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Student Spotlight: Grace Young (SB ‘14)
Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major who was recently awarded ... no-fishing zones.” After graduating in June, Young plans to go on to graduate study in ocean engineering and hopes to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-grace-young-sb-%E2%80%9814Getting a grip on robotic grasp
Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You do not need to command the robot, but simply move your fingers ... way to move your robotic fingers,” says Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspOrienteering for robots
Intelligence Laboratory, and John Leonard, a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering, as well as Oren ... student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, is lead author on the paper. He’s joined by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/orienteering-robotsUnder the sea
oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major, will take charge of marine ... no-fishing zones.” After graduating in June, Young plans to go on to graduate study in ocean engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/under-seaCan an LED-Filled “Robot Garden” Make Coding More Accessible?
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering have ... says CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-led-filled-%E2%80%9Crobot-garden%E2%80%9D-make-coding-more-accessibleSometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
AUVs. The team included mechanical engineering graduate students Tapovan Lolla and Mattheus Ueckermann ... what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sometimes-quickest-path-not-straight-lineIn the World: Remote Mexican Village Uses Solar Power to Purify Water
subsistence farmers, have operated and maintained a solar-powered water purification system engineered by ... operators in the village. Photo by Leah Kelly Steven Dubowsky, a professor emeritus of mechanical ... engineering at MIT, says the case study in La Mancalona demonstrates that with careful design and proper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/world-remote-mexican-village-uses-solar-power-purify-waterNeedles that hit the right mark
mechanical engineering and biological engineering. So and MIT research scientist Jeon Woong Kang designed and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/needles-hit-right-markMethod may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies
co-authors include Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; Yichao ... blood could enable doctors to diagnose and track the progression of multiple myeloma. Now engineers at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-may-help-myeloma-patients-avoid-painful-biopsiesChanging the color of 3-D printed objects
Professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering. “By ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/changing-color-3-d-printed-objectsCelebrating the life of Colt Richter ’16
mechanical engineering. “In Boston, it’s really, really flat.” Judging by how he embraced his time on and ... those who loved pilot, engineer, friend and colleague Colt Richter: “Fly high my friend.” Photo courtesy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/celebrating-life-colt-richter-%E2%80%9916Technique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold
a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT and first author of the paper. In 2007, researchers first ... an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-could-boost-resolution-tissue-imaging-much-tenfoldThe power of play
Industry Immersion Projects and principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, says the collaboration will support projects ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-playCould lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?
Beckwith is lead author and a PhD student in mechanical engineering. Coauthors are Beckwith’s co-advisors ... a biomedical engineer at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Beckwith says she’s always been fascinated by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-lab-grown-plant-tissue-ease-environmental-toll-logging-and-agricultureMicroscopy technique makes finer images of deeper tissue, more quickly
Mriganka Sur, the Newton Professor of Neuroscience at MIT; and Peter So, an MIT professor of mechanical ... engineering and of biological engineering. Deep imaging Two-photon microscopy works by shining an intense beam ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscopy-technique-makes-finer-images-deeper-tissue-more-quicklyOur History, at Hart
– mechanics, design and manufacturing, control, instrumentation and robotics, energy, ocean engineering ... , biological engineering, and micro and nano technology. The displays told the stories of research that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-history-hartA flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble
tube to minimize friction while the robot grows and engineer the controls for steering. While ... Coad's expertise, together with the laboratory's experience in engineering, strong partnership with ... assess the viability and safety of operations through rubble. "The mechanical performance of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-robot-can-help-emergency-responders-search-through-rubbleAndy Obst
in mechanical engineering on an Army ROTC scholarship. He joined Beta Theta Pi and formed lasting ... community in Minnesota but parted ways when they went off to college. Andy initially studied engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/andy-obstNoninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for people with diabetes
(LBRC) and an MIT professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering; and Youngkyu Kim and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-imaging-could-replace-finger-pricks-people-diabetes“Electroadhesive” stamp picks up and puts down microscopic structures
who worked in the lab of mechanical engineering associate professor John Hart. “So a special ... results today in the journal Science Advances. Like dry Scotch tape Existing mechanical grippers are ... rolled into microscopic tubes. CNTs are known for their exceptional mechanical, electrical, and chemical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Celectroadhesive%E2%80%9D-stamp-picks-and-puts-down-microscopic-structures