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Buie, Kim receive DARPA Young Faculty Award
autonomous control algorithms. Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Mechanical engineering green Culture crb@mit.edu ... Assistant Professors Cullen Buie and Sangbae Kim of the Department of Mechanical Engineering both ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/buie-kim-receive-darpa-young-faculty-awardThe Wonders of Thin Structures
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Pedro Reis, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and ... Civil & Environmental Engineering, describes the research activity in his Elasticity, Geometry, ... & Statistics Laboratory at MIT. Reis' work focuses on the mechanics of large deformations of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wonders-thin-structures3D-printed revolving devices can sense how they are moving
are rotating. MIT engineers have now developed a way to easily integrate sensors into these types of ... associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical ... Engineering, and a member of CSAIL; as well as others at MIT and collaborators from Accenture Labs. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-revolving-devices-can-sense-how-they-are-movingThe best semiconductor of them all?
a paper by MIT postdoc Jungwoo Shin and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen; Zhifeng Ren at ... computers. Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions has carried ... uniform. The researchers had to use special methods originally developed by former MIT postdoc Bai Song to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/best-semiconductor-them-allFaculty Research: Professor Rohit Karnik
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “You could potentially buy a $5 or $10 kit and get the cells sorted without ... Photo Credits: MIT News Office by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Cell rolling is a common mechanism ... slowing down to help in the healing of inflamed areas. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-rohit-karnikMorphable surfaces could cut air resistance
caused by air resistance in half. Now researchers at MIT are aiming to harness that same effect to reduce ... a surface whose smoothness can be altered, literally, on the fly — and that’s what the MIT team has ... developed. The new work is described in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials by MIT’s Pedro Reis and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistanceHow to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency ... graduate student Andrej Lenert, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, physics ... layer is bonded tightly to a layer of a photonic crystal, which is precisely engineered so that when it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-tap-sun%E2%80%99s-energy-through-heat-well-lightCleaning Water Without the Grid
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, but he describes one of the most important aspects of his job as ... MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly ... “detective work.” That’s what he, MIT PhD candidate Natasha Wright, and their fellow researchers did for two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-water-without-gridFeatured video: Building a roller coaster
Every year during residence exploration week at MIT, or REX week, our undergraduate residence ... hopefully choose to join. So, how do you get the attention of first-year MIT students? At East Campus, you ... students who use them to customize their rooms. Video by: Melanie Gonick/MIT News | 3 min 21 sec Sunday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-building-roller-coasterBasketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Data return Across the sports world, data analysts have grown in number and ... according to a new study by MIT researchers, there’s one member who consistently boosts their team’s ... performance: the data analyst. An MIT basketball player dribbles during a game. Credit: MIT DAPER The new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basketball-analytics-investment-key-nba-wins-and-other-successesNew ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ... at MIT and LLNL have tested the process using three engineering materials — metal, ceramic, and ... MIT’s Nicholas Fang; former postdoc Howon Lee, now an assistant professor at Rutgers University; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedThe (robotic) doctor will see you now
fronts,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist ... Tassel (1925) Career Development Professorship, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the ... from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently set out to answer that question. In a study ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-doctor-will-see-you-nowExploring growth within a confined space
a research team led by Tal Cohen, MIT associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and of ... confinement. Photo: moonimage/Flickr Now, MIT and Yale University researchers have developed a theoretical framework ... mechanical engineering, grew cholera bacteria inside a soft gel, observing the architecture of the expanding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-growth-within-confined-spaceStudents launch products that help users harness their superpowers
lasso of truth. Batman has his suit. On Monday evening, teams of mechanical engineering students ... 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), have spent the semester developing and designing a product ... presented to a full capacity crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. They received a rock-star welcome. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-launch-products-help-users-harness-their-superpowersUntangling How Cables Coil
can significantly slow telecommunications around the world. Now engineers at MIT, along with computer ... theoretical analyses. In the lab, MIT engineers set up a desktop system to spool spaghetti-like cables onto ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “We have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-how-cables-coil2.75: Precision Machine Design
part of a mechanical engineer’s education? Isn’t the science enough? “At MIT, we teach really great ... Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue Collaboration Education Maker slocum@mit ... students through this process since 2004, when he founded the class on the famous MIT credo “mens et ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/275-precision-machine-designMicrofluidics and nanofluidics research address global challenges
Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, addresses real-world ... July 22, 2014 John Freidah | Mechanical engineering green International karnik@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-and-nanofluidics-research-address-global-challengesUnder the sea
the sea. Yet when ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of ... oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major, will take charge of marine ... remaining a full-time MIT student. “Hopefully we’ll resurface before final exams,” she says with a smile. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/under-seaBringing life to computer models of marine microbes
The group grew with new members from PAOC and the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT, becoming ... As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, ... change," says John Marshall, an oceanographer at MIT who has known Follows for decades. "That's ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesBatch desalination configuration bests standard reverse osmosis approach
mechanical engineers, PhD candidate Emily Tow and postdoc David Warsinger, and also includes MIT PhD student ... water is energy-intensive. A team of MIT researchers has responded by creating new designs for reverse ... could substantially reduce the energy use of future desalination systems. The team is co-led by two MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batch-desalination-configuration-bests-standard-reverse-osmosis-approach