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Kodiak Brush
an MIT alumnus. For the last year, former MIT middle linebacker and mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ... Next time you’re watching football you might be looking at an important feat of engineering from ... “I’m currently the only engineer at LIGHT, so I wear a lot of different hats,” Brush says. A safer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/kodiak-brushTalking Shop: Professor Steven Dubowsky
Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and serves as director of ... Alissa Mariello Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering orange International dubowsky@mit.edu ... clean water systems for challenging field environments. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-steven-dubowskyBuilding nursery 2.0
the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, the trio (now including Madden) ... seeing where the trends were, where we had errors, and refining it from there.” Darling — a mechanical ... engineering graduate who splits the company’s “tinkering” duties with Lipoma — says this form of rapid, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-nursery-20Mobius App Released to Empower MIT Maker Community
entrepreneurial projects. Rebecca Li, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, notes that students often have ... alumnus, professor of mechanical engineering, and the recently appointed MIT “Maker Czar.” He acknowledges ... prototyping equipment, or instrumentation. These tools are essential for engineering and for obtaining and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mobius-app-released-empower-mit-maker-communityTwo-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
mechanical engineering at MIT. More than motion Previously, Kim and Ramos built the two-legged robot HERMES ... a heavy obstacle or break through a locked door. Engineers are making strides on the design of four-legged ... engineers at MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to control ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-and-jumpingNew microscope technique reveals details of droplet nucleation
Miljkovic, a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois who was not ... MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang; visiting research scientist Ryuichi Iwata; professor of mechanical ... engineering and department head Evelyn Wang; and nine others at MIT, the University of Illinois at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microscope-technique-reveals-details-droplet-nucleationJoystick-operated robot could help surgeons treat stroke remotely
That’s our future dream,” says Xuanhe Zhao, a professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and ... MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat ... environmental engineering at MIT. Zhao and his team have published their findings today in Science Robotics. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/joystick-operated-robot-could-help-surgeons-treat-stroke-remotelyA bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract
Laboratory for Translational Engineering and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ... Council of Canada, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the ... them in humans. The research was funded by Novo Nordisk, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-capsule-can-pump-drugs-directly-walls-gi-tractPills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence
maximize their health,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ... MIT engineers designed capsules with biodegradable radio frequency antennas that can reveal when ... on schedule, MIT engineers have designed a pill that can report when it has been swallowed. The new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-communicate-stomach-could-improve-medication-adherenceHow some skills become second nature
a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can make that knowledge explicit, ... in Mechanical Engineering. Hidden gaze The concept of tacit knowledge is credited to the scientist ... MIT engineers wondered: Could an expert’s unconscious know-how be accessed, and even taught, to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-some-skills-become-second-natureSMART launches new Wearable Imaging for Transforming Elderly Care research group
principal investigators: Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and professor of civil and ... interim director of SMART, who is also an MIT professor of biological engineering and electrical ... engineering and computer science. Industry-leading precision equipment and capabilities To support this work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-launches-new-wearable-imaging-transforming-elderly-care-research-groupDesigning off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya
Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) is combining expertise in mechanical engineering ... and mechanical engineering in the Department of Architecture; Daniel Frey, a professor in the ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the faculty director for research at MIT D-Lab; and Eric Verploegen, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-grid-refrigeration-technologies-crop-storage-kenyaMaking agriculture more resilient to climate change
more than half of their crops. Kripa Varanasi, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering, is working ... graduate student Maher Damak (left) and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa K. Varanasi, ... Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeAlumni Spotlight: Kiva Systems
engineering fellow Pete Mansfield (PhD ‘90) joined the start-up. “Kiva Systems isn’t an MIT startup company ... with embedded firmware and control systems. On the back end, software is engineered to distribute ... and traverse, but they have to do it on a very consistent, reliable basis. From a mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-kiva-systemsAlumni Spotlight: Davide Marini, PhD ‘03
designed to make the life of scientists easier. MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has historically ... I saw Daniel Pregibon (who at the time was finishing his PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering ... a very precious opportunity. I was working on the mechanical properties of a biomaterial, and eventually ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-davide-marini-phd-%E2%80%9803New surface treatment stops scale buildup
Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ... when warm, moist air cools suddenly as it meets a cooler surface. For the most part, engineers have ... there’s mechanical damage, the lubricant can return to that surface,” Subramanyam says. “It can maintain ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-stops-scale-buildupPrakash Govindan
crisis that inspired Govindan – who received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian ... Institute of Technology at Madras and his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT – to do his part to find ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/prakash-govindanSyringe technology could enable injection of concentrated biologic drugs
Kripa Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. “Drug makers need to focus on what they do ... in MIT’s mechanical engineering department who is the first author on the paper, designed a system ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/syringe-technology-could-enable-injection-concentrated-biologic-drugsSmart laser cutter system detects different materials
MIT Mechanical Engineering MathWorks Seed Fund Program. Thursday, August 19, 2021 Rachel Gordon | MIT ... team designed and 3-D printed a lightweight mechanical housing. Beyond laser cutters, the team ... researchers Steven Acevedo Colon and Varnika Sinha in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-laser-cutter-system-detects-different-materials