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Yo-yos offer a first foray into manufacturing at scale
complete with rotating lightsabers. These yo-yos are the creation of mechanical engineering students in ... professor of mechanical engineering and an instructor of 2.008, yo-yos offer a perfect case study for ... The course builds upon mechanical engineering classes like 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I) in which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/yo-yos-offer-first-foray-manufacturing-scale3-D printing with cellulose
The paper is co-authored by associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart, the Mitsui ... paper. Now, thanks to new research at MIT, it may also become an abundant material to print with ... materials. “Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer in the world,” says MIT postdoc Sebastian ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-celluloseGiving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: ... mechanical engineering, and graduate student Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, has developed a model that predicts the ... Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity. Most robots on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-more-nimble-graspOn a mission to build the uncrashable car
causing a crash.” Saturday, June 9, 2018 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering ... As a PhD student in the joint MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program, Eustice focused on ... and associate professor at the University of Michigan. “From an engineering perspective, the focus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-build-uncrashable-carMeet the 2023-24 Accenture Fellows
Accenture Fellows advance technology at the crossroads of business and society The MIT and ... collaborate to spur technological innovation. Through its partnership with the School of Engineering ... advanced sensing and actuation mechanisms, scalable digital manufacturing, and emerging computational ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-2023-24-accenture-fellowsFostering forward momentum
Engineering as well as the director of the Device Research Laboratory at MIT. Her research interests include ... Management, a professor of work and employment research, and the co-director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work ... and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on updating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fostering-forward-momentumHow to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed
the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), ... consequences. To help prevent such mistakes, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab developed ... at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab; and Shervin Ardeshir, a senior research scientist at Netflix. The paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-general-purpose-ai-model%E2%80%99s-reliability-it%E2%80%99s-deployedGetting a grip on robotic grasp
way to move your robotic fingers,” says Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You do not need to command the robot, but simply move your fingers ... — or rather, fingers. Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspWatching tumors burst through a blood vessel
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We could take circulating tumor cells from a patient and subject those cells ... cancer metastasis. Now researchers at MIT have developed a microfluidic device that mimics the flow of ... previous platforms,” Chen says. Muhammad Zaman, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Boston ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watching-tumors-burst-through-blood-vesselSometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ... AUVs. The team included mechanical engineering graduate students Tapovan Lolla and Mattheus Ueckermann ... in a constantly changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sometimes-quickest-path-not-straight-lineRobotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
mechanical engineering at MIT. “A robot wouldn’t have to ask a human so many questions about what they need. ... help a human is an even thornier exercise. Now, MIT roboticists have a way to cut through the data ... a novel Relevance framework developed at MIT, the robot identifies and prioritizes objects in the scene to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-system-zeroes-objects-most-relevant-helping-humansDeveloping community around design
currently enrolled in masters or doctoral programs across MIT. Engineers, business students, architects, ... When the creation of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) — a major interdisciplinary ... center housed in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) — was announced last spring, it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-community-around-designInternational 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 ... learned from the fall semester to address the needs of the community. In the spring, back at MIT, they ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/international-development-through-dialogue-design-and-disseminationInside two MIT students’ historic BattleBots runs
of collaborations and friendships. It’s at its core an engineering challenge, so of course MIT ... match, MIT PhD student Ginger Schmidt became the first female captain (in this case, co-captain) to win ... long-running Discovery channel show. MIT has played an outsized role in BattleBots since the show’s inception ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inside-two-mit-students%E2%80%99-historic-battlebots-runsMeasuring cancer cell “fitness” reveals drug susceptibility
MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), an extramural member of the Koch Institute ... Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering ... and Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Koch Institute, are the senior authors of the study. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measuring-cancer-cell-%E2%80%9Cfitness%E2%80%9D-reveals-drug-susceptibilityStudy: With masking and distancing in place, NFL stadium openings in 2020 had no impact on local Covid-19 infections
particularly at a time when vaccination against the virus was not widely available. Now, MIT engineers have ... Engineering at MIT. “If case counts start to rise again, we know what to do: mask people, put them outside, ... stadiums,” says study author Anette “Peko” Hosoi, the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-masking-and-distancing-place-nfl-stadium-openings-2020-had-no-impact-local-covid-19AI-driven tool makes it easy to personalize 3D-printable models
co-senior author Stefanie Mueller, an associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering ... and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ... these challenges, MIT researchers developed a generative-AI-driven tool that enables the user to add ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-driven-tool-makes-it-easy-personalize-3d-printable-modelsThree awards for MIT research in anthropology, economics and political science
award winners from MIT: Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and ... a wonderful recognition of a promising scholar." Full story at MIT SHASS News MIT Political Scientist ... of Political Science at MIT. The award recognizes the best book published over the past two years in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-awards-mit-research-anthropology-economics-and-political-scienceProtecting maternal health in Rwanda
PhD '02, research scientist in mechanical engineering at MIT and technology lead for the team. ... Saturday, September 17, 2022 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ... MIT, Harvard University, and Partners in Health (PIH) in Rwanda have proposed a solution to address ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-maternal-health-rwandaFaculty Promotions
informed engineering choices and used in an ensemble manner, offers key advantages over widely used ... fractional factorial design approaches, enabling engineers to effectively utilize engineering knowledge to ... International Design Center at MIT and at the new Singapore University of Technology and Design. Nicolas ...
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