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Taking a break and making connections
prepare for her return to MIT, Jahnavi took classes in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and aerodynamics ... a newfound interest in sustainable design. “I changed my mechanical engineering concentration to sustainable ... In spring of 2014, Jahnavi Kalpathy was weighing her options: She could remain at MIT and try to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-break-and-making-connectionsJulia Sokol
who works on a drip irrigation project at MIT’s Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab. “That’s ... old. After receiving her bachelor’s in mechanical engineering at Harvard University, Sokol spent some ... for the environment, but also for global food supply. Julia Sokol, a PhD student in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/julia-sokolSoft robots that grip with the right amount of force
and Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a principal investigator at CSAIL. “Here we explore regulating ... scientist at Toyota Research Institute; Tao Pang, mechanical engineering PhD student at MIT and CSAIL ... more robustly, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robots-grip-right-amount-forceArtificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
author Ritu Raman, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering (MechE) at MIT. “Such modularity ... limited in the amount of motion and power they can produce. Now, MIT engineers are aiming to give bio-bots ... bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate “biohybrid robots” made ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-tendons-give-muscle-powered-robots-boostMichelle Kornberg
challenges mechanical engineers face,” explains Kornberg, now a senior. This balance of using fundamental ... Alongside Nicholas Fritzinger-Pittman, a senior studying mechanical engineering, Kornberg worked on ... Tony Pulsone During MIT’s First-Year Pre-Orientation Program, Kornberg got a sense of which major would ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/michelle-kornberg-0Soft biorobotic heart, computational fluid models, aid in evaluation of surgical techniques for Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect
Development Professor and associate professor of mechanical engineering. The researchers developed a model of ... congenital heart defects,” says Roche. Sunday, July 14, 2024 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical ... Engineering blue Collaboration Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-biorobotic-heart-computational-fluid-models-aid-evaluation-surgical-techniquesHow to make hydrogels more injectable
a clinical application standpoint,” says Ellen Roche, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... a member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “More broadly, it’s a nice example of ... materials, which are made from microscale building blocks akin to squishy LEGOs, MIT and Harvard University ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-hydrogels-more-injectableAn Eye for Design
freely? Maria Yang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which people formulate ideas ... She wound up majoring in mechanical engineering, and was instantly drawn to the design courses. Not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eye-designFrom nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate
in mechanical engineering at MIT. To keep new ideas flowing from the classroom to the factory floor, ... Collaborative (MIT HEALS) and the Charles W. and Jennifer C. Johnson Professor of Biological Engineering, opened ... Traverso, the Karl Van Tassel Career Development Professor of Mechanical Engineering, who is also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nanoscale-global-scale-advancing-mit%E2%80%99s-special-initiatives-manufacturing-health-andJ-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering. John H. Lienhard V, director of J-WAFS and the ... “Commercializing effective technologies with sound business models is one of MIT’s most effective mechanisms to ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, and co-PI Amy Smith, senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-solutions-program-awards-750000-commercialization-grantsPeeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales
of mechanical engineering Mathias Kolle. MIT-Butterfly-Growth-1024.jpg Larger, overlapping scales in ... a butterfly its color and shimmer, and help shield the insect from the elements. Now, MIT engineers have ... scales,” says lead author Anthony McDougal, a research assistant in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peeking-chrysalis-videos-reveal-growth-butterfly-wing-scalesCharting the future of production
Office, Schmidt Futures, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering all partnered with Manufacturing@MIT ... Mechanical Engineering Horizontal A symposium organized by the Manufacturing@MIT Working Group, which is ... (mechanical engineering) and Berger. Since early 2022, this group, which includes faculty from across campus, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/charting-future-productionLooking to space to cure osteoarthritis
teaching a basic course on semiconductor physics and circuits in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering ... head of MIT’s chemical engineering department, who had pioneered the use of nanoparticles to deliver ... position in electrical engineering. He has been at the Institute ever since. In 1995, MIT set up the Center ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/looking-space-cure-osteoarthritisDesign prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implants
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. ... interfere with many other types of implantable medical devices. However, a team of MIT engineers and ... incorporated mechanical actuation into a soft robotic device, the device remained functional for much longer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-prevents-buildup-scar-tissue-around-medical-implantsMIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator
volunteer team of engineers, physicians, computer scientists, and others, centered at MIT, is working to ... MIT-Ventilator-Project-1024.jpg This shows the setup used for preliminary testing of an earlier version of the low-cost prototype ... courtesy of the researchers The team, called MIT E-Vent (for emergency ventilator), was formed on March ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-based-team-works-rapid-deployment-open-source-low-cost-ventilatorNew test rapidly diagnoses Zika
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Image courtesy of the researchers This test could offer an ... engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, a visiting scientist in MIT’s Department of ... Mechanical Engineering, and a co-senior author of the paper. The researchers worked with scientists around ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-test-rapidly-diagnoses-zikaDeploying non-contact vitals sensing kiosks across campus
undergraduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT, Koeppen developed an interest in using mechanical ... 11, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Graduate ... University’s mechanical engineering program, he was part of the founding team at Sparx Hockey, which produces ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deploying-non-contact-vitals-sensing-kiosks-across-campusManufacturing a cleaner future
faculty and alumni from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering offer solutions for manufacturing’ ... mechanical engineers. At MIT in particular, there is always a drive to make manufacturing sustainable,” says ... John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/manufacturing-cleaner-future