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Tough New Hydrogel Hybrid Doesn’t Dry Out
Now engineers at MIT have found a way to prevent hydrogels from dehydrating, with a technique that ... even artificial skin. The engineers, led by Xuanhe Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development ... Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, devised a method to robustly bind ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tough-new-hydrogel-hybrid-doesn%E2%80%99t-dry-outGliding From Classroom to Market
co-founded ELLO with mechanical engineering classmates Nate Robert ’13, Tyler Wortman PhD ’16, and Chris ... a product for Course 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), where students design products with commercial ... aid of MIT classes such as Course 6.933 (The Founder’s Journey), Course ESD.051 (Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gliding-classroom-marketDrive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ... Engineering and vice president for open learning; and three others. “The way we measure street lighting is ... for rapid inventory management,” says Andrew Smyth, a professor of civil engineering and engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsWatering the world
MIT-Drop-Irrigation.JPG Engineers at MIT have found a way to cut the cost of solar-powered drip systems by half, by ... environments where they cost farmers more than $3,000 per acre to install. Now engineers at MIT have found ... led by Amos Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, plans to further modify the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watering-worldHairy tongues help bats drink up
spoons to scoop and drag up the tasty sap. Now engineers at MIT have found that, for bats and other ... with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT’s Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette “Peko” ... Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT. The researchers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hairy-tongues-help-bats-drinkStudent entrepreneurs think inside the box
a mathematical economics sophomore; Eswar Anandapadmanaban, an electrical engineering and computer science ... junior; Jordan Harrod, a PhD candidate studying medical engineering and medical physics; Samuel Salomon, ... a chemistry, biology, and physics junior minoring in nuclear engineering; and Erica Yuen, a mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-entrepreneurs-think-inside-box3Q: Felice Frankel on improving the visual side of science
appealing. Felice Frankel has spent more than 25 years helping scientists and engineers create engaging and ... MITx. Her latest book, “Picturing Science and Engineering,” published this week by MIT Press, is an ... engineers, Frankel is also a consultant to the MIT News Office. She spoke with MIT News about some of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-felice-frankel-improving-visual-side-scienceKen Kamrin seeks fundamental behaviors in sand
member in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Kamrin-02-PRESS-1024.jpg Associate Professor ... in that way,” he jokes. At the University of California at Berkeley, he majored in engineering ... particles. “The whole apparatus is essentially a gumball machine, and you have to engineer these things in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ken-kamrin-seeks-fundamental-behaviors-sandRobots shoot for the moon in MIT’s annual 2.007 competition
a moonshot,” says Amos Winter, course co-instructor and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... Engineering, who developed 2.007 as one of the first hands-on, project-based undergraduate courses. Each year, ... cannon. Among the enthusiastic crowd was Evelyn Wang, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robots-shoot-moon-mit%E2%80%99s-annual-2007-competitionScientists observe a single quantum vibration under ordinary conditions
and in precisely engineered, microscopic materials that researchers must probe in a vacuum. In ... engineering perspective, the team’s technique can be used to identify common phonon-carrying materials that ... materials specially engineered to harbor very few phonons, at relatively high energies. These researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-observe-single-quantum-vibration-under-ordinary-conditionsGiving robots a faster grasp
combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... Image courtesy of the researchers Alberto Rodriguez, associate professor of mechanical engineering at ... Rodriguez’ co-authors are lead author Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-faster-graspPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ... Intelligence Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS); Tomas ... Lozano-Perez, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Excellence; Leslie P. Kaelbling, the Panasonic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationTwo-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
a heavy obstacle or break through a locked door. Engineers are making strides on the design of four-legged ... engineers at MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to control ... mechanical engineering at MIT. More than motion Previously, Kim and Ramos built the two-legged robot HERMES ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-and-jumpingNew microscope technique reveals details of droplet nucleation
engineering and department head Evelyn Wang; and nine others at MIT, the University of Illinois at ... physical processes, whether it’s natural or in engineered materials and systems. Because of that, I think ... estimates of that relationship that have been used by engineers for over a half century have been incorrect. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microscope-technique-reveals-details-droplet-nucleationUnleashing the potential of the mind
engineering degree, he returned to the Institute to immerse himself in its work around wearable technology, ... Management, the School of Engineering, and the Media Lab. One offering that particularly attracted him was an ... Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “I was really passionate about the problem [of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-potential-mindDexter Ang
change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical engineering degree, he returned to ... the School of Engineering, and the Media Lab. One offering that particularly attracted him was an ... Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “I was really passionate about the problem [of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dexter-ang-0Making self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
more toward mechanical engineering, as it intersects with so many other fields,” says Yang. Yang went ... on to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering at MIT, where he worked on improving an ultrasound ... imaging system to track liver fibrosis. To reach his engineering goal, Yang decided to take a class ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionAna Pantelic appointed executive director of MIT D-Lab
MIT classes; engineering and social science research groups; methodologies that guide technology ... communicate cultural and material preferences, and D-Lab brings engineering, computing, and other knowledge ... way, they find that scarcity fuels creativity, and that solving engineering questions with the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ana-pantelic-appointed-executive-director-mit-d-labA robot that finds lost items
associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the ... lead author; electrical engineering and computer science graduate student Isaac Perper; research ... Mechanical Engineering. The research will be presented at the Association for Computing Machinery Conference ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-finds-lost-itemsControl Instrumentation Robotics
who aim to combine mechanical engineering (design, control, dynamics) with course 6 disciplines such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/control-instrumentation-robotics