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J-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT

of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Benedetto Marelli of CEE also launched a new ... mechanical engineering Alex Slocum to a challenge presented by its research affiliate company, Xylem: how to ... explains. Similarly, Professor Otto Cordero of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) ...

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MIT Libraries and MIT MakerWorkshop launch Equipment to Go

convenience. Michael Buchman, MakerWorkshop vice president and a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering ... limited to affiliates of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Martin Trust Center, Equipment ...

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David Hesslink: Taking his passion to the major leagues

life,” says the mechanical engineering major. “The only thing I knew for sure was I loved playing ... Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal A passion for baseball and analytics has led to a career ...

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When healthy meets fast food

a degree in mechanical engineering, he decided to start a business that helped to tackle health and ... wellness. 09.13.17_Veggie-Grill-TK-Pillan-1024.jpg T.K. Pillan ’90, a mechanical engineering major while at ...

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T.K. Pillan

a degree in mechanical engineering, he decided to start a business that helped to tackle health and ... wellness. T.K. Pillan ’90, a mechanical engineering major while at MIT, now runs the largest ...

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Nanoscribe GT2 adds to MIT.nano fabrication capabilities

the Portela Research Group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The group, which focuses on ... engineering, micro-optics, and nanostructures. 2021-08 Nanoscribe 02.jpeg A researcher uses the Nanoscribe GT2, ... architected mechanics and materials across scales, is led by d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor ...

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An assisted step forward: Max Burns talks about the process, and teamwork, of invention

The SuperUROP participant from Logan, Ohio just walked with his degree in Mechanical Engineering this ... a recipient of the Arthur J. Samberg scholarship, and of the Prince Innovation Prize from the Mechanical ... Engineering Department for his SuperUROP project, an instrumented walking cane. For his coming stint in ...

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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 ... engine cars, with some electric cars powered by massive batteries, hybrid vehicles, and one car powered ... engineers do – you do what is needed regardless of the environment.” Almost all the entrants crossed the ...

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Turning a circle into a square is possible with this kirigami-inspired formula

mechanical engineering at MIT. “This could help us to make large, kirigami-like façades that can transform ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This could help us to make large, kirigami-like façades that ... structures in nature, architecture, and more. Scientists and engineers have also taken inspiration from ...

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Noninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue

Biological and Mechanical Engineering; Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching ... well-suited for demanding imaging applications like cancer research, tissue engineering, drug discovery, and ... Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), a member of the Research Laboratory for Electronics, and senior ...

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Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost

author Ritu Raman, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering (MechE) at MIT. “Such modularity ... bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate “biohybrid robots” made ... researchers are engineering a menagerie of muscle-powered crawlers, walkers, swimmers, and grippers. ...

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MIT J-WAFS announces 2022 seed grant recipients

Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is ... Mechanical Engineering. He is developing a web-based system for natural resources management that will deploy ... engineering, science, technology, and business innovation, as well as social science and economics, ...

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Charting the future of production

(mechanical engineering) and Berger. Since early 2022, this group, which includes faculty from across campus, ... 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 ...

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Giving robots a faster grasp

combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... Image courtesy of the researchers Alberto Rodriguez, associate professor of mechanical engineering at ... Rodriguez’ co-authors are lead author Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, and ...

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Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects

says Kentaro Barhydt, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This kind of ... tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake around ... automatically clamped in place and mechanically wound back up to gently lift the object in a soft, sling-like ...

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A scientific approach to education reform

back-benchers.” The real hope, of course, is to get back as soon as safely possible to learning situations that ...

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New particle-sorting method breaks speed records

McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University who was not ... Engineering. With this method, that’s essentially what you get: In a process the team calls “inertio-elastic ...

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A microchip for metastasis

mechanical engineering. “We only waited until day five, but if we had gone longer, [the size of the clusters] ... Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... engineering at Boston University who was not involved in the research. “I believe that this microfluidic ...

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Droplets break a theoretical time barrier on bouncing

mechanical engineering at Boston University, former MIT postdoc Rajeev Dhiman, and recent MIT PhD recipient ... Environmental Protection Agency. Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton ... the journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, the Doherty Associate Professor of Mechanical ...

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