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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-studentsStudent Spotlight: Paul Lazarescu
A Modern-Day Inventor by Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman As ... other. Lazarescu and current MechE undergraduate Rachel Dias Carlson had received funding from the MIT ... currently in orbit. Although he loves engineering, Lazarescu has also nurtured an interest in business ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-paul-lazarescuTalking Shop: Professor Sanjay E. Sarma
Professor Sanjay Sarma has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 1996, after ... MIT/Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Collaboration. Can you tell us about the current ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-sanjay-e-sarmaPhD Candidate Albert Wang (SB ’10, SM ’12)
| Department of Mechanical Engineering red Culture Education Maker SANGBAE@MIT.EDU Horizontal Albert Wang is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-candidate-albert-wang-sb-%E2%80%9910-sm-%E2%80%9912UROP/UPOP
If you’re looking for a MechE-focused UROP or thesis project, go to Mechanical Engineering Thesis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/uropupopDemystifying the Cretaceous hothouse
Ferreira, research scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, whose ... they created a model ice-free aquaplanet to look for a mechanism by which the ocean would transport ... heat from the tropics into the poles indirectly. They found that the mechanism involves water vapor. In ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/demystifying-cretaceous-hothouseLetter from the Department Head
Alumni and Friends, Ocean engineering is a major area of focus in the Department of Mechanical ... engineering, robotics, control, communications, modeling, biology, mechanics, and biomimetics – and the many ... “As engineers, the untapped potential of the oceans calls to us…but we also feel responsible for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-0Chisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors
President Barack Obama on Friday presented MIT professors Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and Robert ... genomic level to its role in the global biosphere. Langer, a biomedical engineer who focuses on ... engineering, where his discoveries led to the creation of new tissues such as artificial skin for burn victims. ...
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