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One giant leap for the mini cheetah
and Computer Science; Professor Sangbae Kim in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; and ... Program. Wednesday, October 20, 2021 Adam Zewe | MIT News Office Collaboration Maker Horizontal A new ... Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Now, Margolis and his collaborators have developed a system that improves the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/one-giant-leap-mini-cheetahThe challenges and triumphs of the graduate experience
a transitory time, which can feel unsettling.” The mechanical engineering faculty and staff at MIT aim to help ... support of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Graduate Office to help them tackle challenges. ... For many graduate students, the first time they enter MIT’s campus as a student is a momentous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/challenges-and-triumphs-graduate-experienceThe physics of curly hair
Pedro Reis, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ... National Science Foundation, Schlumberger, the MIT-France Program, and a Battelle-MIT postdoctoral ... researchers at MIT and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris provide the first detailed model for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-curly-hairKeeping indoor humidity levels at a “sweet spot” may reduce spread of Covid-19
the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. “Indoor ventilation is still critical,” ... Engineering, and at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “However, we find that ... We know proper indoor ventilation is key to reducing the spread of Covid-19. Now, a study by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/keeping-indoor-humidity-levels-%E2%80%9Csweet-spot%E2%80%9D-may-reduce-spread-covid-19Pushing the limits of athletic performance
(formerly STE@M). MIT 3-Sigma Sports aims to solve the biggest engineering problems across sports. The ... Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Maker PEKO@MIT ... Anette (Peko) Hosoi, professor and associate department head for operations in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-limits-athletic-performanceAchieving advisory equilibrium
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems at MIT. His work has focused on dynamic systems ... Cappellaro is a professor of nuclear science and engineering. She leads the Quantum Engineering Group at the ... Center for Ultracold Atoms at MIT and is a member of the Research Lab for Electronics. Her research aims ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/achieving-advisory-equilibriumCatching (radio) waves
mechanical engineering professor Sanjay Sarma, now director of digital learning at MIT, had already done ... In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency ... MIT’s Auto-ID Center, ThingMagic developed RFID readers for the supply chain that could read many tags, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/catching-radio-wavesA creative desire, and the grit to get it done
MIT’s Human Systems Lab and Little Devices Lab. Her 2019 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program ... When Laura Rosado was headed to MIT four years ago, she was undecided about choosing a major. ... engineering and creative writing. Photo Credit: Ian MacLellan Then, in the spring semester of her first year, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creative-desire-and-grit-get-it-doneBroadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography
of MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the past 10 years, recently ... fund the creation of the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE), a five-year program ... actually quite difficult to connect them,” says Mick Follows, an associate professor in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/broadening-scope-microbial-oceanographyFaculty Spotlight: C. Forbes Dewey Jr.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering C. Forbes Dewey Jr. first came to MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1968 as an associate professor, bringing with him a BS in mechanical ... engineering from Yale University, an MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, and a PhD in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlight-c-forbes-dewey-jrThe Freedom of Constraint
Engineering for global change. You’ve probably heard of MechE alum and Associate Professor Hugh ... Herr (SM ’93), head of the Biomechatronics group at MIT Media Lab. The TED Talk he gave earlier this ... consider factors that most engineers can skip right over, such as social norms, local politics, in-depth ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/freedom-constraintGiving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: ... Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity. Most robots on ... mechanical engineering, and graduate student Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, has developed a model that predicts the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-more-nimble-graspOn a mission to build the uncrashable car
As a PhD student in the joint MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program, Eustice focused on ... and associate professor at the University of Michigan. “From an engineering perspective, the focus ... would be on helping the robot better navigate and understand its surroundings.” At MIT and Woods Hole, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-build-uncrashable-carKrithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a past co-president of the MIT Water Club. The ... The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) has announced that two MIT PhD ... research. The Rasikbhai L. Meswani Fellowship for Water Solutions and the J-WAFS Graduate Student Fellowship Program both ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/krithika-ramchander-and-andrea-beck-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutionsSometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ... funded by the Office of Naval Research and by the MIT Sea Grant College Program. Glen Gawarkiewicz, ... in a constantly changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sometimes-quickest-path-not-straight-lineFaculty Research: Professor Neville Hogan
elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, developed the ... Anklebot Helps Determine Ankle Stiffness by David Chandler, MIT News Office For most healthy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-neville-hoganNeed a research hypothesis? Ask AI.
Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering in MIT’s departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of ... can also be time consuming: New PhD candidates might spend the first year of their program trying to ... decide exactly what to explore in their experiments. What if artificial intelligence could help? MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-research-hypothesis-ask-aiTiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens
Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. “Additionally, we hope this approach will eventually ... cases, the wait time has to do with time-consuming steps in sample processing and analysis. Now, MIT ... engineers have identified a new optical signature in a widely used class of magnetic beads, which could be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tiny-magnetic-beads-produce-optical-signal-could-be-used-quickly-detect-pathogensThe poster session goes virtual
Opportunities Program (UROP) projects, and postdocs gather to share their mechanical engineering research with ... the wider MIT community. They practice their presenting skills, explaining their research projects as ... conference. As with most events and conferences, the Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE) had to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/poster-session-goes-virtualCustom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing
hearts and major vessels work harder to overcome any compromised function. MIT engineers are hoping to ... MIT engineers are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients’ specific heart form and ... says Luca Rosalia, a graduate student in the MIT-Harvard Program in Health Sciences and Technology. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/custom-3d-printed-heart-replicas-look-and-pump-just-real-thing