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On 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-lehnerPills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence
MIT engineers designed capsules with biodegradable radio frequency antennas that can reveal when ... on schedule, MIT engineers have designed a pill that can report when it has been swallowed. The new ... maximize their health,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-communicate-stomach-could-improve-medication-adherenceQuick 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-ebolaFor 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 ...
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