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Lights, camera, inspiration
out from Phoenix to celebrate their victory at MIT. “Passionate engineering knows no boundaries, and ... Mechanical Engineering Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73, and Edgerton Center Director J. Kim ... Vandiver, a professor of mechanical engineering. Students from the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lights-camera-inspirationA leg up for STEM majors
engineering, are on widely divergent paths at MIT. But their lives do intersect in one dimension: They share an ... faster, where you want to act on a dataset in a few days, rather than weeks or months.” Engineering ... me,” she says. Initially, she headed toward environmental engineering, “but then I realized that pretty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leg-stem-majorsHacking apparel becomes lucrative business for alumni
MBA ’13, and mechanical engineering alumnus Kevin Rustagi ’11. Having last year expanded nationwide, ... Amarasiriwardena says. But when he started studying chemistry and biological engineering at MIT, and was biking ... With Rustagi, a friend and mechanical engineering student, Amarasiriwardena began selling the shirts ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hacking-apparel-becomes-lucrative-business-alumniA new tool for modeling the human gut microbiome
However, MIT biological and mechanical engineers have now designed a specialized device in which they can ... community that could be used for this extreme case,” says Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering ... Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. “We showed that you can grow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-tool-modeling-human-gut-microbiomeStudents strive for “Balance!” in a lively product showcase
2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). With “Balance!” as its theme, the vibrant show attracted hundreds ... design, build, and draft a business plan for a product, in a process meant to emulate what engineers ... they embarked on a product engineering process journey,” said 2.009 lecturer Josh Wiesman. Trying to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-strive-%E2%80%9Cbalance%E2%80%9D-lively-product-showcaseNew model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance
a person’s particular running style. MIT engineers are hoping to change that with a new model that predicts ... A model developed by MIT engineers predicts the optimal running shoe design for a given runner. Pictured ... model is reported in a study appearing this month in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. The study ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-predicts-how-shoe-properties-affect-runner%E2%80%99s-performanceSquishy robots
the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... a new paper in the journal Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, could also be used in ... contraction, says Carmel Majidi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Robotics Institute at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsRemembering ‘Papa Flash’
physicists new ways to analyze the dynamics of fluids, air and engines and aided in World War II aerial ... Kim Vandiver, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and director of the MIT Edgerton Center, ... the tips of a rapidly whirring propeller, jumpstarting his future in ocean engineering at MIT. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/remembering-%E2%80%98papa-flash%E2%80%99A Low-Cost, High-Performance Prosthetic Knee
going after this disruptive opportunity,” says Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ... goal. In a paper published in IEEE’s Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, the ... replicate the adjusted torque profile, using simple mechanical elements. Currently, the group has engineered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-high-performance-prosthetic-knee3 Questions: Martin Culpepper on Making the Future Makers
engineering and MIT’s “Maker Czar,” asked students what they build, where they work, what kinds of equipment ... — as in, “I’m an engineer: I prototype and make things.” And for others it means being part of ... metalworking. I thought that was pretty interesting. Sunday, December 20, 2015 School of Engineering red Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-martin-culpepper-making-future-makersTalking Shop: Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson
engineering. Over the course of six decades, Wilson’s career has been peppered with many achievements, ... including inventing the progressive fee-plus-rebate policy in 1973 and designing jet engines. But wherever ... collaboration with the journal Engineering, for the best design in human-powered land transport. To my amazement ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilson3 Questions: Why sensing, why now, what next?
Program in Mechanical Engineering. He weighs in on why sensing is ubiquitous and how advancements in ... You can’t be an engineer or a scientist without being involved with sensing instrumentation in some ... Horizontal Brian Anthony, Principal Research Scientist in mechanical engineering and co-leader of SENSE.nano, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-why-sensing-why-now-what-nextCreating “big, beautiful things”
engineering, has collaborated on a dizzying array of projects ranging from app-building, to assistant ... perspective.” Robotic spectaculars Parrish also loves building physical objects, and his mechanical engineering ... engineering you get an invaluable understanding of how the physical world works,” he says. “I also believe ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-%E2%80%9Cbig-beautiful-things%E2%80%9D3 Questions: How to control biofilms in space
sick. MIT News asked professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi and doctoral student Samantha ... collaboration with Luis Zea at UC Boulder, we are looking at biofilm growth on engineered substrates in the ... versus gravity on Earth, we’re also looking at how they grow on different engineered substrates. And ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-how-control-biofilms-spaceQ&A: Alberto Rodriguez on teaching a robot to find your keys
in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. 1024Sangwoon-Alberto-MCube.jpg Alberto Rodriguez is ... entire system. That requires a high level of commitment, resources, and engineering know-how, which is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-alberto-rodriguez-teaching-robot-find-your-keys3 Questions: From the bench to the battlefield
engineering student and cadet in the Army ROTC program. The Alabama native leveraged his military training ... ISN benefits from the work of exceptional science and engineering students from MIT, who will also be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-bench-battlefieldVishnu Jayaprakash
On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... while he was a student in the lab of Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering. Currently, ... engineering nozzles Jayaprakash found that by cloaking a small amount of plant-derived oil around a water ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/vishnu-jayaprakashHow MIT’s rocket, electric car, and solar vehicle teams have adjusted to the pandemic
traditionally plan their activities around engineering vehicles or devices in preparation for national or ... back, and kind of run through the engineering design process. The way it should be. Nin: We had all ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit%E2%80%99s-rocket-electric-car-and-solar-vehicle-teams-have-adjusted-pandemicStartup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
system was published in 2012 in the journal Medical Engineering and Physics. The device can also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-needle-free-drug-injector-gets-commercialization-dealArtificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
recently in the IEEE Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, the team reports on an AI model that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-intelligence-model-detects-asymptomatic-covid-19-infections-through-cellphone