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Low-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking
Winter, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now we can do that. And that’s super ... countries. Now MIT engineers have developed a simple, low-cost, passive prosthetic foot that they can tailor ... foot in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, with graduate student Victor Prost and research engineer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-prosthetic-foot-mimics-natural-walkingRemembering ‘Papa Flash’
Kim Vandiver, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and director of the MIT Edgerton Center, ... the tips of a rapidly whirring propeller, jumpstarting his future in ocean engineering at MIT ... The late MIT Professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton enchanted the world with his high-speed flash ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/remembering-%E2%80%98papa-flash%E2%80%99Dora Aldama: Drawn to multidimensional problems
engineering major as an undergraduate at MIT before working for five years on oil systems of jet engines as an ... airplanes. Aldama decided to return to MIT and join the LGO program for a dual masters in mechanical ... Dreamliner plane, headed from Los Angeles to Shanghai. To a typical passenger, the twin-engine jet airliner ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dora-aldama-drawn-multidimensional-problemsFour from MIT awarded National Medals of Technology, Science
physical sciences. After earning his doctorate from MIT in mechanical engineering, Suresh joined the ... Emeritus and former dean of the MIT School of Engineering, was awarded the National Medal of Science. ... tomography represents one of the biggest engineering breakthroughs from MIT in the past few decades. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-awarded-national-medals-technology-scienceSolving a Rubik's Cube in record time
stuff,” adds Di Carlo. Submitted by: Mary Beth O'Leary, Department of Mechanical Engineering | Video ... Rubik’s Cube the fastest by hand. Engineers then started building robots programmed to solve the cube at ... a lightning speeds. In 2016, a robot broke the world record and solved the cube in 0.637 seconds. Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-rubiks-cube-record-timeCrystal Winston
a job,’” she laughs. “‘But maybe you could do mechanical engineering.’” Now, a decade or so later, Winston ... has taken her dad’s advice to heart. This June, she’ll complete her degree in mechanical engineering ... this project, she says, that she knew she wanted to be a mechanical engineer. While the multifunctional ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/crystal-winstonNick Schwartz
of each fall semester, the mechanical engineering senior and nuclear fusion enthusiast dons a Santa ... and outside of MIT. Meaningful engineering When Schwartz first arrived at the Institute, he wasn’t ... committed to engineering until he took 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials I), with Rohan Abeyaratne, the Quentin ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nick-schwartzDesigning cleaner vehicles
to mechanical engineering and took as many MechE classes as he could. During his junior year, ... mechanical design and sparked an interest in vehicle design. He now heads up a “revamping” of the MIT ... March 31, 2024 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehicles-0Revolutionizing everyday products with artificial intelligence
a faculty member of the MIT departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. “At ... Researchers across MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering are using AI and machine learning ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are creating new software that connects with hardware to create ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/revolutionizing-everyday-products-artificial-intelligenceLight-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post trauma
professor and d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and MIT ... professor and d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, center, with ... students in her lab (Photo: Tony Pulsone, MIT MechE) “We engineer optogenetic muscle grafts that contract ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-activated-muscle-grafts-show-promise-aiding-muscle-recovery-post-trauma“It’s Okay if it Breaks and Blows Up”
the Department of Mechanical Engineering who participated in “BattleBots” as an MIT student during the ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s MakerWorks space, the MIT Electronics Research Society ... a rising senior majoring in mechanical engineering and computer science who worked with Li on The Dentist, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-okay-if-it-breaks-and-blows-up%E2%80%9D“Body on a chip” could improve drug evaluation
MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect ... MIT-Organs-Chip-01-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed a microfluidic platform that connects engineered tissue from up to 10 ... Innovation, a professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering, and one of the senior authors of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cbody-chip%E2%80%9D-could-improve-drug-evaluationPropelling Transportation Forward
gradually – to the consumer level. In the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, faculty are researching ... battery recharging. Professor Chathan Cooke, Principal Research Engineer at MIT Research Laboratory of ... Electronics, and Michael Defilippo, Research Engineer at MIT Sea Grant College Program, have conducted research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/propelling-transportation-forwardSarah Tress
art.” Tress has been an undergraduate apprentice in MIT's mechanical engineering shop, the ... Tress says. “I want to show that the face of success in mechanical engineering at MIT is not a male one, ... that, she was a mechanical engineering major who wanted to make an impact — and she happened to take ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sarah-tress“Nanofiber yarn” makes for stretchy, protective artificial tissue
assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “With this nanofiber yarn, the hope is, you won’t have ... heal. Now MIT engineers have come up with a tissue engineering design that may enable flexible range of ... motion in injured tendons and muscles during healing. MIT-Nano-Yarn-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cnanofiber-yarn%E2%80%9D-makes-stretchy-protective-artificial-tissueClass Close-Up: 2.981 New England Coastal Ecology
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Instructors Juliet Simpson, Research Engineer at MIT Sea ... a third-year mechanical engineering student. “We talked about the bad nor’easter earlier in January and ... mechanical engineering student, and biological engineering student Jenna Melanson (right) at a field trip in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2981-new-england-coastal-ecologyFeatured video: Pulling drinking water out of thin air
Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International enwang@mit.edu Horizontal Powered only by solar energy, ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is in the very air we breathe. “Water vapor is all around us in the ... of conditions. Submitted by: Mary Beth O'Leary / Department of Mechanical Engineering | Video ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-pulling-drinking-water-out-thin-airStudent Spotlight: David Larson ’16, SM ’18, PhD Candidate
2016, Larson enrolled in MIT’s graduate program for mechanical engineering and ocean engineering. The ... Sclavounos, professor of mechanical engineering and naval architecture. The class would end up shaping the ... O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Horizontal David Larson ’16, SM ’18, a PhD ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-david-larson-%E2%80%9916-sm-%E2%80%9918-phd-candidateResearchers design moisture-responsive workout suit
Wang’s co-authors include 14 researchers from MIT, specializing in fields including mechanical ... Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a co-author on the ... A team of MIT researchers has designed a breathable workout suit with ventilating flaps that open ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-moisture-responsive-workout-suitCaroline Sorensen
MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) are plasma physicists and nuclear engineering researchers, ... says Dennis Whyte, the director of PSFC and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at MIT. “We ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/caroline-sorensen