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2.03x Dynamics aims to improve learning on and off campus
Engineering is the second largest engineering department at MIT, and this version of the popular Dynamics ... classic experiences of an MIT undergraduate, when edX releases 2.03x Dynamics on Oct. 28. Mechanical ... course covers many key concepts in the first year curriculum for mechanical engineering (or Course 2) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/203x-dynamics-aims-improve-learning-and-campusA robot dives into search for Malaysian Airlines flight
got its start at MIT. Bluefin Robotics, founded in 1997 by a core group of engineers from the MIT ... Discover how, in the spirit of the late MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton, Boston-area ... teenagers will design and build an AUV at MIT this summer. Thursday, April 17, 2014 Nicole Estvanik Taylor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-dives-search-malaysian-airlines-flightHarder, better, faster, stronger
says Elliot Owen, a junior in mechanical engineering and battery lead for MIT FSAE. “This year’s ... a Formula-style electric race car from the ground up. Every year. For students who are members of MIT Motorsports ... — a.k.a. the MIT Formula SAE (FSAE) team, originally founded in 2001 — that task determines how they spend ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harder-better-faster-strongerDroplets break a theoretical time barrier on bouncing
Engineering at MIT, along with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of ... mechanical engineering at Boston University, former MIT postdoc Rajeev Dhiman, and recent MIT PhD recipient ... to bounce away from such a surface. But MIT researchers have now found a way to burst through that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-break-theoretical-time-barrier-bouncingTackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time
alone. A new study by MIT researchers, presented at the recent American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... ZhiYi Liang, PhD student on the renewable hydrogen team at the MIT K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and ... GEAR, and Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-energy-revolution-one-sector-timeSangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSWAbtQqhlo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT Assistant Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering Sangbae Kim describes his cutting-edge research in the area of biomimetics, the study of ... biological systems as models for the design and engineering of robots. Professor Kim's current project-- ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sangbae-kim-inspired-natureStents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract
structures, MIT engineers and their collaborators have designed a new type of stent that could be used to ... an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... stents in patients. The research was funded by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stents-inspired-paper-cutting-art-can-deliver-drugs-gi-tractFinding Wonderland
Engineering (MechE). “I thought everyone at MIT would be about science all the time. Instead I found strong ... Moudio will graduate from MIT able to apply the principles of engineering, physics, and material sciences ... “Only at MIT.” Thursday, May 26, 2016 Meg Murphy | School of Engineering Culture Education International ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-wonderlandFaculty Research: Professor Kripa Varanasi
journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, along ... with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at ... Droplets Break a Theoretical Time Barrier on Bouncing By David Chandler, MIT News Office Those ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-kripa-varanasiSoft optical fibers block pain while moving and stretching with the body
Scientists have a new tool to precisely illuminate the roots of nerve pain. Engineers at MIT have ... 1024NoPainFibers-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have designed a soft hydrogel optical fiber (shown illuminated) that stimulates ... if pain is involved,” says Siyuan Rao, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-optical-fibers-block-pain-while-moving-and-stretching-bodyOn a quest for a better football helmet
an MIT alumnus. For the last year, former MIT middle linebacker and mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ... class at MIT, 2.009 (Product Engineering Process). In the process of building prototypes, students in ... Next time you’re watching football you might be looking at an important feat of engineering from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quest-better-football-helmetCSAIL, MechE marine experts win international self-driving boat competition
researchers from MIT and Olin College as one of 15 teams competing in the Maritime RobotX Challenge, which ... searching underwater for acoustic sources. MIT-Olin outperformed other universities from Australia, Japan, ... Mechanical Engineering. “Each day saw huge hurdles, from equipment and software failures, to working outside ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/csail-meche-marine-experts-win-international-self-driving-boat-competitionFrom 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars
chief technology officer of MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Dan Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and ... MIT D-Lab faculty research director; Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... ; and Jaya Narain, PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at the Fluid Interfaces Group in the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-limbs-semi-autonomous-race-carsStudy shows forward osmosis desalination not energy efficient
Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ... In a recent study published in the Journal of Membrane Science, MIT professor John Lienhard and ... postdoc Ronan McGovern, both of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, reported that, contrary to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-shows-forward-osmosis-desalination-not-energy-efficientFirst-year students take center stage on Killian Court
On a chilly Monday in May, MIT’s Killian Court was transformed into a festival of fun. Over 1,200 ... “PLAYsentations” — demonstrating the toys they created this semester in mechanical engineering class 2.00b (Toy ... iconic location so early in their time at MIT was a surreal experience. “It was such a symbolic setting. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-year-students-take-center-stage-killian-courtA brave new ocean world
research engineer at MIT, says to describe the ceiling-to-floor map of the world ocean and continents that ... covers the walls outside his office in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary ... of the MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm), a very widely used ocean modeling tool. Development of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/brave-new-ocean-worldCourse 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design
courses mechanical engineering students can opt to take at MIT, “this class integrates all the other ... other mechanical engineering courses that I have previously taken at MIT and showed me how to apply the ... Mechanical Design isn’t a typical course, even for mechanical engineering. One of the last undergraduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/course-272-elements-mechanical-designAlumni Profile: Peter Lehner
Cotchett’s machine shop solidified his interest in mechanical engineering. A few years later, he came to MIT ... a teenager. He loved rebuilding old cars and wanted to become an aircraft engineer after college. “I knew ... a man named Mr. Cotchett who was a mechanical engineer during the Depression,” explains Lehner. “He was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-profile-peter-lehnerPeter Lehner
solidified his interest in mechanical engineering. A few years later, he came to MIT on the GI Bill and ... cars and wanted to become an aircraft engineer after college. Peter Lehner.jpg “I knew a man named Mr. ... Cotchett who was a mechanical engineer during the Depression,” explains Lehner. “He was involved in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/peter-lehnerQuick Test for Ebola
’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the technical staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. “We ... treatment and isolation. A new test from MIT researchers could change that: The device, a simple paper strip ... symptoms and it’s not clear what they have,” says Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, a visiting scientist in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-test-ebola