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Tool Designer Puts “Mind and Hand” to Work
a high-torque impact wrench made for iron workers and truck mechanics that was twice as powerful as anything his ... Slice_09_04_25_Brown_credit Beth Cholst '16_1024.jpg Brown's work as a manager of design engineering at Milkwaukee ... '16 He attributes that achievement to skills learned during his undergraduate studies in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tool-designer-puts-%E2%80%9Cmind-and-hand%E2%80%9D-workPower Efficiency in the Violin
a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You’re cutting with a knife into thin wood and you ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team modeled the airflow through a simple round ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-efficiency-violinFinding leaks while they’re easy to fix
development and testing for nine years by professor of mechanical engineering Kamal Youcef-Toumi, graduate ... period of time,” says Mark Gallager, director of engineering and distribution at the Cambridge, ... Ultimately, the team hopes, the robot could not just find leaks but also be equipped with a special mechanism ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-leaks-while-they%E2%80%99re-easy-fixBursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air
ocean,” says Andrea Prosperetti, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston, who ... assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Fluid Dynamics of Disease ... “The mechanism [Bourouiba] identified is also at work when foam bubbles burst at the surface of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bursting-bubbles-launch-bacteria-water-airCell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs
Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-weighing-method-could-help-doctors-choose-cancer-drugsNew system recovers fresh water from power plants
by Maher Damak PhD ’18 and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. Damak and ... A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-system-recovers-fresh-water-power-plantsDepartment News
Department of Mechanical Engineering. A native of Ireland, McGovern earned a bachelor’s degree from the ... University College Dublin, and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. His PhD research is ... Association of Mechanical Engineers (GAME). The IDA names one recipient per year from a large pool of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-3MechE Department News
Manufacturing program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with Charles Sodini, LeBel Professor of ... years old. Professor Rohsenow joined MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in the mid-1940s after ... graduate officer of Mechanical Engineering for nearly 30 years. Professor Rohsenow was a fellow of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-department-newsFrom Naval Architecture to Big Tech to MIT’s Corporation Chair
As Diane Greene SM ’78 approached the end of her undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering ... committees for biological engineering, mechanical engineering (serving as chair), materials science and ... course of her life. DianeGreene1024.jpg Diane Greene SM '78 Photo Courtesy of MIT Alumni Association ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/naval-architecture-big-tech-mit%E2%80%99s-corporation-chairMaking 3-D printing as simple as printing on paper
Pieper ’14, director of software at Digital Alloys; and Mateo Peña Doll, director of hardware engineering ... students.” To rectify that issue, the students created an automated part-ejection mechanism. After a part has ... Perez says. This also gives more workers the ability to find solutions for engineering and other company ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-3-d-printing-simple-printing-paperStick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate
professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Jolet de Ruiter, and postdoc Dan Soto. ... mechanics involved when droplets come in contact with surfaces. Pictured here is a microscopic top view of ... a droplet. Image: Varanasi Group/MIT Now, MIT researchers have found a surprising new twist to the mechanics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-peel-or-bounce-controlling-freezing-droplet%E2%80%99s-fateA New Quantum Approach to Big Data
Mechanical Engineering, explains that algebraic topology is key to the new method. This approach, he says, ... computationally very expensive,” Lloyd says. “This is where quantum mechanics kicks in.” The new quantum-based ... big data with quantum mechanics. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-quantum-approach-big-dataA new approach to ultrafast light pulses
associate professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X. Fang, postdocs Qing Hu and Dafei Jin, and five ... deposited on a metal substrate. The molecules can quickly exchange energy with the metal below, a mechanism ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-ultrafast-light-pulsesResearchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging
journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, in a paper by associate professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-coatings-prevent-pipeline-cloggingIngestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
Mechanical Engineering, where he will be joining the faculty in 2019. These devices could also be used to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-capsule-can-be-controlled-wirelesslyJahnavi Kalpathy
fix them,” says Jahnavi, now a senior majoring in mechanical engineering. “I would start off each ... design. “I changed my mechanical engineering concentration to sustainable development and energy because ... to MIT, Jahnavi took classes in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and aerodynamics at a local ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jahnavi-kalpathyIndustrial Design
to be mass-produced with mechanical engineering disciplinary background. The discipline involves many ... at MIT relevant to industrial design that do not necessarily include engineering content. 2.007 ... (GRAD) 2.744 Product Design (GRAD) 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design 2.729: D-Lab Design for Scale 4.031 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/industrial-designDragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds
of Mechanical Engineering. “We also find that compensating for sleep could be an important strategy. ... mechanics of walking, in order to develop strategies and assistive robotics for patients who have suffered ... mechanics of walking and general motor control, mostly enlisting student volunteers in their experiments. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dragging-your-feet-lack-sleep-affects-your-walk-new-study-findsA smarter way for large language models to think about hard problems
Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), a principal ... understand what they don’t know and building mechanisms for continual self-improvement. These capabilities ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smarter-way-large-language-models-think-about-hard-problems