity, Geometry ... work in a short video made by John Freidah of mechanical engineering.) With the Early Career Award, ... Career Award from the NSF’s Structural Mechanics and Materials program for his project, “Smart Morphable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pedro-reis-receives-early-career-award-national-science-foundationAlumni Spotlight: VADM (ret) Paul Sullivan (SM ’80)
the average sophomore undergraduate at MIT knew more engineering calculus than I did, even as a math ... program in naval architecture and marine engineering, the crafts of naval architecture and ship design ... stronger materials, more powerful engines, more powerful mission systems, and reduced costs. “There is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-vadm-ret-paul-sullivan-sm-%E2%80%9980Featured video: Building a roller coaster
Every year during residence exploration week at MIT, or REX week, our undergraduate residence ... hopefully choose to join. So, how do you get the attention of first-year MIT students? At East Campus, you ... students who use them to customize their rooms. Video by: Melanie Gonick/MIT News | 3 min 21 sec Sunday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-building-roller-coasterTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Alberto Rodriguez
Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering red Maker ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU Horizontal Alberto Rodriguez ... inertia of objects, its pose, or other mechanical properties such as friction. Another is control: Once ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-alberto-rodriguezSearching for Global Water and Food Solutions
issues need complex solutions, and, for that, MIT has created the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food ... approach, coupled with MIT’s unique capabilities, that will set the lab apart and bring innovative solutions ... Jameel '78, a civil engineering graduate, with the intent of tackling world food and water issues ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/searching-global-water-and-food-solutionsWhat drives ecosystems to instability?
communities can be a daunting task. However, MIT researchers have now shown that the behavior of these ... a professor of physics at MIT. “We can trace out a boundary that predicts the loss of stability and the onset ... Science. Jiliang Hu, an MIT graduate student, is the lead author of the paper. Other authors include Daniel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-drives-ecosystems-instabilityBringing life to computer models of marine microbes
The group grew with new members from PAOC and the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT, becoming ... As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, ... change," says John Marshall, an oceanographer at MIT who has known Follows for decades. "That's ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesHear from our Students
Burn Yo-Yo Champion Hacking for Lilly The Magic of Making Water is Life We Are MechE at MIT Designing ... Seal-whisker-inspired Sensing MIT Hyperloop A Makerspace for the Students, by the Students How to Succeed at MIT Living ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hear-our-students