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New ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
printing technology that can be implemented now. Martin Wegener, a professor of mechanical engineering at ... those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ... as light and sparse as aerogel [a kind of glass foam], we see a mechanical stiffness that’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedProfessor Harry Asada Awarded a $2 Million Grant to Develop Robotic Educational Tool, “Teach-Bot”
manufacturing workers on robotics. Founded by professor of mechanical engineering and Ford Professor of ... conversations with Vice President for Open Learning and professor of mechanical engineering Sanjay Sarma. Sarma ... Engineering Harry Asada, Teach-Bot is a table top robot outfitted with actuators, sensors, and embedded ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-harry-asada-awarded-2-million-grant-develop-robotic-educational-tool-%E2%80%9Cteach-botLamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
of Mechanical Engineering, pursues new design principles for high-performance battery materials that ... Dincă and Hart, Sferza also recruited mechanical engineering student Patricia Das ’17 and chemical ... engineering and chemistry student Angela Cai ’19, whose research at Santa Agata Bolognese cemented and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lamborghini-and-mit-pave-way-electric-supercar-futureModel quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread
studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical ... 15, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education International Horizontal ... MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the Covid-19 pandemic in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-quantifies-impact-quarantine-measures-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadSynthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion
Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham ... National Institutes of Health, and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Tuesday, August 25, 2020 ... By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-coating-gi-tract-could-deliver-drugs-or-aid-digestionThe (robotic) doctor will see you now
fronts,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist ... Tassel (1925) Career Development Professorship, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the ... “Often as engineers, we think about different solutions, but sometimes they may not be adopted because ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-doctor-will-see-you-nowAn all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment
the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... companies to further develop them. The research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... implementation of new engineering solutions, it will make it easier for patients to receive that therapy.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/all-one-approach-diabetes-treatmentNew plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
they never had before,” says A. John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering. “If we can replace some ... plastics. Now, an MIT team has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with ... creating composites with CNCs at high loading, we can give polymer-based materials mechanical properties ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-plant-derived-composite-tough-bone-and-hard-aluminumMIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards third annual seed grants
is also principal research scientist in mechanical engineering and the Institute for Medical ... are gaze and motion tracking. However, according to associate professor of mechanical engineering ... Engineering and Science. “These projects are just a few examples of the ways MIT researchers are exploring how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-third-annual-seed-grantsMorris Chang ’52, SM ’53 describes the secrets of semiconductor success
in 1931, left the country in the late 1940s, and earned his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Political Science, Leaders for Global Operations, ... includes a healthy supply of talent, in the form of engineers and other technical employees willing to work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morris-chang-%E2%80%9952-sm-%E2%80%9953-describes-secrets-semiconductor-successClosing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices
of Hong Kong; and her advisor, Peter T. So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ... technique could help scientists and engineers create more accurate and efficient optical devices for ... coordinate the software and hardware to build a high-fidelity dataset,” says Cheng Zheng, a mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-design-manufacturing-gap-optical-devicesCreeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale
2025 Anne Wilson | Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Creeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the ... even art conservation, where salt damage is a major threat to heritage materials. In civil engineering ... when salt begins to creep, engineers can better design protective coatings or drainage systems to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creeping-crystals-observing-salt-creep-single-crystal-scaleMorris Chang
left the country in the late 1940s, and earned his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from MIT. He ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Political Science, Leaders for Global Operations, ... includes a healthy supply of talent, in the form of engineers and other technical employees willing to work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/morris-changWith a quantum “squeeze,” clocks could keep even more precise time, MIT researchers propose
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Then, we’ve shown that there are ways you can even get around ... mechanical effects. The precision of oscillators would ultimately be limited by quantum noise. But in theory, ... fact that quantum mechanics forces them to shake around a little bit,” says Vivishek Sudhir, assistant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quantum-%E2%80%9Csqueeze%E2%80%9D-clocks-could-keep-even-more-precise-time-mit-researchers-proposeUndersea living: Alumna joins Cousteau mission
like I could have a vacation house underwater,” the mechanical and ocean engineering alumna says of her ... Scholar, is moving on to Oxford University in the fall to pursue a PhD in offshore engineering. She says ... the ocean was separate from my love for engineering until I got to MIT,” she says. Wednesday, August ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/undersea-living-alumna-joins-cousteau-missionA Message from New MechE Department Head John Hart SM ’02, PhD ’06
Suh Professor of Mechanical Engineering, led our department since 2018 and through an especially ... success. My predecessor as Department Head, Evelyn Wang, the Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering ... Department Head, especially at this time. MechE counts some of the greatest engineers and problem solvers of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/message-new-meche-department-head-john-hart-sm-%E2%80%9902-phd-%E2%80%9906Advocating for science funding on Capitol Hill
Marie Floryan and Andrew Fishberg, two PhD students in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and ... Julian Ufert, a doctoral student in chemical engineering, says, “CVD was a remarkable opportunity to ... and computer engineering. Dina Sharon, a PhD student in chemistry, adds, “The offices where we met ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advocating-science-funding-capitol-hillJacob Rothman
product design and entrepreneurship,” says Rothman, who majored in mechanical engineering. “I loved ... Carolina, Rothman originally came to MIT to study aerospace engineering, but his plan changed after he ... watched the 2.009 Product Engineering Process presentations during his freshman year. “I fell in love with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jacob-rothmanStartup Powers Up for Better Strength Training
entrepreneurship,” says Rothman, who majored in mechanical engineering. “I loved identifying a problem, coming up ... came to MIT to study aerospace engineering, but his plan changed after he watched the 2.009 Product ... Engineering Process presentations during his freshman year. “I fell in love with product design and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-powers-better-strength-trainingThe physics of curly hair
Department of Mechanical Engineering; Basile Audoly and Arnaud Lazarus, of the Université Pierre et Marie ... industry, but it also could be used by engineers to predict the curve that long steel pipes, tubing, and ... like a stubborn garden hose whose intrinsic curves make it behave in unpredictable ways. In engineering ...
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