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Propelling 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-forwardResearchers 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-suitNot stuck on silicon
light-emitting diodes, and other electronic and photonic devices. A new technique developed by MIT engineers may ... science Jing Kong; and assistant professor of mechanical engineering Alexie Kolpak; along with Jared ... engineers worked out carefully controlled procedures to place single sheets of graphene onto an expensive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-stuck-siliconScientists Tune Polymer Material’s Transparency
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; and Shanmugam Kumar ... through. Now MIT scientists have come up with a theory to predict exactly how much light is transmitted ... inflated like a balloon. MIT-Color-Composites-1024.jpg Three colors of PDMS — a widely used rubbery, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-tune-polymer-material%E2%80%99s-transparencyLiving sensors at your fingertips
Robert N. Noyce Career Development associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the group’s ... Engineers and biologists at MIT have teamed up to design a new “living material” — a tough, ... up in the presence of certain chemicals. MIT-living-hydro_1024.jpg Researchers have found that the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/living-sensors-your-fingertipsSolving 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-timeRemembering ‘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%99Slowing the Spread
Evelyn Wang, Gail E. Kendall Professor and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This ... environmental engineering with a joint appointment in mechanical engineering at MIT, is trying to understand the ... Class of 1960 Fellow and professor of mechanical engineering, and his team at MIT Project Manus were one ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/slowing-spreadMIT researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals
MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique, ... MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. “That’s what we’re doing at the nanoscale.” The ... mechanical engineering Mathias Kolle, and associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart. Out of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-3-d-print-colloidal-crystalsThree MIT faculty elected 2018 AAAS Fellows
Prather is the Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering and a co-director of the MIT Energy ... His research group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering investigates heat and mass transfer, ... Three current MIT faculty members have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-faculty-elected-2018-aaas-fellowsStartup uses 3-D printing to reinvent the production of metal parts
John Hart, an associate professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the director of the ... engineering Professor Christopher Schuh; and mechanical engineering Professor Ely Sachs, an early pioneer of ... printing prototypes and small batches of metal parts. MIT-Desktop-Metal-1024.jpg Desktop Metal co-founders ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-uses-3-d-printing-reinvent-production-metal-partsThe MIT Bike Lab: A place for community, hands-on learning
| Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal MIT's Bike Lab, an all-volunteer student-run bike shop, ... love of bikes really materialized when she was in college. Champenois studied mechanical engineering ... Champenois is a graduate student in the joint Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science/Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-bike-lab-place-community-hands-learningMIT research on seawater surface tension becomes international guideline
Henry Keenan, professor and one-time department head of mechanical engineering at MIT. To join Keenan as ... Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering, and then-graduate student Kishor Nayar SM ’14, PhD ’19 ... professor of mechanical engineering, and then-graduate student Divya Panchanathan SM '15, PhD '18. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-research-seawater-surface-tension-becomes-international-guidelineFor Stronger, Lighter, Cheaper Materials, Scroll Up
practical to use graphene,” says Itai Stein, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... paper originally grew out of an MIT class, 2.675 (Micro/Nano Engineering), taught by Rohit Karnik, ... associate professor of mechanical engineering. As part of their final project, Stein and Amadei teamed up to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stronger-lighter-cheaper-materials-scrollAncient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT
engineering and mechanical engineering major who graduated in May. She spoke above the “thwump, thwump” sound ... coming from a much rarer sight on MIT’s campus — or, in fact, anywhere outside West Africa: ... smelting-courtyard-mit-1024.png MIT students and volunteers take turns working the bellows on a mud-and-straw furnace in the style ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ancient-african-smelting-technique-sparks-anew-mitTechnique inspired by dolphin chirps could improve tests of soft materials
processes and materials,” says Bavand Keshavarz, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; Thibaut Divoux of ... MIT engineers have devised a technique that vastly improves on the speed and accuracy of measuring ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-inspired-dolphin-chirps-could-improve-tests-soft-materialsNew scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
the researchers Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the scaling law ... engineers at MIT have come up with a similar scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ... MIT-Driving-Sand-1.JPG Engineers at MIT have come up with a scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-scaling-law-predicts-how-wheels-drive-over-sandOur hairy insides
currents of the fluids they’re immersed in. MIT-Hair-Beds_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT can predict how beds of ... flow. Photo courtesy of the researchers Now engineers at MIT have found a way to predict how such tiny, ... the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate dean of the School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-hairy-insidesNews & Awards: Winter 2019
Research Laboratory, has been named head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her leadership ... MIT-Graphene-Wafers-1024.jpg Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has developed ... Hatsopoulos, senior lecturer emeritus in mechanical engineering and MIT Corporation life member emeritus passed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-awards-winter-2019