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De Florez Competition Winners Split $20K in Prize Money
With an impressive array of some of the best gadget and product developments mechanical ... engineering students have to offer, this year’s de Florez Competition pitted 25 applicants against each other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/de-florez-competition-winners-split-20k-prize-moneyMechE researchers pioneer human motor control theory through global collaboration at TU Munich
studies. Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Kimberly Tecce | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-researchers-pioneer-human-motor-control-theory-through-global-collaboration-tuHow to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. The work, reported today in the journal Science Advances, shows that ... Neelesh Patankar, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, who was not associated ... detailed analysis, the team determined the mechanism that was producing these leg-like protrusions. They ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-salt-out-water-make-it-self-ejectIngestible sensor could help doctors pinpoint GI difficulties
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. ... Engineers at MIT and Caltech have demonstrated an ingestible sensor whose location can be ... engineering and medical engineering at Caltech, and Mikhail Shapiro, a professor of chemical engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-sensor-could-help-doctors-pinpoint-gi-difficultiesBubble findings could unlock better electrode and electrolyzer designs
graduate student Simon Rufer, professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, research scientist Ben ... available an open-source, AI-based software tool that engineers and scientists can now use to automatically ... engineering the contact and growth of bubbles on electrodes can have dramatic effects” on how bubbles form and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-findings-could-unlock-better-electrode-and-electrolyzer-designsFour from MIT named 2025 Rhodes Scholars
Haiti, majoring in mechanical engineering, was awarded a Global Rhodes Scholarship on Nov 1. The first ... she will pursue graduate studies in engineering science, working toward her ongoing goal of advancing ... electrical engineering and computer science departments, and received a teaching excellence award. She taught ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-named-2025-rhodes-scholarsNeed a research hypothesis? Ask AI.
Mechanical Engineering and director of LAMM. The framework, which the researchers call SciAgents, consists of ... Ghafarollahi, a postdoc in the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM), and Markus Buehler, the ... Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering in MIT’s departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-research-hypothesis-ask-aiBioinspired robotics class offers intriguing surprises
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. The backflip is basic when compared to an enormous repertoire of ... meche.mit.edu/magazine. Thursday, June 8, 2023 Michaela Jarvis | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education ... a “systematic methodology for applying biological concepts to mechanical systems.” “Biomimetics isn’t just ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-robotics-class-offers-intriguing-surprisesBound for Robotic Glory
force must be applied to propel the robot forward. Sangbae Kim, an associate professor of mechanical ... engineering at MIT, hypothesizes that this force-control approach to robotic running is similar, in principle, ... Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. These motors are controlled by amplifiers designed by David ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bound-robotic-glorySun-powered desalination for villages in India
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, appears in the journal Desalination. Winter explains that ... environmental engineering at the University of California at Berkeley who was not involved in this work, says, ... and extremely important problems of development engineering. … Solar-ED isn’t a new technology, but it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-desalination-villages-indiaFaculty Spotlight
Associate Professor Martin L. Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then became ... Precision Engineering, and the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology. Why is ... the engineering and science that enable these new technologies. How important is it to understand the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlightHow to create selective holes in graphene
led by graduate student Sean O’Hern and associate professor of mechanical engineering Rohit Karnik, is ... student David Cohen-Tanugi of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. But producing such ... materials engineering at the University of Kentucky who was not involved in this work, says, “Previous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-create-selective-holes-grapheneWeighing particles at the attogram scale
biological and mechanical engineering, to weigh larger particles, such as cells. This system, known as ... MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... small viruses, extracellular vesicles, and most of the engineered nanoparticles that are being used for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scaleQuick Test for Ebola
Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the technical staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. “We ... Engineering and Science (IMES), are the senior authors of a paper describing the new device in the journal Lab ... University of Toronto Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, says he is impressed with the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-test-ebolaGiving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
mechanical engineering, and graduate student Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, has developed a model that predicts the ... Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity. Most robots on ... robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-more-nimble-graspOn a mission to build the uncrashable car
causing a crash.” Saturday, June 9, 2018 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering ... and associate professor at the University of Michigan. “From an engineering perspective, the focus ... University of Michigan’s Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, where he continued his work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-build-uncrashable-carMIT.nano awards inaugural NCSOFT seed grants for gaming technologies
Micha Feigin-Almon, research scientist in mechanical engineering, seek to compare the movements of ... dynamic props that evolve as they progress through the game? Department of Electrical Engineering and ... resolution Professor Juejun Hu from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering seeks to develop ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-awards-inaugural-ncsoft-seed-grants-gaming-technologiesNew capsule can orally deliver drugs that usually have to be injected
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are ... to those injections, MIT engineers, working with scientists from Novo Nordisk, have designed a new ... to do, says David Putnam, a professor of biomedical engineering and chemical and biomolecular ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-capsule-can-orally-deliver-drugs-usually-have-be-injectedMIT graduate students lead conference on microsystems and nanotechnology
proceedings; Morteza Sarmadi of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) is managing outreach; Jay ... by a different PhD student: Navid Abedzadeh of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ... Jatin Patil of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering is managing the website and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-graduate-students-lead-conference-microsystems-and-nanotechnologyFocusing on innovative solutions to the world’s energy challenges
student in mechanical engineering; and Harvey Michaels, a professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management. ... engineering and MIT EnergyHack’s communications director. A total of 260 students comprising 64 teams ... Department of Chemical Engineering. Team Joules in Lockdown came in third, winning $1,000 for their solution ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/focusing-innovative-solutions-world%E2%80%99s-energy-challenges