Search Results
Showing Results for: “mit industrial engineering masters”
Student Spotlight: Grace Young (SB ‘14)
Under the Sea By Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman A house by ... ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of aquanauts in living ... Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major who was recently awarded ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-grace-young-sb-%E2%80%9814Orienteering for robots
student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, is lead author on the paper. He’s joined by ... Recognition in June, MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that could make it much easier, by ... his advisors, John Fisher, a senior research scientist in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/orienteering-robotsRobot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... trick, Winter and his co-developer, Anette Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and applied ... mathematics at MIT, needed to understand how the clam’s movement causes the soil to liquefy, or turn into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamicsStretchable Hydrogel Electronics
Water-based “Band-Aid” senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin. MIT ... engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that ... Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchable-hydrogel-electronicsArtificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
is due in part to its antennae-like whiskers. Now engineers at MIT have fabricated and tested ... object’s path, its size, and even its shape. Michael Triantafyllou, the William I. Koch Professor in MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says that biologically inspired sensors, modeled after the harbor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-whisker-reveals-source-harbor-seal%E2%80%99s-uncanny-prey-sensing-ability-0Method may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies
co-authors include Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; Yichao ... blood could enable doctors to diagnose and track the progression of multiple myeloma. Now engineers at ... MIT have devised a microfluidic technique to capture and count circulating plasma cells from small ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-may-help-myeloma-patients-avoid-painful-biopsiesTiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens
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 ... bound to the beads. The MIT team found a faster way to confirm the presence of Dynabead-bound pathogens, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tiny-magnetic-beads-produce-optical-signal-could-be-used-quickly-detect-pathogensA pose-mapping technique could remotely evaluate patients with cerebral palsy
expensive, time-consuming, and emotionally taxing. MIT engineers hope to alleviate some of that stress with ... every evaluation,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist at MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Engineering. “We think this technology could potentially be used to remotely evaluate any condition that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pose-mapping-technique-could-remotely-evaluate-patients-cerebral-palsy3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design
makeup — have been redefining the engineering materials space for the last decade. To date, however, most ... metamaterials have been lightweight options designed for stiffness and strength. New research from the MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering introduces a computational design framework to support the creation of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-metamaterials-stretch-and-fail-designReducing the burden of tuberculosis treatment
Traverso, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at ... medical facilities. To help overcome that, a team of researchers led by MIT has devised a new way to ... Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, are the senior authors of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-burden-tuberculosis-treatmentHow to float your coffee creamer
able to sustain,” says Michela Geri, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... engineering, John Bush, professor of applied mathematics in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, and Gareth ... what if the two liquids didn’t mix? MIT scientists have now explained why under certain conditions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-float-your-coffee-creamerStripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids
emerge from chiral forces and building blocks. But that assumption may need some retuning. MIT engineers ... co-author Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “And from ... which an object cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. 1024_Twisted-Liquid-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stripes-flowing-liquid-crystal-suggest-route-%E2%80%9Cchiral%E2%80%9D-fluids3-D scanning, with your smartphone
engineering. He is now working with two other MIT alumni on another startup, OpenWater Power, developing ... and technological expertise. But MIT spinout Viztu Technologies helped change that: Back in 2011, ... of his MIT dissertation. “Now it only takes a smartphone or digital camera a few minutes online to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-scanning-your-smartphoneRainfall Can Release Aerosols, Study Finds
Buie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “It’s a very common phenomenon, and it ... smell in the air after a light rain? Now scientists at MIT believe they may have identified the ... engineered materials and 16 soil samples. In addition to acquiring commercial soils, Joung sampled soil from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rainfall-can-release-aerosols-study-findsHow strong is your knot?
what exactly makes one knot more stable than another has not been well-understood, until now. MIT ... mathematicians and engineers have developed a mathematical model that predicts how stable a knot is, based on ... whether a knot is strong or not,” says Jörn Dunkel, associate professor of mathematics at MIT. “With this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knotA protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy
mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Traverso and James ... National Cancer Institute, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the U.S. Advanced Research ... of radiation, researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the University of Iowa have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protein-tiny-tardigrades-may-help-cancer-patients-tolerate-radiation-therapyAlumni 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-competitionCourse 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems
Mechanical Engineering curriculum, you’d be hard-pressed to choose anything other than “hands-on.” The ... but there are others that are focusing on the interface between mechanical engineering and other ... engineering fields. One of them is Professor Derek Rowell’s 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems, which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/course-2678-electronics-mechanical-systemsMechE 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-us