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From large labs to small teams, mentorship thrives
Each year, new MIT graduate students are tasked with the momentous decision of choosing a research ... arts and sciences at MIT, where she founded and directs the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab. ... She is also the MIT dean for digital learning, leading MIT Open Learning’s business and research and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/large-labs-small-teams-mentorship-thrivesHow Crispy is Your Bonbon?
smooth, even chocolaty shell. Now, a theory and a simple fabrication technique derived by MIT engineers ... and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “I’m sure chocolatiers have come up with techniques ... engineers could predict the mechanical response of many other types of shells, from small pharmaceutical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-crispy-your-bonbonStudents present product prototypes inspired by kindness
of class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). For many MIT seniors, their entire undergraduate ... On the evening of Dec. 7, six teams of mechanical engineering students presented the product ... mechanical engineering. Thanks to the efforts of course instructor Professor David Wallace and a massive team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-product-prototypes-inspired-kindnessBryan Schmid
difficult was the transition from engineering to entrepreneurship? MIT certainly fosters an interest in ... MechE alumni Nate Ball (SB ’05, SM ’07) and Bryan Schmid (SB ’03, SM ’05) entered the MIT ... up to 600 pounds. What kind of engineering challenges did you encounter in your design? When you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/bryan-schmidStudy: With masking and distancing in place, NFL stadium openings in 2020 had no impact on local Covid-19 infections
particularly at a time when vaccination against the virus was not widely available. Now, MIT engineers have ... Engineering at MIT. “If case counts start to rise again, we know what to do: mask people, put them outside, ... and distance them from each other.” The study’s co-authors are members of MIT’s Institue for Data, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-masking-and-distancing-place-nfl-stadium-openings-2020-had-no-impact-local-covid-19Getting a grip on robotic grasp
way to move your robotic fingers,” says Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT ... — or rather, fingers. Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You do not need to command the robot, but simply move your fingers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspWatching tumors burst through a blood vessel
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We could take circulating tumor cells from a patient and subject those cells ... cancer metastasis. Now researchers at MIT have developed a microfluidic device that mimics the flow of ... previous platforms,” Chen says. Muhammad Zaman, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Boston ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watching-tumors-burst-through-blood-vesselKnitted microtissue can accelerate healing
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Mechanical Engineering Group. "That's why if you stretch your ... from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering and the laboratory's Defense Fabric Discovery Center ... collaboration came while Gillmer and Guo were teaching a course at MIT. Guo had been researching how to grow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/knitted-microtissue-can-accelerate-healingA robot that finds lost items
figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do ... associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the ... Signal Kinetics group in the MIT Media Lab. Co-authors include research assistant Tara Boroushaki, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-finds-lost-itemsA new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
particular problem that they have, so a lot of engineering and not so much flexibility in terms of the ... specific task,” says Alberto Rodriguez, an MIT visiting scientist who is a former member of the MechE ... members of the Manipulation and Mechanisms Lab at MIT (MCube) under Rodriguez’ direction. “In this work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-offers-robots-precise-pick-and-place-solutionsProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsA microchip for metastasis
Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... Now researchers from MIT, Italy, and South Korea have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic ... mechanical engineering. “We only waited until day five, but if we had gone longer, [the size of the clusters] ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-metastasisStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Faye Wu (SB ’09, SM ’12)
designing in Professor Harry Asada’s lab. Wu – who earned an SB and an SM in mechanical engineering from MIT ... Engineering red Maker asada@mit.edu Horizontal Student Faye Wu is designing a robotic finger system you can ... in mechanical engineering, demonstrates the "supernumerary robotic fingers" device. Photo: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-faye-wu-sb-%E2%80%9909-sm-%E2%80%9912Protecting maternal health in Rwanda
PhD '02, research scientist in mechanical engineering at MIT and technology lead for the team. ... MIT, Harvard University, and Partners in Health (PIH) in Rwanda have proposed a solution to address ... a new MIT student from Rwanda and would later join Fletcher’s team at MIT. With Fletcher’s mentorship, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-maternal-health-rwandaRobo-picker grasps and packs
stored. Now engineers from MIT and Princeton University have developed a robotic system that may one day ... Engineering at MIT. Rodriguez and his colleagues at MIT and Princeton will present a paper detailing their ... Mathworks, and Amazon. Sunday, February 18, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Entrepreneurship ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robo-picker-grasps-and-packsModel could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread
A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ... global statistics of this pandemic,” says lead author Raj Dandekar, a graduate student in MIT ... ’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. As the country battles a winter wave of new infections, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-could-help-determine-quarantine-measures-needed-reduce-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadUnderstanding and treating disease
Helmholtz Career Development Professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. “Rather than ... conducting represents just one example of how mechanical engineering researchers across a diverse range of ... of prosthetic feet or building cheaper wheelchairs, mechanical engineers are finding ways to improve ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-and-treating-diseaseAlumni Spotlight: Helen Greiner (SB ’89, SM ’90)
in the movie, R2-D2, stole Greiner’s heart and inspired her to apply to MIT to learn how to build ... Rodney Brooks, former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ... conjunction with US News & World Report and Innovator for the Next Century by MIT Technology Review. She ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-helen-greiner-sb-%E2%80%9989-sm-%E2%80%9990Building a better indoor herb garden
Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 didn’t set out to build indoor gardens when he arrived at MIT. The ... day. But in 2016, halfway through his studies for his master's degree in mechanical engineering ... bending. Briggs received his foundation in machining as an undergrad at the MIT Edgerton Center, where he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-better-indoor-herb-gardenStudent Spotlight: John Lewandowski (PhD Candidate)
says Lewandowski. “Engineers would design a device that was very sensitive but also very costly, or ... engineer, Lewandowski, who had originally wanted to be a medical doctor and studied biology as an ... effects.” It was Lewandowski’s engineering frame of mind brought to bear on his biological knowledge that ...
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