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Going with the flow
course when currents are pushing it in different directions. Now, MIT researchers have developed sensors ... Triantafyllou, the William I. Koch Professor of Marine Technology and professor of mechanical and ocean ... engineering. “But while we get ideas from fish, we needn’t use exactly the same design that they do.” In fish, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-flowDesign’s new frontier
mechanical engineers have expanded the computing tools they use to ideate, design, and prototype. More ... Mechanical Engineering are utilizing these technologies to reimagine how the products, systems, and ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. For their work using AI-driven design for bicycles, Ahmed and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design%E2%80%99s-new-frontierFast-tracking medical device development
engineer in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and his colleagues are overcoming that limitation, ... co-directs with electrical engineering’s Charles Sodini and Joel Voldman, and which teams up researchers and ... role in MEDRC, Anthony is director of MIT’s Master of Manufacturing Engineering program, accelerating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fast-tracking-medical-device-developmentBuilding robots to expand access to cell therapies
a great adventure for someone like me, a physician-scientist, to interact with mechanical engineers and ... engineering team of Multiply Labs. Photo Courtesy of Multiply Labs. In a recently announced project, Multiply ... requires scientists to extract blood from a patient, isolate immune cells, genetically engineer those ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-robots-expand-access-cell-therapiesNew control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe
Mechanical Engineering PhD student Kiwan Wong, the lead author of a new paper describing the framework. “The ... mathematics, careful engineering, and a vision for robots that can safely interact with humans and delicate ... Environmental Engineering, and an affiliate faculty with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-control-system-teaches-soft-robots-art-staying-safeCaitlin Braun MBA ’21, SM ’21
in mechanical engineering — helped her balance diplomacy with technical discipline. So did a 2020 ... Hardt, Braun’s mechanical engineering advisor. “All of this took place during a time of great uncertainty ... process can often take six months to a year.) While engineering is important, Braun is most excited about ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/caitlin-braun-mba-%E2%80%9921-sm-%E2%80%9921Sylas Horowitz
“Of course, something must always go wrong,” Horowitz, a mechanical engineering major with minors in ... collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... and the ecosystems we exist within. “I want to relate mechanical engineering to sustainability and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sylas-horowitzTalking Shop: Kripa Varanasi
engineering, nanofabrication, solid-state physics, electromagnetism, et cetera. All of that was driven by the ... development of novel nano-engineered surfaces and coating technologies that can fundamentally alter ... awarded the 2013 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer award by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-kripa-varanasiStudent entrepreneurs think inside the box
a chemistry, biology, and physics junior minoring in nuclear engineering; and Erica Yuen, a mechanical ... a mathematical economics sophomore; Eswar Anandapadmanaban, an electrical engineering and computer science ... junior; Jordan Harrod, a PhD candidate studying medical engineering and medical physics; Samuel Salomon, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-entrepreneurs-think-inside-box3Q: Felice Frankel on improving the visual side of science
scientist at MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, has a new book that describes ways for ... appealing. Felice Frankel has spent more than 25 years helping scientists and engineers create engaging and ... MITx. Her latest book, “Picturing Science and Engineering,” published this week by MIT Press, is an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-felice-frankel-improving-visual-side-scienceMeasuring cancer cell “fitness” reveals drug susceptibility
and Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Koch Institute, are the senior authors of the study. ... MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), an extramural member of the Koch Institute ... Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measuring-cancer-cell-%E2%80%9Cfitness%E2%80%9D-reveals-drug-susceptibilityCharles Stuard Woodard
up on the South Side of Chicago, envisioned a future in engineering at MIT. Childhood experiences ... with LEGO robotics and Northwestern University game design courses gave Woodard a foundation in STEM. ... By the time he was in the seventh grade, he knew he wanted to attend MIT for engineering. However, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/charles-stuard-woodardMIT events illuminate critical need for menstruation science
and mechanical engineering at MIT. The rally kicked off a series of events that attracted more than ... Credit: Sarah Aprea Stand Up and Be Counted rally attendee and Course 20 senior Kira Buttrey Credit: Ceal ... patient and biomedical engineering student at Boston University. “The topic and purpose of the film is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-events-illuminate-critical-need-menstruation-scienceAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), a principal ... Santa Ana winds that threaten to push it off course. Rapidly adapting to these unknown disturbances ... of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The research was recently presented at the Learning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environmentsA New Era in 3D Printing
mechanical engineering, invented a process known as binder jet printing. In binder jet printing, an inkjet ... Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT’s Ideation Laboratory. “It gives you ... Mechanical Engineering, many faculty members have been finding new ways to incorporate 3D printing across ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-3d-printingGiving robots a sense of touch
a senior research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Chenzhuo Zhu, an undergraduate ... Engineering and Computer Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering; Adelson; and ... area. The MIT researchers adopted the same approach. Wenzhen Yuan, a graduate student in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touchAlumni Spotlight: Meg O’Neill (SB ’93, SM ’94)
the business side of the company, something she prepared for as an ocean engineering student taking courses at ... I’m not ready for. Saying ‘yes’ keeps doors open.” Having started at ExxonMobil as an engineer in ... After a few years, she transferred within the company to work as a reservoir engineer, producing models ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-meg-o%E2%80%99neill-sb-%E2%80%9993-sm-%E2%80%9994AUVs: From Idea to Implementation
professor of mechanical and ocean engineering. “In the late 1980s, I suggested a revolutionary concept: an ... director of the MIT Sea Grant College Program, the Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering and ... avoid obstacles, change course, and make other decisions in response to its environment. The goal, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/auvs-idea-implementationManufacturing a cleaner future
John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and ... manufacturing technologies. Hart sees mechanical engineers as playing a crucial role in this transition. ... “Mechanical engineers can uniquely solve critical problems that require next generation hardware technologies, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/manufacturing-cleaner-future