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Bryan Schmid
A conventional high-angle rescue normally involves five to 10 rescuers over the course of hours, whereas a rescue ... up to 600 pounds. What kind of engineering challenges did you encounter in your design? When you ... deliver it to the rope-climbing mechanism. We do a pretty good job of that, but we’re still pulling so ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/bryan-schmidKarina Pikhart
to work on the project. While earning a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford ... Pikhart (SB ’09), take us back to the fall 2008 offering of Professor David Wallace’s popular course ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes. Karina Pikhart 1024.jpg Pikhart was on a 15-member team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/karina-pikhartA new strategy for choosing cancer drugs
Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ... cells and analyzing them to understand mechanisms of resistance,” Manalis says. In a recent paper in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-strategy-choosing-cancer-drugs3 Questions: How to control biofilms in space
sick. MIT News asked professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi and doctoral student Samantha ... collaboration with Luis Zea at UC Boulder, we are looking at biofilm growth on engineered substrates in the ... versus gravity on Earth, we’re also looking at how they grow on different engineered substrates. And ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-how-control-biofilms-space3 Questions: Asegun Henry on five “grand thermal challenges” to stem the tide of global warming
author and the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering, about this grand vision. Q: Before we get into the specifics of the five challenges you lay out, ... needs to be spread much more broadly. This particular paper is about thermal science and engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-asegun-henry-five-%E2%80%9Cgrand-thermal-challenges%E2%80%9D-stem-tide-global-warmingProfessional Education
develop the knowledge base of professionals in particular fields, including mechanical engineering and its ... virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. ... Through OCW, educators improve courses and curricula, making their schools more effective; students find ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/professionalElliot Avila
Elliot Avila (SB ’14) is a recent graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering who has ... Summit (IDDS) project, and he recently began a new job in Tanzania as a product designer and engineer for ... been really fulfilling. From an engineering perspective, the kind of problems that I work with are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/elliot-avilaImaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution
author along with mechanical engineering professor Peter So and principal research scientist Brian ... a 0.7-milimeter-thick slice of mouse brain tissue. In fact, says co-lead author and mechanical engineering postdoc W. ... regions underneath, such as the hippocampus. In a new study, a team of MIT scientists and engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imaging-tech-promises-deepest-looks-yet-living-brain-tissue-single-cell-resolution3 Questions: Sanjay Sarma and Bill Bonvillian on new technologies in workforce education
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and William B. Bonvillian, lecturer in the MIT Program in Science, ... another and back again. All of these ideas can be systematically introduced into both online courses and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-sanjay-sarma-and-bill-bonvillian-new-technologies-workforce-educationStepping on stage with Beyoncé
in Course 2 [mechanical engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stepping-stage-beyonc%C3%A9-0Danielle Zurovcik
MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ... $4,000. But how could a device with such simple mechanics be so expensive? “If you look at it from ... Alissa Mariello Mallinson MechE Communications Office Saturday, February 7, 2015 Alumni Course ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/danielle-zurovcikProfessors Ghoniem and Kellogg honored as Committed to Caring
Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Center for Energy and ... interests, he gives them “freedom to chart their own courses in grad school and develop into well-rounded ... research covers computational engineering, combustion and thermochemistry, CO 2 capture, and fuel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professors-ghoniem-and-kellogg-honored-committed-caringMicrochip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth
Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and a member ... lend validation to the peptide and other novel drugs by providing some insight into the mechanism ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-enables-fast-precise-measurement-single-cell-growthConnecting through conversation
MIT, the mechanical engineering major worked on making those opportunities more available to ... diplomacy, Woodard, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago, envisioned a future in engineering at MIT. ... Childhood experiences with LEGO robotics and Northwestern University game design courses gave Woodard ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/connecting-through-conversationBatch desalination configuration bests standard reverse osmosis approach
mechanical engineers, PhD candidate Emily Tow and postdoc David Warsinger, and also includes MIT PhD student ... School of Engineering Culture Entrepreneurship International Horizontal Emily Tow, left, and David ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batch-desalination-configuration-bests-standard-reverse-osmosis-approachMIT students hack assistive technology solutions for local clients
Laboratory; Don Fredette of The Boston Home; Michael Buchman of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... they decided to expand the remote's capabilities. They created a mechanical light switch that can ... be mounted to any switch in Dan's home. The mechanism surrounds a light switch and moves up and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-hack-assistive-technology-solutions-local-clientsComputing
Computing Mechanical Engineering aims to prepare students to tackle some of the world’s most ... challenging engineering problems by leveraging computational tools and methods. This concentration allows ... students to learn about mechanical systems modeling combined with computing and numerical methods. This ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/computingTeaching first-year students fundamental principles through creation
thinking about the rest of Course 2,” says Michael, who is now a sophomore studying mechanical engineering ... studying mechanical engineering helped strengthen Ramirez’s own decision to declare Course 2. “2.00a has ... senior year in some cases,” explains Daniel Frey, professor of mechanical engineering. “I want to give ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-first-year-students-fundamental-principles-through-creationOptimizing parking in the busiest places
to Sang when he enrolled at MIT as a PhD student in mechanical engineering, and bought his first car. ... scores of parking data available, there was no data-analytics engine to monitor parking “inventory” on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/optimizing-parking-busiest-placesA low-tech solution for high-impact health care
certainly broadened my perspective.” Mechanical engineering sophomore Claire Traweek appreciated in ... were provided by VHacks. Over the course of the 36-hour challenge, 120 students representing 30 ... electrical engineering and computer science. “I was particularly excited about VHacks due to its unique ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-tech-solution-high-impact-health-care