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Next Generation Electronics
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is using his background in materials science to build a physical ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is using his background in materials science to build ... intelligence power of super computers to handheld devices. Mechanics Bioengineering Micro and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/next-generation-electronicsToday's Annoyances, Tomorrow's Technology
transform today’s annoyances into tomorrow’s technology. Reis, who holds a dual appointment in mechanical ... engineering and civil and environmental engineering and recently named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant ... Ten,” explores the mechanics and physics underlying natural and manufactured structures with the goal of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/todays-annoyances-tomorrows-technologyThree at MIT named 2018 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Engineering Teaching Innovation Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and a MacVicar Fellow at ... MIT President L. Rafael Reif and two engineering faculty members have been named 2018 fellows of ... regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Her laboratory was the first to combine a degradable scaffold ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-named-2018-fellows-national-academy-inventorsThere’s Magic in Mechatronics
2.737 (Mechatronics) combines electrical and mechanical engineering, but above all else it’s about ... of mechanical systems, electronics, controls, and computer science. Mechatronics engineers work in ... mechanical engineering David Trumper, who has been teaching class 2.737 (Mechatronics) since he joined the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/there%E2%80%99s-magic-mechatronicsHannah Gazdus
double-majoring in creative writing and mechanical engineering, Gazdus sees her childhood play as a harbinger of ... and mechanical engineering, Hannah Gazdus loves telling stories, and would create videos with her ... she pursues a master’s degree in mechanical engineering. Through it all, she continues to work on her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hannah-gazdusStudent Spotlight: Nikolai Begg
make surgical procedures less invasive. Begg first became interested in medical device engineering ... invented a puncture access mechanism with a blade that retracts at the moment it passes completely through ... the tip withdraws within 1/100 of a second. The mechanism, which is purely mechanical in nature with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-nikolai-beggDavid Larson
was most interested in mechanical engineering and ocean engineering classes. As a sophomore, he took ... class 2.016, Hydrodynamics, taught by Paul Sclavounos, professor of mechanical engineering and naval ... bachelor’s degree in 2016, Larson enrolled in MIT’s graduate program for mechanical engineering and ocean ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-larsonLow-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking
Winter, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now we can do that. And that’s super ... foot in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, with graduate student Victor Prost and research engineer ... foot as engineers? How should we predict the performance, given the foot’s stiffness and mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-prosthetic-foot-mimics-natural-walkingRobot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... trick, Winter and his co-developer, Anette Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and applied ... the researchers reveal for the first time the mechanics behind this process, and describe how their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamicsStudent teams design in the face of danger
mechanical engineering David Wallace, by presenting him with a pair of Eames-style chairs (one of them ... L. Chandler | MIT News Office Education Entrepreneurship Horizontal Teams of mechanical engineering ... conceived, designed, built, and tested by students in MIT’s iconic product design class known by its course ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-teams-design-face-dangerAviation Week's 2014 Twenty20s Include Two with Ties to MIT Lincoln Laboratory
degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. As a member of the Engineering Division, he has worked on ... for advanced degrees, Stern is working toward a master's degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. ... Mechanical Engineering for innovation in design. He and colleagues built a 3-D printer that produces glass ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aviation-weeks-2014-twenty20s-include-two-ties-mit-lincoln-laboratoryClimbing the ‘power ascension’ market
as more line wraps around a cylinder and more weight is added. A mechanical engineering alumnus, Ball ... control switches (up or down) and a trigger. An innovative rope-feeding, capstan-based mechanism ensures ... featuring advanced manufacturing and testing equipment. Popular Mechanics, NPR, “MythBusters,” and other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climbing-%E2%80%98power-ascension%E2%80%99-marketArtificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
Department of Mechanical Engineering, says that biologically inspired sensors, modeled after the harbor ... is due in part to its antennae-like whiskers. Now engineers at MIT have fabricated and tested ... a large-scale model of a harbor seal’s whisker, and identified a mechanism that may explain how seals sense ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-whisker-reveals-source-harbor-seal%E2%80%99s-uncanny-prey-sensing-ability-0“It’s Okay if it Breaks and Blows Up”
a rising senior majoring in mechanical engineering and computer science who worked with Li on The Dentist, ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering who participated in “BattleBots” as an MIT student during the ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s MakerWorks space, the MIT Electronics Research Society ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-okay-if-it-breaks-and-blows-up%E2%80%9D“Body on a chip” could improve drug evaluation
Innovation, a professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering, and one of the senior authors of ... MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect ... engineered tissues from up to 10 organs, the researchers can accurately replicate human organ interactions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cbody-chip%E2%80%9D-could-improve-drug-evaluationDan Frey Named D-Lab Faculty Director
Professor of mechanical engineering brings a long association with D-Lab and a commitment to ... appointed Professor Daniel Frey of the Department of Mechanical Engineering the new faculty director of the ... and Prithvi Sundar, a mechanical engineering graduate student at the time — to change the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dan-frey-named-d-lab-faculty-directorCrystan McLymore
mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... Credit: Tony Pulsone In the lab of Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... opportunity to attend graduate school through the Navy. She chose mechanical engineering, hoping to study ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/crystan-mclymore-0“Nanofiber yarn” makes for stretchy, protective artificial tissue
assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “With this nanofiber yarn, the hope is, you won’t have ... The human body is held together by an intricate cable system of tendons and muscles, engineered by ... heal. Now MIT engineers have come up with a tissue engineering design that may enable flexible range of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cnanofiber-yarn%E2%80%9D-makes-stretchy-protective-artificial-tissue