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Alumni team tops Collegiate Inventors Competition
On a Friday in mid-November, recent mechanical engineering alumna Elizabeth Bianchini ’18 found ... Inventors Competition last month for Rhino, a product first developed in 2.009 (Product Engineering ... class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). The team’s win at the CIC was the culmination of over ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-team-tops-collegiate-inventors-competitionUnlocking new science with devices that control electric power
engineering, followed by a PhD in mechanical engineering under MIT Professor Ian Hunter, which involved ... Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 was in the middle of an experiment as a postdoc at MIT when the Covid-19 ... directly with Langer on a totally different problem in biomedical engineering. In Langer's famously ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unlocking-new-science-devices-control-electric-powerMechE Spinoff Launches All-Terrain Wheelchair in US
designed for US and European markets. Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT), an MIT MechE ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering to create a wheelchair that fits the needs of people with ... drivetrain as needed, based on the environment. Some engineers may consider the restrictive parameters ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-spinoff-launches-all-terrain-wheelchair-usTalking Shop with Professor David Gossard
Department of Mechanical Engineering since he earned his PhD here in 1975, having previously earned his ... bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He began his tenure in the ... computer science and its intersection with mechanical engineering. His research activities included solid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-david-gossardDavid Hu
Director of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT – read Professor Hu’s article in the New ... science and engineering. Professor Larson is the co-founder and principal investigator of the MIT BLOSSOMS ... This is a question that David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ‘06), a professor of mechanical engineering and biology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-huA bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract
Laboratory for Translational Engineering and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Council of Canada, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the ... clouds, researchers from MIT and Novo Nordisk have developed an ingestible capsule that releases a burst ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-capsule-can-pump-drugs-directly-walls-gi-tractDeep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell
splitting, and growing of many thousands of cells. A team of MIT engineers has now developed a way to ... engineering at MIT. “By accurately modeling this early period, we can start to uncover how local cell ... Professor of Engineering in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; George Roy and Tomer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deep-learning-model-predicts-how-fruit-flies-form-cell-cellA simpler method for learning to control a robot
in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society ... mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Marco Pavone, associate professor of ... Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simpler-method-learning-control-robotChisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors
President Barack Obama on Friday presented MIT professors Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and Robert ... genomic level to its role in the global biosphere. Langer, a biomedical engineer who focuses on ... engineering, where his discoveries led to the creation of new tissues such as artificial skin for burn victims. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/chisholm-langer-receive-nation%E2%80%99s-highest-honors-scientists-and-inventorsNew system recovers fresh water from power plants
A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ... floating away in clouds of vapor. But the new MIT system could potentially save a substantial fraction of ... which is the basis for a startup company called Infinite Cooling that last month won MIT’s $100K ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-system-recovers-fresh-water-power-plantsNew 3D printing technique creates unique objects quickly and with less waste
Researchers from MIT and Delft University of Technology have now introduced a more efficient, less wasteful, ... Career Development Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at ... MIT and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Doğan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-technique-creates-unique-objects-quickly-and-less-wasteHow to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed
the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), ... consequences. To help prevent such mistakes, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab developed ... at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab; and Shervin Ardeshir, a senior research scientist at Netflix. The paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-general-purpose-ai-model%E2%80%99s-reliability-it%E2%80%99s-deployedOcean currents play a role in predicting extent of Arctic sea ice
researchers at MIT have developed a new method for optimally combining models and observations to accurately ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “Until a few years ago, people ... and decline.” Heimbach and former MIT graduate student Ian Fenty, now a postdoc at NASA’s Jet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-currents-play-role-predicting-extent-arctic-sea-iceFrom 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-grasp