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Lessons from the Clean Air Car Race 50 Years Later
professor of mechanical engineering. “It amazed me just how talented and motivated the young people who ... years ago. Wednesday, August 19, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT's Department of Mechanical ... Agency by the end of the year. In the midst of this progress, a team of MIT students and faculty, with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lessons-clean-air-car-race-50-years-laterStartup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
anxiety associated with needles, some patients stop adhering to these treatments. MIT spinout Portal ... patient adherence. MIT-Portal-Instruments-1024.jpg Based on research by Ian Hunter, the George N. ... Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics at MIT, Portal Instruments developed a jet-injection device that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-needle-free-drug-injector-gets-commercialization-dealMIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards 2020 seed grants
with mechanical engineering Research Scientist Micha Feigin-Almon, aim to study and generate a modeling ... MIT.nano has announced its second annual seed grants to support hardware and software research ... grants are awarded through the MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program, a four-year collaboration between ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-2020-seed-grantsWhen muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “Maybe if we stimulate the ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Vincent Butty of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ... can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-muscles-work-out-they-help-neurons-grow-new-study-showsLifetime Achievement: Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram
unrelenting seeker of the most precise ocean science and engineering truths. He was a member of the MIT team ... undergraduate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, adding naval architecture ... dynamics, and numerical marine hydrodynamics in the MIT Department of Ocean Engineering, he has also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-emeritus-jerome-milgramUnleashing the potential of the mind
Ang on a mission that would change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical ... Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “I was really passionate about the problem [of ... click a mouse to read an e-book, one of her favorite activities. MIT-Pison-Technologies-1024.jpg The MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-potential-mindGiving robots a sense of touch
area. The MIT researchers adopted the same approach. Wenzhen Yuan, a graduate student in mechanical ... a senior research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Chenzhuo Zhu, an undergraduate ... electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and is now a postdoc at the University of California at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touch3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ... Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to ... to a certain temperature “sweet spot.” MIT-Shape-Memory_1024.jpg A shape-memory Eiffel tower was 3-D ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesNew 3D printing method enables complex designs and creates less waste
Professor A. John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Waste removal Conventional vat ... waste. MIT engineers have found a way to bypass this last finishing step, in a way that could ... mechanical properties necessary for durable products,” says professor of mechanical engineering John Hart. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-method-enables-complex-designs-and-creates-less-wasteDrive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ... MIT-Smarter-Streetlights_1024.jpg “The way we measure street lighting is still very primitive,” says Sumeet Kumar PhD ’14. Kumar and ... generate its street views. Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT There must be a better way, a team of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsPhysicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow
study co-author Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is designing ... either enormous accelerations or vast amounts of observation time. But researchers at MIT and the ... MIT-Unruh-Effect-01-press_0.jpeg According to a prediction known as the Unruh effect, Millenium Falcon pilots would more likely see ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-embark-hunt-long-sought-quantum-glowControl Instrumentation Robotics
who aim to combine mechanical engineering (design, control, dynamics) with course 6 disciplines such ... SANGBAE@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/control-instrumentation-roboticsWith campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT
In 2015, MIT set a goal to reduce its annual greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum of 32 percent ... MIT has reduced campus emissions by 24 percent over the past five years. Cumulative efforts to reduce ... outreach, as well as calling on MIT to use its campus operations and community as a test bed for change. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/campus-test-bed-climate-action-starts-and-continues-mitPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ... MIT researchers have compiled a dataset that captures the detailed behavior of a robotic system ... MIT-Pushing-Dynamics_1024.jpg A key to compiling the novel Omnipush dataset was building modular objects (pictured) that enabled ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationJosh Randolph: Taking care of others as an EMT and ROTC leader
mechanical engineering major. In April, MIT senior Josh Randolph will race 26.2 miles across Concord, ... Randolph says. A mechanical engineering major, he shares his grandfather’s interest in the scientific and ... Michael Short and professor of biological and mechanical engineering Domatilla Del Vecchio. Randolph has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/josh-randolph-taking-care-others-emt-and-rotc-leaderMorphable surfaces could cut air resistance
of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering. “Less is known about what happens ... caused by air resistance in half. Now researchers at MIT are aiming to harness that same effect to reduce ... a surface whose smoothness can be altered, literally, on the fly — and that’s what the MIT team has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistanceMIT gears up to transform manufacturing
says John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and faculty co-director of ... “Manufacturing is the engine of society, and it is the backbone of robust, resilient economies,” ... the MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM). “With manufacturing a lively topic in today’s news, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-gears-transform-manufacturingTurning history of science into a comic adventure
departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering. “During crises like the ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IMES, and the MIT Libraries. “We wanted to use visual art ... that goal in mind, one MIT team recently transformed themselves into time-traveling comic book ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-history-science-comic-adventureSoft materials hold onto “memories” of their past, for longer than previously thought
researchers Credits: Now, an MIT engineer has devised a simple way to measure the degree of residual stress in ... part, by MIT’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Engineering Excellence and an MIT Mathworks Fellowship. ... to do with the goop’s “mechanical memory.” Soft gels and lotions are made by mixing ingredients until ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-materials-hold-%E2%80%9Cmemories%E2%80%9D-their-past-longer-previously-thoughtMission TULiP: A robotic pursuit on the Charles River
engineering at MIT and graduate student Brooks Reed and colleagues, which was just accepted into the ... If you take a stroll past the MIT Sailing Pavilion on Memorial Drive, you may see, among the usual ... kayaks star in robotic control systems research led by Franz Hover, associate professor of mechanical ...
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