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A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble
rescue teams navigate these structures, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the ... the University of Notre Dame and an MIT graduate. When looking for collaborators, Hanson — a graduate ... Wahl | MIT Lincoln Laboratory Horizontal When major disasters cause people to get trapped under rubble, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-robot-can-help-emergency-responders-search-through-rubbleMicrobes chow down on latest fuel-cell tech
wastewater, and potentially sell some back to grid," says Cullen Buie, who heads up MIT's Laboratory ... MIT in 2010. "The lab encompasses all the things that interest me, including alternative ... batteries LEMI, in collaboration with Professor Martin Bazant in MIT's Department of Chemical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microbes-chow-down-latest-fuel-cell-techMaking waves
ocean dynamics. Pierre Lermusiaux Photo: M. Scott Brauer Lermusiaux leads MIT’s Multidisciplinary ... Harvard, he accepted a faculty position at MIT. Based in the ocean science and engineering section of MIT ... Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office blue pierrel@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-wavesBefore the wreckage comes ashore
change over time. Oceanographers around the world, with MIT mechanical engineering associate professor ... collaborators at MIT's Experimental and Nonlinear Dynamics Lab are now applying the LCS approach to predict ... Back at the MIT Experimental and Non Linear Dynamics Lab, their LCS approach is going global, from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wreckage-comes-ashoreManipulating the future
systems. Last fall, MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science launched a new ... Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Tedrake developed the course after robotic manipulation became the new focus ... of his own research at the Toyota Research Institute and MIT’s Robot Locomotion Group, and it became ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/manipulating-futureSurface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution
the submersible had gone missing.) Untitled design (70).jpg A research team from MIT Lincoln ... Laboratory and the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering 's Ocean Science and Engineering lab is ... algorithms. The MIT campus collaborators are developing algorithms for data processing and image formation, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surface-based-sonar-system-could-rapidly-map-ocean-floor-high-resolutionStudy Assesses Solar Photovoltaic Technologies
MIT researchers recommend rapidly scaling up current silicon-based systems while continuing to ... work on other technologies. An MIT assessment of solar energy technologies concludes that today’s ... Vladimir Bulović, the Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Professor of Emerging Technology and MIT’s associate dean for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-assesses-solar-photovoltaic-technologiesFaculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak
“The behavior is influenced, and often dominated by, the interfaces,” says MIT assistant professor of ... observe experimentally and costly to model computationally. Kolpak’s group at MIT is making progress in ... completed his doctoral studies at MIT with Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics John D. Joannopoulos. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-alexie-kolpakThe challenges and triumphs of the graduate experience
For many graduate students, the first time they enter MIT’s campus as a student is a momentous ... occasion. Standing among the pillars and domes for the first time as an MIT student elicited a moment of ... a transitory time, which can feel unsettling.” The mechanical engineering faculty and staff at MIT aim to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/challenges-and-triumphs-graduate-experienceUS Manufacturing: A Modern-Day Renaissance
Today, MIT continues to lead in manufacturing, spearheading in-depth research and analysis on the subject ... recently expressed his commitment to spark a “renaissance in [US] manufacturing,” he called on MIT ... Jung-Hoon Chun Photo courtesy of Jung-Hoon Chun Professor Jung-Hoon Chun, the director of MIT’s Lab for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/us-manufacturing-modern-day-renaissanceRevolutionizing everyday products with artificial intelligence
a faculty member of the MIT departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. “At ... make decisions based on the highest probability of success. Kim and the much of the faculty at MIT ... by Lillie Paquette / MIT School of Engineering To date, most neural networks have been software-based ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/revolutionizing-everyday-products-artificial-intelligenceDriving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit
software platforms central to all Ford models. “So many things I was lucky to be exposed to at MIT,” Doug ... anyone can pull it off, it’s likely to be Field. Ever since his time in MIT’s Leaders for Global ... way they talked about things.” During that time, Field took two years off to enroll in MIT’s LGO ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-innovation-silicon-valley-detroitFaculty Spotlight: C. Forbes Dewey Jr.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering C. Forbes Dewey Jr. first came to MIT ... aeronautics from California Institute of Technology. Between his PhD at Caltech and his position at MIT, he ... MIT, including Professor Ascher Shapiro, who believed that bioengineering was a great new field that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlight-c-forbes-dewey-jrEmeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees
a strategy, devised in the 1970s by MIT professor of mechanical engineering David Gordon Wilson, has been ... assignment he loved, but had to leave after contracting a severe case of malaria. In 1966, he came to MIT at ... November 5, 2013 David L. Chandler, MIT News Office red Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/emeritus-david-wilson-was-early-proponent-concept-energy-use-feesNew theory describes intricacies of a splashing droplet
researchers at MIT have found a way to track the thickness of a droplet’s rim as it splashes up from a variety ... Transmission Laboratory at MIT, says the group’s results can be used to model the physics of sprays, such as ... | MIT News Office Horizontal New theory describes intricacies of a splashing droplet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-describes-intricacies-splashing-droplet“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Vision can be noisy, slightly inaccurate, and ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Culture Education Horizontal The newest version of the Cheetah 3 robot, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cblind%E2%80%9D-cheetah-3-robot-can-climb-stairs-littered-obstaclesNew battery gobbles up carbon dioxide
A new type of battery developed by researchers at MIT could be made partly from carbon dioxide ... offers unexpected results, as the authors elegantly demonstrated here,” Kang adds. MIT’s Department of ... Mechanical Engineering provided support for the project. Thursday, September 20, 2018 David L. Chandler | MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-battery-gobbles-carbon-dioxideSchool of Engineering third quarter 2018 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... Technology) Award on Sept. 25. Michael Strano, of the Department of Chemical Engineering and the MIT Energy ... Initiative, will lead the new Energy Frontier Research Center to be established at MIT on June 29. Russell ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-third-quarter-2018-awardsOceanographers produce first-ever images of entire cod shoals
oceanographers at MIT has journeyed to Norway — one of the last remaining regions of the world where cod still ... OAWRS system, an imaging technique developed at MIT by Makris and co-author Purnima Ratilal, which emits ... Research, and the National Science Foundation. Monday, November 5, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oceanographers-produce-first-ever-images-entire-cod-shoals-0Alumni team tops Collegiate Inventors Competition
provides an easy and adjustable interaction for the mason. “This project was MIT from the very beginning. ... Throughout the design and development process in 2.009, the Rhino team went beyond the walls of MIT and ... exciting because it shows that Rhino is a product that is valuable to a larger audience outside of MIT ...
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