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Guided Discovery at MIT

MIT Through emphasizing the process of discovery, instructors in course 2.001, Mechanics and Materials ... I, provide mechanical engineering students at MIT a foundation to build their careers on.  Mechanics ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEZBRx6-dQs&list=PLjcvg-IYUiT8fAb8STruJH1YM63lj38sk&index=11 Through emphasizing the process of discovery, instructors in course 2.001, Mechanics and Materials ...

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Kamrin, Ken Visiting Professor
McKinley, Gareth H Professor

A community of making

Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Education Maker Horizontal Academics from around the country ... people,” wrote Culpepper and his co-organzier, Vincent Wilczynski, a deputy dean of engineering at Yale ... Yale, Georgia Tech, Case Western University, Olin College of Engineering, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon ...

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Two from MIT honored at World Technology Awards

Department of Mechanical Engineering and a fellow in the MIT Tata Center, was named the winner of the ... his advisor, associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, have demonstrated that they ...

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Hairy tongues help bats drink up

with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT’s Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette “Peko” ... Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT. The researchers have ... spoons to scoop and drag up the tasty sap. Now engineers at MIT have found that, for bats and other ...

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Staff Training

Available through the Course Catalog at the MIT Learning Center Go to: Atlas.mit.edu > ... Self-Service > My Training > MIT Learning Center > Course Catalog > Administration > Financial ... to Unallowable Costs (OSP) Course management (required) Stellar Overview for Course material ...

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Reducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy

of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Maher Damak, research scientist Seyed Reza ... including graduate student Maher Damak (left) and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa K. ...

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Temperature difference propels droplets

mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor David Quere at ESPCI in Paris, MIT postdoc Nada Bjelobrk, ... a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was not associated with this research. ...

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Nylon fibers made to flex like muscles

the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Previously, researchers had come up with the basic principle ... turn that linear shrinking motion into bending typically requires a mechanism such as a pulley and ... the motion without requiring extra mechanical parts. One of the limitations on linear actuators made ...

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Stretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body

Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If these ... Liu and Hyunwoo Yuk, specializes in tuning the mechanical properties of hydrogels. The researchers ... within the human body,” says Fiorenzo Omenetto, a professor of biological engineering at Tufts ...

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Data-driven diabetes management

insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ... on new injection methods in the lab of Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Ian Hunter, ...

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Spray tuning

specks. MIT-Elastic-Liquid-1.jpg Such droplet sizes may seem random, but now engineers at MIT can predict ... McKinley, who is the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT and the paper’s senior ...

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Pushing through sand

mechanical engineering at MIT, says scientists have regarded granular RFT as “somewhat like magic,” unsure of ... For those of you who take sandcastle building very seriously, listen up: MIT engineers now say you ... they have identified a mechanical explanation for why the equation works so well for granular ...

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Leonard, John J Professor; Associate Department Head

Motion-Induced Quicksand

mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ... MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... mechanical behavior of the sand itself has changed because something was moving far away,” Kamrin says. “How ...

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Heywood, John B Professor Emeritus

‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness

bunch of elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Mechanical Engineering, developed the Anklebot as an experimental and rehabilitation tool. Much like ... IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. The paper’s co-authors are Hyunglae ...

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Buonassisi, Tonio Professor

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