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Drive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ... PhD ’14; Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor in Mechanical ... mechanics at Columbia University, who was not involved in this work. “With the general trend to more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsIra Dyer, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 91
merged with the Department of Mechanical Engineering) for 10 years. He also served as president of the ... Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2005. At its helm, he led the department into new areas of ocean ... 24, 2016 Department of Mechanical Engineering Education Vertical Former head of MIT's Department ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ira-dyer-professor-emeritus-ocean-engineering-dies-91Student product ideas range from lifesaving to just plain fun
The theme for this year’s student projects in the mechanical engineering class called Product ... its 21st year, the class, known by its course number, 2.009, is led by professor of mechanical ... circuit in the chair’s mechanisms. To alleviate that and allow wheelchair users more freedom to spend time ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-product-ideas-range-lifesaving-just-plain-funMIT students hack assistive technology solutions for local clients
Laboratory; Don Fredette of The Boston Home; Michael Buchman of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering; ... they decided to expand the remote's capabilities. They created a mechanical light switch that can ... be mounted to any switch in Dan's home. The mechanism surrounds a light switch and moves up and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-hack-assistive-technology-solutions-local-clientsBatteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles
co-inventor Ian Salmon McKay ’12, SM ’13, who co-founded OWP with fellow mechanical engineering graduate ... joined 2.013/2.014 (Engineering System Design/Development) taught by MIT professor of mechanical ... Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering. There, they began developing electrolytes and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batteries-%E2%80%9Cdrink%E2%80%9D-seawater-could-power-long-range-underwater-vehicles-0New test rapidly diagnoses Zika
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Image courtesy of the researchers This test could offer an ... Mechanical Engineering, and a co-senior author of the paper. The researchers worked with scientists around ... scientist Irene Bosch and Department of Mechanical Engineering postdoc Helena de Puig. No more false ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-test-rapidly-diagnoses-zikaVeteran engineer studies career pathways of today’s graduates
Seering, the Weber-Shaughness Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The other half of his ... mechanical engineering, from nine universities across the country. Magarian hopes the data within these files ... will address his second important research question: What are the mechanisms at play that attract some ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/veteran-engineer-studies-career-pathways-today%E2%80%99s-graduatesEngineers identify key to albatross’ marathon flight
Bousquet, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The region is extremely ... professor of mechanical engineering and information sciences and of brain and cognitive sciences, and ... professor of mechanical and ocean engineering. Competitve soaring The team’s project was inspired, in part, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-identify-key-albatross%E2%80%99-marathon-flightThree MIT seniors awarded 2018 Marshall Scholarships
mechanical engineering. Schwartz aims to combine his passion for complex engineering and humanitarian goals ... a mechanical design intern at Tri Alpha Energy, a company that seeks to build a nuclear fusion reactor machine. ... Cognitive Science lab, conducting research on the mechanisms by which people make intuitive counterfactual ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-seniors-awarded-2018-marshall-scholarshipsReliable energy for all
mechanical engineering. He discovered a new area of interest, however, when he took 15.031J (Energy ... Opportunities Program]. That program made MIT stick out from all the other universities.” As a mechanical ... where he will earn an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a master’s in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reliable-energy-allStudent teams design in the face of danger
mechanical design class 2.009, teaching assistants for the class showered the capacity crowd at Kresge ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-teams-design-face-dangerProsper Nyovanie
engineering, and upon coming to MIT as an undergraduate, he majored in mechanical engineering. He discovered ... stick out from all the other universities.” As a mechanical engineering major, Nyovanie took part in ... School of Management and a master’s in mechanical engineering. He is also a fellow of the Legatum Center ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/prosper-nyovanie-1Overcoming obstacles with an electric hovercraft
a graduate student in mechanical engineering. “There was no choice.” “We had to drop everything to rebuild ... something so discouraging,” adds Jessica Harsono, braking team lead and graduate student in mechanical ... Maker Horizontal The MIT team, which includes a number of mechanical engineering students, placed first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overcoming-obstacles-electric-hovercraft“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-structuresPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ... Rodriguez recently co-designed. “The robot is performing a complex task, but the core of the mechanics ... blocks,” Rodriguez says. Omnipush builds on a similar dataset built in the Manipulation and Mechanisms ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationResearchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), a senior ... pulse. The resulting mechanical vibrations generate sound waves that travel back up, where they can be ... measured. By mechanically scanning the lasers over the body, scientists can acquire data at different ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-produce-first-laser-ultrasound-images-humansWhitehead Institute receives $10 million to study sex chromosomes’ impact on women’s health
own experience. She was the first woman to earn a mechanical engineering degree from Stanford ... a master’s degree at MIT in 1961, she was the sole woman in the school’s mechanical engineering department. ... into the molecular mechanisms through which the X and Y chromosomes give rise to sex-specific ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whitehead-institute-receives-10-million-study-sex-chromosomes%E2%80%99-impact-women%E2%80%99s-healthInstrument may enable mail-in testing to detect heavy metals in water
of Mechanical Engineering. “For instance, someone who has heard about the water crisis in Flint, ... professor of mechanical engineering; and Rohit Karnik, professor of mechanical engineering and associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/instrument-may-enable-mail-testing-detect-heavy-metals-waterNew design principle could prevent catheter failure in brain shunts
associate professor in the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and ... novelty is that we leveraged the coupling between mechanical (i.e., fluid dynamics here) principles and ... Department of Mechanical Engineering; Nicholas Kwok, an MD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-design-principle-could-prevent-catheter-failure-brain-shuntsTeaching With Digital Technology Award winners recognized for their innovations
year's 31 winners, selected from the aggregate of nominations, are: Steve Banzaert- Mechanical ... Management Adam Hartz- Computer Science Stefan Helmreich- Anthropology Barbara Hughey- Mechanical Engineering ... Planning David Wallace- Mechanical Engineering Jacob White- Electrical Engineering Innovation, agility, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-digital-technology-award-winners-recognized-their-innovations