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How to Hide Like an Octopus
their surroundings — a capability that engineers have long struggled to duplicate in synthetic ... Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and Duke University Professor of Chemistry Stephen ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, says the new material is essentially a layer of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-hide-octopusBound for Robotic Glory
engineering at MIT, hypothesizes that this force-control approach to robotic running is similar, in principle, ... Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. These motors are controlled by amplifiers designed by David ... Otten, a principal research engineer in MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. The combination of such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bound-robotic-gloryIcing ALS: MIT Family Reshapes Research Models
Rafael Reif and the mechanical engineering faculty recently took the chilly dunks — with a decidedly MIT ... Mechanical Engineering John Heywood SM ’62, PhD ’65 — Stephen Heywood, who died of ALS in 2006, and whose ... and provided startup funds and connections to other donors. Jamie’s mechanical engineering training at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/icing-als-mit-family-reshapes-research-modelsSun-powered desalination for villages in India
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, appears in the journal Desalination. Winter explains that ... environmental engineering at the University of California at Berkeley who was not involved in this work, says, ... and extremely important problems of development engineering. … Solar-ED isn’t a new technology, but it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-desalination-villages-indiaFolkers Rojas (SB ‘09, SM ‘11, PhD ‘14)
from unintentionally spilling into the ocean, a purposefully engineered blockage. But the mechanics behind each of them ... says. “This problem had breadth; it had depth; it was a great engineering challenge. You’re looking at ... the 22 MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering wellbore cross-section. You also have to be able to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/folkers-rojas-sb-%E2%80%9809-sm-%E2%80%9811-phd-%E2%80%9814Faculty Spotlight
Associate Professor Martin L. Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then became ... Precision Engineering, and the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology. Why is ... the engineering and science that enable these new technologies. How important is it to understand the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlightNew ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ... Alex d’Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design. So far, the researchers ... at MIT and LLNL have tested the process using three engineering materials — metal, ceramic, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedHow cormorants emerge dry after deep dives
Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “By putting our ... Engineering. The depth-dependence of this phenomenon had not previously been known. But even after the collapse ... Loth, a professor of engineering at the University of Virginia who was not involved in this work, says, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cormorants-emerge-dry-after-deep-divesHow to create selective holes in graphene
led by graduate student Sean O’Hern and associate professor of mechanical engineering Rohit Karnik, is ... student David Cohen-Tanugi of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. But producing such ... materials engineering at the University of Kentucky who was not involved in this work, says, “Previous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-create-selective-holes-grapheneWeighing particles at the attogram scale
MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... biological and mechanical engineering, to weigh larger particles, such as cells. This system, known as ... small viruses, extracellular vesicles, and most of the engineered nanoparticles that are being used for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scaleJohn Lewandowski
cost and sensitivity were going in the same direction,” says Lewandowski. “Engineers would design ... properties. As a mechanical engineer, Lewandowski, who had originally wanted to be a medical doctor and ... magnetic confounding effects.” It was Lewandowski’s engineering frame of mind brought to bear on his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/john-lewandowskiHow to Succeed at MIT
her class. She recently accepted an offer from Apple to work as an iPad product design engineer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-succeed-mit2.12: Introduction to Robotics at MIT
competition, pushing the boundaries of their mathematics, physics, and mechanical engineering know-how. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/212-introduction-robotics-mitHarvesting Fresh Water from Fog
Engineering, working with colleagues at the Pontificial University of Chile in Santiago, are harvesting potable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harvesting-fresh-water-fog-0The Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ... skin of pumpkins. Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The work began with a classification of patterns into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasingGiving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity. Most robots on ... robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: ... 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-graspThe Birth of a Hands-On Education
2.007 was at the forefront of a revolution in engineering education, becoming one of the first hands-on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/birth-hands-educationStudents Unveil “Magical” Product Designs
Final presentations in mechanical engineering class show devices for climbers, patients, and ... others. In the 20 years that David Wallace has been teaching the mechanical engineering course “product ... engineering processes,” known by its course number 2.009, he has spiced up the class by donning costumes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-unveil-%E2%80%9Cmagical%E2%80%9D-product-designsHow Crispy is Your Bonbon?
smooth, even chocolaty shell. Now, a theory and a simple fabrication technique derived by MIT engineers ... engineers could predict the mechanical response of many other types of shells, from small pharmaceutical ... as a recipe,” says Pedro Reis, the Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-crispy-your-bonbonStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14
Recover and reuse. Despite having two degrees in mechanical engineering, a passion for ... engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and his master’s degree in mechanical ... engineering at MIT, Swaminathan has always loved math. “It feels good to solve math problems,” says the former ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-jaichander-swaminathan-sm-14