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For developing designers, there’s magic in 2.737 (Mechatronics)
of mechanical systems, electronics, controls, and computer science. Mechatronics engineers work in ... paper, and make sketches, and write down key calculations in order to be creative,” says MIT professor of ... mechanical engineering David Trumper, who has been teaching class 2.737 (Mechatronics) since he joined the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-designers-there%E2%80%99s-magic-2737-mechatronicsArtificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
direction, limiting any robot’s range of motion. MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure ... constrict the pupil. Image: Courtesy of the researchers Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow ... Development Professor of Tissue Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team says the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-muscle-flexes-multiple-directions-offering-path-soft-wiggly-robotsAlumni Spotlight: Meg O’Neill (SB ’93, SM ’94)
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 ... fields. Her next move to New Orleans as a reservoir engineering supervisor placed her much closer to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-meg-o%E2%80%99neill-sb-%E2%80%9993-sm-%E2%80%9994Meg O’Neill
Meg O'Neill 1024.jpg Having started at ExxonMobil as an engineer in 1994, O’Neill is currently ... transferred within the company to work as a reservoir engineer, producing models about how oil and gas flow ... Orleans as a reservoir engineering supervisor placed her much closer to the business side of the company, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/meg-o%E2%80%99neillCooling when there’s too much heat
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lead author of the study. The goal for Varanasi and ... a thin layer of vapor and then bouncing along it — just as they would in a hot cooking pan. Now, MIT ... his co-authors, recent MIT PhD recipient Hyuk-Min Kwon and former MIT postdoc J.C. Bird, was to find ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-when-there%E2%80%99s-too-much-heatThe Power of Salt
according to a team of mechanical engineers at MIT. The researchers evaluated an emerging method of power ... MIT study investigates power generation from the meeting of river water and seawater. Where the ... a pre-pressurized saltier side, creating a flow that can be sent through a turbine to recover power. The MIT team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-saltNew material could make it easier to remove colon polyps
Mechanical Engineering. Monday, July 29, 2019 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Entrepreneurship ... remove safely. However, this cushion doesn’t last long. MIT researchers have now devised an alternative ... a more stable and longer-lasting cushion. Injectable-Hydrogel-1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-could-make-it-easier-remove-colon-polypsStudents demonstrate "calculated imagination" in robot competition
ticket). 2.007.2.043_1024.jpg John Taylor Novak, a mechanical engineering junior, navigates his robot ... engineers; we can do better than pure imagination,” said Winter as he kicked off the event. “We can do ... mushroom. The game board was designed to get students familiar with basic mechanical engineering principles. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-demonstrate-calculated-imagination-robot-competitionLiving Undersea
Ocean engineering alumna Grace Young (SB '14) reflects on her experience as part of Fabien ... mechanical and ocean engineering alumna Grace Young '14 reflects on her experience. Young led the team ... footage of marine life on the coral reef in slow motion. Ocean Science and Engineering Environment Impact ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/living-underseaA new way to detect leaks in pipes
mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the research papers. “We’ve proved that the concept works.” ... pipes, and should be effective in gas, water, and oil pipes. MIT mechanical engineering professor Kamal ... altogether. Now researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-detect-leaks-pipesPitching transformative design
class 22.033 (Nuclear Science and Engineering Design), “We’re pretty nervous,” said Jared Wilson, a senior ... a commercially viable way through the application of nuclear science and engineering. Guided by class instructor ... Zachary Hartwig, the John C. Hardwick Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, three teams ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pitching-transformative-designAlumni Spotlight: Professor Woodie Flowers (SM ‘68, MEng ‘71, PhD ‘73)
Flowers breathed new life into the MIT way of teaching engineering by doing, a reinvigoration at the right ... engineering is all about having fun. But it wasn’t always that way. As a high school student from a poor ... convictions led him to become a major force in the transformation of mechanical engineering education. Having ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-professor-woodie-flowers-sm-%E2%80%9868-meng-%E2%80%9871-phd-%E2%80%9873Guided discovery in teaching structural mechanics
Over the course of their education at MIT, mechanical engineering undergraduate students have many ... MIT AeroAstro, where some of these same discoveries are used in class 16.001 (Unified Engineering ... mechanics. Class 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials I) provides mechanical engineering students the foundation ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guided-discovery-teaching-structural-mechanicsNoninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue
Innovation in the Department of Biological Engineering; and other MIT colleagues. The research appears today ... the resolution of captured images. Now, MIT researchers have developed a new technique that more than ... well-suited for demanding imaging applications like cancer research, tissue engineering, drug discovery, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-imaging-method-can-penetrate-deeper-living-tissueWeighing particles at the attogram scale
MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... demonstrate the device’s usefulness in analyzing engineered nanoparticles, the MIT team weighed nanoparticles ... function. The system builds on a technology previously developed by Scott Manalis, an MIT professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scaleCancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests
Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and an author of the study. MIT graduate ... author. Other MIT authors include Peter So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ... A study from MIT now shows that tumor cells become much softer as they undergo this process. The findings ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cancer-cells-soften-they-metastasize-study-suggestsAn all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment
the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... companies to further develop them. The research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers led by Giovanni Traverso are working on an app that identifies and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/all-one-approach-diabetes-treatmentAging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration
MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, will explore whether Alzheimer’s pathology is driven by ... expertise to join the field, MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative (ABI) this month awarded five seed grants after ... a competition among labs across the Institute. Founded in 2015 by nine MIT faculty members, the ABI promotes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aging-brain-initiative-awards-fund-five-new-ideas-study-fight-neurodegenerationLight-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post-trauma
Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and MIT collaborators aims to restore ... engineering, but many previous studies have focused on creating replacement tissue in the lab, implanting it in ... the body, and then passively letting the patient’s system integrate the implant. These lab-engineered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-activated-muscle-grafts-show-promise-aiding-muscle-recovery-post-trauma-0Inside the Innards of a Nuclear Reactor
Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... of MIT’s d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, says one of the major ... place. Exerpted from a story by Jennifer Chu. To read the whole story, visit MIT’s New Office: ...
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