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Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
author Ritu Raman, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering (MechE) at MIT. “Such modularity ... tendons that are halfway in stiffness between muscle and bone, that allow you to bridge this mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-tendons-give-muscle-powered-robots-boostMADMEC winners develop spray-on coating to protect power lines from ice
Department of Mechanical Engineering, stressed the parameters of the contest — working within a $1,000 ... mechanical engineering, echoed Tarkanian’s comments, emphasizing the space set aside for innovative thinking. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/madmec-winners-develop-spray-coating-protect-power-lines-iceResurrecting an MIT “learning by doing” tradition: NEET scholars install solar-powered charging station
team included students majoring in chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, mechanical ... the project, according to NEET CSS student Tyler Ea, a fifth-year mechanical engineering major who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/resurrecting-mit-%E2%80%9Clearning-doing%E2%80%9D-tradition-neet-scholars-install-solar-powered-chargingMIT announces 2025 Bose Grants
Mechanical Engineering Professor Kripa Varanasi, Civil & Environmental Engineering Associate Professor ... Thomas A. Frank Professor of Physics Peter Fisher. Mechanical Engineering Professor Kripa Varanasi is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-2025-bose-grantsPills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence
maximize their health,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ... ability to take their medication. The research was funded by Novo Nordisk, MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-communicate-stomach-could-improve-medication-adherenceElectrifying boilers to decarbonize industry
ultimately completed a dual master’s degree by adding mechanical engineering to his studies. “I was ... change.” Stark stayed at MIT to earn his PhD in mechanical engineering, studying thermochemical biofuels. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electrifying-boilers-decarbonize-industryNew tissue models could help researchers develop drugs for liver disease
a professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering, and the senior author of both studies. ... elucidate the underlying mechanism.” A more realistic liver model In the Nature Communications paper, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-tissue-models-could-help-researchers-develop-drugs-liver-diseaseA quick stretch switches this polymer’s capacity to transport heat
research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Now that we’ve seen this thermal ... Fellowship, MathWorks MechE Graduate Fellowship, and the MIT-SUSTech Centers for Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-stretch-switches-polymer%E2%80%99s-capacity-transport-heatTackling industry’s burdensome bubble problem
defoamers can be toxic to cells, while mechanical agitation can damage delicate biological materials. ... As a result, many applications that cannot tolerate chemical defoamers or mechanical intervention ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-industry%E2%80%99s-burdensome-bubble-problemA “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster
associate professor of mechanical engineering and a core member of the MIT Center for Computational Science ... Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, who was not involved in this research. Tuesday, March 3, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cchatgpt-spreadsheets%E2%80%9D-helps-solve-difficult-engineering-challenges-fasterHow some skills become second nature
a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can make that knowledge explicit, ... in Mechanical Engineering. Hidden gaze The concept of tacit knowledge is credited to the scientist ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-some-skills-become-second-natureTurning extreme heat into large-scale energy storage
Department of Mechanical Engineering. Heat transfer systems are usually made out of metals like iron and ... a mechanical engineer would come up with a design and say, ‘Give me the best materials to do this,’” Henry ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-extreme-heat-large-scale-energy-storageMIT hackathon tackles real-world challenges in Ukraine
MIT and director of the Multifunctional Metamaterials Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical ... Mechanical Engineering. “They were sharing data in real time across continents, while experiencing the war’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-hackathon-tackles-real-world-challenges-ukrainePreview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects
Mueller, an associate professor of EECS and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and a member of CSAIL. The ... since VisiPrint does not estimate printability, mechanical feasibility, or likelihood of failure. To ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/preview-tool-helps-makers-visualize-3d-printed-objectsWith a swipe of a magnet, microscopic “magno-bots” perform complex maneuvers
Portela, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “For ... a switch, in the opposite direction. “We think this is a new kind of bistable mechanism that could be used, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/swipe-magnet-microscopic-%E2%80%9Cmagno-bots%E2%80%9D-perform-complex-maneuversMIT engineers’ virtual violin produces realistic sounds
reproduce the artisan’s magic,” adds Nicholas Makris, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We’re ... that’s sounding mechanical to it, it’s because we’re using the exact same time function, or standard way ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers%E2%80%99-virtual-violin-produces-realistic-soundsFound Industries aims to strengthen America’s industrial supply chains
metals Godart focused on robotics as an undergraduate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and ... to create that reaction at NASA. He continued that work with professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/found-industries-aims-strengthen-america%E2%80%99s-industrial-supply-chainsCollaborating for irrigation access solutions: Where policy and engineering meet
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and one in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning ... Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, are using an ... mechanical system is a “different way to think about the problem of irrigation,” Brennan says. “It makes you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaborating-irrigation-access-solutions-where-policy-and-engineering-meet2.009 makes its “Move!” onstage
mechanical engineering students and staff, the Mocha Moves dance troupe, and the a capella group Resonance. ... course co-instructors Ellen Roche, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and Josh ... of mechanical engineering David Wallace, who is on sabbatical this year and has taught 2.009 since ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2009-makes-its-%E2%80%9Cmove%E2%80%9D-onstageUsing combustion to make better batteries
combustion. Now an assistant professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Class of 1954 ... task for Deng and her team — mechanical engineering postdoc Jianan Zhang, Valerie L. Muldoon ’20, SM ... of Mechanical Engineering. This article appears in the Winter 2023 issue of Energy Futures, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-combustion-make-better-batteries